March 29, 2010

Family!

I'm doing absolutely wonderful! I''m totally enjoying my time here with Elder Romney! Well it's awesome! This month as a zone we were able to complete with 32 confirmations in the month which is supposedly a record here. We are also doing the best in the whole mission, which is awesome! Elder Romney is really helping me a lot with how to run the zone and all that! It's a lot of phone calls to stay on top of things, but well, I can see that it really is working out so it's awesome!

Well, I love to hear all the stories of everything that is happening at home! Interesting about the fight with Brice's friends. The bunny looks really cute and Tyla changes so much everytime I see a picture of her. Wow! It's crazy she's growing up quick! That is so cool about Beau's friend Ryo (He played basketball with Beau at Hartnell and set a baptism date for April 10th.) I bet Beau is super excited about it! Tell him to just keep him excited about it!

This morning we left at like 5:30 in the morning to go and hike some mountains here in our area. It was a blast! It ended up being like a 5 hour hike, but it was super fun! It was Elders Romney, Bishop, Clark and I. I´ll send you some pictures.

Elder Romney, Elder Hunter, Elder Bishop, and Elder Clark

What dates are Mckay's tournament that he is going to have in California!? And I heard that Beau got a new bed that I am going to be able to have when he leaves! Tell him to enjoy it while he can because well, at least in this mission the beds aren't the best, but you have to learn to live with it! :)

Love you guys!

Elder Hunter

P.S. Attached are some pics I tried to send the other week, but I. UY dont think that they sent for some reason. Yeah I totally bowl between the legs!

March 22, 2010

Hey Family,

Well, I'm totally loving the mission with Elder Romney. We are having a blast, it's so fun! Don't worry we aren't getting too trunky yet. Ha Ha. I mean Elder Romney only has about 14 days left and well, me, I have 98. Ha Ha. Me and one of my buds Elder Molyneaux did the count and that's what it comes down to. Really though, the mission is a blast! Being a zone leader is a lot harder than I thought, but its really fun. Our zone is doing really great and we should be completing the month with 30 baptisms. That's another hard thing about being a zone leader, you don't have a ton of time to work in your area because you have to help everyone else, but it is so worth doing all of that. Also, I don't know if you remember, but Elder Bishop is in my district, he actually lives right down the street so its really cool because I get to visit with him sometimes.

Oh yea, we had a baptism on Friday, which was really cool. Then on Sunday we had meetings with the Stake Presidencies from Prados stake and Villa de Las Flores stake! Yeah, it was really cool. I really feel like the Lord's servant when I go into meetings and the people really respect us and listen to what we have to say. It is so awesome!

Oh, yeah a photo you might like of Elder Romney and I of the baptism we had on Friday. Her name is Evelyn and well her family got baptized like a year ago and well I guess one time when Elder Romney and his companion were teaching her she just bursted out in tears and said she already knew it was true. Kind of cool experience. (If you would like to read more check our Elder Romney's blog.)


Oh, some really cool news, Elder Romney got accepted to BYU, but hes not sure if he wants to go. I would love it if he went because there are so many of us from the mission that are going and it would be an awesome experience!



A road trip with the Bros in July would be so sick in July. I'm so down for that. Time if flying so fast, I can't believe it. I'll be seing you guys before I know it. Mckay does look different with longer hair, but if it helps him play better like it helped me, that's totally cool. (To their moms dismay, they believe in the Sampson theory. . their ability is in the hair).

(McKay's team took 1st in the National Futsal Championship, picture Elder Hunter is referring to the hair).



Well I love you guys a ton!


Elder Hunter

March 15, 2010

Hey Family,

My week was great! We had a zone conference and it was really cool! President shared some really special stories with us and then really focused on the importance of always being prepared spiritually for whatever problem or trial we may have! It was way cool!

Well the members that are active in my ward are way cool. They always help us out and give us tons of food. It's awesome! The hard part is that their are a ton of inactives here and a lot just don't want to go to church. It can get kind of discouraging sometimes but we just keep working hard!

This week we sould have a baptism which I'm super excited for. She comes to church and does everything on her own. Really there are people prepared out there ready to receive the gospel! My companion is doing great and also the other Elders. I really love doing divisions and being able to help other Elders improve in the missionary work! We saw some miracles this week. I went and worked with Elder Jimenezs companion (yeah Jimenez is totallly in my district, it's so tight) but anyways we visited some people that hadn't gone to church in some time, but they went yesterday and looks like they might be getting baptized next week! It was really cool!

Oh the highlight of my week would probably be the bowling . . . it was sweet. I will send you some pictures of it! (I didn't get the pictures. . .). I'm glad to hear everything is going great at home!

Who is sleeping in my room!? (David) Has Mckay taken all of my clothes out and now using them!? (He will be so surprised at how much his little brother has grown, McKay admitted to using most of Tennison's clothes., we will need to go on a shopping spree when Tennison gets home)

Well that's about everthing! I love you guys!

Elder Hunter

P.S. I'm going to send more pictures of Teresa and Edgar's sealing:

Gorgeous Family! Contratulations!

Elder Martinez, Elder Romney, Edgar, Lalo, Teresa, Celsymar, Elder Hunter

Awesome Missionary Boys and Lalo!

Group from Tennison's First Ward in the mission!

Elder Bishop is holding up the little boy. . Great Missonaries!

The picture below made me laugh~

Two handsome boys (of course I'm prejudice).

(Note: Elder Romney's mom just informed me that Elder Romney and Elder Hunter will be reuniting as companions one last time. . . I'm very excited for them.)

March 8, 2010

Family,

So this week was alright! The zone leader conference was sweet! I learned a ton!

This week we had a really funny experience. We were teaching this guy (Eulogio) about the word of wisdom and I told him what we can't consume. I talked about black tea and chinese tea and then asked if he consumed one of those substances and he responded "whenever I talk about the chinese I try and always say something nice and never saying anything bad about them". Oh my, it was hilarious. My companion ducked his head and just started laughing and since I was the one teaching I tried to explain, but he just didn't understand. He is kind of old like 65 or 70 so maybe that's why. Then later we were teaching him about the law of chastity and asked if he was married and he said no. So we said well we can help him so the he can get married and he said, "I dont know. She is older than me and is going to die before me. I want to choose somebody younger that way I die first." It was funny. I was thinking crazy old man it's too late for that. That's just what I thought but it really was quite hilarious!

So I was able to send some pictures. The first ones are a view from my porch and part of the inside of the house where we live.

Then some of the pictures when we went to the temple:

Teresa and Edgar

Elder Martinez, Elder Romney, Edgar, Lalo, Teresa and Celysmar, Elder Hunter

Me and Lalo

Elder Romney, Elder ?, ?, Elder Bishop and Elder Hunter

baptism we had later in the day.

Then there was a new plaza that opened up in the zone and has a wendys inside which was delicious to my companion and I!



Oh yeah, Elder Martinez ended his mission last May, I believe, and came from Gudalajara, I think it's like four or five hours in a bus (to get to the temple for Teresa and Edgar's wedding).

Well things are going alright. We haven't had tons of success. I mean tons of people here are amazing at lying it drives me nuts. I would rather someone be straight up with me and tell me what they really think. But it's cool.

Well everything is going great we have some really cool members in the ward and help us out so thats cool! Well love you guys have a great week!

Elder Hunter

March 1, 2010

Family,

Sounds like things are going great back at home! Well this week was super exciting and kind of weird because my area is completly new and I don't know anything about it, but I'm getting the hang of it now! We have about 300 people in the ward, but only 80 people actually go to church so we are going to see if we can help out a bit with that!

The most exciting part of the week was that I got to go with Elder Bishop my MTC companion and Elder Romney my trainer to the temple and see Teresa and Edgar get sealed with their two kids, Lalo and Celys. It was such a cool experience! The spirit was super strong and wow it was just so cool! I think it was the first time i have cried in the mission! Lalo is now walking and talking and well he´s a character. I love him! We also had a baptism on Saturday which was also cool. We didn't do it untill 9:30 at night.

Oh yeah, I also got to see my companion Elder Mtnz their at the sealing of Teresa and Edgar too! He is so funny and way cool! It was also another cool experience! Anyways, just so you know, sorry, I will send the pictures. Just not right now. We are kind of running. Really busy right now because of tomorrow. Oh yeah, I also got to eat at Wendys today. I totally found one here by the mission offices. It was delicious!

Oh and here is a cool surprise, I get to go to consejo mañana with all the lideres de zona it's going to be way fun. I'm so excited! Well have a great week!


Thank you for sending me the updates on Nate. He looks like he is doing way better now!

I love you guys ton!

Elder Hunter

February 22, 2010

Hey mom,

Sorry I didn't write on the other account, for some reason it won't load the website. Hopefully later today or tomorrow I can check it out to see what you had to say. Anyways, I'm in a new area called Ciudad Labor. It's way different than my last area. Tons of people and houses and buses and what not. It's fairly close to df but it seems pretty good. Also, my companion's name is Elder Arredondo he is from Chiapas. He's a pretty cool kid. He's only got 4 months in the mission, so I'm pretty sure that I will be helping him out, but it's going to be fun.

Also Teresa and Edgar are getting sealed on Saturday. I'm super stoked! I'm going with Elder Romney and Elder Bishop to their sealing. It's going to be a blast.

Saying good bye in my last area was really hard. After being with people for six months you really start to grow close, but it was really cool, the family Cigarrero did a carneasada Sunday night to say good bye. It was super delicious. I'm really going to miss them. One of the brothers (he if from the df) brought me an ermenegildi zegna tie. It's pretty sick. It goes perfect with my suit. We were teaching his son but he had to go back to df and help his wife because she is about to have a baby, but he is going to get baptized so I'm excited!

Well some kind of bad news, my filling fell out yesterday so I have to go to the dentist tomorrow to get it fixed. What a pain! But it's all good! Well hope everything is well at home!

Love you guys! Elder Hunter