I'm in Chula Vista! It's
awesome. I actually feel like I'm in the San Diego Mission now. Before I was in the Mexicali North mission! But I still miss Calexico and the great people
there. Transfer meeting is basically a couple
of short talks by missionaries (on the spot) and then President Schmitt speaks
a little and sister Schmitt talks and then he announces who's going where and
we go to work! It was nice not having a
2 hour drive to the Imperial Valley this time, we just went about 20 minutes
down to Chula Vista.
My new comp is great!
His name is Elder Browne. We get along super well together. It's a
walking/biking area, so far we have just been walking since I don't have a
bike. It's fun! I'm stoked to be in a
bike area. I do need a bike, but for now
walking is okay, we are looking for a decent cheap used one.. if you could
shuffle in just a tiny bit of money for it that would be sweet. I will try to
keep it cheap though. If I can get a good one that would last that would be
nice.
Elder Browne is from
Maryland, but he went to BYU last year too, he lived in Helaman Halls like me!
He is in his third transfer in the field, so I only have 6 weeks more in the
mission. I kind of feel like the senior comp is the one who knows the area
better, and then there will come a point when we both know it well and we will
just be equal, there isn't a super defined senior comp thing here. Since I have
more time in the mission there are certain things that I have experience in...
but he's familiar with the ward and the people. So I don't really know, it's
fun though!
It's pretty fun with
him! We have been having a good time, and we get a lot done! We work
downtown, the chapel is far away, we get a ride from the other Chula Elders to
all of the church stuff. Our area is right by our apartment, so we work from Second
Street to the beach. We
live right by a Fuddruckers, and there are tons of other restaurants and stuff
on Broadway, which is cool. There are also some good taco shops. Our
apartment is nice. It used to be a hotel building so it's pretty sweet! It's
got inside hallways and stuff and it's super secure. Our area is the more
ghetto one of the district, but it's not too bad. It's just more downtown ish.
Lots of apartments and little houses. We have the most work in the district
though, which is cool! I'm in the Chula Vista
4th ward (Spanish), it's pretty small, about the same as Calexico but seems
like it is more solid maybe.
We have a couple of part
member families that we are working with, one girl has a baptismal date for the
27th, she's pretty solid on that one, her sister got baptized 2 weeks ago, and
we are working with her mom too, she knows the church is true, but is nervous
to get baptized because of her family, who are all staunch Catholics. The
people in the ward are all really nice and friendly, that's just how it is with
Hispanics, they are all super nice!
There aren't a ton of extra
duties right now... we are just regular old missionaries just trying to teach
peeps! We try to visit less actives and recent converts a lot. There are some
super solid people. The district has 2 sister companionships and 3 elder
companionships. Our district covers a ward and a branch, we are in the ward. The
zone has one other district in it, I think 10 companionships, but I haven't met
everyone in the zone yet. There is a Chula English and Chula Spanish zone, so
we are all Spanish which is cool!
P day is only today
because we have zone conferences tomorrow with Elder Neilson. It'll be pretty
cool!
This week we have been
running around and introducing me to members and investigators. The ward is
super solid. We had an awesome day Sunday. Church was sick, it's fun meeting
new members and stuff. We had 5 investigators there, which was awesome!
Yesterday (Sunday) evening
we had a wonderful Stake Christmas concert. There were tons of members and non-members
there! It was packed! They had a Tongan Interfaith choir that sang too, they
were super good! We sang in a little Spanish choir, which turned out pretty
good too! It was fun to hear all the Christmas songs and see little Christmas
videos and stuff!
We have a ward activity
tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, I'm going to be Nefi (Nephi) in a little
"Christmas from the Book of Mormon" presentation. I'm pretty stoked
about that!
Also our district is
cool, Elder Takke (was in my district in Calexico) came out here this last
transfer too so we are in the same district again! I was stoked at transfer
meeting when we both got called to Chula! He's my bud. Love that guy. The other
missionaries are cool too! Chula is also one of my dream areas in the mission.
This is where they filmed "The District 2" so I have already met a few
people from the District. Like Amor Robles and German. The Stake Center and our
ward buildings are both in the show a lot too. I've watched so much of the
District that I feel like these people are celebrities. ha-ha
We have a mission Christmas
devotional, which should be cool, but it's not really a party. It'll be next week on Monday.
That's exciting to have
the family up in Seattle again! I can't wait to Skype you all together!
I'm happy to hear the
ward is having good activities now!
I miss my little Crew! You
should send me videos when he's in Seattle! Send me pictures of the lights
and the tree and stuff!
It's been a crazy week!
But a good one for sure! How is everyone doing at home??
Love
Elder Hansen
Elder Hansen
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