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| Hayley with her package from Grandma Niki |
Hey family!
This
week.....I don't even KNOW! HUGE roller coaster. But first, what you
all want to know, I´m still here in Chorrillos with Hermana Evans! My
zone leaders changed, but Elder Tinney is now the mission secretary and
so he´s still in my district and Elder Brock is my new zone leader and Elder Esquivia, the old assistant, is in my district now! Also, Elder Bojorquez, my zone leader that was part of the pmoney/peggy deal with Hermana Barros, is the new assistant!!! SO two of my favorite elders and
two of my old Valparaiso zone leaders are assistants now, so I´m way
happy. And Hermana Morris who came with me is in Placilla with Hermana Watt, so that´s just AWESOME.
Okay this week. I
have an awesome district, my district leader is now someone from my
ward at BYU, Elder Flake! Way crazy how small the world is haha. But
he´s great too! Hermana Evans is ALMOST done with all of her dental
work, we spent a lot of time there this week.
Okay
here is my sad news of the week, but at the same time, a miracle. The
whole week, I have been WAY stressed out. I've been getting weird rashes
from stress and muscle cramps and everything, and a lot of it was
because of A! For some reason I felt really strongly that he was
smoking, but we verified literally every day and he kept saying no no
no. Everything was going great, and then on Sunday when he came to
church he was sitting down and this crazy less active told him to get
out of that spot because it was hers and he got really offended and just
booked it. We went out and talked to him about it and he said he
doesn´t want to deal with her so he was done. We were super sad, but
then he came back and said no I will just ignore her. BUT by that point
it was halfway through sacrament meeting, but it was fine. After, our
ward mission leader and branch president were freaking out, so we were
like just talk to him and you´ll see that he just wants to follow Christ! So the branch president called him in for an interview, and we
went to principios del evangelio, but then A just storms in and
says I´m out. And leaves. It was just the worst. So then we go in to
talk to the branch president, and he said that A had a really bad
attitude and just yelled at him and said am I getting baptized or not?? And president told him that is really up to him, and his conversion. And A just got mad and stormed out! Oh my gosh. It was crazy. But then
our convert G who had to quit smoking told us that she has seen
him smoking EVERY SINGLE DAY this week. Talk about a slap in the FACE. It was hard, but you know what? I am so grateful for it. It was an
answer to my prayers. I had such a strong feeling that he was smoking,
and I didn´t know what to do about it, and had been praying a ton about
it, and God just fixed it for us. It´s sad it had to happen, but I know
that He is watching out for us! And we found we have a lot of support
from the branch president and mission leader, because they talked to us
after and said they love the missionaries in their ward because we work
hard and have the most investigators Chorrillos has had in years, and
that they are here to help us. It was so great in the end. We are going
to keep teaching A, but start from square one again, and see if he
is ready to humble himself and repent.
BESIDES
THAT, a less active who is endowed came to church and had an awesome
interview with the branch president, and our investigator K came
to church! So really, it was a good week, just with a hard let down on Sunday. But I know it happened for a reason, and know I have an even
STRONGER testimony that God answers our prayers and takes good care of
us.
Fun news, on Valentines day (thanks for
all the decorating stuff and food mom! we had a lot of fun with that :))
we had a ton of random surprises! A member we don´t know from another
stake and her daughter bought us roses in the street, our investigator, L gave us a big chocolate heart, our convert G gave us
stickers, we had tacos with homemade tortillas for lunch, and another
investigator gave us alfajores!!! :) Seriously it was so awesome.
Long
story short, I am doing great. We have people progressing, and I love
my district and zone and companion. It´s funny, when that whole thing
went down, all I wanted was to be able to talk to you guys, Tori, or Hermana Page. It made me laugh! Love you guys, and thanks so much for
always being there for me and supporting me! The church is true, God
loves us all and really is looking out for us :) Have a great week!!
Hermana Hansen
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| Hayley's temporary comp while on exchanges |
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| Some of the cute valentine's day gifts |
