Here are some simple instructions on how to use "Dear Elder"
Step 1- Click on this link: www.dearelder.com
Step 2- On the left hand side of the page click on PROVO MTC FREE
Step 3- Fill in this info... Taryn Hansen 2005 N 900 E Unit 18 Provo, UT 84602
Unit # is 18, Mission Code is CA-SJO, and Departure date is DEC14
Step 4- Fill in your email address, and if you want her to receive the letter by email as well you can put her email address below yours.. which is: taryn.hansen@myldsmail.net
Step 5- Type up your letter is less than 7900 characters and then click send! Easy as that:)
As for her letter to us this week, it seemed very up beat and positive. She is having a lot of really cool experiences and it sounds like she is ready and excited to get out into the mission field! So without further ado... Here is Hermana Hansen's weekly email:)
Starting off where I left off last week... Hermana Sanft and I had a TRC investigator that we were supposed to teach on Wednesday, but at our leadership meeting one of the leaders told us that we had to be at the meeting and that we would have to miss the meeting. So that is what we planned on. We had no lesson planned or anything! Then the next morning right before our meeting, we both had the impression that we needed to teach Maribel! So using up the full five minutes that we had before we had to be there we prepared a lesson. We decided to teach her about prayer. I told her my "Lost Cat" story, and she loved it so much. She thought it was weird that I prayed for my cat, because in her religion they only say a memorized prayer. She thought it was amazing that she could pray for anything! We then asked her to be baptized, because she has such wonderful faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. She said... YES! We were so elated! The Lord really blessed us with our lesson!
Thanksgiving was this week! We first started out with choir practice in the morning which is always fun! For Devo we had Neil L. Anderson come and speak. He spoke about being thankful, of course, and how we should be thankful for our trials and even more thankful for our blessings. As you all know I am a pretty picky eater when it comes to Thanksgiving and so I did say some things like how I don't like stuffing. My companion pointed it out to me that it is Thanksgiving and I should be grateful always even if I don't like something. I really appreciate her and her example.
So Hermana Sanft and I were table leaders for the service project. We got to be in charge of making sure everyone knew what they were doing and that they were kept out of trouble. We got to make bags of food for the hungry people in Utah. Each tiny bag was able to feed 6 people! We filled up 12 boxes which held 48 bags. And that was just our table! There were 54 tables in the whole room and 2 shifts! So do the math!
We got to watch Ephraim's Rescue, which is such a great movie! It was a lot of fun watching it with a bunch of missionaries because during the romance scenes everyone would be ooo-ing and laughing!
They showed us videos at the evening Thanksgiving event, and Hermana Sanft and I were in one of them! A lady had stopped us a few days before and asked us if she could record us saying what we were thankful for! It was really cool to see myself up on the screen!
Elder white had a wonderful idea to have us write notes to each other anonymously. My letter was so sweet! I was able to guess my person right away because the person said I had pretty hair and eyes... I did not think that an Elder would write that! Hermana MacDonald wrote me the note!
On Saturday we were studying when the Elders started to rap to Sponge Bob Square Pants! It was so hilarious! It was the perfect 5 minute break! Everyone was laughing and I even got it on video!
Choir on Sunday was the best choir yet! We sang a Christmas song and the choir director talked about how Jesus came down as a normal child. He could have been made fun of, he could have fallen down and scraped his knee. The most important person came here, to be like us, to grow up like us! It was just so amazing to think about!
For the Devo I had to give the opening prayer. It was in front of more than 2000 people! My heart was pounding so bad!!! When I got up to say it I thought, "Crap! I can't remember how to start a prayer!" I stood there for what felt like forever trying to remember and finally I was able to get the words out and say the prayer! I was so glad when it was over. Hermana Sanft said I did good and she didn't even notice my pause!
Yesterday was the first day of a lot of snow, that stuck! It was a lot of fun for us to walk around the MTC while it was snowing! It has been cold but I have been warm. We had another lesson with Maribel. We were going to print off a Spanish Family Proclamation, but it wouldn't print for some reason. I got really stressed. My companion helped me out by saying that we could teach a different lesson and to put my trust entirely with the Lord. It worked! Our lesson went fabulous again! I was so happy to be able to put my trust in Him and have everything turn out OK!
So for the past few days one of the Elders in our District has been acting really mean towards Hermana Taylor, when in the past he has been really nice. He started acting overly nice to her after she gave him a note just saying that she appreciated him sharing a personal story. We believed that he had this huge crush on her! So she started to ignore him so that he would not think that anything was going on between them, and that is when he started acting mean. I believe someone is really jealous! It is kind of funny to see how angry he gets when she pays attention to to the other Elders and not him. We hope that he can get over it because he is here to serve the Lord not to create romances!
I only have 2 more weeks in the MTC! We get our flight plans tomorrow! I am so excited to get out in the field and serve the Lord by finding his sheep in Cali!
I love you all and miss you so much!
Hermana Hansen
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