Monday, March 26, 2012

Hey family!

Sounds like your trip was amazing! Glad you got back safe!

This week was really tiring; we have been doing so much stuff to get ready for General Conference. Last week we printed out 200 invitations for General Conference and we are already on our last ones and we are going to go and print out more today. But the members here are really supportive and are inviting all their friends and coworkers. We are also focusing on the less active members so that they can come back to the church. We had lots of success this week. We found some families that not everyone is members and we are working with them. Some of them came to church this week too! But some bad news is that the family that was going to get baptized isn't now because there is this man that is living in their house, it’s kind of obvious that they don't want him there, but he thinks he is the mom’s boyfriend. So the mom couldn't get baptized, plus she started working on Sundays so she couldn't go to church and her kids stopped coming too. We’re probably going to have to stop teaching them. It sucks but that's just what happens sometimes. We have lots of other investigators that seem to be progressing and that are going to church, and especially with these new incomplete families things are looking alright still. We have been using the Liahona (Ensign) to teach lately. The first presidency message is why we need prophets and since General Conference is in a week we have been explaining the importance of having a Prophet and listening to his council. It has been good. We teach both the members and our investigators with it. There are two other messages that we are using, one about a girl who felt lots of joy as she shared the gospel and the other one is about the life of President Monson.

I got my release date this week. It is July 3rd.

I also talked to the family that was going to go to Mesa, but they aren't going to go after all. So that's not going to work out sending a package with them.

Hope everyone has an awesome week and knows that i miss you all and love you all alot!

Love Elder Jake Hatch