Hey and Hi!
This
week was really good! We are reaching more of our goals, and Sister Coleman and
I are really seeing the stake grow and having lots of fun doing it! She is my
best friend! I
love teaching people about the gospel and feeling my spiritual knowledge and
testimony grow!
We started this month as a mission to study charity.
Charity literally is everything. It pops up everywhere in my studies. Without
putting my whole heart into my mission and without love, my mission would mean
nothing! I might convert people, because the gospel is true no matter WHAT, but
the PURE love of Christ is why the gospel matters to me. There is nothing
better than feeling Christ’s love and that is really what I want to share. I am
grateful for the opportunity I have this month to understand it more! I would
invite everyone to study charity more this month! I promise you feel the spirit
more in your life.
Our zone has been doing the “24-hour” challenge. It
is super hard. The scripture for it is Ephesians 4:29 and it’s this:
1. Go for 24 hours
without criticizing anyone for any reason (including yourself)
2. When you make a
mistake, and you will, you must start the 24 hours over
3. If you think a
critical thought & control it within 30 seconds you don't have to restart
4. You have until the
millennium to complete this challenge (:
We have started over a bunch, the criticizing
yourself has been the hardest in the morning because it's when we are getting
ready! :/ But, it really help to train your mind to think of everyone as Christ
would.
Ron has been super sick so we haven't taught him
much this week but he came to church and we stopped by to drop off a card for
him and we chatted and shared a scripture. We are really trying to help him
understand just how prepared by the Lord he has been. He has more faith than he
understands and we feel so strongly about him being baptized on the 21st. We
are praying so hard that he feels for himself that his testimony is strong
enough. He is such a caring and genuine man, I know he just wants to give
everything he can and feel really sincerely that he should know and feel enough
to be baptized .
Kenneth is probably the most fun lesson of the
week. We just laugh and laugh! He is so solid though. He came to church and is
excited to be baptized on the 26th! We taught the commandments yesterday. When
we were talking about the Word of Wisdom, we got to “no tea” and he goes,
"OHH, I CANNOT do tea! That stuff is just NASTY. Its got this freaky
wine-y taste and when I drink it i feel like something is ga-rowing on my tongue!"
haha
Martha still hasn't met with us :( She is going to
church with her friend in a different stake still but she has been really busy.
I am so sorry to hear
everyone is so sick! :( Something has definitely been going around. Lots of the
missionaries here got sick at Christmas time, so I was living off essential oils
and vitamins and made it though, but its coming around again, I just got a cold
but I am feeling better. I hope you all do soon!
It's pretty cool that Lily
will be blessed the weekend of February 28th, because that is the Sunday that
Kenneth gets confirmed! A baptism and blessing weekend (: Those are always the best Sundays, so the
28th will be extra special. <3
It's so nice that you had Elder
Chipman in Holbrook for such a long time, 5 months! Can you believe that’s how
long I have been out?! I can't! I still
feel like a brand new missionary, it kind of scares me thinking about how
quickly this experience goes by, sometimes I wish I could be a missionary
forever! But anyways its nice to be in an area for so long. I love my area and I
hope I get to stay until Sister Coleman goes home in May. or at least just
before that. I love everyone here and I love having time to build relationships
with all of them.
Gram told me about the Hatch’s
move to Houston Tay and I can have fun at the Y, I hope she gets in! Man,
I have grown to truly love the mountains, but I was talking with a member here
who used to live in Az and we just went on and on about the sunsets, I miss
those, especially with Arizona
Tell Stratton i am so
proud of him for being excited for Disneyland- eat a churro for me and try and make it on the
peter pan ride(:
Tell aunt vicki I love
her!
The new boots are
fantastic! And so adorable (: Crazy
though, its been in the 60's and yesterday it was in the 70's! So I haven't
touched my boots for a week! I guess Sis. Coleman and I brought the Az and Georgia
I love the different
stories about how people are brought in to the church. Music is so powerful! I
am so grateful that I have been able to use music so much on my mission, it
truly opens doors and I love singing now more than I ever have before in my
life.
MwaH! Love, Sister Hatch
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