Miracles

SO many small miracles have happened the past few weeks! Sister Brown and I have been trying to be as diligent/obedient as we can, and we've seen blessings come from it :) Heavenly Father has led us to 4 new investigators and 3 pretty solid potentials that we're going to follow up with!

One of them is Bill. We talked to him on the street and he said he's been looking for a church that he feels comfortable at. He's been searching for a year, but still hasn't found it (NOW HE HAS!!!) ;) haha. We talked with him briefly, testified, and left him with a BOM. Later when we were driving back that way to go home, we saw him on his porch reading it!!! :D That was so cool!

Also one of our investigators is Jamaican haha! She's great and she's really interested in the priesthood and prophets. We're teaching her next week and she wants to come to church! We visited a less-active family this week too. They have young kids so we watched the new Mormon Message about bullying with them. The Spirit was really strong and they loved it! We talked about being Christlike, it was great :) They invited us back again!!

Oh yeah, the other day I was leaving a voicemail on someone's phone and at the end I almost said, "In the name of Jesus Christ amen." but luckily I stopped myself right before and then just said bye really fast hahahaha.... and another embarrassing thing was that I pulled into the parking lot at our church for ZTM and President Wirthlin was walking in. In our mission, President Wirthlin is trying to help us learn how to get good at backing our bars into parking places. He was like, "Sister Hansen... I want to see you back in!" ...... OH GREAT. I've been backing in my whole mission and I'm STILL horrible at it haha. Lets just say I made a food of myself... but it was fun :)

I've had so many interesting dreams lately. Last night it was this one: I was driving a car full of missionaries. I was following my GPS and it was NOT taking us the right way. We were going on long windy roads and I started to get frustrated. We stopped the car and went to sit on a bench by some grass. We sat down on the bench and everyone was like, "Lets role play!" I was still trying to figure out my GPS, so I sat down away from the group on the grass. My GPS was taking us a MUCH longer way to get home and I didn't know why. Clearly on the map there were TONS of other short roads that could've gotten us home. I started crying after a few minutes haha. Then someone came and sat by my side. I still don't know who that person was... but he said something that I'll never forget.

"OFTEN GOD KNOWS THERE'S AN EASIER PATH... BUT SOMETIMES WE NEED TO TAKE THE TOUGH AND LONG WAY."

When he said that, I knew it was true. Even though our paths in life can be difficult and can seem long at times, there are lessons we never would've learned if we took the shortcut. There are things we never would've seen or felt if we took the short road. I'm grateful for that dream. It helped me know that God is aware of the path I'm on, and He's helping me understand more and more each day :) I love receiving answers through dreams!!

Anyway, the new March Ensign is REALLY good. You all should read it! Also, I hope everyone has a fun St. Patrick's Day :) We got ice cream cones for 50 cents at Stewarts for wearing green :) I'll end my post on a funny note by writing some of the quotes from my week :) Enjoy!

"We're trying to have more fun like elders. So we're embracing our inner elder!" - Sis Brown

"Adidas stands for- All Day I Dream About Shoes. It should be Adidaj- All Day I Dream About JESUS!" - Elder Holt

*choosing a random pamphlet to leave at an unanswered door* "Let's see what we got here... AH! Luck of the draw.... these lucky people get chastity!" -Sis Hansen

*during his testimony* "You know what? I just love being weird. I'm weird.... and being weird makes me happy!" -Elder Houggard

Haha well, I hope everyone is happy and healthy :) The weeks are starting to go by a lot faster now :) Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!


Love, Sister Hansen <3