Este mueble está lleno de estupidez!!‏

Hayley and Hermana Sanford (photo from Hna. Sanford's blog)

Buenas días familia!

This week was INCREDIBLE!!! Seriously, I love being a missionary so much. There are no words to describe it! I am just more and more grateful every day for the opportunity that I have to do this.

First off, on Monday, one of my favorite mission moments happened! So, we went to try and see L, but we couldn´t find her, and it was late and we were in a kind of dangerous part, so we went to wait for a colectivo on El Boldo, which is the most inclined hill of our sector (and that´s saying something!!) So we went and were waiting, and Sergio, the less active that we´re working with him and his family, passes, and his colectivo just breaks down right in front of us! So we go to try and help out and we talked to him and tried to stop other colectivos so that he could get help from someone who knew what they were doing, but nothing was working. So, we asked him if we could say a prayer with him. I said the prayer and honestly, it was one of the first times I really felt like I was praying with my whole soul in front of other people! The spirit was so strong. We ended the prayer, and I just knew his car was going to start. He tried to start it, and... nothing. He tried again, and... nothing. He had lost almost all hope, but we just knew it was going to start. He started to just go down the hill to leave the car in a place that was out of the way, and as he was going down, his car started!!! Hermana Sanford and I were literally jumping up and down we were so happy - haha. It was such a cool miracle!!! He recognized it too, he told his whole family about it and everything about the prayer miracle and his car is still working to this day! :) It was so awesome. Pray for that family, they need a lot of help! 

I don´t really have too much time, but also, B accepted a baptismal date! :) She´s doing great, she is visiting her mom right now but she is for sure getting baptized in June. She is so awesome!! A less active we´re working with, Ana, that has been coming to church recently also decided that she wants to serve a mission :) It´s so cool!!! Her friend kept inviting her until she came to church, and it brought to pass a change in her heart, and she now wants to share that with everyone around her. We´re helping her get ready to go! 

 

We found a less active who has an incomplete family, and she is totally ready to come back to church and we´re teaching her kids too! Seriously, there are so many people prepared here in Chorrillos. 

 

I am so grateful for my companion as well!! She is so great, and really just what I needed. Huge answer to prayers! 

I am so glad to know that God knows me and each one of us and that he is going to make sure that we achieve our purpose: have joy. We saw lots of other miracles as well, members from other wards driving us home when we´re far away, awesome contacts, etc. It´s just such a huge blessing to be in the mission and see so clearly God´s hand in our lives!

A lot of funny things happened this week too, the people here are just so great. I´ll have to tell you more another time, because seriously the time is just flying away! I swear that there is less time every week haha. The days are passing by faster and faster, but I am still learning more and more. I am so grateful for the Holy Ghost and all that I learn and for where it leads me. I love the mission! It honestly is the best decision of my life. I am so grateful for the examples I had growing up and all the little seeds and care that I received from those around me to help me to reach this point, and for the night after a YW activity that I decided in my heart that I was going to serve. 

I love you all so much, and I hope you have a great week!!! :)

Love, Hermana Hansen

 

 *Hayley only sent one photo this week and for some reason it won't download, so these photos are from her companion's blog*

 

District meeting at the church

The church building in Chorillos

Transfer day

Cambios! Casi no recordaba como son....‏

Hayley and her new companion, Hermana Sanford at transfers

 

 

Hola familia!! TANTO tiempo!! So good to see all of your faces :) Happy mothers day/birthday best mom ever!! :)

 

Haha but as you know, I am now with Hermana Sanford from Layton, Utah! It was so weird to go to the cambio meeting, it´s the first time I´ve gone in all 2015! My third gringa, I´m going half and half as for now! But she is so awesome and such an answer to prayers, I am just so excited! It´s going to be an amazing cambio :) I am really excited to see what happens!!

 

So you guys basically know what already happened this week... But I´ll just go over everything super quick. Loreto has a baptismal date for the 24th of may (pray that we can finish her teaching before!!) and Barbara is set to live the law of chastity!! YEAH! So things are looking great there :) Hermana Evans was super sad to leave, but she was ready at the same time. I know that she´s gonna love Achupallas as well!

 

Basically, we´ve been CRAZY busy this week but we have seen a million miracles. Still the most fun thing was the random phone call from president to be at the stake center because he wanted sisters at this huge fancy stake president activity that they brought nonmembers to! Seriously, we had churipan (yummy bread with sausage and pevre... too good) shish ka bobs, steak, salad, manjar and raspberry cake, and ice cream. And then got to watch "meet the Mormons" and have popcorn and juice. AND talked to this really cool girl who the assistants are going to go teach!! It was awesome, but still not sure how much I liked getting home at 12:30 in the morning when we had to get up the same the next day haha.

 

There´s a really cool video that President Kahnlein showed to us in consejo. I loved it SO much! Seriously everyone was crying. It´s about the man that was born blind and that is healed by Jesus. It´s so true, Christ helps us come out of our blind state and see who we really are. I love the video SO much. I just hope never to be like the Pharisees and say that I can see when I´m actually blind! https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/jesus-heals-a-man-born-blind?lang=eng

 

Love you guys so much, and I am so grateful for all of you!! I love this work and I love the gospel, and I can´t wait to work as hard as I can in probably my last 6 weeks in Chorrillos!!! Hope you all have a great week!

Love

Hermana Hansen

Hayley with a kitten

Anamaria and the cake she made for Hna. Evans

Ana Maria and Hermana Evans on her last day in Chorillos

 

Quiero bautizarme

cute companions with Hermania

Buenas tardes familia!!!

FIRST OFF, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!! :) It is so crazy that your last birthday was already A YEAR ago!!! But I hope you have a great day, I am thinking of you!! :) 

This week went really well, we were able to work A LOT and even though we didn´t find as many people as we wanted to, we saw a TON of miracles!!

First off, we taught B the other day. We found her crying in the street. She had fought with her boyfriend and her ability to live in the house she´s living in was in jeopardy.... so she was really sad. We went and sat in the outdoor tables of this random little local and taught her more about the atonement. She felt way better, and then said ´hermanas, there's something I actually wanted to tell you. I decided, I want to get baptized.´ AHHHH. It was SO awesome!!!! She is so amazing. Honestly I love her so much! I've never seen a 15 almost 16 year old that has her head on so straight. We have seen her change SO MUCH since we started teaching her!! And it all started when she started reading the Book of Mormon. It is so incredible how the gospel can change people... she is so very special. I am so excited for her!! 

Also, L came to church!! We hadn´t been able to get a hold of her on Saturday, so we thought she had traveled down to Rancagua, but then she and her less active son Diego showed up halfway through sacrament meeting and stayed the whole time!! She said that she had never felt so comfortable and happy at a church before, and that she is planning on making coming to church a habit. :) We are going to set a baptismal date for her tonight!!

ALSO we went to a less active family´s house (the dad used to be a counselor in the stake presidency... yikes) and we were teaching them and the dad said the closing prayer and prayed that the lord could help them return to church!! SO awesome!!! And Gabriela got a calling as YW secretary, she´s super excited about it, best convert EVER. And a less active girl that we´re reactivating got called as the YW activities coordinator!! Things are going so great, it´s awesome. Only bummer is, we are doing a TON of contacts every day, but Chile is literally just full of less active members.... if we do 20 contacts, generally like 15 of them are secretly less actives. But we know that we are  going to find the people that are waiting for us :) 

On another note, we had consejo on Friday. It was amazing. honestly, I love my mission president and his wife so much. They have changed my LIFE and keep doing it!! I know that half of the reason I had to come to this mission was to meet them. They are the most humble people I know, because all that they want to do is the will of the lord. And I know that that is what they do. and I love how much I learn from the other missionaries!! It´s just a huge spiritual feast,  and I love every second of it. 

Another thing, there are CAMBIOS on Wednesday!!! And we have this feeling that we are both getting changed..... yikes. There are big changes happening in the mission!! I hope I stay though, I really love Chorrillos :)  But I know that wherever I need to go the lord needs me! It reminds me of Hermana Page... it really doesn´t matter where I´m working, I just want to be working for the lord and enjoy every second that I have to declare the gospel and bring joy into the lives of those around me. It´s amazing, and the best experience I could ever ask for!

Anyways, I hope you guys have had a great week as well!! I love you all so so much. I´ll see you guys on SUNDAY! so crazy. I feel like we Skyped last week!! Have a good day!!!

love

hermana hansen

Hayley's sweet birthday message.

 

 

Hayley with "the stand".  It says "How can I find peace and happiness?"

 

Hayley with her friends Elders Hansen, Flake and Hamilton and Hermana Evans

Beautiful Chorillos

Hayley with her district

 

Saying 'goodbye' to Hermana Michaelis

Juan, Nora and Hayley

PREACH MY CHICKEN WING‏

 

A view from where Hayley lives

BUENAS DÍAS :)

So first off, Hermana Evans and I are just EXHAUSTED recently. So we've been kinda loopy, Hermana Evans just yelled preach my chicken wing the other day when we were a little frustrated. Oh gosh. BUT, everything has been going great!!! Not too much has been happening, we had to leave a few people, but we are working our hearts out to find the elect here in Chorrillos!!! 

Basically, this week we had to do the stand, which is this stand with these huge posters with questions of the soul that the Book of Mormon answers. We went downtown to the Plaza de Viña and did it for hours this week, so it was a lot of working outside of our sector and giving referrals to other sectors! BUT it was really cool. We felt like we really helped a lot of people, because we were able to talk to a LOT. Something cool we did is counted how many people walked by with a smile on their face. We counted about 20 in all that time! But, whenever we said hi, they would always smile. It was so cool!! We really felt like we were helping other people have a better day and feel happier, whether they stopped and talked to us or not. 

We have found a couple new people, and we FINALLY saw T again!! She's doing way better, but is not as receptive because of all the stuff she has been going through :( But by the end of the lesson, she had opened up again!! Hopefully she can get baptized soon. 

B is also progressing crazily, we went to teach her on Monday (she didn't go to church because she was sick). We went downstairs to teach her in her room so she wouldn't have to get up, and she just says "hermanas, I made a decision - I'm not going to smoke anymore."  It was SO COOL!! :) She felt like she couldn't breathe while she was sick, and that hadn't happened before she was sick and she doesn't like feeling out of control of her body. So, God answered her prayers and ours and she decided to quit!! Seriously, it is amazing seeing the miracles that God makes happen left and right :)

Besides that, this week has been good! Intercambios, work, and a bit more cold weather than before. But, I still love being a missionary SO SO much, this work is amazing. I am so grateful for the chance that I have to be here, and I really am going to make the most out of every single minute!! I love you guys so much, and I hope you have a great week!!! :) 

love,

hermana hansen

A view in Hayley's area

Another pretty view

Gabriela with her puppy

The hardest thing I´ve ever loved‏

Hayley didn't send photos this week, so here is a screenshot from the countdown I have on my phone.  On Monday, we hit double digits!  Yay!

Buenas tardes familia!

This week was a little crazy, it was awesome though!! I´m just gonna share a couple miracles that happened...

FIRST OFF, I had contacted this less active in a colectivo the other day, S, he was the driver and said his family had just moved from Santiago and that he wanted to take them to church! SO he said we could come over in the morning. We went and taught his wife, J, who isn´t a member and she is GOLDEN. She wants a happy and secure family, and we are just so happening to be studying in the book of mormon the answers all the cards from mormon.org that are the questions of the soul, and that´s one of them! SO we just whipped out a bunch of scriptures and examples and the spirit was really strong!! Her son also isn´t a member, Al, he´s 13 and really cool. Afterwards she was just so happy and kept talking about how peaceful and relaxed she felt after talking to us! AH! For all missionaries who have seen the district, she also has a little girl, it´s basically the Robles family. BUT we haven´t been able to find them after that, it looks like they traveled, please pray we can find them again!

ALSO we found this girl, R, the other day contacting and her cute little daughter, and she said to come back on Sunday afternoon when her boyfriend was going to be there (they live together, yes, but they´re going to change when they learn the law of chastity). SO we went back, he was pretty weird because he´s had all these weird experiences and goes around healing people supposedly, so we were kinda like uhhhh yeah we´re out. BUT. We showed him the Book of Mormon and he got REALLY excited! He said that he and R had been praying for a book of truth just the other day, and now we were giving him one.... WHAT. And then, after, he asked if the temple in Santiago was ours, and we told him yes, and he said that he had a dream that he went in the temple and went to the basement and saw someone taking the most important parts of a lot of books to make them one book... Basically he saw Mormon. We told him that´s what the book of Mormon is, and the spirit was SO strong, and he was just like wow... This is so crazy. BASICALLY, it was awesome. He´s either crazy or is going to be a general authority, no sé. It was SO COOL!

Besides that the week went way well, Hermana Evans and I just laugh all the time and have a lot of fun. We are finally going to be able to see T tomorrow, and D is probably getting baptized next Sunday! Also B is progressing little by little... Also with all of our new investigators! We´re just hoping and praying that the progression continues, because that seems to be the problem here in Chorrillos, tons of progress and then they disappear!

Okay I just have to share something super quick! On Thursday, we had our coordination meeting with my ward mission leader, and he got there late so we were waiting outside the chapel, and it was right as the sun was setting. Seriously, it was SO gorgeous. I am in the most beautiful place in the world. I love chile. But it was the most beautiful moment. I just felt that extreme wonder and gratitude for being able to be a missionary in this place and at this time. I know that sometimes my sectors have been a little rough, the mission is hard, but I have grown and progressed so much and seen the growth and progress of SO many people. And honestly, I don´t feel like the mission is hard, even though I KNOW it is! My heart is full. I am so happy here. I think the mission is a taste of what the Celestial Kingdom is going to be like. There´s a scripture that i read the other day that I just LOVE.

Alma 5:7  "Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word...''

I know that during my time here, my Heavenly Father has changed MY heart and awakened me out of my deep sleep. I have felt the illumination of my soul, and I am so eternally grateful for the miracle of God´s plan. It is so perfect, and so incredible. I don´t ever want to forget, and I just want to keep the sacred covenants that I have made and please my Father in Heaven. I hope that you all have had a great week, I love you guys SO much!!!

*also shoutout to mali grace for getting on varsity cheer!! :) love you!

Hermana Hansen

un poco más que un año!

 

A dead tarantula they found on the side of the road!

Hey family!!!

How´s it going?! Not okay that you guys went to the Cayman Islands without me, but I´m not even sad about it because there´s no place I´d rather be than Chile! Not even lying on that one, because I am SO happy here :) 

Sorry my emails are always so lame, I always think I have so much to tell my family!!! And then time comes to write, and.... I forget everything haha but honestly one thing that I will NEVER forget is that I am so extremely happy here. I can´t even begin to tell you! 

This week I have had a nasty stomach flu that currently half the mission has, but we were still able to go out and work every day! We had interviews with President, who is amazing, and we have just worked HARD. I love it. 

My zone is awesome, we had a great zone conference, and really I am so glad for repentance and the atonement. Seriously, it just lets us be so incredibly happy and so free! Like my favorite talk of all time from last general conference by Jorg Klebingat, it lets us retain a remission of our sins and be perfect in our sphere despite our weaknesses. I just want to share this with the whole world! I have seen a lot of blessings and promises be fulfilled from my patriarchal blessing this week, and I just want it to keep happening. I know that by living the gospel fully, joyfully, and with all your heart, might, mind and strength, miracles happen and something like magic exists! 

I really hope you all had a great time on vacation, I love you all!!! Pray for T, she´s still sick.  We have found a lot of new investigators, including FINALLY teaching this recent converts son! And he is interested in our message! :) I am so excited. 

I hope you have a great week!!!

Love,

Hermana Hansen 

My mission president showed us this AWESOME video about the ten commandments, I love it! watch it! 

http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/obedience-to-the-ten-commandments

Just for fun, my top ten conference talks:

1. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/stay-by-the-tree?lang=eng

2. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-music-of-the-gospel?lang=eng

3. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/where-justice-love-and-mercy-meet?lang=eng

4. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/latter-day-saints-keep-on-trying?lang=eng

5. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-gift-of-grace?lang=eng

6. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/choose-to-believe?lang=eng

7. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/is-it-still-wonderful-to-you?lang=eng

8. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-plan-of-happiness?lang=eng

9. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/therefore-they-hushed-their-fears?lang=eng

10. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/truly-good-and-without-guile?lang=eng

Puppies!

Their friend Thiare resting with her kitty

Pretty house in Vina.

A sweet friend made them an Oreo cake!

conferencia GENIAL!!!‏

 

Hayley, her comp and her Paris study abroad friend's little brother! 

Hi family!

This week went way well! And it went by WAY fast. Seriously, I feel like time is just constantly slipping out of my hands.... We´re already in week 3 of the cambio! What is THAT. But it was a great week even though there wasn´t too much time to work!

Cool awesome MIRACLES, remember B? who has problems with drugs? On Monday we taught them and we left her Alma 40 to read because she had a bunch of questions about what happens after we die. We came back on Wednesday and she had read all the way to Alma 44!!! Which is UNHEARD OF. I´ve had very few investigators do that, and she is a 15 year old girl! I wouldn´t have done that at 15! She said that she had just never heard about that, and so she wanted to learn more and thought it was interesting so she kept reading until we got there. Seriously, such an answer to prayers! So we taught her the plan of salvation and she understood perfectly, she wants to know now if the church really truly has the priesthood so that she can get baptized. AHHHH. It was just one of those perfect moments. God really is preparing people!

Also, in intercambios with another hermana, we contacted this boy D who was super receptive! We passed by later with Hermana Evans and turns out they´re less actives that didn´t know where the church was and her boyfriend isn´t a member! And they want to start going to church!! AHH! And I know that if we hadn´t knocked their door that they might not have had that chance for a while. I honestly love moments like that, when the Lord leads you to where you need to be. I know that His hand is working constantly in my life and in the lives of others, and that miracles EXIST! :) 

Intercambios are so great. I used to be so nervous about being a good leader and about really helping them, but I know now that the best way to help the hermanas is to be myself and just lose myself in the spirit. I am NEVER the one teaching, it is the Holy Ghost! So all I have to do is create an atmosphere where the hermanas can feel comfortable and feel the Holy Ghost so that Heavenly Father can teach them what they need to know. Because if i am in charge of helping them and teaching them, I will fail! But He never fails!

Besides that, all is well here in Chorrillos! We still can´t get a hold of T, we are way nervous for her :(  But we are finding new people to teach, and it´s great! We also had consejo this week, which was AMAZING. seriously, I love President Kahnlein and Hermana Kahnlein so much. They are changing my life, and really just want us to have success as missionaries and hasten the Lord´s work. I am going to miss them SO much after the mission! But hopefully they´re moving to Salt Lake... :) I just know that everyone I meet here I had to meet to become a better person. 

ALSO, CONFERENCE!! Holy cow it was so amazing!! SO much about families and gaining a true testimony and enjoying the gospel! I loved the talk about the music and dancing, it´s so true. You can teach someone the steps, but they really won´t be able to feel the blessings until they can hear the music. Also I LOVED Kevin Pearsons talk!!! He cut down the whole WORLD and I love it. I´m just worried about President Monson :( He didn´t look too good and didn´t open or close. All of us gringos in the English room were way worried. I also loved how much it talked about the sabbath day, and no casual obedience. I feel like they really talked about things that are huge problems today! Remember that other people that can´t hear the music think that you are weird for dancing, but they are just missing out on the joy of the gospel! :) 

 For Easter, we made cute hard boiled eggs and decorated them for everyone in our zone :) They were all really happy about it! But really, I am just so grateful for the atonement of Jesus Christ. For His hands that reach out to grab us like ´a lightning bolt in a summer storm´ in the midst of our fall of weakness, sin, sadness, pain. He really is our older brother who LOVES us more than we can understand, and He LIVES. He is not here, he is risen. I am so grateful for the opportunity that i have to share this hope with those who perish in the darkness only because they don´t know where to find the truth. I hope that I can really show the huge love that I have for my Heavenly Father and my older brother Jesus Christ through my obedience to their commandments and through my service to them - which is going to be much more than just the time I have left in the mission! 

I love you all SO much! I am so grateful for the eternal family that we have. He lives! And i will forever be amazed at the love He offers me and every one of you. 

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Hansen

 

 

The girls on Easter

The cute decorated eggs

Easter

Funny Englsh

Leadership Conference

Friends at Leadership Conference

April Leadership Conference