Hello everyone! This has been a crazy week! Probably one of the most up and down weeks of my mission. But the Lord has been strengthening us so much and helping us through it all. Let me tell you about it....
Between this week and last week we have had 5 people that we teach in the hospital. For most of them it has been nothing serious, but it's so ironic that it's all happening at the same time. Wednesday, we got a call from the branch president of the Spanish branch. He told us that Fransisco, whom we had been teaching, was in a coma. That night we were able to go by with the elders in the branch to give him a blessing. It was actually a really cool experience. When we got there the family told us that we couldn't touch him or talk out loud around him because when we did that, he would have seizures. So we were worried about giving him a blessing, but the doctor gave the approval and the elders went ahead with the blessing, but touched him very softly and whispered. But during the blessing, everything was very peaceful. Fransisco didn't move at all and the Spirit was there very strong. It was a sweet blessing of peace. We stopped by a few times later during the week, and he wasn't doing well. Sunday early he passed away. We have been visiting with his wife to help her start coming to church so that she can start feeling peace and find understanding for what happened. We've also been very strengthened in all of it to be okay. In our companionship we've been sad, but we've felt a lot of peace about it all. I've thought a lot about it and I know that it was revelation to stop teaching him because he wasn't in the state to be taught and the Lord knew the end plan and had other plans for us. It's so crazy that all of this has happened!
This week we were also able to visit Cherie. She will be baptized in a few weeks and we are just falling in love with her completely. She is so, so cute and so so ready for the gospel again in her life. Even though she's in her 70s I think we will be good friends even after my mission.
This week we've also been worried about some people we're teaching. We haven't been able to contact them for a while, but we keep praying. But many good things are happening and we know that the Lord won't let us fail. Lori is one of those people we're worried about. We had an incredible lesson with her the other day. We watched the Restoration movie with her and the Spirit was just bouncing off the walls and she couldn't doubt it. She told us that she knew she needed to take a leap of faith and just focus on going to our church instead of the other church she's been attending. And she started talking about how important it was to help her family realize that this is true too. She had her answer and she knew it, but since then we hadn't been able to contact her until last night. When we visited her last night she told us that she'd been going to her other church still. We're so confused as to why or how she totally forgot that answer to pray that she had, but we have hope that she will remember those feelings as we visit with her this week. We'll keep praying and working with her.
This week was Bryce's baptism. It was amazing and the Spirit was so strong. His mom and aunt came and by the end of it, his mom had tears in her eyes and his aunt listened to the talks very well. We're excited to see what will happen with them. Bryce also bore his testimony in front of everyone about how much this has changed his life and how much he knows it's true. It was beautiful!
Well, I'm running out of time, but I just want to say that I know the Lord is blessing us so much this transfer. There are some super hard things happening, but I can see His hand in the work and in our companionship. He is blessing our little trio so much and we are growing so much together and loving it. I know He is guiding all of our lives. Have a wonderful leap year this week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Anneli Hansen
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