well we had another good week.. i will start my list and tell you how it went.. here are the fotos first though.. here is me and andrea.. she is from the fam. villalobos that we are teaching.. i have a little turtle in my hand.. a picture of our zone.. us and a district.. me and haroldo and andrea and fam.. me and an aggie guy shirt.. and me in the process of eating 4 tamales.. ughh... alright.. on tuesday we did a fast for the zone and for our area.. we focused on finding new investigators.. putting more baptismal dates as an area and zone and getting the members to help us and to get people to church.. it was a good fast and we definitely saw the blessings of doing it later on in the week.. i was grouchy though on weds when we ended.. i realized that its not good to fast when nobody else is fasting because you are the only one who wants to hurry up and go eat.. so yeah.. so we did a baptismal date plan and put it into effect in the zone.. it went well and a lot of areas were able to put baptismal dates with people including us.. it was great and i know our idea wasnt ours but inspired from God.. we have to dates now.. they are both with 9 year old kids though but we are working on putting dates with others too..also this week we recieved 6 references which is the most ive recieved one week in my whole mission.. and they were from three different people.. its really been nice because the ward is starting to catch the missionary spirit and help us out a lot and talk to their friends and share their beliefs with them.. with the fam fetzer we are still getting them to read and still trying to get them to church.. pray for them though please.. also we are working a lot with fam tercero.. he is going to get baptized the 4 of december.. the family is really changing and wanting to go to church and the activities and raise their kids up in the right way.. i visited them last night with a kid and the change in them is awesome.. brandon too the kid at first wouldnt really talk to us but now he is opening up and answering questions and praying.. so please keep them in your prayers too please.. also washington rodrigues has a date for the 24.. thatll be more work though because they are going on vacations for two weeks.. he is 9 too and wants to do it but still needs to learn a lot and go to church more.. dalia a 15 year old girl that was a reference given to us has now gone to church twice and she likes it a lot.. her parents dont really want anything but support her in going to our church.. so thats good and she is reading and already has a lot of friends in church.. the fam villalobos is doing good too but still werent in church this sunday.. we put a ´´contract´¨ with them though to keep the word of wisdom.. they are doing good and the mom has stopped drinking coffee for a week even though she gets headaches from not drinking it.. we gave her a substitute though and they are doing good.. we are going to work this week on strengthening their testimonies about the bom and the prophet joseph smith.. please remember to pray for them too.. on sat i ate 5 tamales.. that was way too many and i thought i was going to explode.. it was not fun and im not exciting for christmas because we will get a ton on the 24 and 25th.. we had stake conference on sunday.. it was good and was broadcasted all throughout guatemala.. it was good and pres uchtdorf talked along with elder holland and clark.. it was really good and it was sick hearing elder holland speak spanish.. haha it made my day.. well i learned a lot from that and they talked about how we need to do 4 things everyday.. pray read the scriptures.. smile and be worthy to go to the temple.. i saw carcha families there too and that was cool.. the change ended too yesterday and im staying with my comp which im excited about because i like the zone and want to have christmas here in coban.. well 11 missionaries are leaving the zone and so the zone is going to be really different.. im excited to see who they are though and hopefully they are good missionaries and hard workers... this week is going to be tiring though and without a lot of sleep.. well i love yall a lot and hope yall have a great week.. take care and always remember to do the little things and smile.. because you can brighten up peoples day like that and make people have a change in their days.. love yall take care and be good and happy thanksgiving!!
love,
elder hatch
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