It was with great joy that we greeted your son,

It was with great joy that we greeted your son and his companions at the airport last night. I'm sure that he has filled you in on the details in his email this morning, but I want you to know how excited we are to have him here with us in Veracruz! He is healthy, he is happy, he is confident and he is humble. He has been placed with Elder Gil who is a baptizing "machine"...he will definitely be running to keep up with him! He is excited for the challenge. Elder Gil talks a million miles an hour and none of it is in English, so Elder Weaver is really going to learn the language well and quickly! He is being blessed to be serving in Lerdo, which is part of the mission district "Los Tuxtlas" over which Pdte presides. We really feel like this is sacred ground and are grateful every day for the opportunity to serve in the land of the Book of Mormon. He will be serving with and will be tutored by some of the best leaders and missionaries in the mission and even more importantly he will be attended to constantly by the Spirit and by our Veracruz angels!
We gave each of the nuevos the same picture that you received in your Mother's Day card to help them remember to be the missionary that their moms expect them to be. I told them that yours would probably be hanging on the refrigerator because that is what Moms do! I look forward to seeing Elder Weaver again very soon at Zone Conference. It is always fun to see how quickly our norteamericanos adapt to the mission.
I know you have a million questions, but please don't worry about him, he is in good hands! The BEST hands...Thanks again for sharing him with us for these 2 years!
Con Amor,
Hna Hansen
P.S. Pdte just got off of the phone with him. He is in his cement apartment and I'm sure he is feeling a lot like Dorothy in the WIZARD of OZ. He is definitely not in Utah anymore! But he is excited to finally be in his area and get to work. Con fe!

The following is an excerpt from my new friend Anne's blog...tells a little about Jordan's first hours...
Tyler had a good and very busy week this week. He said Monday all the missionaries that were leaving left at 10:00 AM and the native missionaries arrived at the VERY same time! So they shuffled them to their areas, only to be back at the airport at 7:00 PM to pick up the American missionaries! They brought them back to the office, had dinner and they were there until 12:30 AM with training meetings. I just felt bad for the new missionaries who left the MTC at 3 AM the morning before, getting in to this unfamiliar place and EXHAUSTED! Bless their hearts, they went in full force!
He was able to spend a few minutes with Elder Jordan Weaver, who his mother and I have become email buddies because of this mission, and I have been so excited for their family! They seem to be an awesome family from Utah, and Tyler said in his letter that "Elder Weaver is going to be a great missionary". Tyler was to give Elder Weaver a big hello from his mother when he arrived. I hope it was comforting, and it did not make him homesick!