Tuesday, December 4, 2012

TIE LADY.

So, today was pretty dang awesome.  There is this lady down in Escondido.  She is called "The Tie Lady", and for good reason.  She has OVER 20,000 ties.  OMJ.  It's like missionary heaven.  She usually sells her ties for a dollar each, but we brought four other missionaries with us (Elder Belbin, Elder Gneiting, Elder Goulding, and Elder Warren (the last two are English missionaries that live with Elder Belbin and Elder Gneiting)) and we told her we were from San Marcos, so she sold us our ties for 50 cents.  FIFTY CENT TIES.  OMJ.  So, I spent like, 10 bucks and bought 20 ties.  TWENTY BEAUTIFUL TIES.  Missionary heaven.  All the other missionaries bought about the same amount too.  The Tie Lady made some good money today ;)  jaja.  Now I have like, 60+ ties that I don't know what to do with... Jajaja jk!  I am going to wear them! Duh! 


Last week was pretty sweet.  Elder Gneiting and I had exchanges again last Tuesday.  They were pretty long too; almost two days.  This area has been struggling a little bit recently, so we had a few ideas on how to improve the work here.  We taught a few lessons and met some pretty cool people. 

We taught Maria Parra last Thursday!  Guess what?  She did her reading!  That means she is PROGRESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  She is the FIRST progressing investigator I have had in this area, so Elder Jensen and I were pretty dang excited.  We stopped by last night to see how she was doing and she read the other chapter we gave her, so she is still progressing!  HOORAY!  We are going to teach her tomorrow and see when we can set her baptismal date for :) :) :)

Most of our other investigatores are pretty lazy.  So, we are still working on them.  But, they will progress!!!

Something really cool happened yesterday too.  We had a blitz!  A blitz is when all the missionaries go into an area and just attack it to find more people.  So, all the missionaries came to our area and blitzed it!  IT was sweet.  Now we have TONS of potentials to go and visit over the next few weeks.  But, sadly, Elder Jensen became sick with some kind of bug yesterday afternoon... :( so, while all the missionaries were out working in our area, he was sick :( jaja it is kind of ironic having all the missionaries come to our area and work and then having us not actually doing anything.  Well, not not anything.  I was calling people and made two return appointments :) oh yeah!  But yeah, the blitz was pretty cool.  They don't happen very often, so it was sweet to be a part of one.  (kinda. jaja) 

So, with the pomegranates, I broke them apart and put all the seeds into a bag to snack on :)  And I got 3 shirts dirty doing it!  You think I would have learned after the first shirt...  Thankfully the stains came out quickly.  :)

Thanksgiving was pretty normal.  We had tamales, some kind of Mexican fruit salad, and some pie!  It was pretty good.  Then we made a big circle around their dining room table and everyone shared the things for which they are grateful this year.  It was pretty awesome and the Spirit was definitely there. 

Elder Jensen is doing fantastic.  He has definitely improved in his time here.  Trainers and their new missionaries are usually together for 3 months (2 transfers) and then President Cook usually splits them up.  If I stay this transfer (which I probably will) this will be my longest area!  6 months!  I hope I do stay.  I really like this area, even though it is super white.  My favorite area is definitely my first- Rancho.  They say that your first area is always the best because that is your first experience with missionary work and you come to love the people like your own family.  I hope to return back there sometime during the mission!  With Elder Nealy ;)

That's so cool you are friends with Elder Hansen's mom!  I miss Elder Hansen. He was awesome. 

That's so crazy everyone is getting married!  Tell everyone congrats for me P.S.  Don't tell anyone this, but Adam is going to propose to Brittney sometime soon!  Everyone is getting married!

That's so cool there was a convert baptism!  And I had no idea Addison's girlfriend wasn't a member... Crazy!  Baptisms are the best.  Our ward is going to have 2 this weekend.  This is the 7th weekend in a row that we have had a baptism!  It's sweet.

Our apartment is nice.  We live on the first floor.  It has a living room, bathroom and bedroom.  It isn't super big, but it's nice.  I will take some pictures one day for you!

Christmas presents... I think something good for me would just be some money.  I was thinking about buying a sweater sometime because my other one is really baggy... Maybe a watch too... I think that would probably be the best bet for me; just some money and then I can pick some things out that I would need. As for Jaxon... I am not sure!  Mission stuff would probably be the best!  I will start asking around about Skype!  There are a few technological families in our area, so I think we might be able to do so.  That would be SWEET.

I haven't received packages yet, but probably on Saturday!  I am excited! 

Pictures: 
1.we went ice skating last week as a zone activity!  It was sweet, even though I am not meant to be on the ice :)
2. our awesome zone (kinda weird, I didn't know what we were doing...)
3. our awesome zone
4-5. Ties

Well, that's all for this week!  I LOVE YOU ALL!


Love, ELder Hunt





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