Elder William Hansen

Hey Everyone! Greeting from solo!
Well Im here. and before i left i never thought id say it, but i miss medan! so much! But Im in solo and rippin and roarin to do some work. LIke i said before my companion's name is elder sinaga. He has been on the mission for 3 months just like me but he got trained here so he's sorta leading me around for now. I am in solo 2nd ward out of 4 total wards in solo. Which is crazy. a fourth of this tiny city has 4 missionaries and the biggest ward in indonesia! In my ward they added two missionaries and split the area so my and sinaga in the south have no investigators, so last week we rode around and visited tons of non active members, and proselyted. what a joy. I learned that if you take a city a fourth the size of medan and put 16 missionaries inside, everyone konws you. so thats kinda strange, being already knowing why the white kids in ties are here. My area is a little less proselyted so less people know so we've gotten to talk to some people. Another cool fact about solo Red Zones which is where an area is famous for extremest muslims that are pretty extreme. Elder green (the DL and in my ward) said to his comanion Elder Pribawa who at the time was 3 days old in the mission (translated) "if you go there they try to kill you with rocks, so dont go there." This red zone is luckily in my area, and last night my companion got a little lost and led us into it. But dont worry. we asked for an address realized our mistake and hightailed it out of there.
Everything here is still going pretty darn swell. Primary program yesterday was so amazing, with 40 primary kids!
This week i learned a lot of new words about washin machines, faucets, tools,water pressure, shopping and bikes cuz we moved into a new house and had a lot of reparies to do, but now everything is fixed and swell again!
Another cool thing about solo is that the members love to feed the missionaries. we made three appointments with member to ask refereals and both times i had to finish my comanions and my food cuz its really rude to not finish here, and i ended up eating a lot of food. One of the member loaded us in a van and took us to a batak (medan culture) food place and we got too eat some pork which is rare here cuz of the muslim culture.
NOt much else happened this week, we are working hard to find investigators and help them by bring them the Good News of the restoration of the Chruch of Jesus Christ. Have a super week everyone!
Elder Hansen
Solo 2