Once again, it was a very full week. We got rejected by the majority of the people we were teaching this week, which is always tough. We had a couple fun travel days this week though, which makes up for some of the suck. Because Elder Gibbs is the district leader, we go spend the day with another set of elders once a week. This week, we went to visit the elders who live 3 blocks from the Bolivian border. It was fun, but relatively uneventful. However, the next morning on the bus ride back to Tartagal, we almost got detained by the Argentine border patrol who thought we were smuggling drugs from Bolivia. There […]
Mission Life
I’ve just been getting into the groove of life here in Argentina. Elder Gibbs and I are getting settled into this area and are starting to be able to use our days more effectively than at first. A normal day in my mission is as follows: It’s a pretty exhausting schedule, but we get a lot of work done and have a lot of fun while doing it. Thank you for all of your love and support. Have a great week and know that Jesus loves you. – Elder Hansen
All In A Week’s Work
It was a full week of working. We’ve been busy making relationships with members and trying to help a lot of inactive families come back. The temple in the providencal capital of Salta is going to be completed soon, so we have been able to get a lot of families excited about the blessing of temples and eternal families. There were a couple hard/sad things this week. First, several of the people that both we and the missionaries before us have taught for many months have all but stopped coming to church. It’s hard to get so invested in someone’s life and well-being, then have them choose instant gratification instead of long-lasting and eternal joy […]
I Made It!
I made it! After an immensly long series of flights, layovers, and van-rides, I’m now in the town of Tartagal. On Friday, we landed at the airport in Salta, where the Mission President and his wife picked us up. We went to the mission office for a couple hours to meet our trainers and eat some food, then embarked on the final leg of our respective trips to the areas that we will live in for the next couple of months. My van ride was 7 hours through the Argentine countryside to Tartagal, ~30 miles south of the border with Bolivia. My companion is Elder Gibbs from Grace, Idaho. He’s been on his mission for […]