jan, 26 to dad

Dad

Blvd Argentino 7935

Rosario 2000 

Santa Fe

Argentina

Have to send it to the mission home so thats the address. The other SD card. MY hair gel stuff and then some more pictures of you guys and just stuff going on... maybe a mini calendar thing? whatever you can.

yeah  that day of divisions was good but super stressful because i had to memorize the area quick lol And we have worked our butts off this last two weeks contaacting people trying to find investigators now we have a bunch but none of them progress because noone goes to church!!! so we end up dropping them! frustrating... i hate contacting to lol it sucks!

Federal- we meet in a crappy chapel thing its gross but like 10-20 people attend church regularly.. i havent had to talk because my spanish isnt the best yet but they have had me bare my testimony and i have to pass and bless like every week. No i dont teach anything. yeah everyone knows the mormon missionaries or says that they have seen them. yeah we have all the same exact streets here too lol thats weird. no they have a rule that we can only play with other missionaries so we cant play with the kids and my comp wont break a single rule so i cant do anything fun!

Dad seriously all these rules make it so we cant have fun or anything at all! i want to punch my companion because he is so hard core about everything!!! he is always singing these gay songs and ughh! we are so different we dont have anything to talk about cuz he just judges me and thinks im a bad person because of what i did and the friends i had? he grew up in orem his whole life he hasnt experienced crap and it drives me nuts i cant wait til he leaves after this transfer... but i get along with him obviosuly i just bottle it all and play nice like im supposed to... but this week was hard for me.

Because like this work is hard! we work so hard and yeah we find investigators and work our butts off to find them... but then theydont do anything! noone will go to church seriously!!! And i cant express myself as much as i want in spanish and i can only understand like 50 percent right now! Its just hard and everyone says after 6 month it flies by! but i only have almost 3 months and i wanna kill people... like it is not fun at all the only thing that keeps me going is that i know i just have to make it til pday then i will be okay and can rest and refocus... but once i hit saturday im like this sucks i hate this blah blah blah... did you ever like finally come to enjoy ur mission? sometimes it feels fake and im like im seriously on my mission? this is so wierd? everyone says it goes fast but its so slow right now!!! i wanna like go nuts and just go and leave and do something but there is nothing in federal i hate it!!!

So i prayed for comfort and told the lord i was just gonna stop thinking about the time and just work and just do what i need to until P-day and then the same thing and im just gonna takeit week by week... but just gimme some advice i dont know. hard because my comp and i are opposites so i have no friend

Love you dad! hopefully broncos win!!! i pimped my agenda out with Brioncos colors lol

           KC

January 26.2013

Hey mom!!! So dad is starting the travel mode now that sucks! hashe gotten his bonus? howmuch longer do you have on the california house before that is all good? Jake went undefeated? sick!!! jv or Varsity? mason seriously cant beat rico what a wuss bag that kid sucked lol Tyson really is doing that bad? yeah my weight class sucked?! now he knows how bad it was lol When is aimee gonna have her baby?

So jake seriously got a 1.9? its his senior year it should just be one big joke?! what classes is he taking that he is doing that bad in?

Bear the dog sounds like a little squirt lol he looks like just a big ball of fluff though lol

Ha i almost have 3 months! you only have to write me 89 more letters ;) haha yeah thats alot lol 

No no official baptisms because noone goes to church!!! we have been working so hard to find investigators andwe have a bunch of new ones but none of them go to church so none of our investigators are progressing!!! drives me nuts just go to freaking church! Then they all smoke and drink so thatsa problem! law of chastity is just as bad here if not worse than the states! so its so hard to find really good investigators idk...

And i dont like my area... its a tiny pueblo that has like nothing! its like beaver utah... I love the city of concordia! i love the cities so much to do and see its just more exciting and you always see something different! 

Also here there are other missionaries... im gettingso sick of my companion... he is so hardcore about therules and everything ahh! i wanna punch hmi sometimes but im patient and just deal with it and dont say anything and i just do it!

Yeah i need to start working out to im starting to get fat again lol

OKAY well i love you mom thanksfor everything you have done for me in my life! its helped me so muchand i think im so much more capable of things then the other missionaries because of how i was raised and the experiences i have had in my life already!so thanks for everything you are the best tell the fam i love them!!! and goodluckin regions.

Love you

Kc

KC'S RESPONSE TO MOMS LETTER

haha no everyone just says tomatela which means screw you or they say other stuff the word in our zone is FETCH instead of like freak or frick... i will never say it lol so stupid so how are you guys gonna facetime me? what do u mean? these comps dont have cameras soooo yeah? but if u send stuff to the mission home i wil get them... but idk not much just like stuff to snack on aything really thats from the states im down for! maybe a root beer they dont have that down here lol candy cookies and stuff anything would be awesome! thanks!

Yeah i think about you guys all the time and what i want to do with you guys when i get home and stuff the first things i wana go and do!

Love, Elder KC Hansen

I love and miss you all!!!

My Address... I love letters!!

My email is ...hansen.kevin@myldsmail.net

my address or the mission homes! send letters there!

Blvd. Argentino 7935 Rosario 2000 Santa FE Argentina

 Love and miss you all

KC

January 6th, 2013

Hey dad!

So i love argentina and i love the people! i think ive gotten over most of my really really tough hurdles besides the language! That will come and i can really start getting to work!

My companion and i are totally opposites he is really starting to bug me! i think he is my trainer because i have notcied alot of things that he does or doesnt do that has taught me not to do that lol like he just sets goals to set goals and plans whatever and doesnt really follow the plan he just talk to members for hours when we have other appointments... But like i wanna set goals and i wanna freaking accomplish them? we have like tons of zeros when we report and were one of the lowest? i hate that? i wanna get stuff done and be like at the top? but i cant do much cuz i dont know that freaking language and it drives me nuts! there is so much that i wanna do and accomplish!!! because i know if i just do work and kick butt its gonna fly by so much faster! and if its a competition it pushes me a little more to do better! love ya dad! so i guess the normal time we come do this is at 1030 or 11 am here so 630 your time so if you wanna tell mom that ill be on around tht time every week! love you guys hope everything is going well! im doing really good!

--

Love, Elder KC Hansen

I love and miss you all!!!

Conversation to Kevin and I on New Years since we didn't get to talk on Christmas...

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Ru there KC ?

 

Elder KC Hansen

hey

heyyy

Wednesday at 1:42pm · Sent from Chat

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Hi bud this is dad

Wednesday at 1:43pm

Elder KC Hansen

hey make it quick

Wednesday at 1:43pm · Sent from Chat

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Ok. So what is hard?

Elder KC Hansen

language the work everything... im so lonely and this is way hard!!! im so faraway and dont understand anything and i wanna help my comp but i cant!!!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I know....but it will eventually pass and I promise within a couple of months a switch will happen in your brain and you will understand

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha i want it now lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Just learn and keep an open mind. Pray as much as you can to have patience

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I just had to find a way to play with the kids or the dogs and smile alot

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

my first two months were so rainy and cold I just wanted to get on a plane and go home. and my companion wanted to give away the book the road less traveled instead of the bon...

BOM

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha while i try to focus then im like okay yeah idk whats going on so i zone out and then they make fun of me for it lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

you can only concentrate so long and then your brain just turns off

and that is OK

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha yeah dad it is so hot here NEW YOrk x100 its so humid! i shower and feel like i never got out

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

your ears have to get used to hearing it and after awhile it will just click but you have to go through the pain

 

Elder KC Hansen

i get like a headache at the end of the cuz im trying to translate so much lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

lol

LOL...my mission was just like Utah and cold in winter and warm in the summer but nothing like Rosario

how is the food treating you...find anything you like?

 

Elder KC Hansen

ahaha milanesa is the bomb! i dont like facturas that much but i love alfahores!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

about the translation...at some point you will stop translating and you will think in spanish

I love Milenesa

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha yeah we got some sandwiches with it and soooo good!!!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

just be patient

 

Elder KC Hansen

yeah i know i just need to be patient but when you start working it goes so fast!!!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

and talk about boca and river soccer teams!!

yes...and the more you think about all the issues the slower the time goes....if you just get on with it and work hard miracles start happening

 

Elder KC Hansen

we spend like all day tracting also cuz we have 2 investigators and they never show up to our appts so i wanna die in the heat!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

so are you in an internet cafe?

 

Elder KC Hansen

new years

and new years here is so nuts!!! lol and yeah i am

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

so keep working hard and pray to find someone ready to hear the gospel

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

it is so fun when you are finally teaching really good families or Men

 

Elder KC Hansen

i love teaching cuz the time flies!!! and the people just love to talk!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

mom wants to know what it was like when you got to the airport...did you see machine guns?

yes...they love to talk about everything. Argentines talk about politics, soccer, everything.

so are speaking with your companion in spanish as much as you can?

 

Elder KC Hansen

yeah 24/7 he wont speak in english it pisses me off sometimes... no no guns just cigarette smoke and it smelled weird and hot as crap

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

totally

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I told u!! U can't breathe...mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

good....by March 1st you will be dreaming in Castillano

so are you in a ward or a branch?

 

Elder KC Hansen

branch.. i had to bear my testimony and pass sacrament cuz there were 10 people there and most women

 at

Ronny Vincent Hansen

just like I told you....you will have to do everything in the branch.

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

With no teeth I'm sure(the women)...mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

so your job is to find the next Branch President to really help the branch grow

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

so you do a lot of walking I imagine?

Wednesday at 1:58pm

Elder KC Hansen

haha everywhere... i buy myself cokes as a reward so i dont go home lol for when we walk far

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

That's my boy ..mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

perfect : - )

just look for little wins everyday

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Remember Bri's journal..today was good because...mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I used to say to my first two comps if I do good I get to buy me a ham and cheese empanada and coke so we are just alike lol

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha seriously when i couldnt call you guys everything had been going wrong that day i was like screw this lol but then i made my comp take me to a store and i bought a coke we watched despicable me 2 and i lived lol exactly

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

So what else can you tell me about what you like about your area? What was the name again?

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Did ur comp call his fam?!

 

Elder KC Hansen

Federal! yeah he did

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

is it south of Rosario?

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Then why did we have probs!?

 

Elder KC Hansen

north east

Elder KC Hansen

ha you werent online! he told his fam late i didnt

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

oh...that is why it is so hot

 

Elder KC Hansen

yeah we are like the farthest east and way north right by parana

or i mean uruaguay river

 t

Ronny Vincent Hansen

neat part of the country that I don't know

so what else can you tell me about Argentina and what you like or think is different?

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha umm not much im in a crappy part i think? i dont know alot right now because i cant understand!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Nope not the crappy part its just in Argentina...haha...mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

well....what I think is so cool is that your first area is out in the boonies where the Lord wants you to help build up his church. What is like when I went to Esquel. It was just me and my companion and a small branch and we works our tails off to help find a way to help the church grow

Wednesday at 2:06pm

Ronny Vincent Hansen

is it only you and your companion in the town?

 

Elder KC Hansen

oh some guys want me to ask what areas u were in from neuquen cuz they live there

yeah just me and him

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

how far away are your DLs?

 

Elder KC Hansen

my comp is the DL the Zls are an hour and a half

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I can't remember what part of Neuquen but it was near the river and it was only a district at the time...not many missionaries like today

 

Elder KC Hansen

well areas that you remember? like bariloche

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

wow...so you are isolated...that is so cool. Think of it as a blessing as you can focus on good habits instead of picking up bad habits when you are with a bunch of missionaries

 

Ronny Vincent HansenRonny Vincent Hansen

ok..here were my areas in order. Bariloche (along the lake), Esquel, Trelew, Zapala and then Neuquen.

yes..lol

 

No ur mom needs this:) mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

so remember in the best two years how the newly was always taking notes...remember to do that.

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

The Lord is fine with it!!

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha tranquilo mom lol

haha take notes got it

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

also....remember to use music and hymns when you teach as it always brings the spirit and I wish I would have know at the start of my mission

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Brianna does this every week with her momasita!!! Mom

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

also...just try to find some fun games to play as you walk and during the down time to keep it fun. Remember that you should have fun and be happy on your mission even as you work super hard

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha well my comp is a rule freak also makes me mad!!! i wanna send back my ipod so you can change the songs! its christmas 1 day a hear and its half the ipod lol

what are some games?!

i need some lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

i used to find goals as I walked and kicked rocks through them and yelled GGGGGOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL

just stupid things but makes it fun

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha caño

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

whatever boludo

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

but remember to be yourself and try and have fun

play with the little kids and have fun with them since you can't talk

also...just trying to talk you will screw up and make everyone laugh

when you get in a city with more missionaries it is always fun to play jokes on the other elders

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha okay! love you guys thanks for the pep! did it go by fast dad? honestly

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

What am I chopped liver?! Mom

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha shush mom lol love you

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Millie says hi

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha hi mills!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

the first few months seemed like forever I won't lie. But before you know it you will be speaking the language and really enjoying speaking with the people and finding ways to love them. Hang in there and look for the awesome things your comp does and learn from them. We love you and pray for you every day! No where else in the world you should be then there helping the suffering people of Federal.

 

Elder KC HansenRonny Vincent Hansen

and one last tip...dont worry about any girls or writing them, they are a distraction...focus on the work and everything will work out in the end. Give the Lord 100% of your focus!!

 

can you guys keep me up on my money too that i have lol i know i dont no worries!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

oh....and pray like crazy. Your knees should be sore

 

Elder KC Hansen

like just my account balance

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

yes...Have you had to pull any out?

yes...I will send you an email with your balance later today

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha i know i hate kneeling! no not yet but m going to for letters and stuff thanks

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

ok...hang in there and find those Argentines that need the Gospel!!!!!

I love that country and they need it!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

even with all that you are feeling it is probably still easier than wrestling practice with Chase?

 

Elder KC Hansen

ha okay thanks mom and dad! love you guys so much! talk to you next week! LOVE YOU!! tell the boys i said whats up! enjoy the states while you can!!! no harder than with Coach Chase in NY !! lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Also grandma has been reading this she says hi

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

love you too....!!!! all the best and please tell your companion hi from us and that we love him for training you....tell him that!

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha hi grandma!!!

ha okay

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

your not easy to live with!!!! lol dad

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

oh...and happy new year!!!!

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha whatever happy new year love you bye!!!

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Hi KC can u wear the ties I sent u? Grandma

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

what is the official name of the town you are in?

 

Elder KC Hansen

haha 1 of them yes lol the purple one the pink one no and the utah one was too shrt! thanks though!!! its called Federal

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Also quick we need ur address

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

I found a town called federacion

 

Elder KC Hansen

south of that

its called federal dad

idk an address

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

ok...so north of concordia?

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

How was the licorice?

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

are you still there?

 

Elder KC Hansen

yeah north of concordia

 

Elder KC Hansen

so good! thanks i needed that! i gained 15 pounds thanks to you grandma lol

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

Oh don't blame me u had thanksgiving and Christmas dinner in MTC haha

 

Ronny Vincent Hansen

 hey...have you eaten anything super gross yet?

 

Elder KC Hansen

no not really! and just thanksgving! bye gtg