Living in the Ghetto

Alright now i can sit down and send a good email. So yeah last p day i either broke or sprained my toe, i am sending pics with this email so you can see. I could not walk hardly that night after, but the next day i walked just fine and had little to no pain. So it just goes to show that prayers truly are answered. So don´t worry. Work is great here, our two baptisms that were supposed to be yesterday have been postponed to the 4th by the way Happy Birthday grandma and happy father´s day Dad!! Oh but we only have one baptism for next sunday- Leyla she is so awesome, last week she was out of town but drove and hour and a half to go to church, i thought that was sweet! She didn´t get baptized this week because her mom is really sick so she went down south to be with her... The people of the ward here are so awesome. The Facondi family is my favorite. Hno. Facondi is the mission leader and he is awesome, plus Hna. Facondi is a way good cook and i always eat so good here. Lots of rice which is good cause i like rice. The bishop is legit too, he came and taught some lessons with us and threw done Last week was kind of rough, we had so many appointments fall through and when we contacted people were jerks and nobody would listen. But we did have a few good lessons that i am grateful for, just not as many as i wanted. Elder Mitchell is way cool, he´s a good hard worker and keeps my spirits up. Yeah ive had the f word screamed at me a few times, i think it´s funny, some guy yesterday was like f america! I just laughed, he looked at me all weird, it was funny. Dogs are everywhere here!! and poop too you always have to watch your step when you are out and about. Yeah im way in the ghetto i guess more up north is santiago is nicer, i´m fine with it cause when am i ever gonna live in the ghetto again? Plus im protected, i heard a story of an elder in the area called los pensamientos which is the most ghetto in our area got shot but the bullet bounced off his garments, there is a bullet hole in his white shirt and another exit hole. How legit is that, he only came out with a bruise!! Don´t worry we haven´t had trouble here just the normal. Haha lets see oh the apartment, mom you would be so proud of me... i cleaned so much grease off of our oven today, it looks like we have a brand new one. Spanish is coming along slowly. I´m getting a bit better at understanding people, especially when they say they are busy, that´s what all of them say, everyone here says that they are never home and they work all day. I just think ok, then why are you home now? I just need to keep speaking to improve. Its all good tho the people here are great even the mean ones!

Soccer, yeah it is life here for everyone, the grocery store is closing early because of the game, everything will shut down for a while. Things were a bit wild on friday when chile qualifed for the word cup, its been 50 years since chile has last qualified but they will probably loose to brazil today. I heard that during the cup the elders in brazil can´t even go outside becasue they get so violent there. Things aren´t too bad here, we only had some drunk guy blow his horn in our face, then he went back into the street and almost got hit buy a bus- that´ll teach him to mess with servants of god! The earth quake really didn´t do much here, all the destruction is more down south, we drove over a bridge my first day here that had to be rebuilt, some adobe houses were destroyed too but elder hardman says they are back up. Elder hardman and mayans are hilarious, they with elder mitchell are helpin me out a lot. Elder Hardman has some cool stories that ill have to write home to ya sometime. Oh if you do send a package sometime, peanut butter would be amazing, they only have it down south and it is way expensive... just that and some sweets for now. Yeah the bread here is amazing, kiki would be in heaven. As far as dear elders they work here, I only get mail about once a month you can email me and i can print them off. We had despididos last week for president resek. he is so awesome and im kind of sad that i don´t have more of an opportunity to meet him he leaves in the next few days i think tomorrow and we have a zone conference with president mcarthur this saturday. Oh and i found out that i will be with elder mitchell for two changes and in this area for three. Which is great with me cause i love the people here and want to get to know them more. Sounds like things are good at home! how is the poco baby doing and my two litte girls! i miss them so much! sorry this place is closing for the game love you all so much ill send pics next week!!! thank you for all you do.

love elder hansen