Tuul January 15th- Week 74
Hey everybody, sorry I didn't send an email last week, we had transfers and cleaning check and I just didn't have time to send any emails. So this week was transfers and I got transferred out of Songino and I got moved to Tuul ward! I miss Songino, I learned a lot out there, I learned a lot about myself and a lot about the power of Christs atonement and Gospel. When I was in Songino us and the Unur elders met with and taught a women and her daughter named Urnehtsetseg and Maralmaa. When we first met with them a member had originally given them a book of mormon. She told us that she read the book of mormon and loved it, she that every night she and her daughter read the book of mormon. They found comfort and strength in the book  of mormon. They eventually got baptized and it was a super spiritual baptism and they were super happy after wards. One important thing I saw was as we went over to their apartment more and more, it became easier and easier to feel the spirit. The spirit was stronger and stronger as we went over there and it was noticeable that they had changed and become happier. Now I'm in Tuul and I'm excited to help the people here. Tuul is the richest part of the city and it has a super capable ward! I'm companions with Elder Lichtenberg who has only been in the country for 12 weeks. I'm excited and ready to serve in Tuul. 

Elder Griffin Hansen

2018 - Week 72
Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I'm doing good. This week was awesome. To start off we met this awesome new family who is super excited to hear the gospel. To start we went to their house last Friday and had a good time, shared a scripture and just kind of got to know them. Then yesterday on January 1 we went to their house and they gave us some awesome sheep head for dinner, it was exotic! I'm excited for this next year and all it's adventures that it has in store. I've noticed myself change a lot in this last year. I've seen that I've started to seek after the Holy Ghost in my life, and a greater desire to help the people around me. This year has some trials and difficults parts, but "I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." (1 Nephi 20:10) this is what the Lord is doing with all us and eventually through the Lords refining we all can be made perfect and our best selves. I've seen myself grow and the people around me grow. I'm excited for this year. And happy new year everybody!

Mongolian Christmas - Week 71
We got to talk with Griffin on Christmas Day. He looked great and is really enjoying Mongolia. Here are some pictures.
Mac n Cheese with smoked pig neck and pickles.

December 18, 2017 - Week 70
Hey everyone!! This week was pretty cool. Us and some of other Elders went sledding as a p-day activity. It was super cold and and we got covered in snow, but it was super fun! Hiked super deep into the mountains and this abandoned valley and we found this old cabin on the side of a mountain the scenery was super peaceful and it was super quiet. This week was also Elder Udalls birthday (my english teaching companion) so our class brought him a birthday cake and some pizza! I love my english class, all of the doctors in it are cool and really want to learn english! On a more spiritual note I was in sacrament meeting on sunday and an investigator from a different ward came in and joined us. Her name is Urnehtsetseg and Elder Whitaker and I were the first missionaries to ever meet with her, we thought she was in our area, she has a huge desire to be baptized and fully believes in the church. So I was feeling down and as the sacrament was being administered I looked up and I saw her praying super intently and super powerfully. I realized that part of the reason why she is there is because I helped her find the church and helped to teach the Gospel to her. I showed to me that the gospel really changes peoples lives and will always help them in the end.​

November 28th, 2017 - Weeks 63-67

Here are the letters we got from Griffin this month. Sorry I have been slacking the last couple of months.

November 1st, 2017

Hey everyone this week was of course Halloween and it was pretty sweet. But first one experience, last Friday Udall and I had to teach at the Hospital like always. However this day was different because several doctors from India came to the hospital for a charity thing or something like that. All of them spoke pretty good English so Udall and I were there translators all day for them. We ended up splitting to help the doctors Udall went somewhere else and I went to a surgery. They had the person on table and I was in an observation room to the side. Then The Indian doctor gave some advice to the Mongolians and I had to translate it them in the middle of the surgery. At one point he told me tell to tell the surgeon to rotate a catheter inside the patients body. So I told the surgeon to do it over the microphone in the surgery room.
So that was crazy and then for Halloween we didn't do a lot. My comps school had a big Halloween party and so did Udall's comp. So we just hung out and ended up getting our flu shots, mission accomplished! Past that we just sat around and ate food that day. Both of our comps schools had parties that we're not allowed to go to because they're not our sponsor.
Also earlier this week we went hiking and found huge graveyard out in my area and climbed a mountain. That was super cool and found this scary shaman alter nestled in the saddle of a mountain. And we found a pack of cute ger puppies.
Elder Griffin Hansen

November 6th, 2017
Hey everyone!!!!!!! today is my birthday and I'm going to go celebrate so I can't email a lot today. I'm going to go get some shopping done. I'm going to go get some winter boots today because yesterday was the first day of snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry I'll send some pictures next week, I forgot my sd card adapter today. But hey have a good week all of you and enjoy the holidays!
Elder Griffin Hansen
November 13th, 2017
Ok everyone this week was great! I had my birthday and I got some super good food. And last night we got a new investigator on date! So I'm going to send a bunch of pictures home because a lot happened.
Elder Griffin Hansen


November 20th, 2017
Hey everyone this week was kind of slow. The most exciting thing coming up is Thanksgiving. We don't have any plans yet for it, but we'll make some. This last week we got an investigator to commit to baptism and we've met with her twice now. We're planning on her baptism. The other most exciting thing this week was that everyone in the mission got their blood drawn. I don't really have any pictures, sorry. I'll have some next week tho! Alright see you next week!
Elder Griffin Hansen
November 28th, 2017
Hey everybody this week was awesome so I'm just going to go straight into it. To start off last P-Day Elder Reynolds and I went exploring deep into Songino area and we found this awesome valley in the mountains out here. In the valley was an abandoned lagert village, it's like a camping resort. It was abandoned for the winter, just like on the Shining! We were out there and we found this this natural spring out in the snow with a huge alter surrounding it. Mongolians think that things like that have spiritual significance. then we walked further into the village. At one point we saw a wild pack of dog chase another a dog away and eat him, that was straight crazy. Then we found this cool resort out there called "bayan uul amralt". The whole place was like a movie. Then we had Thanksgiving, we had district meeting, the last one this transfer and dinner at a nice restaurant Then on Saturday Songino a had a Baptism of an investigator for the sisters who I had taught a little, but because we needed a male present and that was too hard so we gave her to the Sisters. Then she asked me to Baptize her! So I preformed my first baptism ever on Saturday!!! And today we find out if I leave Songino or what is going to happen this next transfer, it's tense!   
Elder Griffin Hansen

Also you may notice that I'm sending this on the wrong day. That's because I couldn't take p-day on Tuesday this week because of the Halloween stuff.