Week 50 El Bosque

Chase received some tough news from home last week and he is responding in this email.  His response is a good indication of his willingness to learn from whatever comes.  We also see that the Lord balances the challenges with tender mercies that he describes as miracles.  Charity is the pure love of Christ and Chase is definitely seeing his brothers and sisters through that pure love.  It all starts with hope, then moves to faith and finally the ability to see things through Gods eyes......Charity.


Hey Family,

I am really sorry to hear about the miscarriage and the death of Sis. Hatch. I cant believe Emily had one! I am going to pray for her a ton. I cant even imagine how to handle that. Well that baby is saved in the heavens. I dont have a doubt about that at all. Well conference was amazing and I learned a ton. I love all of the talks that were given and I learned a lot about families. I learned how to raise a family in times of difficulty. I love conference so much and look forward to it every 6 months. Its interesting because I only have one more conference here in Honduras and then the next one is at home!! Crazy huh?! One thing I liked a ton was the talk about God desires and how we can know if we are doing Gods desires or Satan desires. This helped me realize or check if I am doing what God desires me to do. Well that sounds like the good old summer in AZ and I am excited for my piece of the temple! 

Well this week was a miracle! We started off the week kind of bad because a ton of our fechas were falling or pushed back till April. So we were kind of disanimated until Wednesday night we visited Cyntia and her kids. We talked to them about baptism and to see what they think and if they would like to be baptized with their mom. At the first of the lesson they werent to positive but after we explained what it is and what they can get  out of it their hearts changed and wanted to think about to be baptized on Friday with their mom Cyntia. It was cool because Cyntia told us she will be baptized on Friday with or without her kids. So she was pretty much set to go. Then I had to do divisions with some Elders on Thursday because of the interviews for our baptisms and work another area. So this week was busy and crazy. Because on Friday we ended up with 3 baptisms. We baptized Steven, Cyntia, and her little boy Armando. The rest of Cyntia kids will be baptized later hopefully. We are still working hard and changes are coming up fast. I think I will have changes but who knows until the day of. I love conference though and I received a lot of guidance for my mission and what is to come. I am really sad to hear that for Emily and Bro. Hatch. I hope they are doing well. That was our week and I would say rewarding. After the baptisms we had i felt something really different when I came home. I was exhausted and ready to go to bed and I felt a peace that I was doing my job as a servant of the Lord. Even through all of the hardships and disappointments one miracle can change a view. I wasnt sure how we had these baptisms but they were miracles. I love this work and I dont know where I would be without it. I love this work. I love my Savior. I love all of you guys. Talk to you guys next week. This week is Semana Santa or Holy week. Its when they celebrate Easter and its a big thing here haha. Well thank you for everything and I love you all. Take care. 

Con Amor,

Elder Hall