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



This is Tlacotalpan, a beautiful and unique community on the banks of the Paploapan River. It is a destination point because it has two beautiful Catholic cathedrals. The town is very small, a few thousand people. There is a branch of the Church there and two missionaries who meet together in a casa de oración, house of prayer--there is no chapel. Missionary work has been very slow. I talked with the stake president and told him that we would give it one more change cycle, 6 weeks, and if the missionaries didn't get something going we would have to move them. In the meantime, a man named Bro. Marquez, who lives in Veracruz, said that he wanted to go there and work with the missionaries. He is a Tlacotalpan native and still has family there. His wife helps with the mission home. Off he went. The first of the results are in the next post.

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