Last Transfer!

Hey mom!

No worries on the package, my companion gets so many I forgot I was getting one. And it's good it's been a chill week. I wish I had a chill week. But it was a really good week. Our investigators are doing awesome. Some didn't show up at church which was obnoxious because we set three baptismal dates this week! Now they just gotta get coming to church, we should hopefully have two more on date this week too. I love them, I've never had a relationship with people like these people. It's such a joy and it all is just from being obedient and going and trying to help them anyway I can. I could care less if they get baptized. I just want to do what the lord wants for them at that time, even if it's just sit and be there and let them know there is someone praying for them and someone that cares. 

And dang! The dates already chosen huh? Hopefully I go home on June 13th for sure. I am excited as heck! I don't know if I could wait longer hahaha. 

I got to hold an awesome snake this week and also had a hilarious video capturing me being a retard at My ward mission leaders house. The ward has been DYING laughing at it and I think I've made an impression. I'll send the video, and just keep it within the family for now if you would, but I gotta show ya. 

We ran a 5k as a zone with the mission president and I'm pooped from it. I did pretty good though. I got 7th or 8th or something. It was awesome. I use to be so much faster though, kinda sad about that but knee surgery will get ya if you don't run for the next 4 years.

Life is going good though. Can't complain too bad. Just being excited for the last transfer to begin! I am excited as heck to get home. It's so close. I am working hard and finishing strong but definitely am excited to get back. 

I love ya Mom!

Love cam

The Lord Provides

Hey Yall!

This week was a great week. We went one exchanges with the zone leaders and it went much better than I had thought it would. We taught like 8 lessons that day. It was pretty cool. We also had a lot of meals fall from heaven this week. Our dinner calendar got snagged by the relief society president (I don't know why clipboards magically disappear into their bag but they do WAY TOO OFTEN) and so we didn't have dinners at all scheduled this whole week. But we had one each day. A member  saw a walking around one day and stopped and took us with him to a seafood grill where we had some fried catfish that was
quite good, we then with the zone leaders got a random dinner invite and ended up having some amazing Mexican food that I ate way too much of. It came back with a vengeance! We then got invited to lunch by the same dude who took us to get catfish to have street tacos at this place and it was also amazing. Beef fajita meet is the best just for everyone's info when they get street tacos. The thing is, if you ever wonder if your Mexican food is authentic? I shall say again, it came back with vengeance. Real Mexican food is so good but it's a reward risk type thing here. We then got taken to a super good burger place called bottle cap alley. At the end of that dinner I was doing magic tricks for people tying it into the parable of the talents and life half the restaurant was watching, it was super fun. Utilize your talents for missionary work people! We just were provided for miraculously is the message here and it was great.

We had an investigator who has been wanting to be baptized and been being taught for 4 months come to church for the first time last Sunday! I love the dude and it was so good to have him there. I feel like we begged the lord make than ever to soften his wife's heart and
to strengthen his to come. It was answered! Such a blessing.

It was a good week though, I've been pondering lately the worth of souls as it seems to be the theme of a lot lately of meetings I'm at. I think if we could understand a figment of our own worth, it'd allow us to understand the worth of those around us. For you can only love
your neighbor as much as you love yourself. Discovering our worth can be a process though, a process nonetheless I think would be good to go down. I also have been really taking president Nelson's talk seriously and hope everyone does as well to learn how to receive personal revelation. It's is key to these last days. Just go back and study
those talks, all of them. This conference is a turning point for the church in literally hastening the work. Don't skimp out now, the Savior is coming and I can testify  that living gospel standards, repenting to do so, and putting God first really does work. I fought
exactness my whole mission but you can do it "without compulsory means" as doctrine and covenants says. And when you do it in purity and love, you're life changes. Mine has.

I love you all!
Love Elder Hiatt

Shoe Shine

Hey Yall! 

Hope your week was good with the awesome opportunity to see general conference! I tried out writing down questions and seeing if they would be answered and it was really cool to be able to both have talks answer specifically as well as have the spirit inspire answers to me. It was a great weekend.

This week was not a crazy eventful one. Doing some sweet yoyo tricks, teaching some sermons at the prison like nursing home, and helping investigators progress! At the nursing home most of the people are nuts so we decided it didn't much matter what we prepared to give a sermon on so long as it was about Christ so we discussed Christ coming to America. It's amazing how so many people are so accepting and rejoice at the truth when they aren't locked off in heart and mind beforehand. It went super well. 

We had a great lesson with a guy named Clarence too. I have been praying earnestly for the gift of charity for people, and when we were teaching this lesson Clarence at the end said, "man we just met, but I feel like I know you and you've know me for years." 

Letting people know you pray for them and you truly care really is a powerful thing. 

Being a district leader seems to be good. I think I'm doing well? Missionaries say so so I'll go with that.

We shined some shoes I had not shined my whole mission and the difference is astonishing.

But ya! Was a good week. 

Love yall!

Elder Hiatt

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

Magic & Jesus Cards

Hey Yall!

This week was a good one! Neither I nor my companion got transferred but he wrecked his ankle this last Monday and so he's been in a boot cause he tore some ligaments. So we stayed close to our homestead. But that's been good because we have been going out and playing pickup games and shooting oops at a nearby court as well as we have learned a ton of card tricks and do street magic for people and then talk about missionary stuff after cause they always ask. Well this weekend was the third weekend we have really made it happen and so we were out Friday shooting hoops and tons of high school kids walked by going home from school and all of em were like, "Hey! It's Elder Hiatt and Elder black!" They knew us by name! All cause of street magic and ball. It's awesome. They know me as the baller and Elder Black as the magician but we do both we just are better at our corresponding talents. So it's way fun. Members are that way too, when we get to dinners they all after are like, "so we hear you do magic, let's see this!" So we then have an awesome time and end up getting tons of ward help from it too! It's been so fun. We recently learned a new trick and it blew some kids minds. While they all were watching magic some of them came over to me and asked for more Jesus cards cause they wanted some and so this time I gave them the articles of faith cards and everyone saw and then everyone at McDonald's wanted one! I sat while Elder Black did magic talking with everyone else as they read the articles of faith and asked what they all were and such. It was so sick, I felt like Alma. They all put em in the back of their phone cases so they could have Jesus showing it was sick.

We also had tons and tons of full size candy bars. Elder Black and I didn't want them so we filled our suit coats with 70 total things of snickers, Starburst, milky way,skittles, and everything you'd find in movie theaters. We then went to church and whenever someone in any class answered a question we tossed em. The priest quorum went nuts and the young men's president was all, "man you guys know how to get street credit with the youth, making my bar too high sheesh! No you guys are the best thanks for that man." So that went awesome. We also had a linger longer after church and we got stuck at a table with a way cool family. Their daughters were awesome and we enjoyed their company. 

This week has been FREEZING...... It's awful. The air is so dang wet and it's all sub 32 temperatures so coats literally don't matter. It rained one night and then froze and all the trees were coated in like ice, every inch of them. I felt like I was in heaven cause the sun in the morning shined through all the ice on the tree branches and made them glow. It was so cool. Then it slowly melted through the day and so under any given tree it was raining.

Things are awesome, I appreciate your prayers!

Elder Hiatt