Hola all you people
So this week was pretty awesome! Had a lot of good lessons and we worked really hard. Nothing too crazy happened, but we did have Stake Conference! And in the adult session, our mission president spoke and had us elders sing a song so that was pretty funny
It wasn't in the program, either, so we were worried for a second (especially since the guy conducting didn't announce we were going to sing) that President forgot to tell the stake president we were gonna sing but it's all chillin
The song we sang was "Brightly Beams our Father's Mercy" which isn't sung very often cuz it's a men's choir song but it's pretty fire because it compares God to a lighthouse and people seeking truth to sailors and us members as the lower lights guiding them to the harbor it's super cool
The Sunday session was all the way up in Barstow too, it was really difficult to get people to come to church 40 minutes away lol
The Barstow building is huge by the way, apparently it used to be a stake center, and Barstow was its own stake, while now only one ward meets there. It's a little sad honestly. Now our stake just doesn't have a stake center I guess?
We also almost ran out of gas yesterday we were trying not to have to get gas on Sunday but we had to give in, we should've gotten it on Saturday but we forgot to account for the drive to Barstow
Also our gas card doesn't work anymore so we have to get other missionaries to rescue us (which is another reason we tried to avoid getting gas). We called Elder Peterson (the car guy) and he said because we were passing around our gas card so much the thinks we hit the cap for the month and new money will come in on the first of February
Cool story there are some nonmembers staying here for a second that are being taught by sisters from the Fresno mission and we got them to church over here which is super cool and also those missionaries know some of the boys from my mtc district which was epic (they said they're in your zone Elder Nelson and Elder Murray if you're reading this)
Speaking of which it's already almost February
Christmas was a month ago
Transfers end this week
And honestly it's kinda nuts
People always say that your training goes by super slow (and it did even tho it was fun) and then it just gets faster and faster after that. This transfer was supposedly a long transfer at 7 weeks and it's already nearly over. I've been in Victorville now for 4.5 months, so I'm probably getting transferred out, which I'm kinda sad about. There was a time a couple weeks ago I was a little burnt out on the work and nothing was really going on but then these last two weeks have been insane. We put more friends on date for baptism this week, we've been trying for so long to put Angel's parents on date and we finally did, for the 24th of February! The ZL's have been putting like 10 on date a week so we just said "hey go on exchanges with us and do whatever it is you normally do with these people" and it worked. We're finding a ton of new people, and now I don't want to leave. Not to mention our house is kinda a party now, we just deep cleaned it like crazy and now not only is it awesome but it's also clean. But I'm ready to go wherever the Lord needs me, and if I do leave I just need to make sure we leave the area off ready for the new guy coming in. Also the members are awesome and it'll be hard to leave them
Well there might be a chance I stay because we don't know for sure yet so if I do end up staying ignore everything I just said lol except the part where I said I wanted to stay
Also it's pretty cool I was here for a 7 week transfer I feel like that probably doesn't happen very often
Anyway life is good and I hope life is good with yall too Jesus loves each and every one of you
Epic segue to spiritual thought
A lot of people think the gospel is super confusing with a bunch of rules and doctrine but really in the end the gospel is
-Faith in Jesus Christ
-Repentance
-Baptism
-Gift of the Holy Ghost
-Enduring to the End
Everything else we teach is secondary. The focus is on Jesus Christ and everything else (Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, temples) all comes after an understanding of those five points to build your faith, you learn step by step. Any doubts you may have can be set aside with a faith in Christ, with a knowledge there is an answer to all your questions. It's one of Satan's biggest lies that we have to get the answers to our doubts right now, you literally have all eternity to find an answer so when someone tries to shake your faith just remember you can't let your doubts affect your faith they are not mutually exclusive
Anyway that spiritual thought was literally a lesson but that's been on my mind so
Have an epic week
Elder Hanson
Fotos!
-look at this cat
-look at this sunset
-look at this super long road that goes nowhere
-us singing at stake conference
-me and Elder Gannon on an exchange in front of an airport
-the mountains are really pretty with snow on them I hope it snows here sometime soon
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