hello family
It was a great week out here in olomouc, we challenged quite a few people to baptism and right now we have 4 people who have baptismal dates and are working for that. It was great to see how the Lord was preparing people this week to make changes. The sister of the woman baptized last transfer is working towards being baptized in march, her little two year old peed all over the place at the church building which was a fun experience to clean up, i just feel bad for her having to put up with him all the time definitely the most hyper little kid i have ever seen.
We got to experience getting a flat tire and changing it in the freezing cold with snow, haha my companion was actually pretty excited about that because he had never changed a tire before and was excited to learn so i showed him how to do that, we had a big fat screw in our tire but got it all fixed and taken care of. still working on teaching him to drive stick hopefully we will get that down in the next week because its pretty much a 100 percent sure that i am going to be leaving next week at transfers. Transfers should be pretty interesting since 20 percent of the mission will be getting replaced in a week so we are going to be having a lot of young missionaries here.
as probably most of you know i wasn't one for talking on the phone much before my mission but that has sure changed on the mission. we have free calling between missionaries and we have 4 different cities in our zone so we are always working the phones seeing how missionaries are doing and keeping them fired up and than constantly calling members and investigators luckily we have a great phone deal. Its a pretty funny story how we got such a great phone deal, there is a member in prague who is an american and is a multi millionaire and he has tons of connections and is always helping out the mission. well about 2 years ago it was about time for us to get a new phone deal and he was like i will take care of this. And he got like the top representatives from the 4 biggest cell phone companies in the czech republic and had them come to his office and had them sit in his conference room and just had them sit there with his assistants bringing them water over and over again and than he showed up a hour and a half late after they have been drinking water and he starts going over what each of the representatives had to offer for deals.
people started having to go to the bathroom and asked to be excused and he was like no i don't have time lets get this worked out now and than you can go, if you leave the room your company loses the deal. So he had these 4 representatives fighting against each other and they all had to go to the bathroom and we ended up with an amazing phone deal. In the czech republic cell phones are the biggest rip off. most people pay 30 dollars a month for a contract plus 15 cents for every minute spoken and 15 cents a text message.
I have no idea where i am going for transfers i hope prague just because i still haven't served there and my next city will be my last city but i will be fine going where ever they ask me and doing whatever they ask me to do. We had a great testimony meeting yesterday, the members who stay active here have such strong testimonies, you have to have a very strong testimony here to stay active just because there is so much working against people in this country to keep them from living the gospel- i respect them all so much.
we decided to push martin (who was supposed to get baptized this weekend) baptism back a few weeks just to firm him up some more. it was hard because he wanted to be baptized before i left but it is the best thing for him and it is also cool because he has asked the branch president to baptize him and its always better when members baptize then missionaries. well i have been kind of rambling on but i hope you all have a great week and valentines day, are you going to be doing the laser quest thing?
We got to experience getting a flat tire and changing it in the freezing cold with snow, haha my companion was actually pretty excited about that because he had never changed a tire before and was excited to learn so i showed him how to do that, we had a big fat screw in our tire but got it all fixed and taken care of. still working on teaching him to drive stick hopefully we will get that down in the next week because its pretty much a 100 percent sure that i am going to be leaving next week at transfers. Transfers should be pretty interesting since 20 percent of the mission will be getting replaced in a week so we are going to be having a lot of young missionaries here.
as probably most of you know i wasn't one for talking on the phone much before my mission but that has sure changed on the mission. we have free calling between missionaries and we have 4 different cities in our zone so we are always working the phones seeing how missionaries are doing and keeping them fired up and than constantly calling members and investigators luckily we have a great phone deal. Its a pretty funny story how we got such a great phone deal, there is a member in prague who is an american and is a multi millionaire and he has tons of connections and is always helping out the mission. well about 2 years ago it was about time for us to get a new phone deal and he was like i will take care of this. And he got like the top representatives from the 4 biggest cell phone companies in the czech republic and had them come to his office and had them sit in his conference room and just had them sit there with his assistants bringing them water over and over again and than he showed up a hour and a half late after they have been drinking water and he starts going over what each of the representatives had to offer for deals.
people started having to go to the bathroom and asked to be excused and he was like no i don't have time lets get this worked out now and than you can go, if you leave the room your company loses the deal. So he had these 4 representatives fighting against each other and they all had to go to the bathroom and we ended up with an amazing phone deal. In the czech republic cell phones are the biggest rip off. most people pay 30 dollars a month for a contract plus 15 cents for every minute spoken and 15 cents a text message.
I have no idea where i am going for transfers i hope prague just because i still haven't served there and my next city will be my last city but i will be fine going where ever they ask me and doing whatever they ask me to do. We had a great testimony meeting yesterday, the members who stay active here have such strong testimonies, you have to have a very strong testimony here to stay active just because there is so much working against people in this country to keep them from living the gospel- i respect them all so much.
we decided to push martin (who was supposed to get baptized this weekend) baptism back a few weeks just to firm him up some more. it was hard because he wanted to be baptized before i left but it is the best thing for him and it is also cool because he has asked the branch president to baptize him and its always better when members baptize then missionaries. well i have been kind of rambling on but i hope you all have a great week and valentines day, are you going to be doing the laser quest thing?
Love
Elder Hatch
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Elder Hatch is such a wonderful missionary, I can just see him as an AP really soon. I know transfers are happening and my son is coming home. He served with Elder Hatch and said they don't come any better or more obedient. I know he will be great where ever he gets to serve. Continue a great work, I will keep reading his blog each week. Much Love, Susan Nowland - Missionary Mom to Elder Nowland
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