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



These were taken on August 25, 2008. The first shows you that we really do have cars and highways in Mexico. The highways are also very liberally sprinkled with litter. That anti-litter campaign has not yet caught in this nation. We were leaving the airport with a vanload of new missionaries. The second is of Elder Sinai Gil Jimenez. Elder Gil came into the mission that morning from Oaxaca, Oaxaca. He talks a million miles an hour and has a very unique accent. When in training, I told his generation that I was looking for the first missionary who had the faith and drive to baptize and confirm 100 true converts. They all sat and looked at me; all of them did that except Elder Gil. His hand shot up like a skyrocket. With a year under his belt he is on track. I have asked him his secret. "The missionary who believes he can, does." Good answer for all phases of life. The foto is of him in the mission home kitchen scrubbing a scrambled egg pan. His mom told him to wash dishes for the mission president's wife every time he got the chance. This was a good start. And his shirt tail is often out. That is just the way he is--100% action.

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