Week 5

Hello I have literally nothing new to stay. I’m hanging strong here, tell some good jokes, learn some spanish, feel the Spirit, good times. Sorry I’ve got nothing new. Me and Benito are always hanging out, that’s a fun time. President Moore and Hermana Moore are a good time.  Tomorrow we have the President of the 70 coming to talk to us, we thought it was gonna be an Apostle, cuz apparently Elder Rendland is in the area. But Prez of the 70 is tight too. 

I’m getting nervous to leave, but I’m ready and pumped. It’s really nice to just have all

these dope guys to hang out with all the time. In a week I’m gonna go to bed with one other guy in the room that probably won’t speak English, that is gonna get interesting, but I’m excited. I leave on Tuesday to Cusco, not sure of logistics. Everytime I tell someone I’m going to Cusco, and they know anything about Cusco, they freak out. Hermana Moore calls us the spoiled ones, the missionaries I went on splits with asked if they could serve our mission for us. Everyone is a big fan of Cusco. Way excited about

that. 

Also wanna hear something cool. The scriptures are pretty dang awesome for South American missionaries, cuz it always talks about how one day the Lamanites will except the word of God through the Book of Mormon. I’m one of the people that is helping convert the Lamanites, like literally helping convert them. I’m basically

in the scriptures, you could say I’m a big deal. Good times

I’ve had a pretty big humility theme this week. Our teacher pulled me and Ruekart aside and told us we are great leaders and stuff and that we have really good spanish, and if we continue to be humble, we will be able to do great things. Humility, probably not one of my stronger traits. 

Anyways not much more.  Good Times.

Elder Hatfield

Week 4

Wassup good times this week. Me and Elder Benito Brown are always hanging out. Its pretty dope.  And his companion is my teaching companions buddy, so we all just hang. It’s a great time. My district is still rad. Big fan of them. Last night for our district meeting we decided we would get to know each other better. We played the newly wed game but with companions. Pretty funny. 

I had some pretty real missionary experiences this week. So our teacher, Elder Velasquez, great guy, took us out to the field to naturally practice contacting
investigators. So we are practicing and then he stops us and says,”see those workers over there, they are not members of the church, who will try giving them a quick message and get there information?” Me and Hermana Kelley and Elder Ruekart raised our hands, so we walk over and we talk to this guy. His name was Jimmy, we shared a quick message about how Christ gospel is still on the earth today. We got all his contact information, then we took it to the front office so theycould send missionaries to his house. Haven’t even left the walls of the MTC and I’m doing work. I’m kind of a big deal. Hahah no but really way cool, Peruvians are so nice and are down to listen to anyone. Big fans of these peeps. 

So last Saturday we got to go proselyting with the missionaries of the Lima East mission. Lima east is like a South American New York, it’s way cool to see how many people there were hanging in the street. Me and Elder Austin got put with this cool Peruvian guy and this other Utah Elder. So I’mjust praying I get put with the Peruvian Elder, cuz I wanted to practice my Spanish, and I knew the Utah Elder would just wanna speak English with me. My Spanish was balling. I totally knew what was going on. We knocked a door and we got one guys information, once again, it is amazing how humble these people are. Then we went to a scheduled appointment to a kid who is 17, named Diego.  He was baptized 2 weeks ago. I’m not really sure what you have to do to be baptized, but he didn’t seem like he knew too much about the Book of Mormon. Anyways we get into the lesson, and my companion just stares at me. The only help I’m getting from this guy is the words “Exacto” every time I say something. So I am running solo on this lesson. It was so cool. I asked him what feelings he has had since baptism, he said he was peaceful. I then asked if he was reading the Book of Mormon, he said
no. I then asked what he has been praying for, he said just normal prayers. So I asked him if he would read and pray to build his testimony on the Book of Mormon. I asked him if he had ever received an answer to his prayers, he said no. Then I showed him Galtains 5 22-23. I said those feelings of peace he has had since his baptism was the Holy Ghost telling him this is the truth, and that if he feels those same feelings when asking about the Book of Mormon, he will know its true. I’m pretty good at Spanish, but not that good. The Spirit totally guided my words. Way cool. I hope Go Diego Go can start praying and reading, but good times. 

Also all the Peruvians love to say “freaking” my splits comp asked me what that meant in English, it was very interesting trying to explain. Anyways, Sundays was like the most crazy spiritual day ever, fast and testimony was great. Powerful spirit here at MTC. Not that many great jokes this week, but way cool spiritual experiences. Happy to be here, Cusco is calling my name. Every Elder in Lima East was so jealous when they found out I was going to Cusco, must be a big deal. Much love. Go toros. Peace out.

Didnt realize this was blurry. Whoops. I was rockin the sweater  suit combo.

Me, Bennett, Elder Kenney, and Elder Ruekart. Good peeps

DISTRICT

Vball Action Shots

Me and Bennito getting it done.

Saying goodbye to some of the older kids
leaving before us.  This is Elder Halls.

Well same old same old. Today is like the best day ever. I woke up studied a little, we were the first to breakfast, and I hung out with bennett for a little. That was sick, I feel bad, that first couple of days blows, then I got to play some intense vball, and now I am emailing some good peeps. I had some pretty sweet scripture study this week. I would have like random questions that our district would talk about, and then I would just start reading my scriptures from wherever I left off and there would be like clear answers to the questions, it was so crazy, God answers our questions with the scriptures, it was jaw dropping cool. One night me and my district were talking about temple and plan of salvation, and me and Hermana Kelley and Elder Ruekart from mesa were trying to find some scriptures to find out where the heck Satan gets his power. Later that night we were watching a devotional by Richard g Scott from 2009, and not gonna lie I was bored and falling asleep, and then all of a sudden he said, “You have all been to the temple, Satan´s power is an illusion,and he has no power over those with bodies and priesthood and prayer, Satan only creates fear” My whole district started freaking out. It was a DIRECT answer to our questions. Soooo cool. Another good time was this week was with my fake investigator, every morning and night we teach our teachers in these tiny rooms and we treat them like investigators. I had asked my investigator for the 4th time if he read the Book of Mormon, and for the 4th time he said no. I responded “En Serio!!!!” me and my fake investigator died laughing and I could not hold it back the rest of the lesson. Also I am switching companions for teaching. Me and Elder Ruekart are now teaching companions, so I live with Elder Austin, but I study plan and teach with Elder Ruekart. Kinda funny. But im pretty happy cuz Ruekart speaks way better Spanish, and Elder Austin and Ruekarts companion are similar levels. We are all pretty tight so it should be good. So far our lessons have been sweet. Anyways, it is a good time out here. Im pumped to see bennett, familiar faces are nice. Me and Elder Ruekart both had friends coming that are going to Arequipa, so we sprinted into there room and hugged them. Great week, Spanish rules, Church is true. It is getting to be the same old same old, but me and my district laugh a lot and have way good times.