Dear Family,
We had a very busy morning. We went to the Seniors to do our job then we went to the church to clean a building that has not been clean for at least a month. It was disgusting and I was embarrassed yesterday that the Sisters had an investigator at church. Hopefully she didn't need to use the bathroom because that was by far the worst room. The Elders came and help us so we were done in an hour. I just do not get why no one cares enough to show the proper respect to the building. I cleaned both bathroom and cleared out the garbage in the classrooms. It actually now smells clean because we tracked down any strange smell. The next time we do this I will bring my own cleaning supplies. Supposedly the newly called building coordinator will be assigning families in the Branch to clean every week. But knowing how it got cleaned before some of the families just can't be bothered to do that. It isn't that they really don't want to it is that they don't make the time to get it done.
We found some real red necked Arkansasians high in the hills. There are some lovely homes on terrible gravel or dirt roads and then there are the tumble down trailer houses that people live in. The one we were at on Sat. was bad news. I guess we should be grateful that we were not invited in. The Relief Society Pres. told me that the bugs are crawling everywhere inside the house. She was afraid to sit down because she didn't know what she was sitting on. The lady wants church assistance but since no one has ever seen her at church that is a far off want. She goes to the Pentacostal church because they come and get her.
We went to a Neil Diamond impersonator at the Collins theater. We met this man last April in Branson. We would have gone to his concert but we had gotten ourselves hung up with the time share deal and couldn't get away fast enough. So we watched him here instead. I'm not sure what he expected but he thought that the audience wasn't responding enough. If he could have seen the audience he would have seen that most of ones who came were in their 80's. There were a few that were younger but not many. It was nice because we did not have blaring music that hurt the ear drums, nor did we have to put up with the real Neil Diamonds vanity. It was all Neil Diamond music, most we knew some that we had never heard before.
The water pump went out on the car last week. We were taking the Sisters to Zone meeting, Dad noticed that the temperature gauge kept moving up to the red then back down then back up. We were really hoping that we could get to the chapel without any problem, which we did. We let the car cool down, we didn't want any belly burns again. The Elders had some water in their pickup so we filled the radiator up. Then as soon as the meeting was over we headed for home. The Sisters were going with the Sister Trainer leaders so we could leave as soon as we needed to. To make a long story short Dad called the Toyota dealership in Jonesboro made an appointment for the next morning. We spent most of Thur. at the Kirksey home as we waited to get the car fixed. It was pricey but at least it was done in four hours and done by trained mechanics who understood Toyota. So everything is now good. I did not want to be going home always filling up the radiator or being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken down car. We are good to go as far as the car goes.
I will tell you all what we think that we will be doing. Now this is if President Wakolo agrees. We will leave Sat March 28 and drive up to Chuck and Nancy's and stay until early Mon. morning, then a very long drive to Parker to spend some time with Joyce and Blaine, then drive through Wyoming and into Salt Lake and Murray, then to Tooele and spend two days there then Fri. we will drive home. We won't be visiting with any one on the way home because most of you will be coming to Weiser sometime during the summer anyways. If we can't leave until our end date then this plan changes because we will watch conference in Utah and then come home Mon. So this is all still up in the air, we do have 6 more weeks. I really try not to think to much about going home if I did I would be so home sick. We still have a lot to do here so that is where our thought have to be.
We are teaching Temple Preparedness to a man that we reactivated last year. He really wants to go the temple before we leave. I think that he wants Dad to be his escort so we have to get the 6 lessons done before the 28th . The last week of Feb. we will be going to the temple for our missionaries and then for Danny Van Fleet.
Dad's turn: Looks like Mom has covered all the news that has been happening around here lately. One thing about serving a mission away from Utah and Idaho, you are able to see first hand what happens to people when they decide not to live the commandments of God in their day to day lives. That is really prevalent here. Ya think to yourself, I'm so glad I've had the gospel in my life. Not that my life has been that spectactular, but it sure could have been much, much worse.
We enjoy getting all your letters and emails and artwork. It let's us know we are not forgotten here in Arkansas.
Love Elder and Sister Hansen (Grammy and Papa)
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