11-5-12 email

Hello Family! Well I'm going to be honest, I don't really have a lot to write this week. It was a pretty slow week. We have been working pretty hard, but not much has really happened. We had a great lesson with Cedricks girlfriend Britney though. We watched the Joseph Smith movie and talked about the restoration. It was really nice. We are planning on setting a baptismal date with her this week. We are also progressing a lot with Natalia, and she came to church again this week. Her little son loves the missionaries, so we have fun times playing with him. We actually had a pretty epic sword fight a couple days ago. We were also able to get a lot of people to come to the trunk or treat that our ward had. It was very fun, and we ended up getting lots of candy. Our ward mission leader took a picture of our costumes, so maybe I'll get him so send it to you. Oh, and we actually got a new ward mission leader this week, so we are excited for that. His name is Brother Symes and he is awesome. Halloween was pretty good for us, we had to be in at six, but we had a great dinner with the douglases and then played some games. They are so nice to us. I am also excited for election day. We hear a lot about how close the race is, so it will be interesting to see who wins. We are also very excited for all the work in our mission as well. At the beginning of the year, we are opening up 44 new areas in our mission, because we are expecting almost 100 new missionaries over the next few months. Thats pretty crazy too, because my chances of training soon just went way up. It will be fun to see the mission grow so much while I'm here. Well, that is pretty sad to hear about shadow, she will definitely be missed. I hope jack isnt taking it too hard. And I'm sorry about the letter writing. Especially with Miranda. I don't know why, but just making time to write letters is one of my biggest struggles. I really just need to buckle up and do it, so I really am going to try my very hardest to send some letters off this week. On the brighter side, I have actually gotten very consistent with writing in my journal. There are some days I even write in it twice! Woo! Anyways, It looks like you guys had a great Halloween, and some ridiculous costumes. Even though I highly doubt Nathan got as much candy as me! I have some fun pictures, but I forgot to bring my camera, so you will see next week. Oh, and by the way, I don't know how I'm going to make it through Christmas this year. We have started to listen to Christmas music and it's the saddest thing in the world. I still love it with a passion, but being away for Christmas for the first time is going to be a challenge. Well, this letter was kind of all over the place, but I hope you all enjoy it, and have a wonderful week! Love, Elder Hatch