Transfer #2!

''Jesus el Redentor''

Mi Querido Familia y amigos... (My dear family and friends)

So right now I'm writing this letter to you with a stuffed up nose, a sore throat, and stunted hearing... I'm fairly certain from these symptoms that I have a cold? However I'm no nurse, so what do you think! It's pretty miserable... however it does help me eat the food that's not so tasty since I can't taste it anyway! Just kidding, for the most part it's pretty good :) Also I'm currently crying as I'm writing this letter because I just found out about transfers! Remember that tomorrow is officially the end of my 1st transfer which also means that tomorrow is Transfer day! This morning we found out about those lovely transfers and this...is...the...result... duh duh duh! Alright hold onto your seats! I'm...the new Assistant to the President! aha! Pretty crazy eh?... okay that's not true, probably won't happen for another transfer or so :P But no, legitimately I think I'm going to cry right now because I just found out that tomorrow I have to go down to Lima! Not to transfer areas, but just to go down to receive my new companion and bring him back here to Barranca! This means 2 things, I'm staying in my area, and I'm training a new missionary from the MTC. You're probably jumping for joy while I'm sitting here crying in the middle of a public place! Ahaha just kidding, I'm not actually crying! I'm slightly shell-shocked and I'm sure when it set's in I'll start freaking out. It's very rare for a missionary to be training on his 2nd transfer, let alone a North American who's learning the language. I know that my language is progressing but it's far from being perfect, so it's definitely going to be a struggle! Just wait and see that my new companion will be a North American who knows slightly less Spanish then me, wouldn’t that be an experience! So honestly I'm a little bit frightened! However I have Faith that there's a reason for it, and it must be that President Dorrius believes I'm capable of it. Therefore it also must mean that the Lord believes I'm capable of it as well... and remember that with God nothing is impossible. As we read in Luke 1:37 With God nothing is impossible, therefore I've tried to remove that word from my vocabulary.  And that the Lord giveth no commandment unto the Children of men save he shall provide a way! I'll let you know how it goes next Monday, okay? Okay!

Other than that I don't really have too much else to share. The work has been going really well here in Barranca. My area is one of, if not the, hardest areas in our Mission so at times it can be tough but we've had a lot of success lately. For the past few weeks Elder Garcia and I have been the only missionaries in all of Barranca (Normally there are 6) due to an emergency transfer and the others finishing their missions. So we've been very busy going all around the city to cover their areas. However the fruits of our labour are coming forth! We have about 6 Baptismal dates set for this month, only 2 of which are in our area. So it's been going really great!

Oh this week we also moved houses! Now we're directly across from our Pensionista (The lady who cooks for us and does our laundry) which is really great because before we had to walk about 20 minutes both ways to get there. However it's fairly small and we have no shower curtain in our bathroom, so we have to mop every time we want to take a shower! We also didn't have our hot water hooked up for the first few days so not only was it a chore to clean up after a shower, but it was a chore just to take one. I think you're definitely a man when you can wake up at 6:30 in the morning and step into a freezing cold shower. At least I like to think so :)

The church is true!

Con Cariño (With Love)

Elder Hatt

OH! And I'm attaching a really cool Picture (Well I think its cool) of me at the statue of Jesus here in Barranca. It's right on the coast by the Ocean and it's called ''Jesus el Redentor'' or Jesus the Redeemer!