April 26, 2010

Hi Family and Friends,

This week was great! I can't believe how fast the time is going by. Zone Conference went really well and President said that I did a good job teaching my part which made me feel happy. Afterwards we saw a video that the assistants made about how we all need to do our best because Satan is also working really hard and we can't let him win. It was a really cool video! Anyways, we found this guy when we were knocking on doors and he was going to tell us "no" but then his suegra (wife) said to come in so we went in and come to find out the the suegra is an inactive member and their daughter is a member too. So we started teaching this guy Leonardo and he went to church with us and has a baptismal date of May 10th. I'm super excited!

Oh. . the photos of Taylor's farewell. I can't believe how big he has gotten or mature (don't know which of the two but Wow! As for everyone else, I hardly recognize the cousins. . it's crazy).

As for McKay's Birthday, there were quite a few teenagers there. . he is now 14 right? He is getting so big. Oh and B-rice turns 16 this week right? Does that mean he will be able to drive legally? That is crazy. That is awesome to hear that Beau finally got ordained. I'm sure it was a very special experience! So does that mean he will be turning his papers in soon? (Like this week?) The sooner the better.

Well Love you guys, Take Care!

Love Elder Hunter

Here are a few pictures:

There was a stake activity on Saturday and they put on the play "The Wizard of Oz"

This is a picture with the main characters. Our convert, Margarito was there helping which was great to see. Margarito was confirmed on Sunday, so it was really cool!

Root Beer Floats! Yummy!

The edge of my area next to the fireworks capital here in Mexico.

April 19, 2010

Family,

How is everyone doing? I'm doing well. This week was a really tough week. We worked really hard and found lots of people, but we weren't able to take any to church which was really hard. . especially when I should be the example here in the zone. But we do have a lot of people that we are teaching that can progress. . . we just have to pray really hard and teach according to the spirit! WE did have a miracle. That guy, Margarito that I told you about got baptized on Sunday which was really cool to see, and later that night he went with the Elders quorom president to do his family home teaching. It's awesome to see his progress already in the church! Sorry forgot my camara but next week I'll send you some pictures!

Something on a little bit more of a sad note . . Do you remember Saloman Jaar? (He was on my soccer team at Timpview. We are still in contact every now and then.) His dad died this past week on his way to the temple. If you could keep him in your prayers. Saloman right now is on a mission in Chile and said some really cool things in the article if you want to read it here is the link http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700025080/Former-LDS-mission-president-Honduran-official-killed-by-robbers.html.

Well we have zone conference this week and this will be the first time I get to direct one. I also have to prepare the teaching and everything for when president is done talking. My companion and I have to teach the zone a little bit about what we are going to be studying for the next 6 weeks so it will be fun!

Well that is really cool to hear that Taylor is all excited about going on the mission. There is nothing better he can be doing right now in his life! I don't know if there is a way to get me his email address or something. I would like to write him a letter.

Well you guys take care. I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing well and that Beau is going to be able to become and Elder soon! That really is so exciting and it is a really important step he has to take in his life! Well thank you guys for everything! I love you all a ton!

Elder Hunter

April 12, 2010

Hello Family,

I'm perfectly fine! This week went really good . . . since I'm the so called "big dawg" (response to mom's comments) zone leader! Actually, my companion and I decided to let everyone in the zone know that we are really here to help them with whatever they need, so we went and visited every companionship at their houses. Yeah, it took a lot of time because we don't have a car but went in combis. We did this on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. It was a really cool experience because we were able to help and really got to know the missionaries in our zone! Also it seems like we are doing really good as a zone! If I didn't have such awesome district leaders it would be a lot harder! My companion is also a great help so I don't feel like I'm doing everything alone!

Well sounds like things are still crazy at home! So sounds like b-rice has a friend as big as him and with somewhat of the same personality! Is he kinda like another Tui in the house? Tell Beau to remember that the church is a church of order but sometimes we are all about order over matter and sometimes forget to think of what would Jesus do? We just have to be patient and understand that there is something we can learn from these experiences. But that is awesome that Beau got to go and baptize Ryo.

Well we had a some great experiences this week. We were teaching this family that we found this week and the little kid ( about 2 years old) was really sick. While we were teaching, he started throwing up like crazy. I felt really bad for him, so at the end of the lesson we explained priesthood blessings to them and they asked us to give him one so we did. The next day he was feeling a lot better. It was really cool. Also we were looking for an inactive member and knocked on the house where we thought they lived and this kid came out and was like all happy to meet us. We talked with him and he told us that he had talked to the missionaries before and been to church many times, so we invited him to be baptized on the 18th and he said he didn't know. On Sunday we were unable to attend our ward cause we had meetings in the stake center, but after our meetings we went right back to our ward and he was there and said that he wanted to be baptized and wanted to know what he had to do. That was a huge blessing! So we have an appointment with him on Tuesday to get him all prepared! I'm super excited! We are still looking for that same inactive member. We asked some people in the street if they knew him and they were like "no, maybe its the next street", so I decided to contact these same people and they invited us in their house and we shared a message with them. It was a young couple and they were really interested in everything! The only sad part is . . they won't be able to go to church for two weeks, but I really think they are going to progress! So it was really an awesome week! we worked super hard and were able to see the hand of the Lord in this work!

McKay Happy Birthday!!!!! on Friday!

Thanks so much for everything! I love you guys!

Elder Hunter

April 5, 2010

Family,

My week was great! It was sad to see Elder Romney go, but well, it won't be long before it is my turn. He started getting really nervous towards the end of the week, which I'm sure is expected to happen especially after being a missionary for two years. (That is all we have known for two years.) He will be just fine.

I have a new companion, Elder Delgado. This is his first time as a zone leader also and they made me the senior companion. So basically everything is on my shoulders, zone wise, but it is all good. I'm really excited about this change.

General Conference was great! We were able to watch it in English except for the Sunday morning session, but it was awesome! I feel like a lot of the talks put a lot of importance on raising kids in the gospel, which is way cool. Also, I really liked Elder Hollands talk on love and lust. I don't know why, but he always grabs my attention and I love what he has to say. I also liked what Elder Uchtdorf had to say about being patient. A lot of times we just want things to happen right away but we need to remember that it doesn't alway happen that way, then if we apply patience, we can really learn and grow from our experiences. To see conference, we had to go to the stake center, which was cool. I have a picture of all of the americans watching it in a little office, but I forgot to bring my camera with me right now, so I won't be able to send it until next week. So sounds like you had a really busy week last week. I'm sure it was really fun and really made the time go by really fast.

Well, I gave Beau the stuff I needed to get registered for classes, so if you can just remind him and see if he can do it tonight when registration opens that would be nice!

Thanks for Everthing! Love you guys!

Elder Hunter