Tuesday, June 12, 2012

june 4, 2012


june 4

helloooo,

welp this week's email is going to be short and sweet, because yesterday was tahitian mother's day, meaning that i got to SKYPE. so mom and dad and fambly, you've gotten your fill of me i'm sure. as for the rest of you, sorry you couldn't see my tan missionary face, but i hope you will be consoled by these pictures of a beautiful tahitian sunset and a crazy tahitian fruit that i honestly don't know the name of in english because i'm pretty sure it only exists here. (also, i don't know why i'm partially transparent in this picture, so just ignore that...) 

this week was a pretty good one. slowly but surely the work is moving along, and we're getting some new potential investigators. the other investigators that we have right now are doing pretty good, some are progressing, some are not. it can be pretty frustrating sometimes when you feel like you're doing your best to teach the gospel and they still just don't get it, but i've found a lot of insight and comfort through the stories of missionaries in the book of mormon--even THEY had struggles during the mission, and they were like...really awesome. sometimes i'm way too impatient with myself in the sense that i feel like i need to be perfect all the time and that if i'm not perfect by the time my mission is over, i'm a FAILURRRRRE! obviously this is not true. it's part of the process of learning patience, i guess. anyway, we're trying our best out here on this lil' island and i know that God is going to bless us for our diligence. that's about all i got for now.

hope everyone is doing well and being happy! enjoy the pitchas and write me ok? love!

love,
soeur hansen