April 10th, 2017 - Week 35

Here is what we got from Griffin:

Monday- Taught english from 10 to 1. Right I'm not teaching at the hospital, instead I'm teaching at my companions school with him until I get moved to the hospital.

Tuesday- This was p-day and we chilled out most of the day. But then we went the circus, and oh my gosh its was awesome. They go hard on circus stuff here and it was awesome! They had tons of stuff, and at first it seemed a little lame cause they just jugglers and hula-hoopers, but then they came out with a shaman who was singing and dancing with smoke around him and they did air acrobatics. There was a point when the two people doing it suspended each other by ropes in the mouths!

Wednesday- We taught english again. Then we met with a family of investigators and the husband, baatarjoiv, is what's called a bard. He travels out to the countryside and writes music, poetry, stories, you name it! We sat there, talked about the church, and then he throat sang to us, and it was amazing! 

Thursday- We had a zone conference and it was really fun. We just talked and listened to our zone leaders talk. 

Friday- Taught english again and just chilled. 

Saturday- We watched conference. Since they have to translate it into Mongolian they do it a week late here. It was super cool and super spiritual.  After that we hung out with other missionaries.

Sunday- was conference again (super awesome!!!!!). Then we met with an investigator and got him on date for Baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday- We taught english and tried to meet with some people, but we ended up chilling.

Tuesday(today)- We played soccer this morning and smashed the Mongolian team practicing on the field. And later we're going to go on a hike it's going to be sweet!

Well time for my spiritual part. Over these last few weeks I've been having a hard time with the language, it's just so different that it's hard to use. But during conference I was listening the Elder Renlunds talk and I've realized that worrying about the language isn't as important as focusing on having the spirit as a missionary. And that's definitely true, if we don't have the spirit then can only help people as a missionary so much.

Well that's this week. Love you!!!!!! khairtai shvv!!!!!!!

right now I'm not able to send photos but soon I will............ 

I just realized that I never explained my new sponsor to everybody. To start off in order for us to come to Mongolia we need to have a sponsor who permits our visas. Originally I was church sponsored, but the government recently had a regime change (the Communist party) and no longer allowed church sponsorship. So eventually I got new sponsor, at Nomun Hospital which is one of the nicest hospitals in the country. Normally the mission pays about 100$ a year to a sponsor for English teachers, they pay Nomun hospital 150$ a month, so me and Elder Udall are the most expensive missionaries in the mission right now. The pressures on! Then I went with elder Udall to visit the hospitaland it's super nice, the staff is nice, the building's nice. They give us lunch and dinner for free, hospital scrubs, and other equipment. The staff all wants to learn english a ton so they treat us way nice! Then our actual sponsor is a 21 year old girl who is a 1000 x more succussful than I'll ever be, her family owns the hospital, but owns it now.

Elder Griffin Hansen