Hello my family how are you!! I hope that everything is going great and that you are all enjoying this cool November weather! Thanks for all the fun new pictures in my email and the drop box, I do love to look at them! SO how has everybody been? How has life been going and is there any thing new going on? Because I want to know everything!! What is everybody planing on doing for thanksgiving? Where are y'all going and what are you most looking forward to eating? Sorry I wont be there to make the pies this year...but next year I will!! It is just so crazy that it is already November and that I am almost half way done. Just crazy!! Oh I and I guess that I should tell you why I am emailing on Tuesday and not Monday. Well first off yesterday was veterans day, so no where was open to email. And second off President Miller has changed P-days to Tuesday instead of Monday. So I will be writing you on Tuesday not Monday just so you know. I guess that there are to many public emailing places that are closed on Monday so it will just make things easier I guess if P-day is on Tuesday. And that is why I did not write yesterday. Well any way lets get on to the stories of the week.
Story 1 The Tale of the Spanish Exchange
Last Tuesday we had exchanges with the Spanish sisters. And sister Johnson and I got to go over to there area. It was lots of fun we met tons of nice people and had the best enchiladas ever!!! The whole day was super fun!! Except that I had no idea what anyone was saying... at all. So I basically sat there the whole day listening to people speak gibberish. But it was really fun to see the other side of the mission and how the Spanish missionaries get to help people. WE went to one house and knocked on the door, and a lady answer's the door. Sister Nunez starts to talk to her in Spanish and she invited us in. So sister Nunez talks to her, sister Johnson who understands Spanish listens, and I just sit there watching the kids run around the house. But it is still just amazing to feel the spirit work with people and to know that they are feeling the love of the savior even if we don't speak the same langue that does not mean that we are not all brothers and sisters.
Story 2 The Tale of the Amazing Blessing
This past Saturday we had another exchange with the sisters from Academy Heights. Sister Brown went to there area with Sister Rager and Sister Mcshaine came to our area. It was such a fun day! We had Carl's Junior for lunch and we talked to tons of people. And the day was just so nice that when we were done with lunch we decided to walk and find people to talk to. And we were able to see loads of people up and down our street. And we were finally able to see Christina again!! She has not been doing well, she has had lots of problems from one of her kids grandparents, she has been sick and she has been very busy with work. So when we stopped by we offered to have the elders come over and to give her a blessing. She said yes and we set up a time for yesterday. So all of us and the elders went there yesterday, and it was kind of odd. She answered the door and told us that we could not come in because she had company, but we could do the blessing on the porch. And so that is what we did she got a chair and the elders gave her a blessing out on the porch. It was an amazing thing to see, when it was over she just sat there. And when we asked how she felt all she could say was that she felt warm and peaceful. She was actually in a kind of shock and started to cry, we told her that that was Heavenly Father telling her that he loved her and that everything will be ok. It is so amazing to see the priesthood in action.
Story 3 The Tale of My Spiritual Thoughts
This past Thrusday we had MLC (mission leadership counsel) and it was very good. We talked a lot about why so many of the younger missionaries are struggling and realized that it is because they don't know why they are here. they came because they knew that heavenly father wanted them to come but they dont want to be here. And that made me think of myself and all of the other missionaries that I know who came or are going on a mission because Heavenly Father wants them to. And this is a very noble thing to do but it is not enough. Every missionary needs to find out not only why Heavenly Father wants them here but why they themselves want to be on a mission. It can be for many different reasons but you need to find out your reason for staying or you will never find the true joy that our Father in Heaven wants you to find on your mission. And this does not only apply to missionary work, it can apply to every aspect of life. God asks us all to do things, and sometimes we don't want to do them. But if we find not only why heavenly father wants us to do something, and we also find why we want to do something, we will find so much more joy in life. No one likes to go to work or go to school, but find the tender mercies in all that you do. And you will always have something to smile about, and have a reason to go on besides someone told you to do it.
Story 4 The Tale of the Almost Stolen Bicycle Rack
So o we had to borrow the Zone leaders Bike rack so that sister Brown could go on an all day exchange with a set of sisters. And on Sunday nigh we were going to return it to them after we had taken a set of sisters who did not have a car over to there district leaders house so that they could get a blessing. So we tell our ZL's that we will be a bit late and run the sisters over to the elders apartment. We were there for maybe 20 or 30 minutes they got there blessing and we walked back out to the car. And I was the first one to notice that something was not right. So you know how bike racks are supposed to be on the car right? Well ours was half way on the ground and barley attached to the car. So all the sisters start to freak out because someone just tried to steal our bike rack!!! Then sister Johnson says that she does not feel right and that we need to go. So we put the bike rack in the car and sister Johnson and I start to back up the car. And we keep hearing noises behind us, so we both look back. Then we see a head pop up and go back down behind a car. And my heart stops and sister Johnson just stops and stares at me. I look again and see the same head pop up and go back down again, and I thought that it must be some stupid teenager. So I yell out to them and tell them to go away....and it was most defiantly not teenagers. It was 2 guys with really nice hair cuts, suits, and badges..... And I look a little bit closer and I see that it is our Zone Leaders Elder Hansen and Elder Schnider!!!! They walked out and I just start laughing, and all the other sisters thought that I was dying so they jump out of the car. And then we all just start laughing. Apparently they wanted to take the bike rack and see what we would do when we notioced that it was gone. Well they didnot think it through very well and could not unattach it all the way, and we came out before they could finish. Oh man it was the funniest thing that has happened my whole mission!!!
Well thats my week and I hope that y'all have a great week and that you remember that I love you !!
Love Sister Chatwin!!!
This past Saturday we had another exchange with the sisters from Academy Heights. Sister Brown went to there area with Sister Rager and Sister Mcshaine came to our area. It was such a fun day! We had Carl's Junior for lunch and we talked to tons of people. And the day was just so nice that when we were done with lunch we decided to walk and find people to talk to. And we were able to see loads of people up and down our street. And we were finally able to see Christina again!! She has not been doing well, she has had lots of problems from one of her kids grandparents, she has been sick and she has been very busy with work. So when we stopped by we offered to have the elders come over and to give her a blessing. She said yes and we set up a time for yesterday. So all of us and the elders went there yesterday, and it was kind of odd. She answered the door and told us that we could not come in because she had company, but we could do the blessing on the porch. And so that is what we did she got a chair and the elders gave her a blessing out on the porch. It was an amazing thing to see, when it was over she just sat there. And when we asked how she felt all she could say was that she felt warm and peaceful. She was actually in a kind of shock and started to cry, we told her that that was Heavenly Father telling her that he loved her and that everything will be ok. It is so amazing to see the priesthood in action. 
This past Thrusday we had MLC (mission leadership counsel) and it was very good. We talked a lot about why so many of the younger missionaries are struggling and realized that it is because they don't know why they are here. they came because they knew that heavenly father wanted them to come but they dont want to be here. And that made me think of myself and all of the other missionaries that I know who came or are going on a mission because Heavenly Father wants them to. And this is a very noble thing to do but it is not enough. Every missionary needs to find out not only why Heavenly Father wants them here but why they themselves want to be on a mission. It can be for many different reasons but you need to find out your reason for staying or you will never find the true joy that our Father in Heaven wants you to find on your mission. And this does not only apply to missionary work, it can apply to every aspect of life. God asks us all to do things, and sometimes we don't want to do them. But if we find not only why heavenly father wants us to do something, and we also find why we want to do something, we will find so much more joy in life. No one likes to go to work or go to school, but find the tender mercies in all that you do. And you will always have something to smile about, and have a reason to go on besides someone told you to do it. 
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