2-25-13 email

Hello family! well, this week was a little dissapointing, but not too bad. We tried to visit basically everybody in our area, and hardly anyone was home. Oh well, we did find one awesome new investigator named Gina. Her in-laws are in our branch, and they gave her a book of mormon a while ago. It turns out that since she recently had her baby, she has been reading it every day! Wev'e met with her twice now, and I think she could get baptized very soon. We just need to get her to church. Other than that, we had a pretty slow week. I did get to help trim some pecan trees though. that was kind of fun. Haha there are probably more pecan trees in this area than there are people. I can't wait till all the farms start to get green and pretty. I missed it just barely when I was down in socorro. This area could definitely use some pretty. This week we had another nasty week of dust storms. There were a couple times we couldn't even see ahead of us when we were driving. It's kind of cool acctually, you just feel really dirty all the time. Apparently, since there are so many farms here, that means a lot of dirt. Also, there is zero water in the Rio Grande right now, so that's probably adding to the dust. Anyways, I am actually really enjoying this area in general. It's really nice to be a spanish missionary again. I'm learning a lot of new words here from all the people we talk to. (some of them I won't repeat) And I am loving all of the delicious mexican food again. When I get back, I am going to make you guys some awesome food. Elder Nelson and I are getting along great! He is one of the funniest companions I have had thus far. We live by ourselves, the Anthony Elders live closer to the chapel. Which is teeny tiny by the way. We eat dinner with them every night though, so we see them all the time. The members here are awesome, there just aren't a whole lot of them. We do get fed every night though, because Mexicans love to feed missionaries. Hmm, I just realized I'm not very good at using paragraphs... sorry bout that. So that was my week in a nutshell. We have been knocking a lot, so hopefully that brings us some new investigators soon. Congratulations on getting in to BYU Miranda!! That's awesome! Good luck with getting into classes and stuff, it's kind of stressful. I wonder how I'm going to do it if I go to winter semester... I can't believe all of those young people going on missions! We heard that there are 58 new missions opening up! Oh, and we found out who our new mission president will be. His name is President .......Miller. Except a different one. Haha we all thought that was pretty funny. I hope he is cool. Well, that's about all for this week, but I hope you all have a wonderful day/week! sincerely, Elder Hatch

PS definitely don't worry about me, the only thing I have to worry about here is dogs. A lot of them. Other than that, most Mexicans like missionaries, especially the guys in the cartel. Hahaha