July 19, 2010

Hey Familia!
Well i am doing good down here in guatemala.. Mom and dad thanks for the emails and i am glad yall are having fun in utah and that dad made it back home safe.. yeah mom ill let you know when the package gets here and thanks for sending it!! well mom the cockroaches havent been too bad but they are sometimes in the house.. haha and the only thing they semi spray for down here is the mosquitos cause they carry dengae.. and i think that might be like west nile but i dunno.. its bad though if you get it and its like extreme flu and itll take ya out for a week or two.. well last week we found 13 news.. and one family liked us so much they invited us back for a snack.. refaccion.. it was cool and we will see what happens with those people.. we still need to contact more though to find new people.. my spanish is coming along still but i understand almost everything and can talk quite a bit it will just take more time to get better and better.. my comp isnt too bad and hasnt made me mad this last week but he isnt a rule follower in the house and likes to sleep in and listen to non church music and doesnt really study.. but whatever.. ill do what i am suppose and not force him to do stuff cause thatd just make him mad.. but we get along pretty well.. i heard that maybe next change i will be going to the mission office.. there are three that have a chance to go and i am one of them.. we will see what happens though.. it would be cool but then at the same time i would rather be working all day then sitting in an office for most of it.. but i heard they only send good elders to the office so that would be cool but yeah we will see.. members and all the missionaries like me though so that makes me feel good..they say my spanish is good for how much time i have and they like how i am always happy and smiling.. that makes me feel good cause sometimes i feel down cause thats what the mission is ups and downs.. so this kid the other day looked at me and he is the guat version of nolan! it was crazy his face was just like his except just darker.. it was pretty funny.. well we have been working hard still with inactives cause there is a ton and hardly anybody likes the bishop and we had a lot come to church last sunday.. we had about 90 which is about 15-20 more then usual.. it was really cool and it feels good to see them there when we are working hard trying to get them there. we also had three investigators again and hopefully goes through with the marriage of our fecha.. baptism so we can baptize her on the 7 of august.. well there are a bunch of bolos here or drunk people who drink little bottles of rubbing alcohol.. we have about 10 in our area that are always by the soccer fields.. they always speak english to me but the other day we walked by and this one said elderes!! and put up one finger.. then said SHUT UP! and that was it.. i said esta bien and we kept walking.. haha it was a lot funnier in person but they are retarted so it gives me entertainment when we walk by them everyday.. i still dont have my camera back but here are some pics i just took.. we were gonna do a service project as a zone but in guat some days theres water when you turn on the faucet or hose and some days not.. and there wasnt any water saturday but we waited and hoped for a bit so i took some pics of me dunking.. i can still jump suprisingsly!! also we climbed this thing and took pics from on top of it.. i also got toasted on my neck and arms where my shirt usually covers cause my church shirts are ginormous!! well i got my haircut again so its short and now i dont have to do anything with it! well i dont really have much more to say but i just want to say something about using temples.. i have heard a few people here that had to go all the way to arizona to get sealed before there was a temple here or closer.. and so its really important that we use the temples that are so close to our homes in the states... temple work is sooo cool cause it gives people the opportunity to accept the gospel in the next life and to be sealed forever!! its something that i think we take for granted often.. i know its easy for me to say right now as a missionary but i just want to encourage yall to use the temples cause it was give people blessings on the other side and i know that we will recieve blessings when we attend the temple and have more peace and happiness in our lives.. and sometime you have to get away from the dang outside world and all the crap that goes on in it! well i love yall a ton and keep emailing me and sending me pics and letters when yall have time cause its suuupeper exciting to get them as a missionary!! Well i am glad everyones doing well and i pray for yall and everyday and thank my Heavenly Father for the wonderful familiy he has blessed me with!! well i love yall and will write next week!!
Love Elder Tio Hermano Hijo Fifi Tyler Hatch.. haha