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 Oh goly! When I saw the subject of your email my gut dropped. I felt an immense amount of fear coming over me. Then I read the first line only for it to confirm my worst fears. That mama bear in my wanted to buy the next ticket out to Thailand to comfort you!!! 

Well I guess some would say this is karma since you too hit a pedestrian while you were driving in highschool. If you have any bad feelings for the monster that tried to take you out my council to you would be to imagine the feelings the poor man you hit with your car had for you all those years ago. You truly have been on both sides of this situation and it gives you a unique and humble perspective! Remember Joseph's time in liberty jail. We can learn through this story that god does NOT leave us in our hardships. He's always there you may just need to call on him. 

I send this message with an immense amount of love for you and a hope that you can remember the sanctity of your calling. 

You are a modern day Paul in Thailand!!!❤️❤️❤️🫶

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 Yea sorry i dont really gotta lot of time today but i wrote an email home for my ward so im just gonna use that as my weekly email today too. Love you all though and I'm so grateful for all the people that send me emails and biz u guys uplift my week a bunch

Hello brothers and sisters,

I've been asked to share some of the experiences/blessing I've received during my mission. I may have taken a couple of weeks but I finally remembered to send this home. I think it was meant to be though because I want to share about a spiritual experience that happened yesterday and other blessings I've received from the mission. This is just one small experience I've had and the mission has really helped me see the ways God blesses us in tiny bits every day.

For anyone on my email list, you might have noticed I am currently speedrunning my way to having 10+ areas by the time I finish. If you look at my last 4 transfers, including this one, I have been in a different area all for 4 transfers. So I guess one thing I've learned is packing up my bags on short notice 🫩

In my newest area though we had a really cool little miracle. We were at the church at around 7 pm Sunday night because some members took us to give the sacrament and visit some homebounds. We had just ate dinner at the church and were doing our weekly planning after everyone left but the ward clerk. We have around 20-25 green dots so I was asking questions about them when I hit one named มิก (Meek) that my new comp Elder Wright didn't recognize. They had only been taught once in person about 3 maybe 4 weeks ago and the follow up lesson hadn't been reported from 2 weeks ago. They only had a facebook and this is the point where if we can't contact through facebook we would have to drop them. After requesting to be friends with them I set my phone down and went to bathroom real quick. When I got out Elder Wright and the clerk were talking to a girl that had come to the church. She said that Elder Olson (The elder before her) had talked about how we have a piano at the church and maybe she could learn. We asked her if she had facebook and what her name was and she's like "My names มิก (Meek)". After I recovered from being absolutely shocked I grabbed my phone and I showed her that I had quite literally just requested to be a friend in Facebook and that it was such a blessing that she came by. We we're able to give her a BOM and she said she'd come back next week at 9 a.m.when there's people at the church.

She may not be an instant Baptism but God truly does work in mysterious ways. The fact that she just happened to be in the area and stop by the church, after 2 weeks of not going, on possibly one of the only Sundays when we would be at the church. Andddd when I had literally just been wondering who her dot was and added her on Facebook. I don't know what God's plan is for her but I hope that she'll have a great experience at church.

As far as the blessings I received from my mission so far, it is far and away the great people, members, and ผู้สนใจ (poo-son-jye)/ investigators that I've been able to meet. The Thai people show so much love. My love for otbers has also greatly increased as I have served these past few months. I hope the ward is doing well and I invite you all to try and notice the small things God helps us with everyday or the opportunites we have to be that small gift for someone else. 

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Elder Hansen

Alrightty there ya go 

💥1 and Done (Part 2)💥

 Whats up everyone,

This week was transfers and you'll never guess. I'm actually moving AGAIN. We'll see how long I keep this up but I'm on quite a pace right now. I'm on transfer number 7 of my mission and going into my 5th area. 

Buriram truly has been a special place and I was honestly not expecting such a quick move but hopefully I was able to fulfill the things I was needed for here. The members accepted me so quickly and are such a great example for serving and loving others. I didn't quite get a chance to watch a soccer game here but I'll definitely be coming back One day. 

This last week has been pretty special in general. My DL Elder Guanuna moved to his area a week early so we were in a trio with my follow up trainer Elder Tamayao. We split our workdays between Surin and Buriram and our biking situation has been pretty interesting since in Buriram we only had one bike so we had to walk everywhere. And then in Surin I was whipping the legendary Magnum Tiger so we were able to get around a lil bit easier. 

This week overall has been a solid work week though and I know the Elders in Buriram next transfer will be killing it🔥🔥

My new Area I'll be moving to is called Khon Khen, it is like THE big city in the Eassan. I've heard some pretty good things so I'm excited for all the new things I get to see. I'll be a lil bit farther from the border so I won't be evacuated anytime soon but I also prolly won't be able to practice my Khmer😢😢

It'll be alright tho haha, I still need to work on my normal Thai more. 

Thats about it though. I am so grateful for all of my friends and family. I'm sorry if I don't the chance to respond to some of you today but I'm lil bit shorter on time because all of my traveling again, but I appreciate everyone who reaches out to me and brightens my week🙏 Hope you all have an amazing week.

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 Hey everyone, 

Quite an interesting Sunday today. We had a great investigator come to church and got to help one of our members finish up the last few things on his mission papers. Sadly tho, when we got ready to go to our dinner appointment Elder Dollar's crappy bike finally fell apart and the chain broke. We attempted a genius idea where i hold on to a member while he drives his motorbike but then the freakin back tire completely fell apart too so then we were just screwed. Should be getting a new bike for him this week I hope tho 🙏🙏🙏

This weeks been pretty chill.  The other elders went back Tuesday and then we had in person district council Wednesday, so we went right back to and saw them. super fun and we also had a service opportunity. We got to go to a refugee camp in Surin and make some food and some other stuff and basically just talk with people. I feel like it's the main thing that we were doing. 

Thursday we had a good lesson with one of our investigators. We got to talk about a lot a lot of different principles. So that was really cool. Cause it's been a while since we got to teach someone that was interested. Its actually pretty funny cuz the reason thwy wanted to start learning was because of magic mushroom that lets u see god or something but you know thats chill. 

Saturday was a really cool day. Because we met a super good find in a market that he was willing to just come to the church with us and see it just kind of out of nowhere. We had an online teaching appointment. And it was like sure we have an online appointment so you can come, then our online appointment fell through but we gotta teach him instead so pretty cool miracles. 

We also had elder clark who recently just finished come visit saturday night with his family and i found out his dads first cousin is Joel Clark. Such a small world that i gotta meet Richie's dad's first cousin. So yea special shoutout to Richie and his fam. Love you guys

Then the events i already talked about happened sunday haha.

Today we went to a silk market in surin. Pretty cool. Silk making is such a ridiculous process but they are pretty. Also got some freakin firrreee burgers for lunch. Actually was like a good burger from america