Sister Hatch in The Potato State: Letter #26- I Feel Empowered!

March 30, 2015

Dear Everyone!

Hola! How is everyone?

This week has been awesome! I've felt God's love and He chastening me when I start to get down on myself. I knock the negative thinking and worries out of my head and focus on the work and on my Savior, Jesus Christ!

This week Sister Ikimau and I went to contact a lot of people! We went to a house that is a part member family. Wilson, the husband, opened the door. We talked with him for a little bit and got to know him. He had the door a little opened between himself and the door frame. Sister Ikimau asked Wilson, "Would it be okay if members came and stopped by?" Then his wife yelled from the back of the room, "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Sister Ikimau and I were stunned and tried so hard not to laugh. We kindly excused ourselves from Wilson and told him to have a good day. He said, "My wife is anti." And he closed the door. We went to the next street over to contact a girl named Kinoa, but her Mom answered the door. She immediately spilled it out as she rolled her eyes, "No, no, NO! I don't believe in God! I don't want anything to do with you Mormons! Who sent you here!?" Sister Ikimau and I just stood there and listened, "Did Brenda send you here?" Sister Ikimau and I said, "No. We just got a text from someone to stop by to see Kinoa." She then said, "OH! I think someone is pulling a prank with you! Because Kinoa would say the same thing!" We asked inspired questions and she just avoided them as much as she could. She then said, "There's no hope!" We talked about having Hope. She denied and said that she has to get going. We told her to have a nice day and we left her a "Because He Lives" pass along card.

The next day, Sister Ikimau and I were walking up towards this one home. Her son is on a Mission, but they don't want Missionaries to teach them (as we heard). So, Sister Ikimau and I were walking up to the house and we see them sitting on the porch. We're walking up the street, to their house, and it was so sad yet funny! They ran in their house, turn all the lights off, and closed the blinds. Sister Ikimau and I looked at each other, "AWKWARD!" and we burst out laughing! Which I felt bad we laughed, because it was funny yet it was so disappointing. Later that night, we came back. The blinds were opened, the lights were on. The boyfriend came out as we walked up. He said, "Good luck!" then he got in the car and pulled out of the driveway. He knocked on the door, and she said, "Right now is not a good time." And then she closed the door. I'm not sure how I feel about this?

Anyway, the next day we saw nobody! Towards the end of the night, Sister Ikimau and I were walking in the Apartment's Parking lots. I yelled from the top of my lungs, "IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HERE ABOUT THE GOSPEL!?" Sister Ikimau and I stopped, there was silence. I glanced around to see if anyone was out and about. It was so dead that day. Almost seems like no one was in town.

We went to contact a part member family, the Merica's! Heather and her two younger kids are not baptized. Heather has no interests, she lets her kids choose. We talked about baptism and asked her daughter, Quin, howold she was. She's eight years old. As we were asking Quin if she wanted to be baptize, she was jumping up and down. She asked her Mom if she could. Heather said, "Sure. But I think you should think and pray about it before you just goes for it." We'll follow up in a couple weeks. Then we went to knock on this house in the Trailor Park. Her name is Kathy Sines. We've been trying to get a hold of her in forever! After we knocked three times, we were walking away when the door opened. A lady stepped out and said shyly, "Hi." Sister Ikimau and I said, "Hi! How are you?" She said she was good and told us that LDS Missionaries are the best. Somehow the Spirit directs us to bring up here husband. She started to bawl! She lost her husband a couple years ago. I was astonished by her feelings about the death of her husband. Sister Ikimau hugged her and we comforted her. I told her about when my Grandpa passed away, but that I know he's in a good place. She walked forward and hugged me. We testify to her about the Plan of Salvation. She probably hugged us about four times! Which is so sweet and heart-felt!

I'm running out of times. But I have enjoyed the Woman Broadcast! I feel uplifted and I hope you are all excited for General Conference! Be Spiritually fed and I hope you all feel EMPOWERED!

Love,

Sister Hatch