February 2nd, 2009

Hey Guys

Well I am staying here in Brno which I am pretty excited about unfortunately my companion Elder Gagon is leaving but not going to far just to another apartment here in Brno as zone leader. My new companion is Elder Strup I dont know too much about him yet but i am sure he is a great guy. It is crazy how time has flown this transfer it seems like I was just meeting Elder Gagon, time flies when you are working hard I guess, I have learned alot of good things from him and I am looking forward to learning some more good stuff from my next companion. Every single missionary here has so many different experiences you can learn alot of good stuff from them.

This morning we had a big breakfast at the church building and than received transfer fax (which is really an email) and Elder Wooley the senior missionary here read it off. So Lukas the tea guy from church called us up this week and was like hey i got a question for you guys and we were like what? And than he asked "How long would it take me to become a member of your church?" We were like umm 3 weeks and he was like sweet im gonna be a member of your church. So he was at church again yesterday with his thermos and cup of tea along with another young guy stanislav who is like 25 and loved church. Lukas stayed after church and sang in the choir too. Pretty much all of our investigators are young people ages 18-25.

Elder Gagon and I went and made banana bread with the Betcovi the less active family we are working with, czechs have never heard of it but they love it. It was both the first time for me and my comp making it but it turned out well and they loved it. I was on exchanges again this last week and we found this one woman at night set up a meeting with her and than taught her the next morning. She is about 33 but looks like 50 because she was on hard drugs for awhile, she is in a rehab place right now and we talked with her about how she can draw power from reading the Book of Mormon. It is very rejuvenating to see somebody excited about reading the scriptures and looking forward to it. Its funny because people are always like how much does it cost? and when we tell them its free that we are giving it to them as a gift they are taken back and very grateful.

Saturday night Maminka had us over, she just got back from Egypt and loved getting the note from you mom. She called us up and we went over after a meeting we had close to her and we showed up and she suprized me with a homemade birthday cake since she was gone for my birthday which was fun, so dont worry they are taking very good care of me over here.

Tonight we are going with Lenka to the Branch Presidents house for FHE with his family, the members are really opening up to her. She also brought one of her good friends for us to teach this last week and bore amazing testimony about the BoM and how it is like therapy for her reading it. It was my first referral ever from a member, and I must say it is so much easier when that happens so everybody give the missionarys a boost and give them a referral. Hope everybody has a great week and i look forward to hearing from you next week.

Love
Elder Hatch