Translation

Actually, it is not for 1000 days. It is just that 3 years times 365 days plus June 27 through June 30, 2008 equals 1098 days, and that is way too cumbersome to convert into a blog headline. Futhermore, our release date will not be determined until May or June of 2011. Therefore, 1000 Days sounded just about right, more or less. Having noted all that, we are humbled and thrilled (Pres. Uchtdorf would refer to the feeling as "joyfully overwhelmed") about having this marvelous opportunity to serve in La Mision Mexico Veracruz.

Con amor,
Pdte. y Hna. Pete and JoElla Hansen

Friday, August 28, 2009



The missionaries, Elders Melchor and Brown, never gave up. Here we see Bro. Marquez smiling with his family, all in street clothes, the day of their baptism. They paid bus fare, 25 pesos each, to go the chapel in Carlos A. Carrillo to be baptized. The man, who is Bro. Marquez' nephew, and his wife were baptized with their daughter on her 8th birthday. About two or three weeks later, the man baptized his nephew as four other family members were baptized at the same time. Two Sundays ago, he was leadoff speaker in the conference of the Tuxtepec Stake. The work is continuing in Tlacotalpan. The second foto is of their very humble home in that beautiful town. We have been in the home. I wish I could have taken pictures. A true shanty, no front door, one room divided by a hanging curtain to separate sleeping quarters from living room, clean as a whistle.

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