May 2, 2011

Dear Family,
hey how are yall doing? So here are a ton of pics.. one is of me just being dumb. .the others are of the rain and flood that we had last week in carcha.. well it wasnt really a legit flood but some places did flood and get filled up with water.. so here goes my list.. last monday we taugh a couple who isnt married but living together.. we watched together forever.. a church movie about how families can be together forever and how we can have happiness in this life even though we will always have problems.. then we testified about it and asked them ?s.. it was awesome.. i asked them if they felt the spirit and they said si.. or yes.. haha and they liked it a lot.. it was tight and they like many others have felt the spirit but just dont want to make the sacrifice to change their lives and put them in order.. its frustrating but little by little.. so weds we went to drop an elder off who had a transfer to another area.. we then heard the changes though and now there are 6 missionaries in carcha!! its crazy and they are sisters.. we werent told to look for a house or anything so that same day we went home packed up and had to move out of our house.. it was crazy and sad cause now we live with other elders in a house thats not so nice and there is not enough room there. . also we had to redraw the areas again so we lost a couple of investigators and less active members.. also i am the district leader now.. itll be good to help me become a better leader but its also kind of a pain calling for dats every night but itll be good and ill learn how to work better with people and motivate them.. but i am not to excited about having sisters in my district. .they scare and yall know how sister missionaries are.. haha and so yeah we had no clue about the siss opening a new area so we had to organize everything with the moving of stuff and rediving the town.. we had another cool lesson with the familiy who just had a baby.. we taught the guy about how to give priesthood blessings. .itll be really good to go this weds too and give him the sheet on how to give blessing and give him oil to use.. this ward isnt too bad and there are a lot of cool families but then also there are some prideful people who think they know how to do everything and are all talk and but no action! and that bothers me. .like a guy telling us how and what we need to do yesterday.. he doesnt even know! and he thinks he can tell us whats up! anyway hopefully he doesnt do that again or i might just tell him whats up! haha so thurs night it rained a ton and it flooded in some parts.. we put on boots and rain jackets but we still got completely soaked.. it was crazy but a lot of fun. . and water got into our boots too.. friday we had a lesson with victor our baptismal date. .he talked to his boss cause he drives a taxi and somebody owns it and so he couldnt go to church.. that was crappy and a lot of our investigators arent that motivated to go to church.. we had no investigators last sunday.. its so hard but we are working hard and trying to change things up and follow the spirit.. its not fun though be district leader cause all the zone leaders want is numbers and when i gave dats last night all he said was have better dats next week.. anyway all i can say is me vale or i dont care they are just dang numbers.. we are trying and being obedient we will find the people when they are ready and we are trying to change what we are doing to have better results.. the attendance though is going up a lot though and we are planning a lot of activities to get more members involved.. hopefully those work out good and they give us more references cause having support and fellowship are so important!! the pic with the kid was taken after we went up 215 stairs while contacting ... the little kid was funny and wanted to help us.. i gave him a card with the articles of faith then he came back again said he wanted another for his sister and wanted a pic so i took one with him.. then he told me not to erase it and that he wanted us to come back again and visit him.. it was cool.. anyway i dont have to much more too say but i wont be calling yall to tell yall what time we are doing the call.. but i will have member do it cause right now i dont have the number and we have to get the hours organized. .they say only 40 min. but im talking longer.. but yeah itll be pretty close to about an hour that i have to talk to yall though or maybe a little more.. well take care and have a good week.. i love yall and ton and hope yall are healthy and happy and ill talk to yall on sunday!!
love,
Elder Hatch