Pepto Bismol

Hey Mom!

My new area is awesome. 

So my new companion, Elder Judkins, is awesome. He wears glasses but when he doesn't he looks IDENTICAL to Tyler Bennett. He is an awesome kid. He's been out 6 months and has a genuine care to work. It's such a breath of fresh air. He takes his studies seriously and it make it so much better in a lesson because I can actually trust what he is going to say. We found 7 new investigators this week and I have never had a more unified companion than I do right now. We think with the same mind. Our lessons go SO well. And as we have been exactly obedient, the Lord is just handing us success. It's so awesome. He is from Las Vegas and has been in Greeneville his whole mission so far. We get along really really well. I've never had so much fun while having so much work and success ever in my life. When two people with pure motives who desire to work as a team get together, things go really smooth. 

Getting transferred was rough on the budget but it's been good, this week that'll change thankfully but it's running low. We had a member help us out, he does dollar shave club and it's the most amazing thing. FYI for anyone still buying razors from the store? Stop! Dollar shave club is so dang sweet. And way cost effective. Well long story short he gave us each 12 razor blade changes and ordered the handles for them so we could save money on razors. It costs him about 10$ in the end. So ya, it's sweet. Super nice of him. 

Elder Judkins and I tried to make this nasty drink thing that someone gave us. We were making it after we got home and it was literally the worst thing in the entire world. It looked like Pepto Bismol and didn't taste good whatsoever. I don't know what the deal is but it was hilarious at least. 

Last night Elder Judkins and I couldn't stop laughing, we were coming up with variant names for nouns around the house. For example.

Window = glass poster 

Shower = temporal atonement

Teeth = food axes 

Toothpaste = food axe sharpening ointment 

Bed = Human Wireless Charging Pad 

Tie = Expensive Noose 

Desk = Paper Elevation Station

Mirror = Opposite Day Portal

Juice = Pulverized Fruit Blood 

Belt = Hip Necklace 

Eye Lids = Sight Dust Mops 

So yeah things are good! 

Love you mom! 

Love cam

No Coincidences

Hey Yall!

We have great news all around! We had a baptism Sunday! And two more on the 24th and one on April 7th! Things are going fantastic and it's fun to see a "hard area" get some blessings. The thought for this week is how there are no coincidences in life. The investigator yesterday Jean has a crazy story. He lives in Honduras and his mom wanted him to get a better education so he came to America to live with his cousins, after about a year his cousins did something bad and he got blamed for it and they kicked him out. He had made a friend that week named Rylan Evans who's family is in one of the wards we cover. Jean was at Rylan's house the day he got kicked out and it was his first time being over to hang out with Rylan. Well Rylan's mom, as she relayed at his baptism which she hadn't mentioned before, immediately felt when she met Jean that day "this young man will be baptized." She and Rylan talked with him for like an hour that day about the church. Turns out Jean was very well read in scripture and could even see the temple in Honduras from his house. After they got done talking Rylan's mom asked him what he was going to do with being kicked out, Jean didn't know and so she told Rylan to go with him and get his stuff because he was moving in to their house! Brother Evans gets back that weekend to find he has a new son! Hahaha well Jean asked if he could go to church with them and they brought him. This was January and we met him that day. The lesson in gospel principles was one that was a little......not great for really any investigator was all over the place so we were like, "crap this is not good." Well we set a lesson up with them and it was awesome teaching Jean. (Pronounced John btw). He had no resistance to anything we taught and was like, "this is true I know it is. I feel it." He accepted a baptismal date and due to extenuating circumstances waited until yesterday to be baptized but it went awesome. Rylan got to baptize him and tons of people showed up, this was one of the only times I got to meet the investigator and see them baptized before leaving, it was a special treat. And then the two on the 24th getting baptized are awesome too, I'll save that story for another email. But man it was great.

This week was a great one and I hope everyone else had a good week. I also it my 21 month mark this week! So crazy.

Love yall!
Elder Hiatt

Juggling & Moving

Hey Yall!

This week was awesome, we had some crazy amounts of rain and biking in it was not the greatest plan. I'll show a video of why hahaha.

Things are fantastic though. We have had the best week as of work. We now have three baptisms this weekend! The family that is getting baptized has become some of our best friends. The wife we were worried would accept to be baptized with the son but we had a lesson Sunday where she asked if she could be baptized with her son. And it was sick! The bishop was so excited. I'll give the full story after it happens but man it has been a whirl. We also have a baptism Sunday as well. Things are raining out of the sky with all this rain!

We have been having some superb Chinese food as of late and so I've been carrying around some chopsticks and it's been pretty funny to see people when I whip out my own pair. 

I also learned how to juggle! Some members made us some bean bags so we could learn. At night I've been trying to and actually can. So that's a fun thing. 

We helped a bunch of people move this week which was good. Nobody has a basement because the ground is awful so they have storage units and I'm pretty sure everyone understands that if they got nice storage totes and spent a little money it'd be super organized but instead they're like, "nah, that's money, we can just stack it!" Then you open that pearly Burgundy sheet metal door and BAM! You've got yourself a hoarders dream. It's great. 

But ya! Life is good, we are excited for these baptism and so next week should be a great email.

Love ya!

Elder Hiatt