Summer

Okay it's official... I'M AWKWARD AROUND LITTLE KIDS! Being a missionary is hard when it comes to being around children, because we can barely do anything. They're always wanting me to hold or hug them and I find myself just getting all tense and awkward haha. I'm trying to follow the rules, so not being able to hold kids or babies has been challenging at times! I can see why missionaries come home and are a little awkward at first haha. We'll see how I am after 14 more months ;)

Oh, and I want to thank all of you who remembered my birthday and who were sweet enough to send me gifts :) You helped me feel loved and I couldn't have asked for better birthday presents than hearing from you :) THANKS!!!

These past few weeks have been great! We've had some great experiences! One of them was after district meeting. There was a HUGE rain storm while we were driving home. Branches from trees had fallen in the road every so often, so Sister Stephens and I were able to give some service by moving the trees out of the road! It felt good to help cars be able to drive safely on the roads :) Then later in the week we went on a picnic with the Brownell family, but only the girls haha! We went to Willow Park and had a great time!

This week I had a couple different birthday parties, which was so fun! AT the Behunin's we are dinner, had cake, and then carved watermelons! I know it sounds funny, but it was awesome! I'll hopefully send some pictures soon. My other party was at the Kimball's house. I didn't know it, but Sister Kimball invited more of the branch members to the party and they showed up to surprise me! It was so sweet and we had a great time playing games and eating cake :) It really felt like home! I'm grateful to be surrounded by people I love! I hope my amazing twin sister had a good birthday too :)

Here are quotes for the week!

"You don't look like Christmas, but I on the other hand look like a nun!" -Sister Stephens

"When you mention a wedding in the church... the women go NUTS!!!" -Scott

"It smells like a porta-potty... with cat food in it!" -Sister Hansen

"I'm getting Bennington eyebrows!!!!" -Sister Stephens

*In a frustrating situation* "Okay okay okay... talk like Christ, be like Christ... everyone's great!" -Sister Hansen

Chuck and Barbara are doing great by working towards their wedding and baptism. We're almost done planning everything, but we're getting closer to Tuesday the 9th! We're all excited :) I love this gospel and I love the experiences I'm having out here!


Love, Sister Hansen!