Second Birthday🎉

 Hello,

Sorry I haven't emailed in a sec haha I just didn't find the time last week with zone pday. So far though this transfers been great. 

Some highlights have been

-Zone Pday

-Zone Conference

-General Conference

-Miracles

Sooo we'll start off with the fun part, zone pday is always just lit. Got to play some ball finally, honestly not my best performance but I'll take any basketball i can get. Then we had chair soccer and interviews. We ended off the day with the finding activity and I finally got my splits with Elder Stauffer 🔥🔥 For Background we we're supposed to do splits a few conferences ago but I was at the hospital and we didn't make it back to do them. Finally got it and it was great. We we're able to teach a few different some mini lessons on the BOM. We ended the night with a crazy miracle where we met this guy named Ert who definitely needed some comfort. We walked by and started talking to him and he pulls out a BOM and then just starts crying. I guess he learned with the Missionaries like a year ago, his lifes kinda messed up right now so we were able to share some words of comfort for him.

Zone conference was firee this transfer too. ZL's clutched with some actual gas food. We had mac and cheese and chicken nuggets for lunch pday, and then had Mcdonalds for lunch conference but like actually a lot, like a burger, chicken sandwich, large fry, large drink, and ice cream. The actual trainings were like all amazing. We watched a cool video of one of the first members in Europe named Francesca or something. All the trainings had great invitations and I'm excited to try some of them this transfer. Had to do a musical number with the district tho which is not ideal🤮 I'm def not the most blessed when it comes to singing whether it be Thai or English. 

Then Later on Saturday and Sunday I finally got the chance to listen to General Conference a week late haha. It was great tho and i loved a lot of the talks. Hoping some of our investigators had a good experience with conference.

Speaking of investigators, this week we got blessed by our friends that came to church. We had 13 pull up to conference at different points Sunday. Which 7 of them was their first day. 3 of them were people we talked to a month ago while finding at the walking street and at that time they said they weren't free but would go to church next month when they were. Well, it's next month and they showed up!! Thennn we had 4 other people come because 1 of them was visiting from Laos and wanted to go to church but not a Catholic one. Soo, she found our church in google and then had her friends take her. We'll see if we can stay in contact with them but so cool that they showed up. 

Finally, after both sessions of general conference, not necessarily cuz of conference but one of our investigators comes up to me and says her and her daughter want to be baptized. They also want to be baptized before either of us move so we're going to be reviewing a lot with them these coming weeks since a lot of the stuff they learned was a little less than a year ago. 

Overall its just crazy to me that we're coming up on 3 weeks of the transfer this Thursday. I still love Khon Kaen and I'm excited to help our investigators continue to progress. 

I love you all a bunch of hope you have the best week 🫶

I'll try and make more of an effort to respond to emails this coming pday 🫡🫡

Oh yea and last thing I had my birthday 🥳🥳 We had cake after English Class and it was sooo อรอ่ย 

Oh yea whoops, as with the title this is actually my second birthday as a missionary since i had one in Home MTC. As of my end date right now I will end with 3 birthdays as a missionary.

🌋Transfers🌀

 Whats up everyone, 

Its truly a miracle. I have broken my streak of one transfer areas hahah. I'm glad I've had the chance to see so many areas but I really wanted to stay in Khon Kaen again so super happy with transfer news. 

This week has been pretty amazing tho

Some main things from this week

-Mission Tour

-District 

Conference

-Flooding

-Ths Squad

-Transfers

Alright so this last week we had mission tour with President Tai. He's the general authority that spoke right before President Nelson in the April General Conference. He had such an amazing training and it was such an amazing way to finish off the transfer. Right after that we also got to listen to him in District Conference which was fun to be able to listen to a speaker in English. 

Speaking of District Conference, I got to see my old members from Sakon Nakhon. Soooo amazing, I forgot how much i love my greenie area and all the members there are just goats. Not to mention I also got to see the members from Buriram that I saw last week at District Conference too. We also were fortunate to have a few of our investigators come to Udon for the meeting too so overall it was a pretty firrree weekend 

The return to Khon Kaen was great but amazing for our work cuz we got crazy rain. We had really bad flooding in Khon Kaen and biking around the streets was like biking through rivers. The some cars and trucks literally had like mini wakes coming off of them. It was honestly pretty fun but as far as our finding goes it didn't help us out a lot. 

Then skip up to yesterday and we had an awesome work day. We went out and visited a member that has a hard time going to church cuz of health problems and her son who's not a member. Then we went with the inactive member, a ผู้สนใจ (investigator), and a great member to go visit 2 other ผู้สนใจ that are close by. Had an amazing lesson with them and we're hoping to see them at church this Sunday. 

And the finale was transfers. This'll be my first time staying with a comp for more than 1 transfer so we'll see how it goes. I'm pretty excited to just our momentum going tho and keep helping our friends progress

Thats abt all for this week. I love you all so much. 

🌊บัพติศมาของวงค์เดือน🔥

 Whats up everyone, 

This week was great, วงค์เดือน is an investigator that has gone to church for a long time but had a few different challenges to overcome before he could be baptized. He came up to me and Elder Wright last week and he said he wanted to be baptized. Definitely a surprise and it was so great to see his service this last Sunday. 

Sorry I haven't emailed for the last little bit, we've been really busy here but we've seen a lot of blessings. 

This last week we've had

-District Pday

-In Person District Council

-Exchanges

-Sickness

-Buriram Surprise

-Baptism

District Pday last week we went to a fabric store and I got another fabric to make some more ties. Then we went on got Suki 😋😋

Somehow Elder Redd and Elder Lewis had both never had Suki Teenoi before which is some fire Shabu (kinda like Hot pot). 

Next day we had In person district council and our DL interviewed our boi. Then we went and did some service for one of the sisters in our ward to make sure the greenie in our district will have some photos for his visa. 

After that skip past Wednesday and we went to Chaiyaphum for exchanges thursday morning. Got there around 1:30 cuz some of the vans we're full in the morning. I got to exchange with Elder Redd for the first time. Kinda crazy cuz we we're together for my first transfer and never got to greenie exchange. Now he's a branch president already though and his Thai's cracked 🔥🔥

After returning from our exchanges Elder Wright felt pretty sick. We weren't able to do quite as much friday and saturday and after going to the hospital we basically just prepared for the Baptism Sunday and taught a lesson at the church. 

I also had a super cool surprise Saturday. One of our members had said they had a surprise visit for us and wanted to get lunch with us Saturday. Elder Wright wasn't feeling great but luckily we were able to go cuz turns out it was some members from Buriram and one of the ผู้สนใจ we were teaching. Soo glad I got to see them again and they honestly surprised me cuz i had no clue who this surprise visit was gonna be. They also came to church and Sunday and Dream got to see a Baptism. 

And THENNNN วงค์เดือน got baptized. Super cool to see him get baptized after such a long time. He was a little scruffed up from an accident that happened the day before but thankfully he was still able to baptized. 

Today we went to a waterfall for Pday and gave some Ice cream to some kids at a school. Overall pretty cool waterfall and the travel was chill. 

🚴‍♀️🚘💥

 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!!!❤️❤️❤️🫶

ขอโทษนะะะ

 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.

💀BicycleDown😭

 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