June 27, 2011

Dear Fam,
alright.. so last week was pretty crazy and i didnt make a good list of the things i did until today so.. here it goes.. yesterday we had 9 investigators in church.. it was good but the best investigators that we have or the closest to baptism didnt come so that was kind of disappointing.. it was good though to have a lot though and also we still had an attendance over 100 so that was really good.. also some less actives we have been working with came for the first time yesterday.. then we went with him yesterday welll the dad and he has completely changed.. his attittude is completely different and he wants to get his endowments and be sealed to his family.. it was a miracle and one of the biggest and fastest changes ive seen in anybody during my mission. so that was pretty exciting to see and be a part of even though we didnt probably have too much to do with it.. also we were having a pretty good week teaching a lot until emergency changes happened! elder lemus got taken out because other missionaries did stupid stuff and some areas were closed.. that was crappy and i wanted to be with him till the end of this change because we are having a lot of success and we were having a fun time and enjoying things.. anyway so we lost a couple days because he had to go say goodbye to everybody and then leave to the cap and i got my new comp... he is cool and from el salvador.. he is one of the people though who sparked the emergency changes.. so i am trying to be positive but well see how things go..he is a smart kid and speaks engish and deutch because he lived in europe for quite a while but yeah i hope i am only with him for these 3 weeks then he goes or i do... please pray for us.. also with rogel and dominga and there wedding.. we thought we were going to be able to do it fast but the laws changed so getting his papers will be a little harder and itll probably take a month or two if we get lucky.. pray for them too and that we can get their papers and get them to church so when the time comes everything is ready.. also the members want to help them pay for the judge to marry them.. so thats not going to be a problem now.. we did our last movie night and had 15 investigators go.. it was good and for july we are going to plan some other activiites just to swith things up.. any ideas.. let me know please! also hopefully we can do the shoe shining activity this week and get some new investigators through that activity.. prs torres goes home on weds and pres watts gets here tonight.. its going to be interesting to see how the transition goes.. the asistants didnt do divisions with us.. umm hopefully ill be balling it up in a few weeks cause i miss bball a lot.. umm i dont have too much more to say...

we found all those bugs in that bottle in or close around our house.. thats pretty nasty huh? our house is clean but there are a lot of cockroaches.. anyway i am really learning patience here in carcha.. i am thankful for the things i am learning too besides that.. sometimes we dont always get what we want but we just have to be tough and have faith and push through.. keep praying too for juan and maria and also for marta henry and walter.. juan and maria could be close to accepting a baptismal date and they are already married.. anyway i love yall a lot and if yall are on i still have 10 min left to chat.. love yall and be good.. always be sure to study the scriptures everyday to gain a better testimony of this church and of Jesus Christ and all the wonderful things He did for us! love yall,
elder hatch