Recreating the MTC photo

PANTS!!
(they might be three sizes too big....
but they are not too short)

a regular missionary meal lol

when we were two sick missionaries

happy happy happy

Hello people I love very most!

First off, lets talk about time. Time is the weirdest thing. This past week, every day I would look at my watch and we would have only 2 more hours of the day left! Time is FLYING by, and I fully realize that it is just going to keep going. Hermana Henao told me congrats, the time is just going to go more fast! And wow its so true! I only have 5 more weeks of training left, which blows my mind. I am also a different person, but not it a bad way. I have learned the importance of humility and patience. I am learning SO much about myself, and how I can become a better disciple of Jesus Christ :) 

So we get into a lesson, and before I could say anything, the lady says ¨are you Tica??¨ so I may not be able to talk like a tica, but hey, at least I kinda look like one? :) 

Apparently there is a hurricane in Haiti? Anyways, because of the hurricane it is raining the CRAZY here. Like all day, and we get so wet! But people are so nice and let us some into their homes and teach them the perfect gospel :) I am super grateful for my Crocs!

Spanish. Oh boy. It so coming! Seriously people here are way nice and patient, for the most part:) A veces hay personas that are super mean about it, but hey, its all good. When people hear that I have a month and a half here in Costa Rica, they are amazed! and I just want to tell them. GIFT OF TONGUES :) haha 

Lets see. We have a few solid investigators, and if we can receive a miracle, we might have a baptism the end of this month :) Her name is Jazmin, and she is the daughter of one of our investigators named Luisa :) Luisa is the kindest lady. We were teaching her and at the end of the lesson, she comes and sits by me and just gives me the biggest hug. AH it reminded me of my mom. :) Hopefully she will be baptized with her daughter :) They are both SO patient with me and my Spanish. 

We have this family in our branch, Familia Rivera, and we have FHE with them every Sunday, I think I may have already told you all that. But they family are members, but the dad is not. They have a missionary out, who started his mission just as I came here. Anyways, FHE is super awesome and it makes me feel like I am at home and that I am around my family, just my Spanish family :) 

I am so happy here. Attitude really does determine altitude in the mission, and I am so grateful for this happiness. I am SO grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ, and for the fact that really, He helped me and carried me through those first few weeks, when everything was spinning out of control! I know that really, truly, Christ LIVES! He truly did suffer every single thing that we would go through in this life, so that he KNOWS how to succor us in our trials, and in our happy times. I love this perfect Gospel, and that I get to share it with those who don't know about it!! 

I love you all! Thanks for all the support :) I am so happy. 

Hermana Hansen

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Yes this really happened! A cockroach on our toilet paper

Just a few selfies with my "mom" -