Howdy howdy!!!
My Easter was
great! We actually didn't have a dinner planned b/c we hadn't got
anyone to sign up yet but the Kent's, who is kind of our missonary
family here, took us in. Sister Kent is the one from Kuna, Idaho, so they love me and wouldn't see me
starve.lol. We had a little
Easter egg
hunt and got to just enjoy our Easter sunday w/ them. i went to the
coolest sacrament meeting too. Our ward is extremely musically
talented so we had a cello, piano, flute, and organ all playing at the
same time along with the choir. We had a mini MoTab.
Thank you so
much for the easter package!!! That was so cool. I loved everything in
it. The music is awesome. I was totally thinking about starting to
memorize scriptures and that music to scriptures is perfect. My
favorite was definately the video's and slideshows of the wedding. i
have to admit that I watched it a few times. It was fun to
see it all.
My companion
is Elder Galenzoski, from northern Alberta Canada. He has been out on
his mission for 21 months. There giving me all the old guys. It's
good though b/c he knows a lot so i learn from him. I'm still the
district leader here, and what's awesome is Jordan Fisher, Elder fisher,
is in my district now so we're pretty stoked.
sounds like
another crazy week. All you guys do nowadays is travel.lol.
I'm sure it's a love hate relationship.
I'm excited to
hear about the new house and how it is all coming along. I continue to pray for
you guys and selling the house, so it's good that you continue to put your
trust in the
Lord. I finished the book "Lectures on Faith" in a few hours over the
past couple of nights and its awesome. Continue to have faith b/c it
was even by faith that the worlds were created.
It is true
that another week has flown by. Days can feel like weeks and weeks can
feel like days. That's so awesome that Brett Wilson got married.
Thanks for the
encouragement for the slow work. There are good things that have and
are happening, but the hardest thing I feel is people maybe feeling
like we're not working hard enough or just that we aren't seeing
enough success. I don't know. I shouldn't always worry
about things
like that so much, but in the right ways it can be good to drive you
the right way. The work continues to move forward. I have a companion
who likes to work hard and is a good teacher. We have a
good time
together. I know the Lord will continue to provide. Missionary
work never is easy, so we just keep on treking.That's way
cool that you have a tractor now. 27 years later.lol. Your going to have
too much fun w/ that=) It sounds like the weekend was great and the
house is coming along. You guys are moving on that thing, even
though you've been gone every weekend. we got to do
quite a bit of service this week so that was fun. I
always enjoy
doing some hard labor. We got to move a bunch of rock from one place
to another to fill a yard, and the next day we got to help build a
fence. We had one day this week where absolutely nothing was happening.
It was a really hard day. We ended up tracting most of
the day and no
one answered or talked to us, but we kept trying. Finally
someone let us in their door about 7 p.m. and they were looking for a
church. we got to teach them a little bit and hopefully again soon,
but we were just excited to talk to someone and be let into their
home. Then we went to dinner at 8p.m., b/c we didn't have
one that night
and went by ourselves, and the service took forever so we didn't get
home until around 9:45. Then of course the member we were w/
confronts us for being home late and said "don't be surprised if your
numbers start to dwindle." I was sooooo mad, but I didn't say much to him. I
hate when members try and get into your business w/o knowing
anything. I'm sure you might have experienced it a tiny bit. I guess what
really griped me was we'd been working and working and just
not seeing a
whole lot of success, but I don't lose faith either. There is faith
and challenges to be had in everything though, and it only prepares
us to be perfected like our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. We
have some set aptmts. this week that should be really great
so things are
looking up. Well have
another great week It's good to hear from ya. I love ya and miss ya—Love Elder
Hatfield
