Isn't she the cutest Missionary!!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Letters #6-9 (sorry this one is kind of crazy!)
01-20-2014
Dear Mom,
… Last week our car wasn't done yet so we asked the Elders to barrow their bikes and Its been fun and a little tiring to ride them but then we did get our car back on Saturday. On a bike you get more advantages to talk to people than you would in a car, but you have to plan on time wise on when and where you want to be. I got a package from the Hanson's this week. I love the letters from people. We have an investigator named Louise (who was a media referral). She heard about Mitt Romney and on Mormon.org requested for a BOM so we went to contact her. We have meet with her 2 times so far, the second visit we invited her to be baptized. On Sunday we called her to see if she was coming to church, when sister Hall talked to her she said shes felt when reading the BOM that it is true and that she wanted to be baptized but we will check on her this week to get things worked out. I am grateful to be a missionary and for the way the Lord plans things out for us. Keep up the great work you all do. I love you all so very much and Don't forget so does Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
01-13-2014
Dear Mom,
I love hearing about Zeke and Claudia. Zeke is such a funny boy!
I am glad you had an enjoyable time at Bishops cabin with the young women, that was a fun experience to have when I was in young women's. Also glad the young women got to enjoy a little bit of the snow. That is a great scripture that you shared and glad you are pondering on it a little more too. The ipads are fun and great tools to have I bet, a great way to stay connected with those you meet. Our mission should be getting ipads soon. The less active member lives quite away so we have not yet gotten to see him, but we will eventually. This past week I am grateful for my legs and for the members in our ward who are willing to give us rides to places that we need to be. We were lucky because anytime it was raining a member was there to pick us up. I got to cook my ravioli for a dinner that we had with an investigator named Melinda (the one who trains dogs) which was really fun and neat. She loves having company and talks quite a bit but we are getting her to progress. We also got an investigator named Tony to come to a missionary class and to church on Sunday, which was awesome. Its been a great week, we have been able to use our creative minds a little more. I Love to do tough, I love being a missionary!So this was from past weeks but this is what sister hall wrote and I found it better said than I could say it:"Also every time Sister Hatch does something funny it reminds me I need to make a list because she just keeps adding to it. So just a few. We saw this spider coming down and hanging from the ceiling and it was lime green so that was cool. Then we just left it there for a minute because we were just finishing up a lesson. So then at the end she forgets and stands up and her head runs right into the Spiders and so I have to smack it off, good thing it was lime green because it was nice and easy to spot in her hair. It was just so funny because she is the one who spotted it and then she ran into it. Then another day she was walking out from a dinner with a member and she ran right into their glass door... also funny. Another time she fell off the side of a side-walk (I guess that's why they call it a side walk right, because it has a side? :P ) speed humps and steps are also a hazard sometimes. Once it was raining and as we were quietly leaving this persons house she opens her umbrella and bam! she hits the wind chimes and the dogs start barking and it was great. So then also that same night we were walking in the rain and she has her umbrella and all the sudden it closes, it is still fully extended but the top is just folded down as if you were putting it away. and I just look at her and she has this expression like "What just happened?" I guess she has an umbrella that has a open and close button.
haha. So fun stories with sister Hatch. I feel like I should be writing a comic series or something with the headline. Mishaps of missionaries (based on the true story of Sister Hatch.. and other missionaries of the Jacksonville Mission USA). She's a real crack up." -Sister Hall.Keep doing the things the lord wants you to do, for through us he can truly work mighty miracles! I love you all!With Love,Sister Hatch
01-07-2014DearMom, Glad you all have came up with a great way to study the scriptures andeveryone is participating in it. Studying sure does bring us closer to our savior and helps us know more. keep up that great studying. I know that even with the goals you have set you will be able to achieve them with the lords help. Glad Elder Merrill and Johnston are keeping busy and getting you all involved in the work as well, for every member is a missionary! You all have very sweet testimonies, and I love reading them. keep building upon that testimony. Well last week Sister Hall and I have been working hard to get our solid investigators to progress towards baptism and just getting more investigators solid. Its still a work in progress but we can accomplish great things. So it has been raining a few days out here but not to hard. After it rains it gets pretty cold. Its been cold today and yesterday, it takes a little while for things to dry. So there was one day towards the end of the evening we were planning to go see a less active member. We get to their street and the road is a little narrow, we needed to turn around to pull up by their house because we had passed it. So Sister Hall goes to turn around and ends a little off the road, i get out to back her up but the car got stuck in mud so she tried pulling forward a little bit and backing up but got stuck more and was close to a rock, so we got out and went to ask the neighbors near by if they can help, the less active member had found out we were stuck because his wife was coming home and saw us. He and some other men tried to help us but lucky for us someone down the street got stuck on the side of the road as well and had called the tow truck. The tow truck guy was nice enough to pull us out and the less activemember was very nice and helpful to stick with us. Sister Hall and I are going to give something special to this less active member for helping us out soon.So that's what happened this week. Its been a pretty great week starting out. Monday we took the car to get fixed up for a damage that was done before our incident and the little scrap after our incident. So we got to walk to our destination for that day, which was nice because then you can talk to more people on feet and see things we never have seen when in the car. I love being a missionary and meeting the people that we need to meet! I love you all very much!With Love, Sister Hatch 12-30-2013
Dear Mom,It was Awesome to see you all this week through skype. I hope you all had a great Christmas and are going to enjoy a happy new year! Its almost 2014. Well this week our other baptism went well so now we have two new members in our ward and I am looking forward to bringing more people closer to Heavenly father this upcoming year. This week was good but there was one interesting thing that happened. we meet a Jehovah witness man who told us all about his religion and what he believes so sister hall and i just stood there listening to him which is good to do. He had a few questions about our church and we answered some of them but we when we see him again we will be able to answer his question.We are working on finding new people to teach. I can tell you that if you just open your mouth the lord will help you say what you need to say to the people he has placed before you. So all has been going well!I love you all!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
Letters # 2-5 (sorry playing catch up!)
12-16-2013
Dear Mom,
Awww I am so happy you and the girls got to go do temple work. Its always a great feeling in the temple. It sounds like the choir is doing well! Keep singing your hearts out! Yeah I know Christmas is coming so close every Monday we go to wal-mart to get groceries and they have a countdown so only 10 more days till Christmas.Out here they call Carl's Jr. Hardees, thought I would share that with you. Ali is doing an awesome job in all that she does! All of my sisters are awesome and my brother Elder Kendon Hatch! Glad you are keeping your focus on the lord, that's a great way to do Christmas! Its always great to have that focus. Well this week we started out doing usual missionary work. On Thursday we had a Mission Christmas party,There are so many missionaries out here and I am so happy to see they are doing the same thing as me. So that was a fun day. On Friday evening Sister Hall and I went on Exchanges with the Sister Training leaders which was fun and great to learn from them. So this week I have learned a lot.Tell Grandpa Woodside I thought of him when We had a rain storm on Saturday night! Now its starting to get a little cold here after that rainstorm. Well I know we are having a dinner with a member and the skype is open to us all day but yeah we can try and coordinate a multiple line call with Elder Hatch just let me know a time on Monday that works for you guys and for Elder Hatch. I will probably call you before skype.I am so excited for Christmas! All is well! I love you all so very much!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
12-09-2013
Dear Mom,
I am glad you all had a great time out hunting and enjoying the nice cool weather and beauty of the earth! Glad Ramsay got an elk! Sounds like you all had fun! I am excited for Christmas too! A great time of the year to remember the birth of the Savior and the amazing things hes done in his life! It was cold the first couple of days here but a little warm now, but its great! we sort of have a Christmas tree which adds a little to the spirit of the holiday! I will send pictures of it soon. Well last week we have mostly been doing some finding people and visiting with investigators. We did a service for a lady who did and still is training and doing dog shows with her dogs.Earlier this morning as a district part of zone we helped cleaned up someones yard. It was great! We have been focusing on a couple of people who are preparing for a baptism this and next Saturday! Elder Merrill and Johnston are going to do great where ever they are put! Sister Hall has been doing really great training me! she makes sure I am doing things the right way! This Thursday we have a mission Christmas Party which will be great to see all my MTC Elders and Sisters and meet others in this mission! Well I know December is getting a little busy with stuff just remember the importance of Christmas and share the spirit of the holiday with others you meet too! The temple lights will be great to go see, for sure invite the Merrill's! I love you all very much!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
12-02-2013
Hey Mom,
I am glad all is going well and you had a Great Thanksgiving with Claudia, Josh and Zeke! I am in Ocala, Fl right now! You can now send letters to 3240 SW 34th St. #103 Ocala, Fl. 34474. please don't send them to the mission office because they won’t get to me till the Zone leader can get them at a meeting, Thank you. I haven't yet received the thanksgiving package yet but I'm sure I will on Thursday! Sister Hall is my new companion! She has been a great Trainer so far. Its been a great first week here, feels like an Eternity but I am putting myself in the Lords work and Hand! We have been teaching lessons to two out of three people who are soon to be baptized! The first night here Sister Hall and I went to visit with an investigator but wasn't available so we decided to go knocking on doors, we were able to give pass-along cards to both people that we knocked at. For Thanksgiving we had a lunch with a recent convert/ Member which was nice, later we had a dinner with the Bruegger family. They have a son who is on a mission in Phoenix but will be returning home soon, dad have you meet him or seen him before?. It is great to hear the children's testimonies! Fast Sunday is always the best! keep sharing what you know! I love you all!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
November 23, 2013
Dear Mom,
Things are going great at the MTC! I am such an
Arizonan girl because it is pretty cold here but I am enjoying it. My companion
and I got an investigator to read the BOM and we taught her two lessons so far
but since we are leaving this upcoming
Tuesday morning we will be turning her over to the other Missionaries.I
love my district and Zone group as well they are like a family. My teachers are
so awesome they have taught us so much. I Thank you very much for the Hand
sanitize, moisturizer, chocolate and the picture of the family ; I will be sure
to use those things and savor the chocolate. We will be going to the Temple
today so I am excited! I am glad Catching Fire was good. It will be good after
18 months because then I can have a movie marathon to watch those movies.
That's exciting for Ali, At least they worked really hard to get to state. I
know Ali is going to be a great color guard
if she just keeps up the great work. That goes for all of you as well
keep up the great work that you do and even if you don't succeed fully you at
least gave all your best! I will be sure to do all those things you wrote me to
do. Tell the young women I said thank you for the thanksgiving cards and leaf!
I will be sure to write you all back with hand written letters! I love you All!
With Love,
Sister Hatch
Letter #1- First Letter from MTC
November 16th, 2013
Dearest Family,Its Snowing/raining in Provo right now which is cool! I had sent you guys a hand written letter but today is p-day and so I am going to write to you guys again! I have been having a great time out here. I have been learning so much from my companion, district group and zone group. these are some young adults with a lot of faith to come and serve the lord and i admire them for that. my companion, Sister Leavitt and I along with two other sister missionaries in our district wake up before 6 to go exercise which feels really good because your awake, focused and have your muscles moving. its especially nice since we sit in class for a while during the days. I hope all is going well for you guys. another full week and then the following Tuesday we head to Jacksonville Florida I love you all and so does your heavenly father!With Love,Sister Emily HatchP.S. Mom, I asked this in the written letter but could you please send my Piano guys CD, Some Chocolate for me and my companion and Oh I did get my shoes from the ctr clothing store. If you could do that that would be greatly appreciated thank you Love you
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