4-2-12 email

Dear Family,
 it was a pretty good week down here in El Paso! I think to start off, I will describe my area more. Lets see...It's pretty long and skinny, and follows the border. About a third of it is actually El Paso, and then it kind of tapers off into country. There's actually a reservation in my area, so ther's a nice casino. There are also A LOT of pecan orchards, so Ive been getting a lot of those. It got in the 90s again this week so that was nice... Its also really windy here at this time of year. Its pretty nice though. Haha, yesterday we saw a big house, and there was a real giraffe in the backyard! whats with that? ummm ya, the people are really nice and we get a lot of good food. So Im probably gainig some weight. Thats ok though, I run almost every morning :) My companion Elder Bishop is pretty cool. he only has like threeish months left, so I might be his last companion. He lived in Italy for a while, so he actually speaks Italian and Spanish. not fair. I will check all the rules on pictures, because I have a few that I can send. Which reminds me, the baptism this sunday went really well! Genoveva is really happy and were teaching some other members of her family as well. like her son Mario who is my age. Its funny, because I havent knocked on doors even once because we just run on refferals here. Its pretty nice. Also, I got to watch all of conferance in english thankfully, and I took notes too! ask miranda if she got as many full pages as I did, cause I think I got about 11 or 12 pages. Oh ok really dumb thing that I did today, so I had just finished writing like four different letters at the laundromat and then when I left, I forgot the notebook with all those letters...and my stamps :( There were still almost half of them left :( and when we went back, none of it was there. So if anybody was expecting a letter from me this week, it will have to wait a bit. haha oh, so another kind of sad thing, I had my first homesickness experiance. Youre going to laugh because its such a wierd thing. but earlier this morning I heard this random haha Kesha song,(dont judge me) and this huge wave of homesickness kind of smacked me in the nose. I felt better after we went home and made smoothies though :) But I am starting to realize how long two years is really going to be! No but the work is going great down here! sadly though, ricardo (the guy who sang to us) told us never to come back. sad. But other people are doing great! like rodrigo! hes awesome! even if he didnt watch any conference. he shared his testimony of joseph Smith with us kind of randomely the other day though, which was awesome! Oh I had some food the other day that was probably the grossest thing ever. look up capirotada. I think. something like that. Oh haha, and the other day, this other lady fed us gorditas. they were really good, but she wouldnt stop feeding us! I think I had 11 gorditas! ya that hurt. oh and dad, my apartment is 9030 Betel El Paso TX um I dont remember the zip, and A bunch of missionaries actually took a van down here, so no bus. And I am in the Mission Trails spanish ward. Also we play volleyball sometimes on pdays but theres not really a lot of time to do much. Anyways, Tell grandma I love her and hope she gets better and Alice that I am so thankful for her support! (hers was one of the letters i lost)(as well as one to Nathan!) Anyways, I better go now I guess, but I miss you And I cant wait to hear from you again! love, Elder Hatch or to Nathan, your awesometh brother!