July 5, 2010

Querido Familia!
Well today we had changes again!!! I have been out for almost five months now!! I am finally done with Elder Grant.. He was cool but he was sooo baggy towards the end and ready to go home.. i sent about 10 letters home with him cause i had a lot of left over us stamps that i cant use down here.. every sibling and mom and dad should get two photos hopefully before the end of this month.. Well that kid mom who went down to the peru ccm emailed his family and told them he gave the whettens my pic and they send their saludations or something like that.. Well after that hurricane came through last week it got pretty cold here for a few days.. not like cold cold but for guatemala cold.. it was nice and it rained a ton when that hurricane went through.. Haha oh yeah and mom i was confused in your last email cause you said kaylee.. i thought who is that.. but yeah kylee young.. thats crazy that its her family that helped yall out and we never realized that for so long.. yeah they are gonna miss me and ross cause we were some of the only cool guys in the ward.. haha but speaking of ross he is doing really well... he is training and district leader in his third change!! thats ridiculous to already be training let alone be a DL this early.. he is doing well though and i email him every once in a while.. the zls said i was gonna go up to senior comp this change but i didnt.. its ok though cause my comp is cool and i can tell he is gonna be hard worker and obedient..he is from here in guatemala so obviously he is a latino but he is cool.. he has 19 months in the mission but this should be a good change cause we both want to work hard and so we should have success if we do that and work with the spirit.. also itll help me out with my spanish so thatll be good.. Well my comp in the ccm and mtc that got sent of to polochic where you never come back in less then a year came to our house the other day to drop off pouch cause he had to come back to the capital cause his comp had a seizure.. he is doing good and it was super exciting to see him.. he is learning kekchi the mayan indian language stuff.. its pretty cool and its kind of like talking in clicks.. Well this last week i ate good for everyday for lunch.. we bought little caesars one day.. pollo campero.. chicken.. two days.. and then pizza from pizza hut thurs and fri.. and we split the cost so it wasnt too much.. it was pretty awesome to eat american good food for one week.. haha i guess thats kind of how we celebrated the forth since we really didnt do anything... also people give us tres leches.. the cake down here alot cause thats always what they make down here.. its pretty amazing.. Also i am reading our heritage in spanish but they talked about peter maughn who found cache valley.. i thought that was cool cause i know mom and dad that you know some maughns up there by gma and gpa coopers.. We did a noche hogar.. a family home evening last night and i was trying to think of something different we could do instead of just sharing a message so we did the pick your favorite hymn and say why its your favorite and a lil testimony then we sang two verses of each of them.. we did that in sac. meeting once and it was cool to use if for a fhe thing too and it worked well.. well one of my best buddies that came out of the ccm with me went home this morning cause he has a herniated disc in his back and couldnt work anymore.. he really should have come out with that but yeah he couldnt take it anymore so he went home to st george today.. it sucks cause he was one of my best friends out here and in my district for the first two changes.. if he gets help though and can go back out again they will send him to texas though in 3 mnths.. thatd be cool but i doubt his back will get better.. that has made me realize how much we take our health for granted sometimes.. especially out here on the mission.. everyday is a gift and anyday something could happen and you could be sent home.. I realized how much more i should be thankful to my Heavenly Father for the good health he has given me.. speaking of health kind of.. at change conference today i saw this kid that was taller then me in the ccm and now i am like the same heighth as him.. he was like are you getting taller.. well i must be! wooohooo!!! haha i am still growing a little bit.. Well i should get my camera back this week finally so i can send pics next week... dad your a dork with your geenie quote.. haha it made me laugh though.. i am glad yall made it up to utah safe and that yall had a good fourth of july.. well since i have been down here its really made me realize how fortunate we are in the states.. we have it sooo well there even with crappy barack obama as president.. we should be so thankful to live there.. here the govt doesnt do anything!! they dont pick up your garbage for free... the police force doesnt do crap so the gangs practically run some places... the water you cant drink it from the tap.. there arent garbage cans anywhere for the public so they just throw it in the street.. anyway what i am trying to get at is that we should be really thankful to be citizens of there and not take for granted all that we have been given.. i really took for granted soooo much stuff that was so simple before the mission that i wish i had now cause itd make life so much easier.. well i dont have to much more to say.. i am doing good though and am excited to get started on this change.. i think it will be a good six weeks and we will get a lot accomplished if we work hard and follow the spirit and are obedient.. well i know this church is true and can see it more and more every day.. the church and organization of it is perfect and the only way it could be like that is if somebody perfect created it.. thats one way i know this is really the Church of Jesus Christ.. well i hope everyone is doing well and email me when yall have time cause i love to hear from yall.. or if yall want to send me a real letter thatd be sweet too!! Thanks for everything!!
Love,
Elder Hatch
Oh yeah mom the things i fix to eat are.. haha
spaghetti, mac and cheese, hot dogs.. egg burritos, toasted sandwhich thing like from sonic.. laky like ramen noodle soup.. and hamb.. if anybody has some simple suggestions on good food yall can tell me so i dont have to eat the same thing all the time thatd be greatly appreciated :P haha ttyall later!!

June 28, 2001

Hello,
I am doing well still and only have one more week left in this change!! thats good cause everyone in my house is baggy besides me.. i am ready for a new comp cause mine talks about home and lot and doesnt want to work and is supper slow now.. i only have one more week though.. he hasnt been too bad but it just keeps getting worse and i am ready for a change.. i am gonna send my comp home with him a stack of letters.. well pics with stuff written on the back for each of the siblings and for mom and dad.. so yall should get them sometime in july hopfully.. well we were teaching in a house the other day and they didnt have light so we could hardly see.. i heard something ontop of a cabinet.. i looked and no joke i saw about 20 coackroaches or however you spell it.. it was the most disgusting thing ever.. it sounded like a rat was on top of it shuffling the papers around.. but no.. it was a bunch of cockroaches and big ones too.. well mom youd be proud of me.. i ate stuff the other day covered in mayonese and onions.. and it wasnt too bad.. i am getting less picky day by day.. haha well i gave the opening prayer in sacrament meeting yesterday.. it was cool but we had two investigators that were suppose to come and we went by their houses and neither came.. the one lady we have been by about 5 sundays and she never comes even though she saids she will.. its hard to get people to church.. its kind of discouraging but i realize in the end that everyone has their own agency and can decide to do what they want.. and all we can do is invite them and pray for them and so it doesnt bother me too much but it still kind of sucks.. well next change i am pretty sure i will be here again in my area and i am gonna drop a lot of our old investigators and do alot of contacting to find new ones. cause some just arent progressing at all so i feel like we waste our time visiting them.. its gonna be hard to do though but.. maybe the seed has been planted in some of them for a later time though.. mom if yall can send me my juggling balls sometime thatd be cool.. me and Karr play a heading game with this ball thats smaller then a soccer ball.. the other day we got 12 heads back and forth.. it was pretty tight.. haha when you are on a mission you find the dumbest things to be entertaing.. we had preisthood conference last sat.. it was good and the mtc pres was there.. he had me come up and give our purpose infront of everyone.. it was areally good conference and i can understand a lot now of almost anything.. but almost all of it in church things.. well we did service the other day and i got to weed eat so that was fun and mashetti tall grass.. it was hard and a mower is a lot better to use to cut grass then a mashetti.. lol well another dorky thing weve been doing is collecting stickers from these cookie packages.. they have world cup stuff on them and they are done by disney. between the six of us we bought a ridiculous amount of cookies.. they are cheap though but i have over thirty stickers now.. haha i will send a pic of them in the next email if i ever get my camera back from the guy who took it in to get it fixed.. it will be this week though..well the other day i read mosiah three and four and would like to invite yall to read it too.. it talks alot about the atonement and our need to be humble and recognize our nothingness with out the atonement of Jesus.. It was really powerful and i felt the spirit a lot when i read it.. it kind of game cincho.. haha or ummmm repremand or punishment.. haha i cant think of the word in english.. it was good though and it made me realize that i have a lot of stuff i need to work on.. well i have to go.. i will send some pics next week when i can take some new ones. ugh i dont feel good and hopefully i am not getting sick :P well pray for me and i am praying for yall always!! I love yall and thanks for the wonderful examples yall are for me!!
Love yall.. and another thing.. my comp thinks that texas is one of the most prideful states.. haha i dont talk about it but hes heard other people.. haha well i talk about it a little maybe.. haha
Elder Uncle Brother Tyler Justin Hatch

June 22, 2010

Hola Familia!
Well i am doing good.. one of our dates we had for baptism still hasnt come to church but hopefully we can get her to come sometime soon.. the other date was for a girl who has to get married before she can be baptized cause she is living with her boyfriend who is a member.. and she lost one of her sheets legal something so hopefully she gets it soon so they can get married and we can baptize her.. she is good.. she read the whole book of mormon in two days!! she doesnt work but still thats a ton of reading to do in two days!! well something cool that i am gonna pick of from being down here is pointing with my lips. everyone down here does it instead of pointing with your hands or fingers.. once i get with a latino for more time itll become more natural.. haha itll be cool to come back doing that.. well the rain has finally stopped and my stomach feels better now.. its nice to end both of those streaks cause i wasnt enjoying either one of them too much. haha i got your letter dad and one from brittney too.. i didnt have time to email everyone back that emailed me this week so if i have a little bit more time next week i will email shaylee jocelynn and sean something back little.. and tell brittney to email me so i can email her back cause i dont know her email address.. well this lady in our ward broke her ankle the other day and we took the wheelchair like a mile to her house.. i pushed Karr cause we were on divisions all the way up to her house.. people looked at us funny and i almost crashed him once and all these ladies laughed at us.. it was fun to be a little stupid.. Well i might be 6 foot one now!! i dont know for sure cause everything here is in the metric system but i am taller than all the missionaries who are 6 foot so maybe theres some chance i am still growing.. I got to shoot a few shots the other day in at the soccer field when we passed by.. it was fun but hard to shoot in church shoes.. i also shot a few hoops the other day after a ward activity for a little bit and can still shoot somewhat and jump.. i jumped and dunked a ball a little smaller then a volleyball in my church clothes.. haha i still have it a little bit.. well last sunday we only had that one investigator who needs to get married at church and we dont know when they will get married the day is for the 3 of july but it will probably fall call they are slow and wont get married til who knows when.. but we had two less active families that we have visited a lot and they came back to church!! it was cool to see that but i dont know how much we really helped them but i bet we helped them a little bit to come back!! well i will send some pics that i never sent from the ccm cause i cant send new ones cause my camera is still in getting fixed.. mom and dad thanks for the emails and i am glad yall are doing good and thatll be fun going to utah soon.. thanks for putting money on my card and thanks for everything yall have done for me and still do... well i love yall a ton and i am doing good.. i am ready to be done with this change though cause everyone in my house talks about home soo much cause 4 of them will be home in less then 3 months.. its hard and hard to stay as focused as i need to be when they talk about home and girls and sports and music a lot!! Well i am pushing through though and know that i can still do better.. well i am doing good and still working on spanish though and trying to be the missionary the Lord wants me to be.. i am coming along though in my testimony spanish and everything else.. I love yall a lot and hope everyone continues to do well and is having a fun summer!! Here are some pics but i dont have time to explain them to yall but i will have new ones next week when my camera is fixed!!
Love Yall a ton!!!
Elder Tyler Justin Hatch