good morning family! Ive had a pretty exciting week this week. my new companion is Elder Valladolid (baya-doh-LEED). He is from Michoacan Mexico. He is already 24 years old. He speaks pretty good English, but he has a thick accent, and I have to help him with some words sometimes. He has already helped me a lot with my spanish too! He has been out just one transfer longer than me. We get along pretty well so far and we have already had a lot of success together. Anyways, I think I gained at least 30 pounds this Thanksgiving. We ate a ton of food. It was really good food, but it was a lot. The douglases went out of town for a couple of days to go see their son in Mesa, so we got to watch the dogs. Haha I love having dogs so much! It looks like you guys all had a wonderful thanksgiving too! I dont think Ive heard of wreck it ralph though. is it a disney movie? So I did get your package, and it was awesome! So far I have enjoyed most of the music, and I loved all the Christmas stuff too! BTW could you make sure to send something for my companion too? His parents are pretty poor, and they aren't members of the church, so don't even know if he will get anything or not. I am actually getting pretty excited for Christmas. I think it will be good.
So we have had even more amazing success in the spanish branch! Natalia will be getting baptized this saturday! Yay! We are really excited for her! We also had two new people move into the ward who have already said that they want to be baptized, so we are going to start teaching them as well! and we got like three refferals for spanish this week and got another new investigator from that! This branch is just exploding right now! Everybody in the branch is getting really excited because of all the growth that is coming. The entire branch will be coming to the baptism this saturday to support Natalia! I honestly have never seen people more excited about missionary work! It's making me really excited too! We also had Daniel Rivera come to church for the very first time in the english ward because his cousin was giving a talk. It was a very spiritual sacrament meeting and he was pretty impressed. It was a huge step to finally get him there after more than three months teaching him. He is a really good guy, and I think that he will start progressing faster now that he finally came to church.
So anyways, things are going pretty well, but I have to go now, so I hope you guys all have a great week! Love you all so much! -Elder Hatch
PS say hi to elder calles for me!
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