We traveled with President and Sister Janzen to go visit the missionaries in Jujuy this week. While they were interviewing missionaries for 3 days, we got to go out and do visits with the zone leaders there. That meant that I got to go back to Ciudad de Nieva and visit a bunch of the people that I knew and helped to join the church. It was so fun but also really cold🥶
Elder Speirs is going home next month so we are in a trio right now with the guy who will be my companion once he leaves. His name is Elder Shirley and he’s from south Dallas, Texas. He’s an awesome missionary and I’m so excited to be his companion. I’m a little scared for Elder Speirs to leave because then I’m supposed to be able to run everything, but I barely feel like I know what is happening.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a couple of scriptures that relate to this from Ether chapter 12 in the Book of Mormon. Verse 27 reads “…I give unto men weakness that they might be humble…” Verse 37 continues: “because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.”
I feel really and truly humbled right now. I don’t feel like my Spanish is good enough, I don’t feel like that great of a teacher, and I don’t really know what I’m doing in my responsibilities as assistant. But this weakness has made me turn to the Lord for His help and I know that I am being constantly lifted and helped by Him.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” – Phillipians 4:13
Elder Hansen
