This week we were supposed to have a series of meetings throughout the mission with a visiting General Authority Seventy (my mission President’s boss). However, both the high-profile visit and our weeks of careful planning went out the window when several non-American missionaries tested positive for Tuberculosis. There were a couple of frantic days as we scrambled to cancel travel plans and reservations while simultaneously isolating and testing the missionaries who had potentially been exposed. So far we are looking good as most everyone has very fortunately been testing negative.
It has been very stressful and frankly a little bit scary this past week, but the Lord’s counsel to the prophet Joseph Smith has been very meaningful to me. “Know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good” (D&C 122:7). Although things aren’t going exactly how I would like them to be, I am learning a ton, both about myself and my necessity to rely on the Savior, that I know will help me throughout my life.
Elder Hansen
