Familia,

 Mom thanks for all the e-mails.  That's crazy that you ran into Rob. I hope that you told him "Hi" for me.  That is crazy that Truly and Elder Romney's sister cheered together. Wow! A small world it is! Well you should send me updates about what is going on at home. I really wouldn't mind that maybe cosas like the BYU/Utah game and how that went and whatever else you think would be good.  Because I would really like to hear some things about what's going on at home!  

So first things first, my companion is freaking awesome. He really works super hard and really knows how to teach. I've learned a ton from him already. He's sweet! I'll send some photos dont worry! So this week we baptized the rest of Miguel's family (his wife and daughter).  The thing that stinks is that they moved today so I won't see them here anymore.  I did get their address and they have mine so hopefully we can keep in touch at least! His family was so cool! It's sad to see them leave but at least they are all baptized!

 So my companion and I were talking and I told him that Ive never worked so hard, been so tired, but yet felt so good! Yeah, we're working like crazy right now and I absolutly love it! 

O.K. So today, it was awesome! We have done so many things today! We hiked to the top of the mountain Sincoque which was way fun! WE hiked with the other Elders that work in the same ward as us and two converts Yael and Mayra and two jovenes Hector and Angel. It was way fun.  They have been bugging us forever to do something with them so we decided to today.  It was awesome! I'll send pictures don't worry!

Above, Tennison was pointing at a bull and his companion poked his head out at the right time.

 Those who know Tennison, he loves lizards, so this is quite the find. . . I just hope they aren't poisonous.

Well it was another awesome week! I hope everyone is doing awesome back home! I just want you to know I'm absolutley loving it here.  

This is the best work ever! I Love you guys! Thanks for all the support! 

Elder Hunter

Family,

I`m so glad to hear that everyone is doing awesome. Tell dad and Beau that I`m just as excited as they are to hear everything about the basketball season and I better get all of the updates because I want to live through it with you guys!

O. K. So I had the coolest experience this week, well last Saturday. I was standing in the center of the field in the biggest stadium in Mexico in front of at least 100,000 people. (Probably way more but thats just to be safe). Well I received revelation that I think I need to be playing soccer right now instead of being here!

O.K not really!!!! It was the coolest feeling ever being a missionary and having over 100,000 people in the stadium cheering for me. This is so what I´m suppose to be doing right now. So much better than playing soccer in front of that many people because I`m here doing what the Lord wants me to do. Oh man, I Love this work!

So the reason I was standing in the middle of the field in the biggest stadium in Mexico! Well they rededicated the temple in Mexico yesterday which was the coolest thing ever! They put on a cultural event to celebrate the reopening of the temple and it was held in the Estadio Azteca! Huge staduim! The Prophet and his sidekick Elder Eyring were there also. It was so cool! The wards put together a bunch of cultural dances and then I knew we were going to have to do something but I didn´t know what. The dances were related to the history of the country and they intertwined the gospel with it. So it was cool! Then all of the sudden like half way through the missionaries started leaving and I was like what the heck that's dumb we can´t even watch the whole thing! But come to realize we were the grand finale of the whole show! We walked out onto the pitch singing "Called to Serve" and all the members and the Prophet were waving their white pañuelos in the air! Oh, The Coolest Experience Ever!!!!

That was awesome. And can I tell you our Prophet and Pres. Eyring are so amazing! They truly are inspired men of God!

Well I got my new companion. Elder Francis is his name and he`s tight. I can already see that we are going to have a lot of success because he wants to work hard. I´m excited! It was sad seeing Elder Romney leave though! But its cool. So yeah my week for ya`ll!

Love you!

Elder Hunter

P-Day with the district.

Family,

That's cool to hear that B-Rice is still a beast. Always wanting to be the best at everything he does. He´s awesome! Tell Beau and Bryson to work their rear-ends off at tryouts!

This week was really exciting! We had zone conference and President Nancollas showed us clips from Michael Phelps races during the Olympics which was really inspiring! He showed us the one from the butterfly race where he had almost lost it but the reason he won was because he gave it that last half stroke! He said we need to always give 100 percent! We can´t return home with regrets that we didn´t give it all we got out here! So yeah, it was way cool to hear something about the Olympics and see some of it. He also showed another clip about his team and how the won the 4 by 1 and never gave up hope even when it looked like they were going to loose and because of that they were able to pull off another gold medal! It showed how Michael Phelps was an awesome cheerleader for his teammates and we need to be like that for all the other missionaries out here cheer them on to the finish help them to finish strong! I was figuring Beau could apply these things because it's his senior year this year in basketball! But yeah really cool!

After that we received mail. It was so exciting! I got the letters you sent me and the stamps. Thank you so much. You guys are all so awesome! I also got a ward newsletter from August or September. I can´t really remember, but it was cool! I also got a letter from Hayley which was cool! Its kind of frustrating because I sent a letter to her like two months ago and it still hasn´t got there. Hopefully they arrive sometime! But she´s still Hayley. It is great to hear that she is still always happy about everything!

In one of the letters dad wrote me he said he talked with a Mexican that's from just north of here (well he probably lives in our mission boundaries) and he said that he couldn´t understand him! Yeah, there are some people that are really hard to understand down here but it's becoming easier to understand the majority. (Some like don´t even speak spanish, I swear.) But it's awesome!

Oh yeah, this week we pulled off 3 baptisms out of nowhere! It was so cool! It was honestly a miracle but it was so awesome! The water was like ice again but they still did it. It's so awesome to see people totally change there lives around and come into the gospel!


The video we made this week is so sweet! You better watch it on Elder Romney's Blog (There are two video's see last week's video first and then the one for this week.) and well if possible see if Elder Romney's Mom can e-mail it to you so you can post it on my blog. It really is so cool! O.K. just funny!

Well Love you All! Tell everyone to keep up the hard work!

Elder Hunter

Letter from Mission President

This week we received the attached letter from Tennison's mission president. (Note the date.)

Well, I don´t know where to start! It sounds like everyone is doing great back at home. So far I´ve only been able to open the picture of Mckay. Wow it looks like he´s grown! I´m assuming I can´t recognize him because of all of the make up he´s wearing!

That's cool that you and dad got to have a night kind of to yourselves. That really is a miracle how that happened. Well everything is going great here. Unfortunately we didn´t get to baptize Dana´s mom. It's so difficult with her because I can see in her eyes that she knows it's true but she just won´t get baptized! One of these days she will though.

My favorite thing this week was being able to help make our food with this one hermana! she is so awesome! We made enchiladas verdes and oh they are so good! I think they are my favorite food and they are so easy to make. You should try them!!

Also my companion and I kind of started a workout program. For the first day we did as many pushups as we could and now we do just one more a day. I´m up to 103 as of today! But I usually do another 100 after that just for fun! So let B-Rice know I´m still working out. HaHa

You know how you told me that dad was thinking about writing a thank you letter to Teresa and Edgar? I think that would be such an awesome idea! They would totally love it! Some info you might want to include is they hooked up our gas for hot water, she gave us curtains for our windows and she also invites us over once or twice a week to cenar! So if you could write a letter that would be so awesome they would totally love it! I can just print it off.

Also something cool happened. During one of our lessons with this guy (who has like totally changed his life around) I was bearing my testimony to him about prayer and usually I have to think about things that I´m saying and I can´t really speak fluently but while I was testifying to him I didn´t even have to think about what I was saying it just flowed! I think it really impacted him because he knows I have a more difficult time trying to express myself. So yeah the gift of tongues is true. It's Awesome! I definetely had some help from the spirit for sure!

Here' s a picture of our hitch hike ride home from our district meeting last Monday. It's my whole district except for (the sisters) our bishop and some family in our ward. Bishop is on the left he is just a happy jolly old fellow!

Here is one of the temple.


Well I love you all! I still haven´t gotten an e-mail from Beau make sure he has the correct address maybe that's the problem! Oh, also Mckay forgot to e-mail me this week.

I Love you!

Con Mucho Amor
Elder Tennison Hunter