June 6, 2011

Dear Family..
alright so here goes my list again.. i will probably send the email again though in two parts so that if anybody is on or by a computer can write me back with a question ill be able to answer.. sooooo last monday after pday i went to get something out of my suticase.. i opened it up and a rat was in it.. it scared me really bad.. i think i yelled and it was nasty.. i didnt have food in there or anything.. then i opened it up and again and it ran out... we tried to kill it but it was a fast dumb rat and ran outside.. it was a pretty exciting/nasty experience... i learned to zip up my suitcases always and never leave them open.. also this week we found two more new families.. one is a couple where both are 18 years old.. they live together though so we are going to need to get them married but they came to church with us so that was really cool.. also the other family is a couple and their three kids.. they have a lot of good questions and they arent going to a church right now so we will see what happens with them.. also juan and maria got married!! we didnt even tell them they needed too but they did it by there own free will.. it was awesome and maria came to church too this week and stayed for all three hours.. her husband juan wanted too but couldnt.. im pretty sure though he will come though next week.. with our noche de hermanamiento or fellowship night we had a lesson about envy.. it really made me think of how blessed we are and how much we have but also how we are NEVER satisfied with what we have.. we always want more.. we really should be thankful for all we have and take every opportunity to serve and give to those around us who dont have so much or that have nothing at all.. we all envy people but we should be happy with the talents God gave us and we should develop them.. also we had missoinary corelacion on tues. and planned out two more movie nights and we are going to give english classes weds nights.. so we really are getting more help from the ward now and the missionary spirit is getting spread!

also last week was really special in the fact that almost everybody got sick with arrigamortis.. all but one member of our six person district had arrigamortis.. and yes i had it too.. i dont know what happened or what we ate but it was terrible and lets just say we used more then 10 rolls of TP last week..thank you guatemala.. haha also last week i did divisions with the zone leaders.. it went well and i went with the cool one.. also the assistants are going to do divisions with us this change cause president wants to see a stake in carcha.. well i am not too excited to do divisions with them but we will see how it goes.. alright so the exciting news.. WE HAD 12 INVESTIGATORS IN CHURCH YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is the most i have ever had.. we had 2 couples three holders of the priesthood and 12 people in total.. it was the coolest church ever and the spirit was super strong during the testimony meeting.. alot of members shared their testimonies in qeqchi so are investigators understood better and then the principles of the gospel class was taught in qeqchi and of all 12 none left early.. they all stayed the three hours and everybody liked it.. it really was a miracle and all of us missionaries shared our testimonies too..i cant expalin how it felt to have so many people in church and the attendance was 106!!! like 20 more then we have ever had.. also the other missionares in the district had investigators too.. it was awesome.. thanks for always praying for my investigators and for me.. here are the name of who i want yall to pray for... mary william ervin sergio claudia concepcion sofia lidia juan maria dominga rogel alex.. thanks.. anyway i am going to send pics in the other email and tell yall what happened with changes.. haha
so with changes.. well there were none.. again.. haha so after this change my comp and i will have been together for 6 months.. i am trying to be positive though even though 4 changes together almost never happens.. a lot of people have told me they feel sorry for me.. my comp is cool but just six months with even your best friend would be too much.. anyway i am excited though cause we are really starting to have success and make progress.. i think we will finally have baptisms this change and break the drought here in carcha.. anyway though i am definitely learning patience though and yeah i guess there is obviously a reason for everything and we need to be together another change more here in carcha.. please continue to pray though for the investigators and us.. anyway i am doing good too and its starting to rain a lot more here.. yeah i dunno i hope yall are doing well though and i always pray for yall too and your protection and well being.. thanks for yalls support and examples too.. take care and ill hear from yall next week!!
love,
elder tyler hatch