Good Morning Family! Well, I now have less than a year left on my mission. We are starting to count down instead of up. It's kind of weird to think how long I've been out here. To be honest, I really didn't do anything at all to celebrate. In fact, I didn't even remember it was my hump day until about dinner time. It has been a really good week here though. (random thought: my typing skills are really improving with all of these emails I write hahaha) We have started to see some more success in the spanish branch. Mostly because of our new branch mission leader Hno. Lopez. He is pretty excited about the work in the branch! We were even able to find a new investigator this week! Yaya! People are finally all back from their vacations (including a disney cruise our branch president's family went on) so the work is a little smoother now. One sad note is that Tania Salinas has decided to go back to Mexico this week for school, so we really hope she will be able to stay active in the church down there.
On the other hand, we are having lots of success in Taylor Ranch. We have the baptism for Shikhah Gurung this Saturday. She is doing awesome. She is so prepared for her baptism, and we are so excited for her! It's been really fun teaching her, because she comes from a culture that I haven't seen before on my mission, so it's been nice to have a little variety in the teaching process. It has really helped her a lot to see how much support the ward is giving her.
Also, we have the baptism for Brian next Saturday! He has also been an extremely golden investigator that really is super prepared for baptism. We are almost done with all the lessons, and he really hasn't had any problems with the commandments or anything. So hopefully all goes well for him in the next couple of weeks.
Other than that the work is going pretty good. We've been seeing some success in some of our older investigators, including a man named Don, and another guy named Daniel. Hopefully we can keep seeing all of these awesome results of our hard work!
Anyways, I have been doing real well lately with excersizing a lot and eating healthy, so I'm already starting to feel and look a little bit better. It actually hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be. I think I will try to send some pictures back home soon, as well as some christmas stuff. As far as after the mission goes, I still have a lot of time to think about it. My only thought right now is that if I could find a job right when I get back home, I could save up some good money for spring or summer term, but honestly I'm not really opposed to going to winter term either, we'll just have to figure something out I guess.
So I'm really trying to make an effort to write more in these emails, because Elder Valladolid takes FOREVER to write his, so I might as well write some more. Ummmm.... It has actually been pretty cold here lately, but no snow. I really miss the snow. Well I can't think of anything else to write, so you will have to be satisfied with that. I hope you all have a wonderful week!!!!! Elder Hatch
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