Saratoga!

If you would like to send Taryn a letter, her new address is:
121 Saratoga Ave #2124
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Only letters can be sent to this address.
Packages will have to be sent to the mission home, and right now the mission home is being relocated, as soon as we hear we can send packages again, I will post the address for the new mission home..

Of course she can also receive emails at taryn.hansen@myldsmail.net

Hello Family!
I know that you have all been wondering what is going on this week in my new area! And I am excited to tell you all!
First of all Hermana Reyes (my new companion) is amazing! She is from Peru! She moved to the United states when she was 15 years old, so she knows English really well! She has been out on her mission for more than a year so heat means that I will be "killing" her (or sending her home) just like I did with Hermana Killian. I don't like sending companions home because then I don't get to see my old companions later 😢 She is full of the spirit and loves everyone! When we go contacting she will not let the person go! Which is awesome because sometimes we end up getting a return appointment even though they wanted us to leave at first! She really pushes me like Hermana Killian did. This is a very good thing. I feel like I have a lot to work on still and she is helping me be the best I can be! She loves asking questions and has helped me to start asking people questions and to be interested in their lives. She says it really shows hat you care about what is going on in their lives and they will be more open to you. Which is totally true!
The Saratoga Area is totally sweet! I am still learning my way around but I know I will get a hanging where everything is soon. Hermana Reyes is really good at pointing out landmarks and streets, but I am still struggling (just a little bit). So in this area we are over the San Tomas Spanish Branch and the Moorpark English ward! I get to be over an English ward! Totally Sweet! Our goal as a companionship is to baptize someone into the English ward! I sure hope we do! The only hard thing that I have found out is that white people aren't as open. They either ignores or simply say no... I guess that is OK! We need to weed out he golden investigators.
This week has just been a ton of weeding out the potentials that aren't interested. We do have a few people who might be good.
So first is a teen named Angel. He really reminds me of my brother, Jaron! I really don't know why, but he is really cool and funny. He is about my brothers age too. I hope that we will still be able to keep teaching him.
We did have a lot more investigators that we had to drop he is week... His week we really need to find find and find!
Well I have to go! Hermana Reyes made popsicles and I really want one!
I hope everything is going good with all of you! Keep doing the small and simple things! I know that great things will come to pass!

Hermana Hansen

Last 2 weeks, and a Transfer

Apr 10th 2017

This week has been a pretty interesting week!

So this past week we got a notification from our investigator, Brian's mom and she said that he couldn't be baptized on the day that we had set him up to be. We still don't know why or when he is going to be baptized but we are going over tonight. So hopefully we can figure it out and he can still be baptized sometime this coming month. He is really cool! He is ten and saw his cousin get baptized a while ago. He wanted to get baptized! He is from a part member family. So hopefully his family will reactivate and we can get another baptism out of it.

Another cool lady that we are teaching is Elonia. She is really cool. We have only had 2 lessons with her but she understands everything we teach. She didn't come to church, but that was mostly our fault. We didn't know that church was combined with the English ward and thus making church at 9 and not 12! So...

We did have a miracle a church though. We randomly got a phone call from a guy named Moises. The other sister had contacted him and gave him our number. He said that he wanted to come to church. Since church had already started and was almost over, we told him that he could come to the other English ward at 2, and he did! We have a lesson with him later this week.

That is about all that has been happening this week! Thanks for all you love and prayers!

Apr 17th 2017

So everybody! I am getting transferred! WHAT! I am totally freaking out! I leave tomorrow! My new area is going to be the Saratoga zone and the San Tomas Branch. My new companion is Hermana Reyes! I have already met her and she is super duper cool! I am so excited! I found out Thursday night when Hermana Worthington received a call to train and I did not. So I spent all week packing, writing notes to investigators and members, and also stopping by to say good bye to a ton of people. I am so sad to leave this are but I know that the people here are in good hands. 

I am especially sad to leave my best friend's, Bladimir, Arturo, and Humberto! They were all upset when I told them. Ugh! Good byes are the worst!

All of our investigators are doing great! We see Bladimir every Tuesday and Saturday. He is getting stronger every time we see him. Even though he can't get baptized right now I know that he will one day. He is my miracle! We haven't been able to see Elonia for the past week so I hope everything will be ok with her. Maria P... I am not so sure about. We haven't seen her in a while either.

We have two really cool people right now. One is Moises. He is the one that randomly came  to church last week! We had a lesson with him and set a bap. date for the 29th of April! I will be able to return for that if it happens! I totally believe it will! The other person is Nancy. I remember Hermana Killian and I had knocked on this one door once before and the people weren't interested, but I had a feeling to try it again. Nancy opened up and looked skeptical and asked if we could come back another day. All of a sudden she randomly changed her mind! We taught the first lesson right away! Cool right? She has a bap. date for the 30th of April. We just need to get her to church.

I love you all! Keep doing the small and simple things and great things will come to pass!

Read the BOM Everyday!

Hey Family! How are y'all doing this week! I am doing great!
This week has been a big testimony builder for me. Even though it was
hot and we were knocking doors for hours with no success we still had
faith and found new people to teach. There was one day when we had no
success all day! We went to one house looking for a potential
investigator. He didn't live there anymore but we found an amazing new
investigator. Her name is Elonia. She has 2 cute adorable kids! Hey
kept coming out during our lessons and showing us their toys. I am
excited for her!
As you all know general conference was this week. We made a ton of
invitations and passed them out to a lot of people. Guess how many
people showed up to general conference... 0 :( not even any of our
investigators came. We are just crossing our fingers that they watched
it at home.
I am sorry for the short email but that was about all that happened
this week. Thanks for all your prayers! If any of you are struggling
read the talk from President Monson from conference! The BOM is
amazing!