Yup! They were bed bugs...

Elder Truitt came over to our apartment and searched our beds for
Bugs. At fist he did not find anything but a few hours after he left
he called us to say that he found one on his sock! It had hitch hiked
from our apartment to his! My arms look a lot better now that we are
bed bug free!

This week we set two more baptismal dates! That means we are now up to
4! We are having a lot of success in this area right now! All thanks
to our father in heaven! I know with out him none of the miracles that
I have been seeing would be possible.

Jenny isn't doing so well. We don't believe that she is going to be
baptized on the date we set with her. We haven't been able to meet
with her for weeks.

Rosario has been sick this whole week but we were finally able to meet
with her yesterday. We set a bap date with her for the 29th of April.
She is so amazing! I can't wait! She is so prepared! We taught her
about the sacrament yesterday and she started saying that she didn't
like how church leaders are paid money. We told her that they aren't
and she was really grateful for that!

Bladimir is doing great! He is still pushing forward. Repentance is
real! The Atonement works!

We finally got to meet with Lily again. We set a bap date with her and
we have another lesson with her tonight. Her mom is really worried
about coming to church and doesn't want people to judge her. If we
could just get past that we could re activate the whole family!

We have been trying to narrow down our teaching pool because we got a
ton of new investigators! Our zone got 60 this week! What! One set of
elders got 14!

The church is true everybody!!! I want you to know that to grow and
keep a testimony of the gospel all you have to do is follow the
counsel from this scripture: By small and simple things are great
things come to pass! Small and simple things! Pray, read the
scriptures and go to church. This is all! I have a strong testimony of
this. As our investigators do these things they grow closer to their
Heavenly Father, but when they don't they are more easily led away. I
know that if any of you are struggling all you have to do is go to
church, pray and read!

I love you all!

Hermana Hansen

Bed Bugs! I think! Also CRUSHED MORGAN HILL!!!

This week has been amazing! At the beginning of the week we set a goal
to get 50 new investigators as a whole zone and crush the Morgan Hill
zone! For the past few weeks Menlo has only been getting 12ish new
investigators as a whole zone so his was a stretch for us! But we
totally did it! We got 53!!!! Ahhh! WHAT! TAKE THAT MORGAN HILL!

Out of the 53 investigators that we found, Hermana Worthington and I
found 12! On fire!!! This area was being prepared thanks to the help
of Hermana Killian!

Even though this week has been super amazing it has been really hard
for me. I didn't know why but I was really stressed out! Almost
everyday I would have a melt down due to stress! With he help of
Hermana Worthington I found out that I was trying to be someone I was
not. I kept trying to be more outgoing and trying to suppress myself.
I found out that I still need to be myself I just need to enhance the
qualities that I already have. I have felt a ton better since we found
out what was causing me so much stress.

So I bet you are all wondering what I mean by bed Bugs! On Saturday
morning I woke up with red bumps all over my arms! I have no idea what
from! Someone is coming today to check it out! I am either hoping that
we do have bed Bugs so that I know what the red bumps are, but I also
don't want them because it is really gross and we would have to wash
everything!!!! But then I wouldn't know what the red bumps are!!! So
ya. You will find out next week I guess :) unless you are my mom then
you will probably find out later today :)

We also set another baptismal date with a boy named Brian. He is 10
and part of a part member family! He saw his cousin baptized and he
really wants to do it too!

We have an amazing new investigator named Rosario! We have had 2
lessons with her! She is always saying that God sent her angels right
when she needed them!!! I am so excited for her!

Well thanks for all of your support! I love you all! Never give up!

I read a really cool story in the BOM this week! Look it up! Helaman 5!

Hermana Hansen

Saying Goodbye & Hello

Hey everyone! This week was the first week of the new transfer and I
have a lot to write about!

Last week I had to say good bye to my momma :( Hermana Killian went
home. I learned so many great things from her. We had so many laughs
and so many tears. I am so grateful that  she was tough on me
sometimes because it made me into the missionary I am today. She
taught me how to be a missionary!

On Tuesday we dropped her off and of course I bawled like a baby! 😥 I
was so nervous for the change that was going to happen. She encouraged
me and even though she is not with me now I know that she is still
encouraging me. I know that she won't want to hear his, but I cried!!!
A lot!!! The first day was fine and then the second day, when we had a
lesson. Oath with Bladimir and Arturo I cried. The whole way
through!!! Hermana Worthington is so amazing because I she would be
sad that I was missing my trainer, but she totally understood what I
was going through. I didn't cry the rest of the day, but the next day
I cried in the morning again when we were singing hymns at comp study.
But don't worry Hermana Killian, I am doing better now! I have
adjusted! I still miss you but I am in control and have taken the area
by storm with my new companion!

Hermana Worthington has a ton of new ideas for this area! The first
day she told me that she wanted a ward list and to visit all the
members! By doing this and contacting as we go, we have found 8 new
investigators this week! Sorry, it is a lot so I can't remember all of
their names! We are hoping that by making our new investigator pool
larger we can result them in some baptisms. We have also set a
baptismal date with an investigator named Jenny! It is just a goal
right now. She said she might not feel ready by then but if she is she
will be baptized!

On Saturday we went down to Hollister, Hermana Worthington's old area,
for a baptism of one of her investigators. Her old area is full of
fields, cows and hills of green! Don't worry Hermana Killian, I would
still rather go to Greenfield!

That is all for this week! I love you all! Just remember to always CPR
(Church, Pray and Read)!

End of a Transfer

This week has been a really great week despite that it was the last week of the transfer and my companion will be leaving me tomorrow! AHHHH! I am taking over the area! Watch out Menlo because I am coming for you!

This week I have had stomach aches everyday! I don't think having Mexican food every night is doing anything good to keep me healthy! So I started eating less oily things for breakfast and lunch and it has helped a lot!

I know that you all want to know who my new companion is... Hermana Worthington! I have met her a few times and she is really nice! I am so excited to work with her! Funny thing, She trained Hermana Taylor (One of the sisters in my MTC district).

Bladimir is still doing awesome! YAY! He came to church yesterday! Finally after 4 weeks of not coming. He really needs the spiritual strength. He is so happy now! He used to only talk about the negative things in his life, but now he focuses on the good! He is really sad that Hermana Killian is leaving and I hope that he can have a good relationship with Hermana Worthington.

We are still teaching the 9 year old named Lily. Her family is really nice and will talk to us and let us in. They want Lily to be baptized, but Lily needs to come to church 3 times. Her family is not coming. We have been inviting them for over a month now. We just have to figure out why they aren't coming and maybe why they went inactive in the first place. When we were teaching Lily this week something really weird happened! She goes to this really weird Christian School and they are always teaching her stuff from the Bible. She is really knowledgeable about religion. We were talking about Jesus Christ and she told us a story her school had told her... ready? She said that when Jesus was little he got mad at his friend and killed him with his powers.... the point of telling these kids this was to tell them that Jesus wasn't perfect because no one can be... her mom did not know they were teaching her that stuff. She was as shocked as us! Maybe now they will put her into a normal school that doesn't teach false doctrine! We just told her to always pray to make sure things are true and God will tell us if they are or not.

The only other really important investigator right now is Maria Penalosa. But we haven't been able to see her for two weeks which really worries me. We call her and she still sounds interested. It just seems that she is really busy right now. I sure hope that we don't have to drop her.

That is all that has gone on this week! I hope everyone is doing great back at home! I love you all. And always CTR (choose the right) and CPR (Church, Pray, Read)!

Santa Cruz

This week has been a really interesting week!

Hermana Killian started not feeling well last Monday. She slept for
most of the day. That was just the beginning. I let her take some of
my NyQuil, and since it was mine she didn't want to use the little cup
so she poured the medicine into a cup. She took and and thought that
it wasn't a lot so she took another dose! The next morning she
couldn't get out of bed! We found out later that she took 2 full cup
fulls! That is 4X the amount that she needed to take! My dad is
probably cringing right now! The only people we went to visit that day
was our dinner and Bladimir.

We finally decided it was time to have another lesson with Bladimir.
He hadn't been praying, reading or coming to church. He was really
angry and upset! It felt like there was a big storm cloud in the room.
He felt alone and had no peace whatsoever. We told him the only way to
feel better is if he would pray. We told him he had to pray that
night. We had another lesson with him on Saturday and he had a light
in his eye! He was smiling and so happy! He had prayed! He said a
peace came over him and that he felt happy and peaceful now! I love
seeing that light in his eyes! He is totally ready to do his part!
Yay!

On Thursday I went out with the Samoan sister, Sister Lavata'i because
Hermana Killian was sick. I hadn't been out of the apartment for a few
days. We visited one of my members who gave me a Mexican shirt! We
then went and did a service called Ivy League. We went to dinner with
a member named Maribel. Sister Lavata'i had a meeting to go to and it
was really cool to hear people talk Samoan. I couldn't understand any
of it but it was still cool to hear! Sister Lavata'i was fun to get to
know better!

On Saturday we were finally able to get out of the house and do some
hard work. The only problem was that I locked the keys inside of our
apartment! So we had no car and no way to get back inside! We tried
calling everybody but no one would answer! So we were stuck. We
decided to walk around Redwood City. After walking around for an hour
the Samoan sisters picked us up and took us to EPA. We visited a few
of our members and their members. They dropped us off at our dinner
and the members at we were eating with said that they could get us in!
We didn't know how. They took us back to our apartment and Hermana
Luna jumped the fence to get into our apartment complex! Then Hermano
Luna tried breaking into our apartment with a screwdriver and a credit
card! But since it was locked at the door knob and not the deadbolt he
couldn't do it! He then called a locksmith! We told him no! That we
could sleep with the other sisters, but he wouldn't take no for an
answer. Thankfully the manager finally called us back and let us into
the apartment!

We went to Santa Cruz today! It was a lot of fun because I got to go
places that I have been before. It was fun to see all of the sea
lions. We hung out at the beach and walked the boardwalk!

Today we are also having a "surprise" party for Hna Killian because
she is leaving next week. I say "surprise" because she knows about it.
Some people aren't very good at keeping secrets!

My testimony has grown so much out here! I love the people so much! I
can't wait until someone decides to change their life and be baptized!
It will be an experience I will never forget!