well we had another great week.. things went really well and all of our planned baptisms for the 11 of feb are still looking really well.. anyway so dunia and shaily seem to be doing really well.. sis dunia is divorced and only has her kids every other weekend but she was in church yesterday and her daughter shaily is doing really well and learning a lot and understanding well.. tonight we have a family home evening that we are going to do with them... shaily just needs to go this sunday so that she can be baptized on the 11th.. on tues we had a cool experience.. everything we had planned to do in the morning fell but i saw this street that i felt that we should contact cause we had never entered in there before..so we did and we found a less active lady who hadnt gone to church for about 5 years and we had no clue that she lived there.. we taught her last week and we painted some of her house on sat.. it was really fun and we are going to start teaching her grandaughter who is not a member but had gone to church for a while.. there is a pic of us with the breakfast the lady gave us.. it was good with beans and eggs and crapes.. it was a neat experience where the spirit guided me and us to that street.. on tues we did a fast with the family villalobos.. it went really well and they could feel the spirit and their testimony about the BOM and joseph smith is growing greatly.. they really are starting to love the BOM and are feasting upon its words.. they really have baptism in their minds now.. they just need to make the decision and do it.. because they are pretty close to being ready but they think they need to know a whole lot.. when really thats not necessary...they really have felt the spirit and realizes that a lot of the things in the catholic church are not right where they used to go.. anyway it was an awesome fast and thanks for all yalls prayers..washington and wendy are doing well.. they were in church all three hours yesterday.. that was really good and they are starting to understand things really well and see the blessings they are recieving for reading and going to church.. alan too is doing well.. we taught him a couple times last week with just us and with out all his member friends.. it went well and about a year ago he was really involved in drug traficking.. he has been out of it for a year now but he was the driver for some of the things the drug lords did here in coban.. anyway so we have been talking to pres and seeing whether or not pres needs to come and interview him or not cause he has never taken anybodies life but he has seen some bad things.. anyway he has completely changed though and is in church every sunday and reading the BOM and feels a really warm and comforting feeling while he reads it.. anwyay so he is doing good and is repentant of what he did in the past...olivia is doing well too.. she loves being in church and continues to help her aunt our a lot with spiritual things like reading and praying and going to church.. please pray though that we will be able to get her moms signature though so she can get baptized. . the mom lives in a villiage a long ways away and we need to get her signature or she cant be baptized.. missionaries there are going to see if they can find her though.. on sat we went to a baptism that didnt happen the girls dad was going to baptize her but when the girl got into the water she started to cry because it was cold.. and she has a breathing problem and didnt get baptized.. i felt bad for her.. but yeah alan was there but he understood everything though and we joked with him saying that we hope he doesnt cry when he gets baptized.. anyway yeah.. yesterday a members dog followed my comp and i to church.. it kept coming into the sacrament room and id scare it out.. but then right before the sac prayer it snuck in and hid underneath the benches and wouldnt leave.. we ended the song and we still couldnt get him out.. haha it was pretty funny but finally we got him out and the sacrament was blessed and passed.. anyway last week was awesome.. we taught 35 lessons and helped out a ton of people... we helped out a lot of less actives to go to church too.. i really do love this work and know its the work of the Lord... im going to miss it but im taking advantage of this last change.. its been great and hopefully we end up baptizing all 4 of those people on my last saturday here.. anyway i love yall a ton and here are some pics.. the third one i think has allan in it.. love yall and have a great week!!
love,
elder hatch
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