Hello
Family!
Thanks for
all the mail, a lot has gone on in the past few days; I had been working in a
near-by area for a recent trade-off so most of it wasn't spent with my
investigators. We had two Chinese men at church this week though, hopefully
next week we can have more like 6. The work goes on. Transfers are soon, I'm a
bit worried one of us is going to move out of Mawson Lakes, I've grown pretty
comfortable where we are and it'd be nice to spend one more transfer here with
Elder Sexton. We'll see what happens. Evidently we're getting I-pads in a
couple weeks as well, I think I'm more excited than anyone else. We're headed
down to the Mission Office today so that he (Elder Sexton) can record a talk
he's giving to his grandparents, who are being baptized at the end of the
month. His father was basically disowned for joining the Church when he was
young, but over many years they've finally come around. Hopefully, President
and Sister Carter will be there, they're pretty much the best. We have about 6
or 7 solid investigators right now, plus our Filipino family, and a whole bunch
more that may or may not ever get anywhere. Our favorite right now is Terry, 23
year old Chinese uni student who is extra keen for baptism and has come to Church
for four weeks straight now. He's the man. We're teaching him with President
Carter on Tuesday. I'm not sure I've ever been more excited for anything in my
life. Closely following in Erming, also Chinese, also at Uni he's an Environmental
PhD working on catalysts to basically dissolve contaminants and pollution. He's
been in China the past few weeks, but he just got back and came to Church
yesterday. So he's great. A formerly less active member still needs his two
kids baptized, and they're on track. We're also teaching a man named Simba from
Zimbabwe, and he's recently started to really progress, he came to Church the
week before last, and committed to this week as well. He's moving around
though, so he's kind of hard to catch. Our next favorite is our wonderful Filipino
family, who have committed to Church as a family for this coming week. We get
them a little farther every week. They'll be baptized by the end of the year.
Max is another Chinese student who is having issues with social conversion, and
just general faith, but he'll get there too. We just got two new Chinese
students this week, and we're excited for them, as well as another dark
researcher, this one from Tanzania who pretty much just radiates with wisdom.
And then there's everyone else that we don't like as much.
Also, I
have another hole in my pants now. More important than clothing though, is a
special request. I need a big USB with any audio talks and firesides that
you can get. Preferably Bednar, Holland, and Uhctdorf heavy, but throw in
whatever you like as long as it’s a General Authority. And especially ones that
are a bit older. I would love some Hinkley and Maxwell talks. And Faust. Also
if a GA ever visits, record him by hand and send me a copy! We've been
listening to one by Joseph Fielding McConkie now for a couple weeks that’s
fantastic. And a couple Mo-tab albums would be nice, but honestly I could just
get those from any of the Elders here. Talks are harder to come by
though. That would be amazing.
Thanks
again for the mail, good luck this week.
Elder
Hatch
