Letter #10- Happenings in South Carolina

10.22.12

Dear Everyone,

 

I've been out here in Goose Creek, SC for about 2 weeks now. It's a ton of fun and the Lord is really blessing me to get my mind caught up in the work that I've been called to do. We were having a bit of a difficult time finding new investigators and spending way too much time teaching the three that we had. So Elder Zurita and I started to revise this by making goals. Holy Smoke goals are so stinkin' affective. Oh but first some funny and interesting things that happend to us this week.

 

-We got chased by a big dog, Elder Zurita was like it'll be fine I think that's the nice one. And I was like no it's not look at the way it's looking at us! Then it started bolting at us. But we were far enough away to get away.

 

-We got bit by two demon chihuahuas on the way to the place where we got chased by the dog. And then again on the way back from being chased by the dog.

 

-We saw the biggest spider in the world! Serious the biggest I've ever seen in the wild aside from the tarantula I saw at powell. It's butt was the size of those big black grapes without seeds. HUGE!

 

-We watched a deer jump onto the highway run across and nail the side of a car. A nice sized buck too.

I think that's about all the fun stories for this week. But there is something that I learned this week, people don't always follow even when they've had extreme witnesses that this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. We have a woman we have been teaching and she is living every single commandment except attending church and she's been requesting Sundays off to be able to go (that's what she says at least). And we've asked her several times to be baptized and she says yes and then no every time. I dont' know what it is that has been keeping her from it.

 

But any way, we had two super killer lessons with her where the spirit was so thick you could taste it! In the first lesson, which I wasn't there for I was on exchanges, I guess she started getting upset and one of the sisters that was there with the missionaries was super bold with her and said you need to stop. How can you feel the spirit when you're upset ranting and raving? Or something similar to that. And the spirit was super strong.

 

The second time we invited her to a ward activity. She showed up and we planned to do a church tour with her if she showed up so we started on it. During the party thing we found her sitting in the chapel crying. We didn't know what to do so we started talking to her very softly and calmly. We then started the church tour. She loved it, saying, "lindo" and "bonita" all the way through the church halls. We then got to the baptismal ?faunt?, opened the doors and said, "This is where you'll be baptized." We started talking, she liked the church, she liked the idea of being baptized there. My companion started talking to her and I was trying to listen and be able to put in my two cents here or there. (Mind you, this is what I do most of the time....It may sound like a do tons but most of the time I'm quiet and try to listen to what they are saying and more than half the time I don't even know what's going on.)

 

So after a little bit, I started to feel the spirit leaving the room. I stopped everything and said, "Podriamos regresar a la capilla?" (could we return to the chapel? I think) Then Heidi said "por favor" and we went in. I lead the way they went and sat in the back and I went right to the center of the chapel and sat down. I waited for them to join me. They (Elder Zurita and Heidi) came up and sat down. I just looked ahead for about 2 minutes of silence (at least that's what it felt like). Turned to her and started bearing my testimony. I don't remember what I said, but I do remember the spirit prompting me to describe the way she was feeling right then. I described the way she was feeling, and she exclaimed, "HOW DID YOU KNOW!?" I then bore my testimony of the Holy Ghost, so on and so forth....

 

Elder Zurita then invited her to be baptized. She stopped and waited, I felt the spirit leave, and she said, "No." I was going crazy! How could you have such a witness from Heavenly Father and then not do as he instructs?!?! GAH!

 

That is just a cool story that happened. We met a woman named Eli from Mexico, she's here until December then she has to go back to Mexico. We went back to visit her at what we thought was her house ran into her nephew, taught the restoration of the gospel and invited him to be baptized. He accepted and is getting baptized on the 10th of November. And that lesson was in English so the Lord blessed me to be able to contribute more.

 

Elder Zurita and Elder Hanson went on exchanges and I went with Elder Hanson's companion Elder Herrera and they got to find Eli again. I didn't get to teach her, but she commited to a baptismal date in the first lesson. It just goes to show, that some people are so stinkin' ready for the gopel and others have things that they let keep themselves away from the gopel. One thing I have noticed is that there are people everywhere that are prepared and looking for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

The other day Elder Zurita and I were knocking doors and we had a huge muscled out black guy come out. We told him who we were, what we were there for and asked him some questions about himself. He answered a ton of them then Elder Zurita had said,"have you ever wondered...this...this...and this?" I don't remember what they were, but they weren't the classic where did we come from? Why are we here? and Where are we going? questions we usually ask. And he said I've wondered everything that you just said. We then testified about the authority of Jesus Christ being restored again and set a return time.

 

The Lord has servants prepared to do His work today. Make sure you are one of them, because I testify that this work will go on with or without you. I am glad to be one of the Lords full time missionaries, preaching, faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end to His children today. I know that missionary work cannot happen properly without the help of the members, so help your missionaries in your area.

I have to go. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

 

Letter #9- Help your ward missionaries!

10.15.2012
This is Kendon's first letter from the mission field he has now been out there about 2 weeks!

Dear Everyone,

 

So my first companion is Elder Zurita. He is from Ecuador, he knows English thank goodness, because then I wouldn't know what to do with myself. My mission president is really cool, super nice and he seems very calm all the time. His wife Sister Holm is sooooo stinkin' nice, I am pretty sure she would chop her legs off and give them to you if you needed them. I am tired usually all the time and that means I'm doing something right....I think. We certainly work hard. We're working on being more efficient with our planning.

 

A little bit about my first area. I'm in Goose Creek, SC, Charleston area. There is tons of Spanish work to do down here. We've only taught 3 times in English out of about 22 lessons this week. We contact about 17 people a day and work really closely with less active members. There used to be a branch here, but due to inactivity all the latinos now meet in a room after sacrament. The weather is great it's humid and hot somedays, but it's actually really nice most of the time.

 

Cool stories, so my first day here we were teaching a man named edgar. We were talking to him in his living room and he was in the middle of telling us a story when he stops and says "ohhhh....help me it's my pastor." His pastor was walking up to the door. He invites him in and starts talking to everyone. first to understand Edgar, he loves God so much and is super faithful to God, he's Presbyterian I think? He loves the mormon missionaries because we talk about God and his son Alex changed his life and got baptized in the church but since Alex has fallen away. So we stopped in to teach Edgar and see if we could find Alex.

 

Anyway, once Pastor Lindley and Maria found out that we were mormons they flipped! "MORMONES!" I had no idea what was happening because they all start talking super fast in Spanish and I got lost. After too long....I finally realize we need to leave so I say "can I say something, we believe the bible to be the word of God and has the fulness of the gospel, we also believe the Book of Mormon is the word of God and has the fulness of the gospel, and I know that this book (holding El Libro de Mormon) has brought me more close to Christ than I have ever been in my life." He said something, Edgar said something like "Oh....Ok." Probably because I said it wrong and it was the first thing I had said the whole time.

 

I then walked up to the pastor said read this please showing him the first paragraph of the introduction in the BOM and then said there you go. It's a testament of Christ people in the Americas. They had a conversation for a while about it in spanish. The pastor was getting heated and I knew we needed to leave. So I said here is a pamphlet. Read it and it will tell you about the restoration of the proper authority of Jesus Christ on the earth. We said we need to leave we walked towards the door. And I said, "Lindley, no trashcan." and pointed to the pamphlet. He said, "NO, no, no, no, I wouldn't do that." Then I said, "ok, good. A test next visit for you." And he laughed and we left. 

 

That's just a funny story we had, they made fun of me lots calling me a greengo during the conversations and laughing at me when I didn't understand what was happening, but that's ok, I just said No entiendo and smiled basically most all the rest of the time. 

 

There is another lady named Heidi who is from the Dominican Republic and she is way awesome! She is living every single commandment and we practiced the baptismal interview with her....she's so ready to be baptized. She just has to get Sundays off, which we find that out tonight when we go to teach her. She has a little son named adalberto who is six and learning English.

 

There is another couple two doors down from Heidi who are Judith and Donilo. They are sooooo solid. Donilo finally came to church this Sunday with us and from what I could tell he enjoyed it. He's from Honduras and they want to get baptized, but they are living together without being married so we said get married. But they wanted to get out of debt first, they had to pay jail fees. So the lawyer said you can get the fees reduced if you get married and go back to Hunduras in a month. We aren't sure what's going to happen now...but just pray for them. Donilo read the entire Book of Mormon while he was in jail in two days. He has dreams where angels come and talk to him and he is just way motivated to be baptized.

 

I think that before I would have thought these people are crazy, but honestly with the past few days teaching and talking to all types of people I've becomed desensitized to abnormality...Wierd I know.

 

Oh and there is this other boy named Jonathon who was raised Catholic. We've been working with him. He said I only read a little in the BOM last week. We asked what and how much and he said about 50 pages....A little, to get me to read that book when I was younger...holy smoke, I was a member and if I read that much in a week it was because I was at EFY or something. Anyway, he was strait up with us and said I don't really like reading it, it's boring. And I thought, ok fair enough, at that age I wouldn't have been interested either....But then Elder Zurita asked him why was it boring. He said because he didn't understand it. So any way as the story goes he was basically really confused when this was happening why where. So we walked him through all of it and he said, "OH! Ok, I understand better now. I'm gong to reread it!" I was blown away by that. He said it's going to take a lot to make me change my beliefs and I said that's fine we wouldn't want you to change your beliefs over something that you don't know is true, we just want you to find out if it is or it isn't.

 

Any way everyone. The Lord is preparing people daily to hear the gospel. HELP YOUR WARD MISSIONARIES! Please, please, please, I would love nothing more than to have the members of the church be able to keep someone in mind always that they can give to the missionaries.

 

I testify of this work that I am doing, it's so important. I testify of Jesus Christ. That is the thing that I have the strongest testimony of. Not just the atonement of Jesus Christ but of his teachings, he is the master teacher of each of our lives, he made all things possible when he lived, he suffered for our sins, he died on the cross, and was then resurrected. I testify that we too can be resurrected, and that as we use the atonement immediately we have the ability to grow closer to our Heavenly Father. I testify of the changing power of the atonement. I have a testimony that we can learn more through the reading, studying, and pondering of the words of God and then teaching it. I testify of Gods love for us as his children and for my love for each of you. I love my Savior. I love my Heavenly Father. I love you all. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

 

Love,

Elder Kendon Hatch

Letter #8, STRIVE to have the Spirit with you...

Dear all you other people not sitting on a pin cushion (everyone else), (See also The Knights Tale)

     I am doing really well, the language is coming along, I do struggle with it, but if there is something I've learned, it has been patience with myself and I think I have patience with other people sometimes. I came across this crazy realization the other day, I'm human! I get up set, I get frustrated, I get tired, I get cold, and weak on fast sundays, but....something I realized the other day, with the help of God, and the Holy Ghost, I have absolute control over my body, my mind, and my desires/heart. I was sitting there staring at my scriptures, so tired from lack of sleep, tired of using my brain, tired of hearing what other people think (especially my compaions), frustrated with my inability to focus and my leg muscles were cramping from playing kickball (our district won by the way). I stopped, set everything down and said a prayer. . . . . . . . and then just sat there waiting . . . . . . . . . . eventually after about 3 minutes or so, I picked up my scriptures and physically said, "I am reading you darnit!" And went to reading the first 4 verses were miserable, but then I came across a scripture it's in 1 Nephi chapter 2 (I think) about the tender mercies of the Lord. I then said in my head, "Father, please bless me with a tender mercy." All the sudden, I was envigorated. I wanted to learn, I wanted to read, and my desires and intents were so clear and my mind was freed from being stagnant.

    

    Then later that night I was frustrated again. I instantly thought, "Oh great, I'm a Nephite caught in the pride cycle." I was sitting in a recording of Elder Bednar talking, I started thinking and trying super hard to concentrate on what he was saying because I knew the Lord had something for me to learn in that talk. I was then sitting there thinking about the experience I had earlier that day (the previous paragraph). I came to a conclusion that I have always known, but didn't really understand (I'm realizing how many things I don't understand but know a lot lately). I am human, I make mistakes, everyone makes mistakes. I should not stress myself over those things that are so small and insignificant that I miss a greater message that could be presented to me. RELAX PEOPLE! The Lord does not want us always running around like chickens with our heads cut off. When I first arrived I was very relaxed, too relaxed, I quickly decided I needed to be obedient, so I drove myself crazy doing it, I didn't enjoy people around me, people didn't enjoy being around me, and I didn't enjoy being around myself even. I quickly decided I am Elder Kendon Hatch, I will strive to do the right thing always, I want the spirit with me always, I will put the Lords will before my own always, but that the Lords way is not a close minded, no exceptions, one way type of life. The Lord does make exceptions (e.g. Thou shalt not kill......Nephi slaying Laban, Moroni defending liberty) the most important thing to do or that you can do is STRIVE to have the spirit with you and follow it. I promise as a representative of Jesus Christ that the Lord will guide you. HE DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 YEARS, he, "reaches my reachings" (Where Can I Turn for Peace). We have to reach for Him and I promise he will not turn away or forsake. God has only once forsaked when Christ was paying for our sins because he had to. I PROMISE he does not want to, nor will he ever do it again. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Missing Letters :) # 2, 3, & 4

Dear everyone,                                                        09-03-12

Disclaimer.....missionaries are NOT perfect, the only thing perfect about them that they have is their message.

This last week has been such an emotional rollercoaster, but not because of anything that I have done or felt or have been feeling. Elder Bahoravich, who I told you about earlier, and Mom I want you to post everything that comes in, even my last email, it might help someone...Elder B, he has a mouth and a hot hot temper, like 3rd degree burns temper. We were all having a discussion about something and Elder B said something about something not important, but it was something I didn't agree with so I said "I don't know if I think that necessarily, but this is what I believe...." and went on to explain what I thought. He blew up out of no where and said I'm a dumb blank blank blank blank blank, I'm sorry I'm not perfect.....so on and so forth. I had, had it and no one could feel the spirit, so I said/lovingly yelled "HEY! That is entirely inappropriate and you need to remove yourself NOW." To my surprise, he shut up and walked away. Later on I went up to apologize and he turned and said not now. And I said ok, fair enough let me know when I can talk to you again. He then a few hours later said "Los ciento"(look that one up em). Ever since that moment he and I have not had any problems, in fact he told me he loved me, with a serious tone.

Later, Elder B, he and his companion Elder Adair were having a discussion over what they should teach their investigator. For whatever reason....they got into it, (by the way Elder Adair is from Goodyear) Started getting really intense. I don't know the exact details something about how Elder B was saying...well he was having a pitty party, which surprises me because he is such a strong willed and independent person. Anywho....he somehow ran away from Elder A and grabbed his stuff, went somewhere....no one knows where. So I grabbed Elder A told Elder Judd to come along and we walked outside, Elder A gave me a run down of what happened, we then went looking for him and couldn't find him. A few seconds later I felt prompted to have us pray, so I, being very mean and somewhat learn ned, asked Elder A to give the prayer. It was sooooooooooooo cool to witness that prayer, definitely a you had to be there to believe it type of thing. Elder A felt prompted to return to the class, we walked in and found no one.........The whole class was supposed to be in their studying....So we went back to the residence hall where we found Elder B, packing up and all the Elders in our district standing there talking to him trying to talk to him. He would listen but you could tell it wasn't getting through to him. He was set on going home. Elder Eklof, who is the bomb at everything is sooo humble and has a testimony no person could ever tarnish, asks if Elder B would like to give him a blessing. Elder B says he wanted Elder A to give the blessing so we all put his hands on his head gave him a blessing and up to the front he went.

I don't know what happened, but after Elder Judd and I got back from teaching our investigator Elder B was sitting in class. He had stayed. Well then Sunday came and Elder B got up in our district meeting and said he had changed his mind again and that he was going home. Needless to say all of us were not entirely surprised, so he went packed up his stuff and walked up front, Then an hour later he walked into our room and said I HAVE A LACK OF FAITH! And was being all dramatic and such so I talked to him for a while, told him a portion of my permission life and then said here's what worked for me and then went to dinner. I don't know what has happened, but Elder B is so much more bearable, nothing he has done is different from the time I told you that he and I weren't getting along, but I think he was sent here to teach me how to love more fully. Because I've never found someone more difficult to love, and yes I told him that to his face.

Ok, some highlights of this week were at a fireside someone had said "See others with your heart." That was the most humbling statement EVER. I realized that my actions were largely based off of what I was seeing with my eyes so I had to make some self corrections this week. I also learned how significant baptism is. In 3 nephi chapter 11 the first thing that the savior does after the people touch his hands and feet is establish people with the authority to baptize. I challenge each of you to research baptism, why we have it? why we need it? What things are required for baptism (D&C 20:37) and know that we have agency and that agency is the only thing we can give to the God, everything else he already has, or doesn't need.

Oh and this week while I was teaching a lesson to an investigator I was prompted to say something, I didn't speak up and the spirit left me entirely....I didn't know what to do! I was confused, I was completely silent the whole rest of the lesson. I later talked to my teacher Hermano Halsted about it and he said that Joseph Smith and him did the same thing. He then had me read in D & C section 3 specifically versiculos 4-11. I couldn't feel the spirit again until after I talked to Elder Judd about it and told him I would speak out if I had a prompting again even if he were in the middle of a sentence, because I did not want to go through that type of withdraw from the spirit ever again.

Another thing I learned is that we determine our own successes. Regardless of whether or not we fail at a task. Our efforts determine our success. If you fail a test, you succeeded in studying for it was not a failure. Diligence in all things. Ultimately when we stand before God to be judged it will be based off of our efforts, knowledge, and thoughts (that one scares me). I am starting to consider myself quite philosophical, I made a quote up the other day. "If you want to hear something interesting listen with your ears, If you want to hear something profound listen with your mind, and if you want to hear something that will change your life, listen with your heart. Because when you spell heart the first for letters spell hear."

I'm already 20 minutes over my time limit, and I have 4 more letters to write by hand. So I'm going to bail. But know that I love you all and I'm so grateful to be serving the Lord. No thing is greater than this.

Love you,

Elder Hatch

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Mi querido familia,                                                              08-27-12

Estoy animado leer ustedes ?letters?. I have been having a very good week this last week and I've realized that each and everyone of my letters have been about things that I've been learning not necessarily about me and how I'm doing. I've become well adjusted to MTC life, my companion and I get along great aside from one run in that we straightened out as soon as we both realized we didn't have the spirit with us anymore. I asked the Heavenly Father in my prayers for a humbling experience and He answered with a man named Elder Bahoravich in my district. He and I DO NOT get along, he is constantly and openly disobeying rules that were set such as everyone taking a break at the same time during study time to not distract other Elders. He also has a mouth and doesn't try to control it at all. Don't get me wrong, I have a mouth too, not since I've become a missionary and certainly not since entering the MTC, but he will casually drop words and when he's upset there is no end to what he says.

The other day he started to lecture my companion Elder Judd who is a bigger kid, about how he should be eating healthier so he can lose weight. I was NOT ok with that so I told him to knock it off nicely and playfully and he kept it going you could tell Elder Judd was really hurt by it. And Elder Bahoravich didn't care at all what Elder Judd might have felt like and I later ripped into him and he was being a poop head. End of story. Also Elder Bahoravich is saying he won't be here the full two years...it's just GAHHHHH! I probably shouldn't have shared that much detail, but it goes to show that not everyone who is 19 is capable of being a missionary that is....I'm done talking about that. On a lighter note I prayed sooooo furvently last night for the Lord to help me with my relationship with him. Then today in the temple I went there with hopes of recieving an answer and I still don't have a for sure answer, but I have a decent idea how things will turn out. My council of learning from this story would be don't let small insignificant things like a rule to take a break or a small four letter word destroy the spirit in your life and if others are acting like this Elder, don't let your opinions of their actions destroy the spirit from your life. Think on what the savior would do before you act. I actually challenge you as a family to read the book of James for family home evening, notice what council James gives to those with issues such as these and if you ponder on the idea that they need our help so much more because of this I promise that when an instance to act comes about in your life, so long as you remember what James has to say, you will act as the savior did when the Pharisees were wanting to stone the woman who was a harlot. 

In the temple today, when I was thinking of how I could help myself and Elder Bahoravich, I had a thought that had popped into my head. And this is me asking you to go out on a limb, but when I was rock climbing lots there was a family that I had met, the dad's name was Jon the daughters name was Ashli and she was 8 I think the mom's name was Kathy, but I'm not sure and they have one more daughter. They live around 67th and Olive and I thought today while at the temple that they NEED the gospel ASAP. They need to have the opportunity to become a family for eternity and it needs to be through the friendship of our family. They know some LDS people on their street, and I know that their daughter Ashli was in love with me and if they met any of the rest of our family they would be more than excited to get to know our family better. I would like to challenge you as a family to make an effort to find this family for me and invite them to have the missionaries over to their home. I know that they can be blessed by this gospel as can any other family, but for whatever reason the Lord has specified to me that we(you in proxy for me) need to get this family the message of the restored gospel. I do not doubt at all that that was the prompting I got while in the temple today, they spirit affirmed it so strongly.

Also this week has has been huge for reaffirmations of my testimony. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that on several instance he saw God and Jesus Christ, and that this dispensations truly is the fullness of times. I know that through our actions and words we can be examlpes of our Savior always. Recently I've been reading the story of Samson, in their it talks about Samsons amazing strength, he had Deliahla ask him four times how he had his strength and those were four opportunities to flee from the sin. But he stayed and kept close to the sin because he loved it far greater than the capacity he had to do the Lords work, and due to that he lost his strength until that final time he pulled the building down on himself and 3000 others ending his life. (in Judges chapters 13 to whenever it stops.) I know that if we keep ourselves close to the spirit when the first attempt satan makes to have us sin comes we will know how to and immediate rid ourselves of the situation. I love this gospel. I miss all of you, I meow every time I pass an acorn up here and my companion is beginning to do it as well. I love you all.

Love,  Elder Hatch

Also, just a quick story I forgot to type up, I'm already 5 over so it'll be fast.

Elder Judd and I were doing companion study and talking about our investigator Freddy who is a Hardcore Catholic and we had our first lesson with him last week leaving a book of mormon our testimonies and a challenge for him to read the book of mormon and pray about it's truthfulness. Well in our study we had heard from another group that Freddy was going to give it back to us and my companion wanted to plan to that advantage, because somebody already went through the scenerio, I told him no that isn't how it will work in the field. He got sooooooo upset at me and I wouldn't budge, we started to argue. We both noticed the spirit was gone and stopped. looked around us and every companionship but 2 were doing things that they weren't supposed to at that moment so we removed ourselves from the room, and walked outside right after saying another companionship prayer. as we stepped into the sun the lord blessed us both with rain, it was completely sunny but raining. I know the Lord was giving us a witness of his tender mercies. We both started laughing and knelt down and said a prayer of graditude. sorry the grammar is terrible. Remember this story and look for the lords tender mercies in your life, they come everyday I promise you.

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Dear family,                                                               08-20-12

Firstly, it would greatly help me if you were to write to me on Thursday evening so that I can get the hard copy of the letter on Friday evening because they print them out the day after and send them to the missionaries, but they don´t do Dear Elders on Saturday. That way I can plan out what I have to respond with and I can efficiently use the 30 minutes that I have been given to respond.

Second, I´m sorry I didn´t get a chance to respond to everyones letters last week. I ran out of time and couldn´t remember what I was supposed to write back to everyone.

And third here´s something for everyone. I want to talk really quick about the importance of the work I am doing along side 76,000ish other missionaries. I am inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them and inviting them through the doctorine of our Savior Jesus Christ. Something that I learned this week could have probably been the most profound thing I have ever learned and it´s a bit deep so get ready to swim.

We as human beings are damned....straight up, no getting around it, we are literally all born on a path straight to Hell. Because when Adam and Eve partook of the Fruit, we were separated from the presence of nuestro Padre Celestial (our Heavenly Father). This also made physical death possible, the only way to over come these two things is for us to follow the example of Jesus Christ. He over came spiritual death when he had prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane and then died on the cross. He over came physical death by being resurrected three days later and ONLY through Him and faith in Him can we possibly return to Father. Adam and Eve both had to have a PERFECT faith in Christ to be able to damn their posterity. I testify that this is true, I will stand and testify this gospel until the day I die and if the Lord permits for me time even after in the spirit world. I love my Savior. My words will forever speak of the glory of my Father in Heaven and I testify that this work ¨...is MY work...¨ (Moses 1:39) and my Fathers glory. My last words that I say or write will by like Moroni's words in Moroni 7:32-34 I will testify of Christ and of His example being the only means possible to return to our Heavenly Father. Read Matthew 5:48 and 3 Nephi 12:48 Write me back ASAP and tell me the difference you see between the two scriptures, that is Christ talking by the way. Dangit.....I'm 5 minutes over time and it's eating up my time for next week so I'm going to go. I took notes on what you guys said so I'll try to find time to respond in a letter this week.

Dad,

We get to go to the temple every P day which for me is on Mondays. So this morning Elder Judd and I went to the temple and it was awesome. I realize the more in tune with the spirit I am the more intense the sessions get.

Love you,

Elder Hatch.