Coming home...

Well this week was pretty crazy. On Tuesday the zone leaders came over to our house and we were just talking about how crazy it is that everyone is going home and that how we would be the last ones to go home. Then my district leader walks down the stairs and starts reading a text he got from the AP's saying that we are getting sent home. It was heartbreaking. I definitely do not want to leave the Marshall Islands. After that we received some information about what was going on and what we needed to do. We still have no idea when we are leaving, but I should be home within the next month. 

That being said that work continues here in Delap and the Marshall islands. We are still proselyting and doing our best to stay busy and work hard. This week me and Elder Langrine were waiting for one of our lessons and we saw some eels in the water. Elder Langrine grabbed a stick and started going to town on them haha. We didn't get any...  But the next day we went back more prepared. We brought our machetes.. hahah. We got a couple and are gonna cook them up pretty soon. It was super fun and I definitely lightened up the mood.

We had a great lesson with one of our investigators about the plan of salvation this week. This guy asks so many questions so I prepared myself with some bible verses and all this stuff and went into the lesson. Man it was crazy. The spirit was guiding me throughout the whole lesson and telling me exactly what to say. The words were just flowing haha. I loved it. 

Things are going well. We are doing our best to continue to work hard and focus on the work. I hope all is well at home and everyone is staying safe. I love you all! Have a great week!

Elder Hanson

One year mark for Elder Garr!

P day fun

Elder Hanson & Elder Jolley

Another week in Majuro

 

Iakwe!!! 

Everything here in the Marshall Islands is great. I'm probably in one of the safest countries in the world. We are so isolated haha. We are basically quarantined because no planes can come in or out of the country haha. It's great.

This week was pretty good. We taught some great lessons and worked super hard. Yesterday we gave sacrament to 5 families. It was rough not gonna lie haha. It was a long day.

Earlier this week we were walking around and there is this guy who thinks he is so good at fighting. So elder langrine started to pretend to fight him and the guy was swinging so hard haha. Elder langrine was just dancing circles around this guy and he almsot fell down. It was so funny. I was dying laughing.

We invited one of our investigators to baptism this week and had such a spiritual lesson with him. It was crazy. His wife is a member and he wants to get baptized. We were teaching him about baptism and the spirit was so strong. 

Also this bubu told us she had a dream where Jesus visited her and showed her the celestial kingdom and she was so shocked about how beautiful it was and how much food and stuff there was. It was crazy but a pretty cool experience. 

On Saturday we were doing service and this guy told us to remove this huge stump. Haha we were hacking at that thing with a machete, ax, and shovel for a solid 3 hours. We had no success at getting it out. It was rough.

This week was good tho! I love Elder Langrine and all I'm learning from him. Its a great time. I hope you are all doing well and staying corona free. In both ways... I know the marshallese are because there is no beer on island haha. love you all. Have a great week!

Elder Hanson

Corona chaos

Iakwe aolep!

Sorry that I didn't send an email last week. Things have been pretty crazy ever since I flew into Majuro.

To start off I "killed" my companion Elder Tune. He is done with his mission and is in Kiribati right now. The couple of days I had with him were so crazy. Elder Tune doesn't really know English and my other companion Elder Langrine is from Ebeye in the marshall islands so we just talked in marshallese to each other for 4 days. It was dope. Also since Elder Langrine is a native speaker I have learned so many things. It's a huge jeramman.

Getting to know a new area is different but its been good! Delap is way cool. It is so much bigger than Ebeye so it's pretty weird. I'm pretty sure that my area now is bigger than all of Ebeye. Majuro also is not as hot as Ebeye. There are more trees and so much breadfruit. 

Elder Langrine is visa waiting here and is supposed to go to Ghana soon. He just received his  visa so he should be going to ghana anytime soon. I don't really know what will happen with me and if I will stay in Delap or not.

Earlier this week the ZL's came to our house and told us that we weren't allowed to go to church, shake hands, meet in groups bigger than our district, and that we needed to immediately go buy two bags of rice and a bag of flour per companionship. It's pretty crazy. Usually every p-day all the missionaries get together but now I don't really know what we are going to do.

The work here in Delap is good. It's great to have a native companion because whenever we are thirsty we just go grab a coconut cut it open and drink it. It is the best. We had 2 baptisms this past week which was great! 

Anyway I love you all! Stay safe from Corona. I hope you all have a great week. Oh btw my pday is now on Monday or America's Sunday. 

Elder Hanson

Majuro baby

Well this past week was crazy and sad. We went around Ebeye telling everyone that we were leaving. 

We were supposed to leave on Friday. But we missed our flight. We flew out to Majuro yesterday.

I'm in delap with Elder Langrine and Tune. 

I hope you have a great week! All is well here in Majol!

Elder Hanson