10-1-13 email

Dear Family, I don't have much time today because it's a tuesday, but I am sending a couple handwritten letters soon. So this week was pretty good. Not much new to report I guess. Brian hurt his foot or something so he couldn't go to church. That's ok, because we have 5 chances to get him there this week! I can't really think of anything to talk about, so I guess I will talk about the temple trip. 

So, yesterday morning, we woke up at 4 and then started driving. It's like a 4-5 hour drive, but it wasn't too bad. The temple was amazing, and it was fun to see Albuquerque again. I'm thinking I might actually go through one more time before I go. Sometimes the Mission President takes the missionaries who are going home the day before they leave. So we'll see. It was pretty nice though. They even served us lunch at the temple! Then we went to the deseret book. I guess it's a pretty big blessing to have one of those in our mission too, but there are some missionaries who blow A LOT of money there. I don't even bring my wallet in because there's too much temptation. I don't really need any of that anyways. I would rather have food. So anyways, we rode there and back in an SUV with a few other missionaries and one of the senior missionaries. It was fun, but we got back to our house around 10 that night. It was a long day to say the least. 

So our new mission president is doing pretty well. His wife is very quiet sometimes, but they have been doing a wonderful job. He actually has come down to El Paso a lot recently, so we've been able to talk to him a few times. He's an interesting guy though.

So I'm glad to hear that Grandma is doing well, and that their mission is only postponed a little. She is definitely in my prayers. In fact, I put her name in the temple too. I'm also pretty excited to hear that Alice is pregnant too! That's great. Definitely send my congratulations. I hope you are all doing well too. I have been feeling very loved lately with all of the letters. Especially mom's letter. We had a fun time reading the letters from her class. Fun idea!

Well I hope this letter was long enough. Sorry there wasn't much exciting. We'll hopefully have more next week! I hope you all have a wonderful week!!!

-Elder Hatch