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!!