everyone,
this
week we were able to watch conference in the talca stake center in
english and it was super great just like always. my favorite talk was by
elder d. todd christofferson about fathers and president monsons first
talk. the whole conference was great and i was able to have lots of
questions answered and i felt the spirit super strong multiple times.
this
week we went to a meeting in
rancagua, had general conference and have been working to find new
people to teach since cata was baptized. we had a cool zone activity
today, we cooked a big pancake and egg breakfast for 32 people and
played soccer and basketball all morning long in the stake center.
it
was stressful cooking and cleaning after, but i like our zone. its a
blast being with elder marshall and doing fun activities with our roommates. after the zone activity only one missionary stopped on the
way out to say thank you for cooking and cleaning and that missionary
was a sister missionary. i was tempted to say," were there not thirty and
two missionaries here, where are the other thirty and one?". i obviously didnt say that but i realized that the one sister changed my
heart a little bit as to what i think about sister missionaries!
thats
about all our week, we will have more success in the sector this week
for sure. birthday shout out to my little brother and tauna and erwin
and congrats to grandma and grandpa hatch for getting their mission
call!! love you all hope this week is a great week!
questions:
1. How is the YW program in your ward? Are there lots of YW for
Catalina to have as a support system?
the yw program is really strong
here in talca, cata will be just fine she has lots of good friends
already
2. Are Cata's parents members of the church?
no her mom
is an alcoholic and drug adict and ive never met the dad before, they
are divorced..
3. Where did you watch conference? What was your
favorite talk and why?
the stake center in talca centro, elder
christoffersons talk about fathers because im preparing to become a
father and i know that i need to be the best i can one day. the spirit
hit me really hard while listening to his words. im not exactly sure
what his words were but the spirit told me many things that i can do and
need to do to prepare for the next phase in my life and i want to
follow those promptings
4. What was your favorite
experience of the week? when the hermana said thanks and the general
conference talk of elder christofferson
5.
Tell us more about Elder Marshall and his family. Did he graduate the
same year as you? Does he know the bigalows, or Hayden Nielson from
Highland?
i love elder marshall so much its not even funny. we are
the same in so many ways and we keep finding out more and more stuff
that we both did or do or like. for example elder marshall was also a
guy who ran with the torches in the gilbert temple celebration. his
stake did the hoe down dance with red shirts. elder marshall knows grant
bigelow really well and also hayden nielson he went to highland high and
now live about 5 minutes from the gilbert temple. he is the youngest of
four and his two older brothers served missions already, one in
brisbane and one in iowa. we graduated the same year and have realized
that we were at many of the same high school football games too!! he
knows rachel rifey, and maddy lund too! super small world.. we are going
to be great friends after the mission and we have planned tons of
stuff to do together already. my favorite comp ever by far.
6. Do you speak English or spanish when you're at the apartment?
all ingles, we are 4 gringos ha
7.
Are you taking tons of pictures of EVERYTHING! Even things that you
think aren't a big deal and that you won't remember?
not really i need
to do a better job of that
8.
Is there anything you want to start collecting for the members or
elders when we come? I know we brought some clothes and a bunch of
candy with us when we went to get Trevin in Argentina.
im not sure actually i never
thought of that. let me think and ill write back next week
