August 8, 2011

Hey fam.
today i dont have a ton of time but here goes my email... well last pday after internet i got sprayed by a car with nasty water.. it was special and got my shirt really dirty.. here is a pic.. umm after being in my area for more than six months now i feel like i know everybody or atleast contacted them once.. but we got free chocolate pineapple last week because of that so it was good and by the way who though pineapples grew out of the ground? i didnt but turns out they do and dont grow on trees :P Virgilio and Norma are doing good and he came to church yesterday and she couldnt because she didnt feel well and is 7 months pregnant.. they are really liking our messages though and church movies we leave with them.. they are learning really fast and hopefully will have prayed and obtained a testimony on friday when we visit them again.. he even answered the ?s in the back of the pamphlets and nobody does that! also marriage will be interesting because she is almost 17 and doesnt have papers yet. but we will figure it out.. here is a pic of them.. we had another good lesson with perdomo lemus family but they didnt come to church yesterday.. tomorrow we have a lesson planned though that should be really good.. she asked us last time if we were afraid to die.. and we explained it and shared our testimonies how not really because we know where we are going! it was cool and she felt the spirit strongly.. i did divisions this week with one elder and they went good except he is really weird and annoying.. it was special.. we also did service this week and yeah it was good and i have a sweet giant eagles jersey huh? umm also luis and his mom and sis sent me a letter last week.. those were my converts and fam from canalitos.. they are good and he told me how is blessing the sacrament everyweek and they are still going to church and doing good.. man i love that fam and they want me and elder allen to go eat with them some day after our missions.. haha that made me really happy to hear from them.. also sherrie i got your package.. thanks a lot! i loved the pics and letters.. i am going to try and write yall a letter back soon and send some pics.. umm so on friday night i found out my comp had gotten a cell phone and was talking to his girlfriend he had in the mission.. i had to take the phone from him.. call the zone leaders and he had a phone interview with pres today.. so from fri till today its been special and also on fri night i woke up at 4 and he was outside talking to her.. i am learning a lot though on not getting angry and really trying to listen and help him out.. i am not gonna lie it made me really mad but i tried to and think i handled it in a good way.. supposedly he is doing better though and pres helped him out and we had some good talks.. he just has lost his focus though and wavered a little bit in his faith and testimony.. please pray for him and me.. that he will be more obedient and that i will know how to help him out more.. but yeah umm a lady was having trouble with her husband but after seeing our last movie night she wasnt so mad.. she said it was like an answer to her prayers.. it was cool and it was a little miracle she had and that we heard about.. umm jonathon is doing well and went to chruch and other activites.. rogel and dominga have to go to church now.. satan is working hard though so that they cant on sundays.. please pray for them and their papers and baptism.. umm yeah yesterday we had 13 investigators in church!!! it was awesome and the attendance was 117 up 35 from the week before.. we didnt do that activity cause the crap with my comp so we will do it th is sunday.. we played ball today and i did really well.. yall like our paca jerseys we bought? theyre tight huh.. umm and yeah thats about it.. i am doing well just trying to help my comp and work hard and follow the spirit! enjoy the pics and have a great week everybody! i love yall and take care and always follow the Holy Ghost and partake of the sacrament every week cause thats the most important part of our weeks!!
love yall and thanks for everything especially yalls prayers and support! write me back when yall have time cause yalls emails are great too
elder hatch