I love how incredibly crazy, unorganized, funny, and spiritual your emails are. I'm not sure how you manage to tie everything in so well, but you do it, and you do it well. So thank you! You're the best.
With love,
Elder Hatt.
Just kidding! I bet you thought that's all I'd write this week! ahaha... So thank you again for the wonderful email, it made me laugh and smile, which makes me happy-er? I'm always happy, how can I not be? I'm still in the most...beautiful...place...in...the....earth...cough cough. Sorry I was just getting a physical ahaha. I'm happy that your day is so beautiful today, because mine started out with rain and overcast. I was hoping I could walk outside today and see the beautiful grass. But there's still none, anywhere. It's great! By the way, for all those who have sent pictures you're looking great! Keep up the good work, and don't eat white rice! 0 rice! No rice! NEVER NEVER NEVER! It's not that tasty! I'm scared that you'll be in way better shape then I will be when I get back, 30 minutes is not enough time to exercise, and half the time I'm so tired during exercises I fall asleep on the floor... it's a beautiful sight ahaha.
Saturday I was able to go to the temple for the first time in 5 months! It was a great experience to go down with my Branch here in Barranca, and to have Sister Isabel, one of my recent converts, come as well. It was a great day which seemed to fly by. But it was very beautiful, spiritual, and memorable. Isabel loved it and really enjoyed being able to go down. How nice it was to be able to share that experience with her.
We are in a really dry spell… its going okay though... it's just dry. We've done a million contacts this week and we had some really great people who were excited to come to church yesterday. But one problem that I've found here in Peru is that a lot of people like to... how can I say this nicely... not tell the truth. Like here the people will tell that they want to come to church and that they have nothing, but when you come by their house to pick them up they're not there! At times I wish they would just straight up tell me ''I'm not interested'' so I wouldn't be losing time trying to find them! Oh well, that's part of the work! Needless to say, no one came to church yesterday :( for example, when it was Father's day, and you'd think that there would be a lot of people coming with their families! But it was quite the reverse actually, almost no one came at all, new converts, members, no one. It was sad and confusing, but that's okay, I will live.
As far as my companions are doing... Elder Cruz is fine as far as I know, we really don't have any contact. We're not allowed to email them within the mission so I have no clue, just as little Elder Garcia. Elder Fredrickson is doing well, he's training for the first time this transfer and seems to be having a bit of a hard time. His companion is very... awkward and strange, so it's been a bit tough for him. And Elder Iglesias is doing well, he's progressing and learning. He's still having a bit of trouble memorizing the street names and everything, but if there's anything I learned training Elder Cruz, it's the importance of Patience. I don't expect Elder Iglesiato be a perfect missionary, I just expect him to try his hardest and that's enough for me. I have to help him a lot and give him support because he gets down on himself a lot, but he's learning, and I am too. He's a great companion.
As far as package ideas, I don't think I have anything as of right now! I love ties... so you can always send more of those! But When I think of more I'll surely let you know. Or maybe I won't, because you shouldn't send me packages, they're expensive. I haven't decided yet!... More Canadian candy... maybe.
Anyway that's basically it for me this week! Please remember that I love you and pray for you everything, and give thanks to my Heavenly Father that he's put you in my life. In closing theres something I wanted to share with you. Every day for Personal Study I've been trying to read 1 talk from the General Conference Ensign from May. There's a ton of talks I've read which are just incredible and have helped me a lot but there's one in particular that really stood out to me. You should read it! It's entitled The Road to Damascus by President Uchdorft. In his talk he quoted Spencer W Kimball and said: ''God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs''. I think you're smart enough to put that together and see why that was important to me
I know this Church is true, without a doubt. There's so much joy in the gospel. God created a plan for us, a great and marvelous plan. It's called The Plan of Happiness for a reason. I'm super happy :)
that's it for me now.
Love you lot's!
Talk again before you know it!
Elder Hatt
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