Dear Family,
We are starting to learn how it get
around. We can usually make it home after we have been out doing missionary
work, without the aid of our GPS. We still use it to find places however. As a
town Paragould Monroe Paragould Salt
Lake City Utah
Friday mom and I were out trying to find
an inactive family on our list. They were not home, but their neighbor was out
putting up some bird feeders, so we started up a conversation with him. He had
heard of the church because he has a son in the marine corps and his son was
taking the missionary lessons. His son had told him he needed to read the Book
of Mormon because it's true. We asked him if he would read the Book of Mormon
if we brought him one. He said yes so we went back to the apartment got a Book
of Mormon and took it to him.
We don't have to lead the Branch here,
there are wonderful members doing that. We don't have to teach the missionary
lessons, we have wonderful Sisters living next door that do that. We just get
to drive around finding inactive members and invite them to come back to
church, and many of them do, but not all. We go out into the community and meet
people. We volunteer down at the senior citizens 4 days a week helping them
package up 150 “meals on wheels” for elderly people who can't get out and
around. We have been to the county museum twice and had wonderful visits with
the hosts there. Yesterday we went to a community Craft Fair and looked at all
the stuff people do. We met a lot of new people and I even bought a painting by
a local artist, he's retired, just started painting 3 years ago, he is
very good. I got an original 16" x 24" painting, frame and all,
for $45. As we left he said now you have a painting, painted by a redneck from Arkansas
Got a call from Brad Roberts, this last
Friday, he and Lyla have been called the Colorado
Mom here.
For the most part the people in this area
are very nice. We committed that we would reactivate two less actives a
month, at first I really doubted that we would be able to accomplish that, but
me of little faith, we were able to make it happen. It was like the two
that we have coming back to church was waiting for some one to show them some
love and to let them how much they were needed. The Branch
President was very surprised that we were able to get them back at
church. I guess we could say at we had three because we visited with a
man from the Bear Lake area who moved here and became inactive but when he saw
our little red car and the Idaho license plate he had to go church to find out
who we were. To make a long story short he now comes to church
whenever his job gives him Sun. off. Some just tell us
NO! not interested "I don't need the church" We
don't argue with them we are trying to be a friend and that is all. We
are doing a birthday deal where we make a birthday card and then I make
homemade cookies, now that will almost always get us into a home. Not
many turn down the cookies in fact so far no one even if they really don't care
about the church has not accepted the cookies
It is hard to believe that we have been
here a month already I'm thinking that we will miss these people when we have
to leave. Today Dad was asked to go and bless a baby that has a spider
bite on her leg. We were told that it was a boil but the Mother thinks it
was a bite of some kind. These people are so poor, they have been living
on government help for all their lives. There are so many that are so
poor the church is their only hope for improving their lives. I don't
know who the next two less actives will be but hopefully we will find
them. We have the whole month to find them and get them coming back to
church. We have a list of inactives and the birthday list so
between the two we should be able to find them.
Love Elder and Sister Hansen
Mom and Dad / Grammy and Papa
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