Sept 22, 2010

Buenos Dias

:PHey family! sorry i couldnt email yesterday.. we went to a doctor appointment yesterday for my comp and then yeah it was crazy.. but long story short.. he is in the hospital now and will probably be there for a week.. he is with another elder and another elder is with me.. but yeah he just needs to rest and i think it is just an infection so they will need to open up his knee and clean it and i think thats about it.. so i am here and gonna be working with two of the other elders that live in the house.. just helping the fechas or baptisms that we have progress so that they can happen this weekend!!!! :) so maria fernanda got her papers last night so the marriage will happen at 6 on friday and i will baptize her after.. she asks me to do it.. but i am not supposed to lift anything heavy or use alot of strength but she is kind of bigger so hopefully i dont strain myself when i baptize her.. but yeah that is super exciting that finally its gonna happen. cristian is gonna be baptized this sunday at 8 before our sacrament meeting at 10 so that he can recieve the Holy Ghost and maria fernanda will be able to recieve it too!!

this week we werent able to leave much to work cause of my comps knee but we got permission to go to the activity for the 15th of september.. the day of independence here.. here are some photos of it and other stuff i cant explain them all but i bought this little flag and marched through the market with it for a little bit to show my guat pride..
haha i am still a dork :P but yeah it was tight.. there was a stake activity with music and one of the other pics is with a marimba.. a musical instrument that they use a lot here.. also my comp gave hermano vasquez a plack cause he had an extra one.. that guy says that i am his adopted kid.. haha he and his family are tight.. we ate pizza with them that night.. we have been visiting cristian a lot and he is a smart kid and learning a lot.. i went with elder karr to teach him the plan of salvation and he repeated it back to us.. it was cool! sean thanks for the email and pics.. sorry i didnt have time to respond but i am glad yall are doing well... try and send the video again or maybe in a different format and whats your new address to the house and whats jakes address too so i can respond to the dear elder he wrote me forever ago? well mom and dad if you could figure out how much money i have on my debit card thatd be good cause i had to spend a little more then 100 bucks to but the camera..

we recieved a reference last week and they are a family and are excited to learn about the church.. they asked a ton of questions and we were able to answer all of them and with the bible a lot of them.. they were gonna come to church but something happened. and they already have a good friend thats a member to support them! they should get baptized next change.. but hopefully i wont be here cause its time for me to leave colombia!well also we bought these mouthpieces in the market that make weird sounds.. me an my comp mess with people now with them.. i walked by some random people and did the sound and they all busted out laghing.. oh the dorky things we do as missionaries to have fun.. but yeah this sister in our ward the other day was talking about my hair and eyes and how pretty they are. haha it was funny but awkward cause her and her husband were talking to us and yeah i dunno.. haha but i dont have too much time left but please remember in your prayers to pray for my comp and his health.. and my health too.. but more importantly maria fernanda and cristian that they will be able to be baptized this weekend and enter into a convenant with Our Father in Heaven! well i love yall a ton and thanks for all the email and support that yall give me! i hope everyone is doing well and ill write yall next monday!

Love,Elder Uncle Brother Tyler Justin Hatch

Sept 13, 2010

Hey!Well i don't have too much to say this week.. my comps knee has gotten worse and worse.. Tues wed and Thurs we went to the doctor everyday.. we also went again today and that's why i am not email until now.. its like a ball by his knee and its purple now.. it doesn't look good.. they have to open it up though to see if its just an infection or whats going on.. please pray for him.. we will probably be going to the hospital sometime this week so they can do the surgery and if all goes well he could be better in about two weeks but if not he might have to go home.. are baptisms are still coming a long good.. we had challenges though with maria fernanda though.. they still don't have there papers but supposedly today they went to get them and they should be good for maybe this sat or if not the next.. and Cristian should be a for sure baptism the 26th.. he is a smart kid and their family is coming every Sunday and maybe mas adelante the dad will be baptized.. ha ha dang like more in the future he could be.. last Sunday or two weeks ago i went up with one of their sons to bear his testimony.. he stood up and sat down like 4 times cause he was scared.. i went up with him and he bore his testimony for the first time.. it was tight and cool to be able to help him..

the independence day of guat is wed.. there will be a lot of parades and a torch running thing.. i don't know how much i will get to see or do just cause my comp is suppose to rest and not walk at all.. but also i bought a camera that's nice.. the member jacked mine and wont answer phone calls or anything.. he is a mage but yeah.. if somehow i get the other one back i will try and sell it.. i will send some cools pics next week i promise.. it was really cool to see Kevin and hear about whats hes doing.. also the food and snacks weren't too bad either.. ha ha tomorrow he heads back but it was fun to talk to him for a bit about Guatemala.. so this week i have been in a bus for way to long and in the house a lot too... we still went out and worked a little bit but yeah.. its not fun sitting in the house but i don't really have a choice.. please pray for my comp though and for the baptisms that we have coming up.. y'all know just as when people want to something good Satan does everything he can to put obstacles in their ways.. family concerns and also worries about rings for the wedding and food for example for maria fernanda and Sergio.. but yeah.. well i am glad to hear that everyone is doing well... i know that we have problems sometimes in our lives but i know that we accepted them in the pre mortal life because we knew that we could push through them when they came into our lives.. we just need to stay strong and know that its for our own benefit.. also when we think we have problems we should just look around.. somebody is always worse off then us.. i like in dc when Jose Smith :P was in the Carthage jail.. if the gates of hell shall open up against you it shall be for your own good or something like that.. he suffered a ton to bring to pass the restoration of this church and even more then him.. Jesus Christ died so that we could over come the physical death and suffered in the Garden of Gethsemane so that would could be freed of our sins if we only do our little part of asking for forgiveness and having faith in him.. well i got to go but i love y'all a lot and y'all are in my prayers. thanks for everything and stay strong and push forward when problems enter yalls lives!! Everything is possible with God on our side!

Love yall,Elder Hatch

heres some pics actually.. with the familia reynoso and when we played pool today for pday!! love y'all again!

Sept 8, 2010

Shayne and Plip,

I saw tyler about 30min ago and I can report that he is healthy, in great spirits and looked to be having a good time. He lives in a joint w/ 6 missionaries. I stopped by his place (w/ a Guatemalan from our office) and he was seemed pleased to see someone from the states. We had a good chat. I dropped off some Coke, Oreos, Snickers, Cheetohs, and other kinds of stuff. I think he'll enjoy em.It was great to see him (I think last time I saw him was @ your wedding).

Here are a few pics. The odd one is of their kitchen.I obviously don't have all of Shayne's families email addresses so please pass this on to them. I know mothers of missionaries eat this stuff up.

Dirt

Sept 6, 2010

Hey whats up family!Well i am doing good down here.. i am still not completely better but hopefully i will get better little by little.. thanks for sending the pics Sean.. i was about to be mad at you for forgetting.. jk but congrats and i am glad that everything worked out.. i prayed for y'all and fasted this last Sunday.. his is cute and that's funny he has so much hair.. but its even cooler that he got suctioned out or however you spell it just like me.. ha ha that's funny but send me more pics when you take some and the first time you print some out send me some in the mail please so i cant put them in my album.. well the two baptisms are still looking like they will happen.. maria fernanda should be baptized the 18 and get married the same day just before obviously.. also the kid that we have been teaching is smart and learning a lot and his date in Sunday the 26th i think.. its nice to have a good comp and to have people progressing and that are gonna enter into a covenant with our Father in Heaven..

well i might have said this last week but like in one of my pics of me juggling.. my comp and another elder in the house have both learned how to juggle with the balls i have.. i have gotten better i am not gonna lie.. haha but last week we had training in the mission home for all the leaders in the mission and their comps.. we left at 630 three days and got back about 6 in the night then went to work.. probably the most tired i have been in all my mission.. it was good though and i learned a lot.. i just need to put into practice the stuff i learned and itll help me be a better missionary and help me bring more people unto Christ..it also made me realize i dont want to commute further down the road when i get a job.. especially standing up with a heavy backpack with 70 guats in the same bus! haha it was an experience i wont forget.. well saturday was the only full day we had to work this week and it went good.. we taught with the spirit and i really felt like we taught to the needs of the people instead of teaching just lessons.. i still have alot to work on to be the missionary who God wants me to be but i am trying to get better everyday.. this last week i also heard from two women about problems with thier husbands.. it sucked to hear the problems cause one boyfriend is preventing his wife from getting married to him.. so she cant be baptized along with her two kids.. and she is awesome.. she is so excited everytime we teach her and her kids are good too.. they go to church like every sunday and she wants to change but the dude is a retard.. also another high priest had been doing stupid stuff too.. and his wife was crying to us the other day.. their are a lot of dumb guys out there.. its frustrating but it makes me realize how i want to be when i get older and right now.. well i have almost 40 ties now!! my collection is growing and i have a ton of polyester ones from pakas.. haha like second hand ones from the states. well yeah i just realized when somebody reminded me the other day that college football started.. thats weird.. thanks for the score mom.. haha and no dad forgot to tell me.. next time you go to a game take some pics of yall with the field in the background and send them to me please!
thats crazy that yall might go on a mission when i get back! that would be really cool though to serve at a church history place.. i would come visit you though and you could leave me and ross to live in the house.. haha well thats still a ways a way but i almost have 7 months now.. the time is really starting to go faster.. we are already half way through this change and then its just two more until christmas!! well i dont have too much more to say.. i love yall and lot and hope everybody is doing well.. thanks for the emails sean and shayne and the pics and i hopefully will get my camera back this week and if not i am gonna go buy one so i can take pics of the baptism and other stuff.. well i love yall a ton and ill tty next week!Love,Elder Tyler Justin Hatch

August 30, 2010

Hello!Well i dont have too much time to write today cause i got a lot of emails to respond to.. well last monday after i emailed yall we went to a house and i learned how to make flour tortillas.. they are pretty easy and they turned out pretty good.. i like the food down here.. i love the classic guat food of bread beans eggs with creme on the beans and with ketchup on the eggs.. haha also i buy pupusas or tortilla things with cheese in the middle and salsa ontop of them.. they are pretty good and luckily i havent had to eat anything too crazy yet.. and i havent had boo or arrigamortis in a while.. my stomach has toughened up i think.. well i am feeling a lot better.. today it hurts more then it has for a while though maybe cause i lifted something last night that i shouldnt have.. oops i couldnt turn down service to some random people that needed help in the street.. haha but i am doing better.. i just need to take it easy and not do anything that will strain that part of me.. it could be a hernia a hidden one or what sherrie and mom thought.. sorry if i didnt respond in a little email to everybody cause i didnt have much time.. Maria fernanda still hasnt put a date to be married but hopefully they will soon.. also we have a baptism for the 26th for this kid whose 11 and his mom is a member.. they arent living in our area but are coming to our ward.. we taught his dad the other day and he is kind of weird like he did a lot of drugs in his younger years but we taught him the restauration and everything he learned was clear.. he liked it a lot and we answered a lot of the questions he had.. all of the evangelic churches down here are CRAZY and he was confused cause they think they feel the holy ghost through shouting and screaming and falling to the floor.. they are pshyco.. but we could baptized the dad too.. only he is not baptize like every dang guatemalteco down here!! its frustrating!! but 3 of the other elders in the house have learned to juggle with the balls you sent me.. i have taught a lot of them.. haha its pretty cool.. well the attendance in church sunday was more then it has ever been in my time here.. 96.. it was exiting to see so many people.. well the weather here recently has been cold and rainy!! so we all got boots for like 6 bucks today in a market.. my comp in the one closest to me.. our district and zone are doing a lot better this change.. its going really well with almost every companionship.. well i dont have much time left but i am gonna try and send a few more pics.. we are doing a training thing this week in the mission office with president and it will be good to learn how to be a better teacher of this Gospel of Jesus Christ.. Well i have to go but i love yall a ton and thanks for all the emails!! Love,Elder Hatch

August 23

Hey Fam!Well i dont have much time to write but not too much has happened.. haha thanks for all the emails though and i am glad that mom you are doing better.. that is scary but i am glad you are home now.. i wish i could call you but i cant.. keep pushing forward though and know that Heavenly Father has his hands in everything and everything has a reason and its always for our own benefit and growth as a person.. we have been teaching again... i rested six days and feel better now.. haha kind of.. i still hurt a little but i am doing a little better and hopefully i will continue to get better.. i am still in the same area.. haha i will have six months here by the end of this change.. i have a new comp though.. his name is elder vasquez.. he is from huehuetenango guat.. he is the district leader here and he is really cool.. he is obedient and i am learning a lot from here.. he had been in polochic the area where they learn a different language for 13 months. but he actually started his mission here in colombia.. we have 4 lats in the house now so i am speaking even more spanish and my accent is starting to get a lot better and i am learning a lot.. my comp though has a bad knee and has to go to the doctor to get liquid taken out of it tomorrow.. its crapy but atleast somebody can be sick with me.. this last week i had the coolest experience i have had in all my mission.. one member told us that he was gonna pay for the lawyer so that one of our investigadores maria fernanda could get married.. cause that had been the problem.. she went to go get the other paper today though that she needed.. so we should baptize her this change.. that same night we found out we taught about faith and works.. it was awesome.. maybe the best lesson ive taught then my comp finished up the lesson did an example and told them somebody was gonna pay for the lawyer so they could get married and then she could get baptized after. they started to cry and i almost did too.. haha is was the happiest ive been for a while since i have been hurting.. it was awesome.. to see people so happy that you have been working with for 4 months!! i am glad to still be in the area but hopefully i will leave after this change cause 6 months is enough.. well keep praying for me and my comp so that we will have the strength and health to keep working and helping the people in our area.. we also have alot of other good investigators and one that came with us the last sunday to stake conference.. it was cool cause he speaks english and talked to Hna torres and it turned out perfect.. well i got to go! love yall a lot and thanks for everything.. ill write again next week with more stuff and hopefully some pics finally!

Love,Elder Hatch

August 16

Hey,Well me and the ZL Elder Karr did changes the others days.. it was a lot of fun working with him and we taught a lot of lessons.. its fun doing divisions cause him and my DL both are good missionaries and teach in a fun way but also with the spirit and thats what i want to continue to work for.. that night we came back and took all the phones and money and other expensive stuff in the house and hide it and threw stuff everywhere like we had been robbed.. my comp and his came home and went crazy.. then went around and realized everything valuable was gone.. we got some members to help us out.. it worked out perfectly and after about 25 min we told them.. i had that trick played on me last change and so it was fun to do it to somebody else.. and as for me and my comp I am surving till the end of this change with him.. he hasnt changed at all and yelling at him isnt gonna change him cause i figured that out.. we find out changes tonight.. i dont know if i am going anywhere or not.. cause well for about the last 3 months i have been having pain down by my hip or lower stomach.. it hasnt been too painful but its started bothering me more recently and so i went to the mission doctor and he just gave me advil and said it was something with my muscle wall..then i told hna torres and the pain got worse so i went to this specialist lady on fri.. then two more appts after.. one of my balls or testicles is swollen and i got pills and am not suppose to leave my bed for a week.. it sucks but i have been following the directions and its gotten a little better.. but down by my hip still hurts and i dont know if its out of place or what is going on.. its sucks cause all i want to do is go out and work and i cant even leave the stupid house or my bed.. ughh... just continue to pray for me and that i can get better as soon as possible so i can work.. dont worry about me though.. ill get better with time.. well my spanish is coming along good though and when we went to one of the doctors.. my ccm teacher saw me and i talked to him and he was impressed with my spanish.. also i went to his class with all these north americans.. i spoke to them about the mission field and how different it is.. then answered their questions.. it was really neat to see how much i have learned spanish wise and how much i have learned from just being out of the ccm and living on my own and about the gospel too.. hey and no idont still have my camera back.. dumb guy.. supposedly wednesday but if i have a change who knows.. if i have a change though i bet i will go to the office cause of the crap-sickness i have..but i dont care what happens.. i just wanna be better so i can work and leave the house and help people.. well one of the doctors knew the doctor from houston who was killed that sean had been working with.. it was his cousin.. mario gonzalez.. i think.. haha sean will be the only one who knows who i am talking about though.. small world.. mom and dad.. when do jason painter or paul cunha come back..? pretty soon huh.. thats crazy to think about.. well i was walking the other day and this dumb old lady was like my daughter likes the rubios.. or the blonde hair boys.. i was like we are here to preach the gospel.. and then Elder Karr was like we arent searching for girlfriends here.. it was funny but dang people down here are retarded.. or some of them.. well the work this last week wasnt that good.. if i got feeling better soon and stayed here that be awesome cause we have a ton of possiblities that we can work with and a lot of less actives that i have worked with my whole time that are coming to church now..but who knows i will find out tonight.. so i still have like 4 more days till i really am suppose to leave the house but i just went to sac meeting yesterday and just to email yall today.. i am not feeling too much better or if not worse so please pray for me.. i am gonna get a blessing tonight and so yep i am pushing forward.. just trying to get past whatever the problem is i have with my hip and yeah.. well i dont have to much more to say but i love yall so much and thankful for yalls examples in my life.. i thank Heavenly Father everynight for yall and i pray to Him that yall can know how much i love yall.. the church and family in my life are the best things ever.. with just these two things i wouldnt need anything else.. well hope everybody is doing well and getting ready for school.. haha thats crazy its soo close.. well i gotta go and ill write next week!!Love,Elder Tyler Hatch