Conferencia y todo!

Hey Fam,
Sorry, I love you guys a ton and I really need to write to you guys more I was looking in our rule book and I am trying not to include anything to specific like names of people and all that jazz but I will try to let you guys know alot. Also it is really hard some times but in the book it says not to say anything bad about your area or the people you serve in so I have just tried to avoid it all together.
So Tijuana is really nuts. Its really busy, in another language, and their is a ton of dogs. Our sector is pretty big and we just found out that it is even bigger. The pictures I sent last time of the Privadas is only the tiniest part of our sector. We have a more rich area around Matamoros and then we also have a really poor area with house on the side of giant hill going into a valley that holds RB (Rivera del Bosque). We encounter a lot of different people with a lot of different problems.
We are recently dealing with some people that are trying to get over addictions and I am learning alot about how to really help them. Also contacting is really hard here. The majority of people have the idea of All is well as long as you have a faith in God and have a religious belief your good. The most popular phrase we usually here is that it all goes to the same place. Its a bit hard not to be too mean and say there wrong. Instead, we use scriptures. YEAH!!! So we also just had a huge meeting with our small little branch leaders and everyone else like that. They are really kicking the mission into gear with more than just Missionaries doing the work and I am loving it.
My Spanish is getting pretty good as I have been studying and walking and just trying to fill my brain with all the concepts. I also have made some goals for myself that you might find interesting

• I really want to learn the Guitar when I get back
• I want to learn Sign Language as well as other languages
• I am currently working on trying to be able to do the splits

I hope that kind of updated you guys a little bit. I will try to do better with my letters. Also the last baptism we had was with Judith, the mom, and Diego, the son, they are awesome and their story is awesome but I really need to go and I will try to keep you updated. Pardon.
¡LES AMO MUCHO!
Elder Hanson

Sorry no e-mail to post this week!

Sorry there is no new post this week. Curtis is doing fine and there is this one new photo to share. Thanks so much for all your support.

Lisa

A Little News is Better than None!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry Curtis' e-mails seem to be getting shorter and shorter. I guess the fact that he is so busy is a good thing right? Thanks for your continued support and friendship

Lisa

E-Mail Answers!

I gotst cero minutos mas!
Sorry I am really out of time this week so I will just have to answer your questions real fast

So, how are you this week?

Doing good, I just have to remember that people have their agency for a reason. ha ha.

Did you get transferred?

No, I am staying with Elder Martinez which means I am his first two cambio companion.

If so, what is your new area like?

Its the same and sweet!

Have you been able to open up the photos we have been able to send you?

yeah, I love them! Its basically Gmail so everything really works except chat. sorry.

I still need to know if you received your package?

YUP. GRACIOUS! I am already trying to put the recipies into practice

Do you need money to cover the cost of buying another back pack? Sorry yours hasn’t been quite what you wanted.

I might need that. Its just really big and fantastic....but big

How is your back?

Good and tired. I have been sure to exercise it in the mornings.

How is your health in general?

Alright. I have decided that I need about twice as much food as my companions.

Love you all!

Elder Hanson

I am getting a little sentimental at this point in my mission because we are about to have transfers and because of the special change I had half way through my training I think they are kicking me out of Ribera Del Bosque.
I have really come to appreciate my companion. He is 24 years old and is an amazing example and makes it so I dont have to worry on making par but being even better.

In our small little branch we had testimony meeting and Missionary Work and Missionaries were a huge topic. We even had a sister get up and bare her testimony on the need to do more missionary work when she had previously told us that she was a little busy to try and do that. The Spirit aparently was working hard. I am so happy for my first little area and the experiences I have been able to have. Sorry I havent been telling you guys all the stories becuase I just need to write the basics. I will remember and tell you guys when I get back.

As far as Spanish goes I feel really good. I can really feel the Gift of tongues and I know that God wants me to speak Spanish, not only speak it but also be fluent.

Thanks and love you all!
Elder Hanson

Waterless, Waterless......like the Tijuana Missionaries are

Hey Fam!
So I have some news....I LOVE MY MISSION!!! The other day we were about to head back up the hill and to our apartment and as we walked down the road with privadas on both sides, the telephone wires with shoes hanging down from them, all the small side stores selling clothes and tacos, and all of it sillouhetted by an orange sun going down in the distance my mind screamed, I LOVE TIJUANA. I feel like Heavenly Father is giving me the rewards for the good job you guys did as parents in raising me. Thank you.
So I have decided that one of the things I want to do for my mission is completely get rid of the need for contacting in whatever area I am serving in. I hope to complete this goal through my effective organizing skills and I already have a lot of plans. One thing that I am asking if you could send me, Dad, is one of those red books that has all the different organizations and leaderships of the church and what they do. Besides being able to help people know what they should do I could also see what different powers they hold as far as in the church goes. I can then determine how to tweak it for the missionary work. Please hold of for another week if you can so I can hear from the President to see if I have the okay but let me know if its possible.
It was awesome to hear from the family and mom I am doing great, eating more or less well and awesome with the members, I am also skinny because of the sun, the walking, and my very large backpack for a missionary( I am contemplating buying another)
Thank you all!
Elder Hanson

Eva is baptized!

Hey Family!
Exciting news! I was able to see the baptizm of "my" first investigador that I helped all the way through the lessons and I think the conversion process she is awesome and I am so happy she is on the path and can enjoy the many fruits this gospel can lend her. She is a little older but is very lively and fun. She actually reminds me of someone that would be part of the Lewis family. Well I am out of time but here are some pictures.
Elder Hanson