SUPPPPEEERRR UUUUTZ

Hi Everyone..... This week was a straight up wild ride.... The pic is of me with my favorite candy down here. They are Mara Mango suckers that are mango flavored suckers that are drenched in Chili hahahah I never thought I'd like something like that but now that I''m puro Chapin, I love spicy food haha It's way weird. I down a Jalapeño like it's my job.... Here are the answers to the questions..... Questions Luis update: church? HE WENT TO CHURCH!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! He told me all week, "I'm only going for an hour!" And he ended up staying for 2!!!!! Huge huge huge huge huge!!!!!! I was sooooooo happpppyyyyyyy!!!!!!! We have an appointment with him tonight, we'll seee what happens!!!!!!! So awesome. Other investigators? We're in a crazy spot right now. We have a bunch of people that are so positive right now but they just straight disappear. This mopnth we need to baptize 10. We have a lady named Jennifer mendoza and her kid Devison. A Little family of 6 that we found named the Ramos family. A kid named Cristofer Matzir and his family. Luis and his fam. Jonathan Sanchez. Those are the most positive right now. We just need some serious push right there!!!! Mena? We're doing good. I feel like it's the end and so nothing that we do bothers us haha. It's going to be good to have changes. That's all I have to say there. President Markham? I really don't know much about him. Just that he's from Cali and He'll be awesome I'm sure. It's just weird to think about it without Papi Brough. I'll only have one change without him here with us though. He is staying to train President Markham one change I think. Tell Juan Munoz that you want Naty too cook for you and that I said she was the best cook in all of Chapinlandia! We are going to go this week!!! I don't know what day though. But we are going to go. Plans are there. When are the next changes? Next Wednesday!!! Gon be crazy. Who knows what will happen there. Do you think your days are numbered in brick land? I dont know. I could stay I could go. It will be okay either way. If I leave, I want to go to Santa Lucia with Elder Hansen haha. We've talked about how it needs to happen. I think that is the only way that I would be happy if I left here haha. When I was there Poinsettia flowers and coffee beans grew all over the place. Any of that? ALL OVER THE PLACE. I love the coffee beans haha super funny. They taste horrible hahahaahah. Great week haha. Luis went to church and that was the best thing ever. We're looking good going into the month of dreams!!!!! 400 BAPTISMS BABYYYY!!!!!!! WE GONNA DO IT!!!!! We've gotta get 10 this month here. Who knows if I'll be here but I've gotta get 10 wherever I go!!! I took 1,000 Quets out of my account because my comp forgot his card and we needed to pay the rent this week. Don't freak out when you see that because I'm getting it back to him next week when we take money out. I got our scripture cases ordered dad. They are going to be sooooooo SICKKKKKKK I'm super stoked. You'll have to wait to see it though..... I talked to the missionaries that are in Palin right now and they are doing a little better. But the best thing was that HECTOR PEREZ GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hector was the one that had killed a long time ago and had to wait to get baptized. He did it!!!! IT made me soooooo happy. He was a straight killer (not intended to be direct). I loved that guy!!! It will be a great week. We hope to baptized this weekend. This month is going to be so awesome. We should baptized 100 in the mission this weekend!! Just hoping that it can happen. Praying like crazy and working like craziers!!!!!!! I love you all!! Have a great week!!

OOOOOOOOHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Hi everyone..... Let's get to the questions..... Questions: 1. How did your interview go? Did the Prez say anything about your longevity in El Tejar? Best thing ever. I will talk later... 2. How many souls did the mission bring unto Christ (How many baptisms) last month? Last month I think we baptized like 200. Last year in june we baptized 344. We will get 400 3. Who are you teaching? How are they progressing? We have a lot of people right now. The only thing is that we just can't find them right now haha. 4 or 5 days without contact in this country means that anything has happened. 4. Any encounters with the Munoz family? We still haven't gone to the house but I always talk with Juan in the street. The dude is crazy haha. Just screams at me in VOS all the time haha. 5. How was Antigua? SOOOOOOOO SICKKKKKKK I loved it haha. Do the Guats watch the olympics? No. if it doesn't have anything to do with soccer, they don't watch it. No Ronaldo, no Messi, No chapines hahaha. Great/not so great week. But ask me if I care. My animo is through the roof right now. I had my interview with President. Best thing ever. I asked him why he moved me and put me here. He told me the story and just said that it was one of the easiest good feeling changes he had ever made and remembered it like it were yesterday. It was so cool. Then i asked him and told him about Luis. He just talked to me about that for a second and I was like "I don't know, it's just really hard to be myself with him because I don't want to do something that will mess it all up." He then interrupted me and said "You aren't direct with him are you?" And i said "How did you know that?" And he said "The Spirit just told it to me." it was so amazing. Best interview ever. i hadn't been being direct with Luis haha until this week. No one went to church this week and we were so much more direct with him this week. i dont' know what's going to happen but President just told me that if I follow the Spirit, I will not have regrets with him. I don't know if I'll stay or go. Solo Dios Sabrá. He just doesn't want to go to church haha. I love him anyways. He says that it makes him feel bad and that he doesn't feel comfortable going to church with his crutches and stuff but it's all the normal stuff to say that he just doens't want to go. I don't know what will happen but we'll sure keep trying. He just needs a testimony. We went to Antigua for my first time and it was soooooooo sick haha. We must go there with mom. I love it here. This area is awesome haha. I'm having fun and we're working our butts off. i love you all and hope everyone is good. Have a great week and keep me updated!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU

Totally got egg and floured hahaahah. This colony doens't really love the Gringos....... They nailed me good and left my comp completly alone. Classic Chapines......

TODO UTZ

February 10, 2014

Oh yes...... This week was ballin. I hate writing today because I have nothing from no one. Sad right? We have interviews today and they wanted us to write today so sorry for the mal noticia lol. My faithful writer "Chode" Wrote me as usual. Rain or shine we write each other. true love... This week acatually was a lot better than last week haha. We had a good turnout in church and that was good. I hate not having investigators in church. It makes church so boring and then I don't know what to do. There is no one to help and so it's like whatever. I feel like we are looking ahead to much better things. We are all so freaking pumped for the goal in March of 400 baptisms!!!!! We are all getting cell phones today!!! Major revolution for us in central america. We are the first mission that they are giving cell phones to in all of central america. It's like a test run to see if it works well or not. WE ARE THE BEST mission in central america....starting to look like the pride cycle with the nephites..... KILLER!!! Luis is getting antsy for a call from dad haha he asks me every time if dad is going to call him....CALL HIM DAD!!!!!!! Tell him to get his lazy bum to church!!!!!!! All his kids have gone now and they love it! We are trying so hard with Luis but he just doesn't want to go to church for some reason. Yesterday we picked up his kids and he just stayed there in his chair!!! It was like DUDE GET UPPPPPPP!!!! LET'S GO!!!! They are doing super well though. They will go to the agua!!!!! Pretty much nothing else happened. My comp is good. I'm trying to not be hard on him haha and it is helping a little bit. We jsut need to talk. He's not a real good talker and, as you all know, I am! But it's good. Time is going by really fast. I just hope they don't take me out of here. I would freak haha. I love you all. It is so awesome to be out here and be killin it every day. Getting that money and just going hard. Have a great week!!!!!!!!! -- Elder Hanson YOMO Guatemala City Central Me extraña patojos...

WHAT TIME IS IT????!!!

February 4, 2014

Hello Everyone...... I'll go straight to the explanation of the pictures.... Yesterday I bought that sick jacket. That's just how we roll. Here in Guat we get the hand me downs of the DI baby!! The next one is the sickest view ever. If anyone can send me a picture of a cooler view, you're free to do it, or at least try...... LOVE VOLCAN DE AGUA!!! I love this place haha Here we go with the questions.... 1. Is Luis married? Where/who is his wife? Is he letting his kids hear the lessons? Luis was with a lady for a while but about a month ago he got separated from here and now he just lives in his old house with his 3 kids that he had with her. I have no idea who she is haha. She lives in this other colony there. His kids are awesome too. They love listening to us and they are progressing very well. It's looking good with them right now. We just need to get them to church. They are praying and the 2 daughters have felt like they have gotten their answers and they went to church this Sunday!!! HUGE!!!!! They loved it and felt really good. We just need to Luis to get in there! He has been praying and his daughters have been reading for him. It's going good right now. Pray for him!!!! Dad he wants to talk to you again haha he told me "Su papa ya no me llamó ba?" He loves you haha. He's super special. It's so AWESOME!!!!!!! 2. If Juan and Naty Munoz knew you were my son, they would want to meet you. Trust me. We were close???? I talked to Juan for the first time yesterday haha. We were walking down the street and I saw a guy out by his house that I thought might be him and we passed by and then I hear "HANSON!" We turned around and he started talking to me and he said "Y tu viejo vos?? Todavia esta vivo??" It was pretty funny. We will be goinhg over there with the whole family soon. Carolina says that she has pictures of you dad. "You are where you need to be" -Elder Cook That's what he said to us in the conference that we had with him. I know I'm here for a good reason. It is insane but the Lord knows what is going on. I just really really hope that I don't leave this change and I hope that I can stay a little bit longer. I really can't leave here without baptizing Luis haha. It's just something that has to happen. We had a crazy lesson with a family this week. Like me and my comp jsut were there like "WHAT?" They had gone to church and then we asked the famous question here in Guatemala "Hace cuanto tiempo estan casados??"" How long ago did you get married?? And they of course said they weren't married and then all Hell broke loose. They started to freak out about things that they had done to each other and how they are going to separate and not be together and how they hate each other and all the things. It was so bad haha This plact is cray. We were there for like 45 minutes listening to this (a really loong time for us) and then had to run to Luis' house to visit him. We were super late and he was all bugged that we were late. He's like "You guys said at 7 and it's 7 45!!!!" It's a miracle that someone remembered that we were going to get there hahaha. Super wild. I love this place. Not much to say this week but we are getting it done and working super hard. I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!! I love you guys so much!!!! HAve a great week and hope to hear from you soon.....and if not, jsut pray for me haha. lololololololololol

Stop this train...

January 28, 2014 Hi everyone...... OHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHH This week was a straight thrilla.... Questions: 1. Who were the girls baptized last week? That was the familia Ordoñez. They were so dang pilas haha. We are working hard with the brother and the rest of the family to get them dunked!!!! YEAHHHHHHH 2. What other investigators do you have lined up? We're working with a lot of people that they just need to go to church. People that have gotten their answers but they just don't go to church. That's where that patience is coming in. Right now we have.... Jonathan, Victor and Andrea, Hilda, Magaly, Adriana (Wife of Edison Muñoz, he went to church this Sunday for the first time in forever. When he saw the pictures he told me "I'm going to church" and I'm like yeah right whatever haha but he went!! We'll see what happens!!!) Those are the most positives!! 3. Is Mena coming around a bit? A little bit. I try to joke with him but he is seriously so hardened that he just doesn't get the onda haha. He reminds me so much of Elder Ucles haha. 4. How is the liderazgo over there? It's great. We have every single of the recient converts going to church and that is like a freaking miracle in this country. 5. Have you bumped into Juan/Naty Munoz (or tasted her food) No we haven't. It's hard because they aren't big fans of the missionaries or the Mormons. I think that is why dad never know who the Pablos were because they are family but if they could choose, they wouldn't be hahaha. We had a good week. It's looking good for the next coming time. We had 10 investigators in church and 4 families. It is going good right now. We are just fishing right now for the best investigators and working with the ones that actually want to progress. It's looking good. Just want to get Luis to church haha. The picture of Luis is of him and my glasses, he wanted to see if he could see with them because he can't see well enough to read the Book of Mormon. His kids read what we left them and read it out loud but Luis was watching tv and didn't pay much attention. I find it a little hard to teach him because with every other person I just give it to them hard and with him I just can't open the scriptures and give it to him super hard. I guess it's just lack of faith. The opposite of faith is fear. But we are working there. He is so awesome. I can't believe that I am teaching him. Dad, call him and talk to him!! He needs to get baptized!! I loved the picture of Chode killing it in Brasil with a freaking hole in his wall hahahahahahahahahahahah I laughed so hard I almost peed. That kid is a legend. I don't really talk to anyone anymore. Just pretty much Chode but we still haven't missed a week in the mission.... Gay? I think not! I had a freaking Liahona/Ensign party hahahaha I found that picture of Daisy in a Liahona of like 2007 and the Picture of Brent and Kristy. It was actually pretty cool and baggy at the same time. Loving life haha. It was a good week but not much to write. Everything is good and we're trying to have fun. I love you all and thanks for everything you've given and done for me!!!

MAKING BRICKS

January 23, 2014 Hi everyone..... I'll just get straight to the questions....... Questions: 1. Any Luis sightings? Waiting for a pic of my son with my Guatemalan brother. Well everything is super good right there haha. He remembers every single thing about you. He wants all the pictures that you have of him and he wants pictures of the things that he made for you. Like with you in them showing them off. He's an awesome dude. I'll tell a little later..... 2. Any luck finding Naty and Juan Munoz? I ran into Carolina the other day and she has pictures of you with them. The thing about them is that they are super super super evangelicos and don't want anything to do with the chuch haha. but we are trying to find Nata and Juan. Juan is the brother of Mariano Pablo. The super pilas family that are members. Super ootz 3. Tell us about your new companion. His name is Elder Mena hahaha. I swear that it isn't possible for me to stay with just one comp for one change. It's alright though. He is a good guy. I'll be fine. 4. Do you want me to send the quad with Nery's name on or off. Do I send it to his address? Send it to him because that way it will get there faster. And if it doesn't get there it just gets sent right back to you.... Awesome week!!! Started it off right with 3 baptisms!!!!!! There was only one really really down point.... My papa went home today in the morning. Super sad haha I love that dude. He's my best friend here in the mission (that I didn't know before) and now I don't know if I'll ever get to see him again. I know it's kind of babyish but ask me if I care haha. He helped me a lot. Super awesome dude. At least I got to see him yesterday and give him a huge hug. He will get married soon. hahaha Well I stayed with my comp and that is just fine with me. i honestly didn't know what was going to happen with the changes and I just hoped that I could say. The night before i just was praying so hard so that I could stay. I know we're here for a reason. Maybe because we've had a lot of success. But whatevs haha. We'll see what happens!!! Loving it and hitting it hard. I had a good long talk with Elder Hintze yesterday. Soooo good to see him haha. The first thing that he said to me when he saw me was, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE MY COMPANION!!!!! Because now it's not going to be good with anyone else in my msision!!!!" It was funny. I guess it was a hard change down there. The didn't have much success and didn't get along. But he's killing it in Escuintla. I would love to go back to the coast again haha. I miss it. I had a really cool experience this Sunday. We were looking so hard for Luis Guzman and we finally found out exactly where he lived. We went there at like 7 and his daughter answered the door and I asked for him and she said one second. He came over on his crutches and said hi and everything. I presented myself and he said "¿Usted es hijo de un Tyler Hanson?" and I was like WHATTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!. I told him yes and he let us in and we talked for awhile with them. It was so amazing. I am hoping for a huge miracle with them. He is awesome and so nice a so special but he doesn't seem to be super interested in the message. PRAY FOR HIM. His kids are super awesome and they seem so interested. We'll see what we can do there. He remembers dad like it was yesterday haha. So awesome. How dad used to bring him little drawings and make him make telares for him. And how he would go into the house and jsut lay out on his bed. He lives in the same house and everything. He jsut doesn't have the loom anymore. He is awesome man. SOOOOOOOOO AWESOMMEEEEEE!!!!!!! Super cool conference with Elder Cook. Super blessed to have him here. He taught us so many things that helped us so much. Mostly, he talked about love and how we need to love everyone, whatever the case. It was so awesome. I LOVED IT!!!! We made bricks this p day and that was freaking awesome haha Pictures are coming!!! I love you so much. I love this place. I will do whatever i can with Luis. I can't even believe this happened!!! Have a great week!!! I LOVE YOUUUUUU!!!!!!