December 26th, 2008

hello everybody

Christmas was great here in the brno, it was different experiencing christmas in a different country but a good experience. Thanks to everybody for all of the gifts and packages you guys are awesome. Christmas here in the czech republic is a 3 day holiday today is the 3rd day and everything is closed and nobody is out so we have spent the day as a district playing games.

There were 2 baptisms this last weekend here in Brno and we were able to take our investigator lenka to one of them she loved it and said it was one of the most beautiful things she has ever seen, she is very excited for her own baptism, everytime she talks with us she tells us how many days until the 10th of January. The relief society has done a really good job of welcoming her in, it helps that her member friend is the president of the relief society.

We went out to our branch presidents house on monday night for an fhe which was quite an ordeal we had to take a real train 30 minutes to get to his little town. It was fun though we sang czech christmas carols with their family and played some little games. The elders quoram president here is from england and his wife is czech, its pretty cool he teaches in english and his counsars translate to czech for everybody. Most all of the men know english from having served missions even though they didnt all serve in english speaking places.

Sorry i cant really think of anything else we just spoke last night but i hope everybody had a great christmas i love you guys thanks for all of the support you give me. Its an amazing experience being a missionary.

Love
Elder Hatch