4-8-13 email

Dear Family, I have had an amazing weekend. It was a pretty normal week until saturday morning, when I finished the book of mormon for the third time on my mission, but the first time all in spanish! It was great! I obviously got a lot out of it, and I really enjoyed all of it. One thing that I really noticed was an improvement in my spanish. Over the past few months, I have been working hard on communication, vocabulary, and reading. All of which are really improving. It's been great. Then of course came general conference. Like steven said, its like the superbowl for us missionaries. I really wish I had paid more attention growing up. You can feel the spirit so strong, and actually learn a lot. We were able to watch it at the church here, which was nice, because it's easier to focus. My favorite talk during conference was from Elder Quinten L. Cook. Very good, and I also loved all of the talks and references to missionary work. I hope you guys are ok with this, but I had a pretty strong impression during most of conference to give you a challenge. I can promise it will bless your lives and our family. I want to challenge you to pray, and then as a family give out at least ten Book of Mormons by the time I get home. Thats a little more than one a month, so it shouldn't be too hard. And don't worry there are plenty of people, even in Utah, who need a Book of Mormon. It will be most effective if you include a testimony, the missionaries phone number, and an invitation to learn more. If it's reasonable, you could even invite them to our house to listen to the missionaries. This might seem crazy, but I have seen the power that the book of mormon can have in our lives and the lives of others. I promise if you take this seriously, you will see miracles!! And this leads me to my favorite part of the weekend. After conference, we didn't have a scheduled dinner, so we went to this one less active members house to see how he was doing. He offered to feed us dinner (just some sandwiches, but we were grateful) and then called for his wife to come help with the food. We didn't even know he was married, so we were surprised. We started talking to her and found out she wasn't a member. More surprised. Then walk in two previously unknown sons who were also not members. Awesome. They were all pretty nice to us, so after we ate, we asked if we could share a message. We talked about the atonement and Jesus Christ. The spirit was there and they all agreed to learn more! We are going back wednesday to start teaching them. Yay! We don't just have one investigator anymore!! So ya, my weekend was awesome. And it sounds like yours was too! I wish I could have been there, but then again, I am pretty happy here right now. I got your letters and pictures too! They are great! I'll have to send some back soon. Well, I hope you all have a great week! I got to go now so...By! -Elder Hatch