July 12, 2010

Dear Family,
Hey how is everybody doing.. i am doing good.. the first week in this change went pretty well with my new comp.. his name is Elder Velasquez and he is from a city here in guat.. haha he is really short and kind of guat indianish.. ill send a pic if i ever get my camera back!!! well this last week we cleaned all of our house pretty well so i feel a lot better living in it now.. like all the nasty dishes are clean now and all the dusty floors are clean now and it just feels a lot better having it clean.. when i get my camera too i will send pics of me in different places in the house so yall can see what a day in my life as a missionary is like.. i gave a blessing to this lady in spanish the other day and it went really well.. it was cool and i was able to do it.. usually i just annoint but i actually gave it and it turned out good.. i had given one before that and it was terrible.. i had never given one before and yeah i was super nervous.. but i will get better.. its good talking only spanish to my comp now and i am starting to use the subjunctive more which is pretty much the only tense i lack.. i just need to study a lot still and learn a lot more verbs and words but its coming.. my comp is good but it has been a little frustrating with him though cause sometimes he thinks he knows the area better then me!! he doesnt though.. haha i got frustrated one time cause he said i was wrong and i was like heck no.. i know where things are at ive been here for three months thank you.. i really didnt say it like that though but that has only happened like twice.. it will help me develop patience though.. or i will blow up on him one time cause i dont put up with crap anymore especially from any other missionary.. this week was really good though.. we had 3 investigators at the church sunday and two for the first time.. we have a date bautismal for the 7th of august with the girl that has to get married first.. hopefully they will hurry up and get married though so we can baptize them.. almost all of our investigators need to get married cause thats just a problem here in guat.. nobody gets married.. it costs money and its more difficult to do down here then to do in the states.. we also had six less actives that we had been visiting go to church.. it was really exciting to see that and be able to help them get back on the path.. it is frustrating though cause a lot of them have problems with the bishop.. i have told some of them though that we dont go to church for the leaders.. our salvation is in our hands and if we dont go its only hurting our selves cause we arent renewing our baptismal convenants through means of the sacrament.. well i was juggling oranges the other day and this guat kid kept calling me clown in spanish.. it was pretty funny.. Well we found a new the other day and he told us his wife was in the hospital pregnant
but the baby if it was born would be premature.. he said it was a coincidence that we came and found him and prayed for his wife cause we were the first ones to do that since shes been in the hospital.. it was cool but hes a evangelica so wont progress though.. i have learned though that nothing is a coincidence.. God has his hand in all the things that happen and everything happens for a reason and in the long run for the benefit of us.. all the trials we have are for a reason and to help us out.... we also are teaching this kid in his twenties who is a rapper-reggaeton artist.. he can speak english so part of the lesson i gave last time was in english and it was hard.. i cant talk about church stuff in english or really give the lessons very well cause i always do it in spanish.. he is cool though and really wants to learn and find out if the church is true or not..he and my comp got into a stupid argument over john the beloved and i finally stepped in and told him that doesnt matter.. knowing about whether he is still living or not will not effect our salvation.. i told him to pray and that ask cause we are never gonna convince him of anything.. only through prayer will God answer him by the Holy Ghost.. Well i am doing well down here and praying for yall often.. keep praying for me though cause i need your prayers always!! I love yall a lot and thanks for being so great.. if anybody has sent me a package let me know so i can be ready to get it.. yall should get pics in the mail from me either this week or the next that elder grant sent out once he was home!! Oh yeah Elder Harmon lives in my house now and he is from logan and hna. mitchell is in my zone and shes from lewiston ut.. well got to go!
Love
Elder Hatch