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