Zone Conference

January 28, 2020

Hey everyone! It's been a while! I just get so distracted on pday, it's hard to write emails haha!

But anyways, the last few weeks have been good! We recently had transfers and my new companion is Elder Whiting! He is from Grantsville, Utah! I have no clue if that's how you spell it. He has been out a year now, and just came from the new stake. We get along awesome!

Let's see, what are some highlights from the last few weeks?

On Saturday Elder Whiting and I got to go to the temple with a member of our branch. His name if Francisco! He was going to the temple for the first time to receive his endowments! It was so cool to be there for him! One thing that makes this even more exciting is that when I was in Poway last year, Francisco was not even an Elder yet. We were teaching him priesthood prep classes! And now, a year later, I got to go through the temple with him!

Elder Whiting and I also spoke in sacrament meeting a few weeks ago. We got a call Saturday night at 7pm, on our way to sports night with our youth. It was a member of our branch presidency asking if we could speak the next day haha. Luckily we both had talks written from before, and we were told we could speak on any topic.

Nothing too crazy has happened the last few weeks. We are working with Leah still, a 13 year old who is ready for baptism. Her mom Elsy is a member, but her dad is not, and wants her to wait until she is 18 to be baptized. So we are just helping her learn more about the Book of Mormon and that kind of stuff right now. Leah is super cool and we hope her dad will open up to us soon!

Love you guys!

Pday

Ice Skating on Pday

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving with the Martinez, Varela & Fernandez Families!

A visit from Haley & Adam

Haley was in California at the in laws for Thanksgiving so she made a visit to Nate.

New Companion

With Elder Angeletti at Potato Chip Rock

Here we go again!

Hey everyone! I apologize it has been so long since I wrote a big email, pdays have been packed and I'll be completely honest, writing weekly is hard.

I promise if you email me personally you will almost always get a better email than what I send to the group in response.

But, here is hopefully a good one.

The last few weeks have been some of the best of my mission! My companion Elder Lewis and I are really close and he makes each day a blast! We have been driving around all over the place doing things for the zone and the stake, and just trying to stay on top of it all. We have been coordinating service projects, planning and attending different meetings, training missionaries on new things that president Stubbs has asked us to do and all types of things like that. On top of that we have been trying to help those we are teaching progress.

The main person is Londi. Londi is awesome! She is the sweetest soul and we have been meeting with her and her boyfriend, who is a member, trying to help them grow closer to Christ. The only reason Londi is not baptized is because she lives with her boyfriend, so we are trying to help them progress towards marriage. We would suggest that they maybe find different living arrangements, but they actually have recently become parents, and as missionaries, we are seeking to help families be united for eternity, not divide them. But its okay, they have actually planned to meet with us at the temple this Saturday to tour the grounds and watch a few videos that they have in a room in the lobby. I have never seen them but my companion says they are amazing.

The MCRD has been awesome as well, since I last emailed I have been meeting with a recruit whose last name is Letendre, and he's awesome! He has a girlfriend back home that is a member of the church and he came to the MCRD wanting to learn more about us! He has accepted a baptismal date of January 12th! He will have also earned the title of U.S. Marine by that point as well! A lot of good things are happening in this area and it's awesome!

But here is the bad news... I actually wont be around to see it. As I'm sure you could have guessed now by how my mission has been, I got transferred haha! Unfortunately I wont get to spend this holiday season with the wonderful people I have met here in the Bonita 3rd ward and in National City. The funny part though is, I actually wont be spending the season anywhere new... I'm going back to Poway, the place I got transferred to right before Christmas last year, isn't that pretty weird?

I'm not going to lie, i'm pretty bummed, but I know I will adjust and have a good time in Poway again. My new companion will be Elder Angeletti, and I will be right where I was last Christmas. He and I will be the zone leaders for the zone, and it will be his first time with that assignment.

That's my update for this week guys, I love you all and Hope you have been doing amazing! 

Elder Hanna

PICTURE: with Elder Trump