granada

So, this week has been pretty uneventful :(  We didn't even teach one investigator...  We had appointments with them, but then when we passed by, they were never home...  And so when we tried to pass by unexpected, they never had time to sit down with us... So, we haven't taught any investigatores this week :(

We have spent a lot of finding time this past week. Sadly, the only things we have found are a bunch of white people and a bunch of Spanish people that are not willing to accept the Gospel...  But!  One thing Elder Toronto told me my first transfer has really stuck to me in my time here.  He said, "Contacting and rejection are fuel for miracles."  We have had a lot of both, so we are bound to be seeing a miracle soon! 

Thanksgiving was fun too.  I was on exchanges with Elder Belbin, Elder Gneiting's son.  We had tamales for dinner!  They were super good. 

On Friday, we had a follow up meeting for trainers and their new missionaries.  It was a big help in giving me ideas on how to help Elder Jensen become a better missionary. 

So... That's really it for this week.  I haven't received a letter for this week, so I hope everything is all right!  A member on Sunday gave us some granadas (pomegranate) and they were HUGE!  So, I took some pictures. 

I hope everything is well and you have a fantastic week!  LOVE, ELDER HUNT TNUT REDLE

TEMPLO

So, we went to the templo today.  (pictures coming)  It was sweet.  The San Diego temple is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome.  We will have to go sometime. 

So, I forgot my journal at home because we went straight to the library after the temple, but I have kept a pretty detailed agenda this transfer, so I can tell you what happened.

Tuesday:  P-Day!  Then we had a lesson with los Mendez.  They gave us dinner and oh man, it was soooo good.  I want to marry a Mexican so that I can have Mexican ALL THE TIME.  Or maybe I could just learn :)  we didn't really get anywhere in their progression. :(  Lalo was out with his friends, and so we just taught Roselio, but he is pretty set in his ways right now, so there is not much progression with him...  Hopefully one day though!

Wednesday:  New investigadora!  Her name is Maria Parra.  She is an antiguo.  We had talked to her a lot of times, but finally had a sit down lesson with her.  She's super awesome and seems really prepared.  We are going to go and teach her this Friday!  Can you say BAPTISM?

We had a mission wide conference on Friday.  Since our mission is so small, all the missionaries gathered up and Elder Schwitzer (?) from the 2nd quorum of the Seventy came and talked to us.  IT WAS SWEET.  We did a few practices on how to improve our work and Elder Schwitzer taught us some pretty cool doctrine on how to improve ourselves too.  It was a lot of fun!  And since it was mission wide, we were able to see all the missionaries!  All my missionary friends! YAY!

We also had some pretty cool miracles this week.  We had a ward activity this week on Saturday for Thanksgiving.  We tried inviting invesitgadores and menos activos so that we could get a huge turn out.  We invited this one member, Guadalupe.  Since I arrived in the area, we have tried like 2 or 3 times every 2 weeks to pass by. We taught her one time like 2 weeks ago, but before and after that, nothing...  But!  She and her husband (non-member) came to the ward party!!!  And there was a baptism before that and they came to that too!  WOO!  It was awesome.

We also ran into this one guy named Flavio.  He is super awesome.  We asked him a bunch of questions of the soul like, "Where were you before this life?", "Where are we going after death?", "What is the purpose of this life?".  He seemed really interested, but then told us that his friend is a testigo and gave him a book about those questions too...  But, we didn't give up!  There is a section in PMG about las preguntas del alma and there is like, 10 or so questions.  So, we wrote them all down in a LDM and gave it to him and told him that this book is way better than any book the testigos could ever give you.  He was really hesitant to take it (I don't know why), but he finally did.  He is a super prepared man, we just need to attack him with the TRUTH!

Oh yeah, Elder Gneiting and I had exchanges Sunday and yesterday :)  It's fun training, but it was nice to have an experienced missionary as a companion for a change. 

Don't worry about a Thanksgiving package :) I already have tons of cool stuff from you!  :)

So, pretty much everyone here calls me Elder Cazador (Hunter).  It's pretty dang cool.

That's cool Maddy got glasses!  I looked at the picture and she looks like a little miny Kelsey with glasses! jajajaja

Elder Hilton was the artist for the English class two weeks ago.  I really liked doing it that way instead of the usual way I do it.  Maybe this week I will have to draw some more pictures to go along with the words! 

The weather this week has been perfect!  Like usual.  It gets kind of cold during the night, like 60s, but other than that, I love it!  I don't ever want to go back to Utah :(  It's November 20 today and there is no snow!  It's basically like heaven here.

Elder Jensen is still super awesome.  His Spanish needs some work, but he has made TONS of improvement in the past 4 weeks (or however long it has been)

Thanks for the BYU scores!  however, it is a huge disappointment that they lost... Oh well.  Next game!

I hope you have a wonderful week!  LOVE YOU.

Elder Hunt :)

P.S.  More pictures

Elder Gneiting, Elder Belbin, Elder Hunt, Elder Jensen

Temple!

ELDER SIMMONS!!!!!!!! He was at the temple today too!

Elder Nelson!!!  (the companion of Elder Simmons)  He was being trained by Elder Ochoa when I was in Vista. 

San Diego Temple

One year has passed. No puede ser!

My mind is absolutely blown that one year has passed...  It certainly does not feel like one year... A lot less...  But, we are still moving along en la obra del Senor!  It is a lot of fun.  This past week has been fun.  Yesterday, we found a new investigator.  His name is Margarito.  He's strange.  He is Apostolic.  He believes in the Rapture.  He believes that God and Jesus Christ are one Being and that when the rapture happens, Christ will come down and say, "Ha, just kidding!  I was God and Christ the whole time!  There's only one Being!" (exact words)  Kind of strange.  But, he kind of has an open mind about learning.  He said he was going to read the folleto about Jose Smith before reading the Book of Mormon in order to find more about Jose. 

This past week we also taught los Mendez, Roberto Avila, and Fabrisio (I don't remember if I told you about him.  Probably.)  So, the lesson with los Mendez was good.  We mostly taught Roselio about the Plan de Salvacion so that he could know what we taught Gerardo too.  We were getting ready to invite him to be baptized, we invited him and then he went on for like 20 minutes saying that he believes in his baptism because God has blessed him so much in his life and he doesn't need to be baptized again.  He said he believes in all that we are teaching and he really likes that we come, but he just isn't going to be baptized again...  But, on the bright side, when we were teaching, Gerardo actually helped us teach!  He remembered all the things that we taught him!  OMJ!  That was awesome!  even the spirit world!  Nobody remembers the spirit world!  So, we are going over again tonight to teach again.  It is going to be sweet!

On Sunday we taught Roberto Avila.  That was a super good lesson too.  We talked about the Plan de Salvacion with him too.  We taught him about baptism and the purpose of this life.  We invited him to be baptized for the 8 de diciembre, and he said kind of yes!  It was a soft date (not super yes nor not at all), so that's good.  At the end of the lesson he said he wanted to spend more time with his family, so next Sunday: temples!  YEAH.

Yesterday, we taught Fabrisio.  He is the step-dad of Denya, the girl that has cancer.  We haven't seen them very much, so we decided to start to try to see them more often.  When we taught him, he basically said the same thing that Roselio said :( They go to some Christian church and are happy there and are going to stay...  But, he said he likes us coming over and the spirit we bring, so maybe we will keep visiting and see if something happens. 

Everything else is pretty much the same.  haven't had any crazy contactos or anything this week... 

Thanks for the package!  I received it yesterday.  It's awesome!  This year has been the shortest year of my life!

President Cook is pretty strict on somethings, but others not.  But, he is super awesome.  I think why they wouldn't be able to take us to eat would be a rule that family members aren't supposed to visit missionaries when they are serving.  What ward are they in?  What stake?  The music thing is really on a missionary basis.  The music is supposed to testify of Christ.  What kind of music do you want to send?

Christmas = no idea :)

Well, I think that is it for this week!  I hope you have a fantastic week and I will talk to you next Tuesday! :)


CON AMOR, ELDER CAZA

Pictures!  I almost forgot!

First one- me!  With my sweet new tie that someone awesome sent me in the mail

Second one- Our last week's English class.  We talked about weather!

Third one- Burger King has WiiU stuff and toys for Kids Meals and I have been there too many times :)

sorry no pictures of my hijo... maybe next time!

P.S.  I forgot to tell you we are being fumigated and have no place to live...

Just kidding!  We are living with some other English missionaries.  We are in a four man apartment until Thursday!  How fun!  :)

ELDER JENSEN, MY HIJO

Well, Elder Hunter Jensen is my hijo.  He is from Moultonboro, New Hampshire!  Elder Simmons was from North (or South, I don't remember) Carolina, then my next 4 companions were from Utah, and then Elder Lewis from Missouri, Elder Acaro from Peru and now Elder Jensen from New Hampshire!  So, that's cool.  He is a big baseball player.  He had a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Virginia, but they wouldn't hold it for him for his mission, so he gave it up. (He's famous!) 

Being a trainer is pretty scary!  I have to teach a brand new missionary EVERYTHING in the mission.  Everyone remembers their first companion the most, so I have to set a SUPER good example for him.  This first week has been super crazy long because I have been worrying about how I am going to do everything, but now that it has been a week, everything has gotten a lot better. 

Halloween was super exciting! (not)  It was fun though.  A misionera from the ward returned home on Wednesday night, and so we went to go and meet her.  I have heard lots of stories about her and her mission for the past few months, so it was cool to see her return and what she was like!  After we had dinner with that family, we had to go inside... But, it was actually fun!  Elder Jensen and I studied Spanish for a while, helped him unpack his stuff, got to know each other better...  It was fun.  Definitely not something I want to do for a while though!  Staying in at night is not fun!  Sadly, nobody came and knocked on our door to ask for candy :(  We decided we were going to give them Books of Mormon, instead of candy ;)

So, we taught some of our investigators this week.  We taught la familia Mendez about the Restauracion again and then we taught Gerardo (the son) just by himself one time.  It was AWESOME.  We taught him about the Plan de Salvacion and the happiness we are able to receive from it.  We asked him to talk to his family about him being baptized, and he said he would!  It was a super awesome lesson.  We kind of have a date with him for the 24, but it's really soft.  He was going to come to church on Sunday, but his mom wanted the family to eat out at breakfast :(  next week though!  We also taught Roberto Avila about the Restauracion too.  He is super interested in finding about which of all the churches is true.  he knows there needs to be only one true church, but he just doesn't know what to do to find it.  So, we taught him!  Yay!  :) 

We have also had a lot of cool miracles out contacting and knocking doors.  We were contacting one day and ran into this guy sitting on his driveway, chilling.  When we approached him, he said to us, "You're Mormons, right?  Well, I was raised Catholic and because of that now I am Agnostic.  So, I don't have anything to say to you."  So, we started to talk to him about his life and stuff, and we found out he played professional baseball!  So, him and Elder Jensen made an instant connection.  It was sweet.  After that, he was telling us more about his life, that his lawyer is Mormon and how he really likes him because he is such a good guy and stuff.  It is cool to see that everyone out there has this little love button and once you find it and push it, you can talk to them about anything! 

We were out knocking doors on Sunday, and we knocked on this one door, and the dog started freaking out.  So, the owner (a white guy) opened the door, saw that we were missionaries and said, "As you can see, my dog doesn't want to talk to you."  Then he shut the door.  People are crazy.

We haven't found any new investigators this week, but we are working hard to find them!  We have had a few super awesome contacts, so we have some good potenciales this week. 

Friday... 1 year... Shh!  Don't say that!  James is coming home sometime in December, along with Colin.  I cannot believe they have been gone and are coming home!  Time goes by too fast!

The weather down here is still super nice.  It gets chilly during the night, but that's okay!  I received my sweater from Elder Price!  He gave it to me when he left :) it is really nice!  Yeah, the pants are working good!  Now I have four pairs to wear :)

Today is Election Day!  CRAZY!  I didn't even know until we were driving to the library and everywhere had yellow signs that said Election Poll or whatever.  WHo is going to win?!!?!  You would be surprised by how many times I have been asked about Romney... Once.  Way back in August, when I first came to San Marcos.  But, I never see any Obama signs anywhere, only Romney!  That would be so cool if he won!

I hate Daylight Savings.  When we run in the mornings, it feels like 8 or 9 and like we should be inside studying...  I don't like it!

Well, I think that it is it for this week!  I hope you have a wonderful week!  

Love, Elder Hunt