hey everyone,
guess where i am? not in moorea!!
i'm back in FAAA. i don't know if you remember
my first area. you know, the one that i was already in for 6 MONTHS. and now
i'm back. president called last week and was in a tight spot and was like soeur
hansen, none of the other sisters have their license, and i need you to go back
to faaa. i'm not gonna lie, i cried just a TEENY TINY bit. but then i was like,
you know what? it's cool. i'm happy to go back. but really though, i know this
is where i'm supposed to be for right now, and things are good. although it is
SUPER weird to be back. i feel like i just started my mission again because it
was around this time last year when i first got here, haha! but there is a lot
of work and a lot of potential in this sector, so things are good. and what's
really cool about tahitians is that they love missionaries and are super welcoming
and nice when you're new, but even more welcoming and nice when you come back,
so when i went back to the wards that i served in yesterday and everyone found
out that i'm serving in this sector now, i was seriously like CELEBRITY STATUS.
haha it was so awesome. and obviously made my heart happy, because i was super
excited to see everyone, and they were super excited to see me! love it when
things are mutual like that. and we set a baptismal date last thursday, the day
i got here, so things are off to a great start.
except then friday came, ironically enough,
friday the 13th. A SCOOTER REAR-ENDED ME!! ughhhhhh. scooters are the
worst. but because i was turning left (even though i had put on my blinker!!),
the insurance company is holding me responsible. guhhh talk about a buzz-kill.
i wanted to cry and kick puppies all at the same time. i just feel bad for
putting an extra burden on the mission, and slightly indignant because it
totally was not my fault--the guy driving the scooter even admitted that he was
driving too fast and didn't see my blinker. aah the injustice of it all. oh
well. just gotta smile and roll with the punches i guess.
let's see...oh man i miss soeur chapman so
much!! seriously like my favorite companion. i miss moorea too. i loved the
people there, and the island itself was just awesome. now i'm back in the
ghetto, haha. but it's good. and i love soeur teheiura too. she finishes up in
september so she's almost done. it's actually like a whole new sector here
because most of the investigators are new and so many of the investigators i
taught before i left are baptized now! so awesome! actually, in a way, it's
really cool to come back, because i'm seeing firsthand the fruits of the seeds
i got to plant earlier. for example, i don't know if you remember nella and
melodie, the sisters we taught before thanks to door to door contacting. well,
they're baptized, and now their dad who was inactive is coming regularly to
church, their mom comes too and has stopped smoking and drinking, their brother
who lives on bora bora just got baptized, and we're teaching their other
brother and his girlfriend. i was just like WHOA. that little seed has become a
TREE. and it makes me really happy to see all the changes that have come about
in their home.
anyway, i gotta wrap this up. i love you all!!
love,
soeur hansen
