Hello again

hola familia! 

 this week we worked! i have no idea what we did, but last night i died  i was so wiped out. we finaly reached all of our goals as a companionship. woohoo. we were always missing one or 2 but this week we busted our shoes open and went for it. (litteraly and figuratively)  so mom, yes i am still with my amazing comp, but the reason i love her is because we do work! :) and we do it with a smile, even when its crazy hot my comp keeps the smiling going, she is just stoked to be able to say that she served her mission in 110 weather . so i am too.  something we eat alot here is guiso, its like soup but not, its a cicken or meat ( or both)  with veggies and then rice, noodles or lentels cooked in the same pot.  maybe its like goolosh?  no sé, but we are trying to learn how to cook so we can do it at home and take the food with us, so friday we made some and it turned our pretty good! we suprised ourselves! so while you are all eating turkey il be chowin down on my guiso and empanadas :)

 

 this week we found another family, its a mom who´s oldest daughter is a member but inactive and monday we went over and ended up teaching the mom and 4 of her other children. they are all really cool and they like the church and were interested in prophets and that we could pray and our Father will listen, its something so simple but so many people dont know about it. its one of my favorite things to teach, the love of our Father in Heaven. He loves us so much that He actually does listen to us.

one of my favorite things on the mission is listening to peoples first prayer. we always ask investigators to pray at the end of the lesson, especailly on the first lesson. i love it. they are so humble and simple and honest. they are talking with their Father in Heaven for the first time in thier lives. alot of people wonder if God realy listens and maybe they know the memorized prayers but to actualy talk to God is completly new. you can feel their hope that this is true when they do it. i wich i could remember them all, it is one of my favorite things of the mission.

another awesome thing is when nights like saturday pass...

we went to visit the mom of a member, she isnt a member and never wanted to investigate but we randomly met her on the street one night and she called us over, and it was random that we were on that street, we usually dont go that way but there were a bunch of changos ( men, but younger, probably not safe to pass by) on the street that we usualy go down so we picked a different one and passed nora. saturday was the first time we went to actually teach her but the coolest thing happened, we didnt teach her anything! haha. ill explain.. we had brought a member with us and turned out she new nora from when she was an investigator and her nora´s son helped her family out. nora told us how she wants to find the truth but is waiting for God to how her the way, so i asked what she was doing to find the path and she said she was praying. so i explained that she had to work and search after she prayed, you cant just ask and ask and not do the work. but i said it in a nicer way then that, ahah and then the member shared a super strong testimony about the book of mormon and how she can always find her answers in the Book of Mormon and that to find the truth nora needs to read it to, the Spirit was so strong and nora felt it and she told us that she would read and she would go to church and she is gonna think and pray about baptisim. she is a little stubborn and hard to sotfen but i know she felt the Spirit, we could feel it in her prayer to close. 

it was amazing and really we didnt teach anything, it just happen to be that the member was who needed to be there, and it was a side thought to call her. :) my comp literally didnt say a word during the whole lesson, and when we got out, i apologizes to her and she said " nooo, its ok, iv never prayed so hard during a lesson!" haha, so she was talked just not to us, but it was amazing, i cant express how it was but i know that it was nothing that we did. it was our Father in Heaven who put us togeather at this time and place, who has a plan and we are just tiny parts. He has planned out this life and knows who will follow him, we are just finding them. but I know He knew us before and know who we will become. i came out of that lesson feeling like the dust of the earth, being blown where ever my maker wills me, i know He knows what i need to do and He will guide us where we need to go. most of the promptings of the Spirit arent big feelings they are just little dicisions but when we are doing all we can to be obedient there is no reason to doubt that they come from the Lord. 

it was an amazing night that was ended eating watermelon and vanilla icecream ( yes togeather)  i love the work. i love wanting to cry because my body is just soo tired that i cant lift my glass to drink water, hahah. it is sweet.,i know that there is a greater purpose in this life then just what i want. the goal is to give our will, our thoughts and feling to our Lord so that He can make us into the potential that we have. im not saying ive gotten that far, but thats the goal.  i love this work, 

thank you all for your love,  i wont be there for thanksgiving, but know that i am thankfull for my family, i have never been so greatful for you  in all my life, im thankful for my parents and my home and the church and growing up in in the house of israel, for being born in the U.S and never suffering from hunger or heat or cold. for so many things. and especially for knowing that i am a daughter of God and he loves me. just likes He loves the people here in argentina. 

i love you all!!! 

con amor y gratitude! hermana hanson