11-12-12 email

Hello family, so I feel like pretty much nothing has happened this week. We are still teaching a lot of lessons, but not much has really changed lately. Although it hasn't snowed here, it has been quite cold. I think it was around 32 this morning when we got in the car. I'm definitely sad that I am missing all that snow. It sounds awesome. To tell you the truth, I am missing home more than I ever have right now. But you know me, I get way too sentimental during the holidays. It hasn't helped that the work has been pretty hard in this area lately. We've been spending a lot of time trying to find new people to teach, so we have been knocking a lot, and hanging out at the park trying to talk to people. We have not had much success. On a brighter note, I finally sent a letter to MIranda! I don't know if you got it yet though. I'm going to try and keep the trend and write some more this week. We had a pretty interesting experience with Natalia this week. She had been living with her boyfriend, and we hadn't taught her the law of chastity yet, so we were kind of wondering how to tell her that she would need to change that before her baptism. Then a couple hours before we went to go see her, she called and canceled because her boyfriend got arrested and she had to move out that night. The branch was amazing, and found her a place to stay in just a couple of hours. So kind of bittersweet, but now she can get baptized much easier. Her little son is awesome. He's only 5 or so and he has been a champ through all of this. He has a really cool name too. Girlberto. We just call him Berto though. Anyways, election day was pretty interesting too. We had to go to bed, but we couldn't really sleep because the Douglases were very loud while watching the election. They were not very excited about the results. To say the least... We haven't been able to see Britney this week either which was dissapointing. Anyways, it sounds like you guys are doing great though, even if you had to sit through PTC for so long. That doesn't sound fun. I'm glad you all had a great halloween though! Don't send me any candy though, we have way too much here. Well, I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy your winter wonderland back home! Elder Hatch