"The Lord brings us low so he can lift us even higher"

Hola Family and Friends,

Well I got my travel itinerary yesterday! I report to the travel office at 11:30 on June 14th and head out to Salt Lake where I will fly to Dallas at 2:30! We should land in Dallas around 6:15 ( yes Chels I will be in Texas!!!) and then I'll leave for Chile at 9:10 at night and will arrive in Santiago the next moring at 7:45 in the moring!!! I feel like I just got here but I am so excited to leave. I'm flying with everyone in my district minus Elders Still and Smith who head to Boston the next day. So I'll fly with everyone to Santiago and then spilt off with my roommates and Hermana Finch( we're all going to Rancagua) Hermana Baum, Tauteoli, and Nikolaus are going to Orsorno and Santiago east so we'll will say our goodbyes in the airport there. Time is really flying by! Speaking of its Chelsea's birthday already! Happy Birthday I love you! Well this week was pretty good, no apostle but it was a pretty good talk by a seventy but I cant remember his name. His wife told of story of a little girl in their ward who has a brain tumor- she's going throught the exact same thing as Briggs. Whenever she gets chemo or treatments she says "yay" and thanks the doctors for helping her. Shes only 3 or 4 and yet she knows that with a good attitude she can get through it. It's so amazing how tough these little ones are, I know for sure that I could not go through what Briggs has, or what Rachel did. The Lord gave them these trials because he knew that they can handle it. She told us that yes we will have trials on our mission, but have a good attitude and thank the Lord every single night for all your trials, and remember Talatha ( the little girls name, and remember Briggs). That really humbled me, how could I be so quick to forget what others go through..... It was amazing. My toe is doing good, I go back to the doc today just for a check up, no biggie there. I was made district leader last sunday. Spanish is pretty good, I'm kinda stuggling with the second lesson cause there is so much but the lord will help make up for the rest. I know I'm gonna have a shock when I get to Chile but I'm preped for it! Wow free horse!! Church is true right!! Thats freakin awesome, you'll have to send me some pics of her!! Oh and when the HB mare pops I wanna see what hits the ground from her, I'm sure it'll be breathing fire if it anything like its mother. I finally got a letter from Jaydan back! Im so jealous tho he gets to go teaching for two hours every saturday, Im green with jealous rage right now. I got to host new missionaries again this week it was pretty good, not as sad as the first time, I'm now used to seeing about 300 crying families in the space of about 2 hours. Oh calling card... I wanna call home at the airport if you'd like to hear from me, If not thats understandable I wouldn't miss me either! Just teasing mom please send one. Im gonna start packin this week I'll send feeties and anything I dont need home sometime this week. Oh so I wore my cowtie yesterday for a whole day in the MTC. It was a hit of course, it's the most legit tie in the world. But then Hno. Peterson caught me with it last night and said it wasn't very conservative.... but I still wore it for a whole day. We taught a really good lesson again in English, the spirit was so strong. I'm really excited to go do it for real in Chile! Oh so I was talking with Randy, our service leader and he said one of his comps got a full alligator scripture case with the snaps on it being little baby alligator heads!! It only cost 20 bucks!!! That was in Bolivia but I'm gonna see what they have in Chile so I may send or come home with a hide if I can get one so I can start inlaying with gator for dirt cheap. Well, Im running out of time. Just keep praying, thats what gets me through it!! Remember the Lord brings us low so he can lift us even higher. I love you all and thank you so much for all that you do!

Love,

Elder Hansen