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 Hey Friends

This week was packed full of stuff, so I'm just gonna talk about whatever I remember.

Sunday was one of the chill days this week. The Go and Do personal study was good. Nothing too exciting. 

Monday was a lot of fun. We didn't have any workshops or group language study so we got to do our study times whenever we wanted. We went to the gym at a reasonable time too, so there wasn't a ton of people. Then we only had one class because we had a musical devotional. The devotional was done by the Bonner family. Idk how I haven't heard of the Bonner family before or I just didn't remember them, but I really liked the devotional. They're like crazy talented. It was really nice to have a change of pace and just listen to music for an hour. Also, they have some freakin crazy genes. The mom's like 71 years old and she was up there singing still. Idk how she's able to do it. I def would've guessed that she was like 60s max. And thennnn even crazier was when her youngest son said he had 6 kid!! He's prolly in his 40s, but if you had asked me how I old I thought he was it definitely would've been like low 20s. I was so surprised.

Tuesday was another packed day. We had more things in the morning, but we got another devotional at night, Brother Teixera and his wife came and spoke to us. He just spoke in last conference so I actually remembered his name. I was really tired, but I zoned in for the last half of devotional and I really liked it. He talked about how we are a seed that has been planted on a hill. We need to be an example and let our light shine to everyone. He talked about being a positive influence and the effect we can have. After the devotional we had a district review, and then a lot of the crazy stuff happened. Soo, this last tuesday night was the last night for the 2 thai districts above us and a few japanese districts. Our ZLs were in the japanese district so we new we were getting new ZLs. Anddd guess what, they called me and elder Runia after the district meeting. So we gotta lot of new responsibilities and things we have to do. Its actually way cool, other than I got to make sure I'm following all the rules cuz I'm the example now. With all the Elders gone its weird. Ethan left with the Japanese district so I don't have any friends from Home on my floor now. I didn't get to see him a lot, but its nice to have someone from home. He did hook me up with a mini fridge when he left tho so that was pretty sick. 

Other than that haven't done too much. Today was def the best pday so far. So basically we usually go to the temple at like 12:30. We showed up and instead of 3 busses there were only 2 and the next one wasn't gonna come for 30 minutes. Soooo instead we went to the provo city center. We took the bus over and did sealing and then walked back. It was actually the best to just be in the outside world. 

Funny stuff

-Elder huntsman gotta be my favorite part of the day. Thursday we were doing dinner service and elder huntsman was doing the barbecue sauce. Thenn he accidentally got some in his eyes and decided he was jus gonna cry it out instead of stop serving to get it out. And thennn even funnier was he burnt him hand and accidentally said motherfuuuuu. But he clutched and didn't say it. It was so funny

Love you all

It's freaking cold

 Wassup everyone 

So somehow I've been here over a week. All the days feel long but they jus blend together. I'm not gonna try go through what happened everyday cuz I already got them mixed up. 

Our first Sunday was a fast Sunday so that was rough. I don't mind fasting and I actually really liked sacrament meeting and the go and do study but after we did the 3 hour study sess I was starving. They we get done and go to dinner to eat cold pizza 😩.  I'm not gonna complain cuz everyone on Sundays is volunteering their time to give us food but after fasting all day it wasn't my first choice. 

Jump to Tuesday and we got an apostle for our devotional. It was UCHTORF. Idk who my favorite is but I def love hearing from him. It was super cool to hear him speak and it was nice to have a talk specifically for missionaries. He gave some good advice. Some ppl might think of him as jus some old dude, but they Def stupid and dumb cuz he had some great insights. One of my favorite things he touched on was controlling what u can control. U can't always control.how everything goes down but u can control how u react. There's 4 dif ways he talked about but to summarize, it was dope.

We've been playing lots of volleyball this week. I've never played with an indoor ball so it's actually way to fun. I've got a Lotta improvement tho cuz some ppl r crazy. Hopefully by week 7 I'll be a lil better.

Meals haven't been too bad. We had dinner duty tho on Thursday and then service Friday morning. That was tough. Lowk serving wasn't too bad tho cuz I did choices (its like cupbop mtc). Only downside was I couldn't talk to krew or beckem during meal time. They have dif schedules so only time I get to see them is sometimes during meal time 😟. I gotta talk to them for like a half an hour on Thursday and it was so niceeee. It's still feels like we jus have different classes in school or something. Seeing beckem leave will be weird

Funny stuff

-elder huntsman got no shame. He's the best. We're talking to president craig(branch president) and he asks if he can build a rocket cuz it's not specifically said in the handbook. Hahaha craig did not find it that funny. Thennnn, a few days later,  were talking to president craig and my comp elder runia was asking him abt his job and stuff. He told him he thought it was cool he was a professor and huntsman tells him he's got something brown on his nose. Half the district didn't get what he was saying but president craig totally did and didn't find it funny. And then huntsman tells him it means brown-noser and he's being a suck up. IN FRONT OF PRESIDENT CRAIG. Yea he told him that he was gonna have none of that. Huntsman still huntsman tho so he hasn't changed. He's so funny, it'd be so lame without him

Here's some photos from this week and last week

3 DAYS IN

 Soo I've been here for 3 days now. It's weird writing my email even tho I just got here. So if I don't have much to write I'll do it next week.

 First day was kinda sad but I've kinda gotten used to classes now. Thankfully i was right next to krew in line so it helped get out of my sadness a lil faster. I got dropped at at 2 but by the time I got to my room I didn't have anytime to pack before my class. After that we had a nice long orientation but then Krew got sat right behind me so it was still fun. we got to go to dinner after. The foods honestly not that bad. It's def better than school lunch so I'm not complaining. We ended off the first day with the character of christ devotional. Lowk really good, it was 10x better than the orientation and I wasn't falling asleep the whole time. We met our roommates and they're way dope. They're going to Africa and speaking English so they leave soon but they're super fun and help me with all of my dumb questions.

Second day was busy but wasn't to bad. I got to see Beckem!! It's only been a week but it felt like I hadn't seen him for a while. I saw krew throughout the day seeing friends gives me a Lil bit of relief. Class feels kinda long but it's so much better than the zoom. My district's so fun so class isn't bad. Elder huntsman is my goat!! He has no shame and asks the best questions. 

Third day basically felt the same as the second. We signed up for the field time instead of the inside and it's so nice to be outside. We played our pu-thais in volleyball and they beat us but we'll get them back today. They've been here for like 6 weeks so it's not very fair either. We had language class and normal class. I feel like I'm learning some stuff but I got a long way to go. I thought our Thai teacher had written out the full missionary purpose so we were working on it a Lil. Then I found out the entire freaking paragraph of symbols was only like half of the freaking thing so I got a lot of studying.

Today's my pday but I barely had time to write this email. We had a morning class and then had to grab lunch quick so we could make it to the temple. It was fun tho and we get 2 hours of volleyball later

I've been feeling the spirit like crazy the past few days tho. The lessons and scriptures really set the environment and it's been great the past few days.

Funny stuff

-Umm so I kinda locked me and my comp out of our room while we were showering. We got out earlier than everyone cuz we were meeting our branch president so we decided to shower but I didn't realize how hard I pulled the door and totally locked us out. Luckily I took a long shower and our roommates were back so it was chill

-  I hit on my sub by accident yesterday. She was talking to a few elders abt their girlfriends before class so I figured I'd ask if she had boyfriend when asked if we had any questions at the beginning of class. Only thing is I kinda just asked Are u dating anyone and it did not come out how I meant it haha. She's getting married tho so it's good

Miss you all. It's super weird I'm not gonna be back in Heber for 2years but I'm super excited to serve the ppl of Thai in a few months 

Love u guys

Elder hansen 

Ps. I'll include a scripture next week but I don't have one ready rn