🎉Happy Mothers Day 🎉

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Happy Mothers day to everyone out there especially my amazing mom. This is email is especially for her since I think she is one of the few people who reads these haha. Shoutout to the people who respond to me though, even if I don't respond to them sometimes I always love hearing from you and read them.

This week has been pretty crazy. We've had zone conference, zone activity, and a temple trip but I'll try and not talk too long this week. 

First thing is about a week and a half now we've had a zone challenge between the districts where we have to give out a BOM everyday at some point. Anyone who doesn't gets a tally and whoever gets the most tallies has to do a punishment. Only problem is my district is the one who lost the challenge 🤦

It's actually been really good though. Just the other day we were visiting our member who owns a restaurant and as we were talking to them these two drunk guys were on the brink of getting into a fist fight. After they separated and went their separate ways, being the peace makers we are trying to follow President Oaks recommendation we began a conversation with one of the guys. And lil did we know the power of the white man here in Thailand took effect immediately and when his friend saw that the frang could speak Thai sprang over to talk to us, all anger completely rescinded by the presence of the frang. We were able to help them see the error of their ways and hug/handshake it out. Once we were finished though we didn't even think about giving them a book of mormon until after we were done talking with our member family. We were walking out and I realized we still hadn't given out our BOM for the challenge so obviously we had to zoom back to give it to one of them. I didn't get to talk to the one that we gave it to very much but I guess it turns out that he was actually pretty interested in learning more so we'll see if it's just his drunken state or if we'll be able to set up an appointment with them this week. 

Sadly though this week we only had about 3 days to get work done in our area cuz we were off to Roi Et Thursday. Zone conference was sooooo amazing tho. 

Zone pday we didn't quite make it in time for basketball which was a bit of an L but other than that it was super fun. I got to do the finding activity with the absolutely GOAT Elder Morgan. Who I also forgot is my mission nephew since he's elder Saunders kid. Actual Zone Conference was really good though, the trainings really seemed centered on the importance of the BOM both in the aspect of missionary work and in making it central of our personal conversion continuing forward. Best of all was when we were going back we got to have a taxi take us back from zone conference so that we could be home in time for the temple trip.

Speaking of the temple we actually had a really scary start to it. We got back around 7:30pm friday night and we were planning to wake up at around 12pm so that we could go open the church for the members at 1am and be off to Bangkok by 2 am. And to put this in perspective we have been planning this for over a month and there have been a lot of things leading up to this. And being the absolute idiot that I am for some reason I only set one alarm when we went to bed. Which genuinely makes no sense because when I wake up every day I have 2 just in case. Not to mention that we lowk coulda just not gone to bed cuz I only got like an hour sleep anyways. But to say the least, we did not wake up to the alarm. Thankfully though we have the actual just most goated members and one of the members who lived closed to our house stopped by at like 1:05-1:10 banging on our window. So we were able to get up make it over to the church and we still made it out at 2am as planned with all our members. It was a bit of a nerve racking beginning seeing as we could've woken up at like 5 am and just screwed the entire thing. Thankfully God was looking out for us though. 

We made it to the temple and it was such a great experience. Weo and Ammy were able to get their Endowements done after hitting a year and brother Nui, Sister Plun Pid, and Yai Dtham nong were able to do baptisms for the first time. Yai who is a really old lady wasn't planning on getting in the water, but when we got there she decided she was going to and dang she just be such an absolute trooper. I baptized her once and was like alright were good now and she was like "Thats it??" She was down to do even more but I think one is more comfortable. Also while we were at the temple I got a chance to see elder and sister corbett who were some members from Pak Chong the area I moved from last transfer. They're super amazing so it was really fun. 

Lastly this Pday was bit of a letdown cuz basically the one thing I needed to do was to go to this Fabric place that's like 13 kilos out of Chaiyaphum to buy some fabric for the suit that I'm going to be getting down in a lil bit here. However, in my foolishness, I didn't think to call them because they're frickin google maps said they were open. However, Lo and behold when we get there they were in fact on vacation and won't be open until thursday. So basically wasted a whole hour of Pday on a ridiculously long bike ride and I didn't even get the fabric I need so still trying to decide if we gonna do that again.

That's about it for our week though. Super happy to be serving here in Chaiyaphum. Got a great comp, great district, and amazing area so not too much to complain about.

Hope this wasn't too much but I love you all

And especially love you mom. 

Praying all of you will have an amazing week

Elder Hansen

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