MTC Excitement

October 11, 2016

Wow, Sounds like a lot going on. I did send letters back home. Has no one received them? Let me know and I can see what happened in that process.

So since the last I've talked to you guys there has been a lot going on! I'll just go in order, So last Tuesday after I had written you guys my district All went to the Provo Temple and did a session, the building was so beautiful. The theme was snowflakes, so there were a lot of small chandlers in the shape of snowflakes and everything was just to beautiful! Walking around the temple was so awesome and the acorns here are HUGE! And they hurt when they fall down from the trees, one struck me in the neck and it felt like some one had thrown a rock. the Elders keep playing around and thats nothing new, we decided to stop with the food challenges because Elder Jolly puked in the middle of class one time.

on Wednesday new missionaries came into the MTC, and we were still teaching Jiyeon, I didn;t feel good about the last lesson to Sister Wright and I fast and prayed for help, and wow did it help! she could hardly speak English and I told last week that the lesson was terrible, but she slowly learned more and it's so awesome to see her growth! We invited her to pray when she's at home and when we checked up on her she had the cutest story about how she prayed for her sick pet fish, SO CUTE I LOVE HER!!! So some lessons were complicated but the last lesson was awesome. She said she now believes in God, she knows Joseph is a prophet, and we invited her to be baptized but she won't without her husband. But Wow how much she's grown and the joy I can see when she talks about the Savoir. Later that day we had found out that my teacher sister Fultin, is pregnat! but also that her friend died and she Has a very hard time with that right now. I shared with her about My grandma Woodside, How she too died from Cancer and she was okay with it, because she knew God was watching over her and God is watching over sister Fultin's friend too. That was just another super spiritual moments.

On Thursday, Wow it was a powerful night! We were reading in Enos and we talked about how God talks to Us. We as a district all knelt down together and offered a prayer, The Spirit filled the room and Elder Simons suggested to take this time to give everyone on a priesthood blessings. I'm not going to share too much because it may be personal to others in my district. But How awesome it is that we have that opportunities to receive blessing from God through worthy priesthood holders. That room felt like the Celestial room and we didn’t want that night to end. 

Friday, We had taught a new investigator, her name was Heidi, she came from Germany and had heard about the church through her sister who is a convert! Wow was she awesome! she hadn;t understood why Jesus died on the cross and we explained about the atonement and how the room was filled with the spirit, once she knew that she was imperfect and she could become perfect. She had alot of questions and wanted to understand how she could use the atonement. we are going back tomorrow to teach her more, I'm so excited!

Sunday was so awesome my compainion and I were able to teach a lesson and fasted again. It was a pretty relaxing day until later that night. A girl had fainted in the shower! she was feeling so sick and thought that a shower would help and when sister Cushman and I were in the sink area and hear a big thud. Few other sisters and I went to see what had happen and she has unconscious and was bleeding from her head. One of the sisters turned off the water but was careful not to move her. While another was going to get help. With paramedics there everyone on the floor got together prayed for the sister who fell and sang hymns. She is okay now but unfortunately she is unable to return to her mission. So every one keep Sister Olsen in your prayers.

Monday, We were teaching Ashley, her soon to be husband was a member of the Church and she saw how much this religion had effected his life, so she was learning about the church now, and she knows alot but she just doesn't think it's possible that Joseph smith was a prophet of God. Ashley though does want to be baptized, but is having a hard time giving up smoking so we are helping with that also. We will meet up with her tomorrow and see where she's at.

Today. So if anyone has read Elder Dallin Hammond's letters you would know his first week girls were evacuated out of a building because someone got bit by a bat. well now the problem is taken care of and all the sisters are moving back in to that building.  and everything is so nice and big, and they have lots of vending machines so yeah I'm gonna get fat. But hey I'm okay with that. The only thing they dont have that I'm really craving is celery! I LOVE CELELERY and CHEESE CAKE and I can never find any of it here. Sister Wright and I are having a blast! We get along so well and I actually can't imagine not being her compainion anymore. Every body write me back and tell me what is going on! 

LOVE ALL YALL'

Sister Hatch

Sorry I always do this, One last thing. I leave to the field on October 17th. We have to be out of the MTC by 2:30 in the morning so yeah that will be great. But they say I'm allowed to call you guys (family) before I go so just be prepared to get a call at like 4 in the morning on monday! Love you Bye!