Hello everybody! My week has been pretty good. The work has been a little bit slower lately because everybody went on vacation here. But that will end this week! Yay for the end of Vacation! haha, never thought I would say that. So we are actually having a lot of success in the English ward lately. It really seems to switch back and forth a lot. Shikhah has decided to get baptized on the 19 of January. We are really excited for her. It's been interesting to work with her, because she basically has been a member for a couple years already, so we aren't really teaching her anything new. It's also been amazing to see how much courage she has, basically going against her parents by choosing to be baptized. Her parents are Buddhists, so they really don't understand why she wants to join another church. We have been praying and fasting a lot with her and a member family that she is really good friends with to soften her parents' hearts. Hopefully everything goes well. We will also be having the baptism for Brian this month, although he hasn't yet decided on a date yet. We have also been getting a lot of good refferals for english, which is new, since they are usually for spanish, but we have been enjoying them anyways! On the flip side, we basically have nothing going on in the spanish branch right now, because we baptized all the people we were working with... oh well, we are working hard to pick it up again and find some investigators!
So for some more big news, we got a new car this week! we now have a truck! Which doesn't really make sense to me considering our area, but it's been fun. We actually switched cars with an area down south, that has almost no paved roads. and they ended up with our little malibu... pretty strange if you ask me. Anyways, today is pretty cool, because a year from today I will be getting home!! That's so wierd! I can't believe I've been a missionary for a whole year! I don't think I'm really doing anything to celebrate, but it's fun to think about. It's also crazy to think how long I've been in this area. by the end of this transfer, I'll have been here almost six months. I feel like I know almost everybody here, and it's really starting to feel like home. It's going to be hard to leave this area.
Anyways, I have started reading the book of mormon in spanish. so far I've been reading it a lot side by side with english, so I can check on words every once in a while, but now I have a goal to read the whole thing only in spanish. So far it has been a lot easier than I thought it would, which is pretty cool. There is usually only one or two words a page that I don't know, and it's usually pretty easy to get it from the context of the story. I'm enjoying it a lot because I've been getting a lot of new things out of it because of the different language. I'm excited to see how it all goes.
Another story from this week: We were helping to clean out an old ladies garage this week, and she was just having us throw most of the stuff away. She is a pretty serious hoarder, so there was A LOT of stuff. Anyways, I found this nice brand new camera still in the packaging, so I asked if she really wanted to throw it away. she said she had no use for it, and then insisted on giving it to me. So... I have a new camera now.
So looking back on the holidays, they were hard sometimes, but they were also amazing. Definitely different, but still just as magical as they ought to be. I would say it was a great experience.
Well, I better get going, because my time is almost up, but I hope you all have a wonderful week and keep enjoying all that snow! Hasta la proxima! -Elder Hatch
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