the mission changes people jajaja

Our surfboard

Sister Froelich, Sister Hodgson and I decided to exchange clothing. jajaja

cero

Wow.  It's all over.  It doesn't feel like it though.  It just feels like I am being transferred.  But... I am being transferred to Utah!  Lots of people have told me it doesn't hit you until you are either on the plane home or when the badge is taken off.  This is crazy!

This week went pretty well.  It rained all day Wednesday and Thursday and a little of Friday too, so that was kind of a bummer.  I thought that I was never going to see sunshine again!!!  But, it's super nice and sunny outside and I love Cali weather :) I haaaate snow...  noooooooo...

I don't remember if I told you about this or not.  Sometime last week, we were walking around in an apartment complex, contacting people.  Some guy was sitting in a truck and told us to come and talk to him.  His name is Roberto and he is from Utah!  From West Valley.  Him and his family are not members, but they are learning from the missionaries right now.  Roberto is up here in Cali working with his uncle and cousins.  So, we have decided to start teaching him up here, while his family is being taught in Utah, so that he can be able to be baptized along with them!  It's pretty cool.  We were actually the first missionaries that officially taught him.  His family has only been learning about the Church for like, 2 months.  He goes back to Utah every 3 weeks to his family and he went to an activity the last time he went.  He really likes the Church and everything it does.  He understands everything so well too!  He is an awesome guy.  He is going back to Utah on Wednesday to be with his family for Thanksgiving.

We taught a lady named Irma on Friday.  She is really Catholic, but is interested en learning about the differences between our Church and all the other ones.  We invited her to be baptized, but she declined because she has already been baptized...  But, she has a lot of potential and seems like she would make a good member. 

There have been a lot of going away stuff.  Lots tonight as well.  We are eating with one of my favorite families in the whole world, la familia Medina, and they were are going to eat at Cinthia's house (and Elder Nealy is going to go!) and then we are going to la familia Garfias.  It has been really nice to be able to serve in this ward again.  I was born here and now I am going to die here too! 

I think that is all I have for this week. 

See you in a few days :)

I love you!

Pictures:

there was a hearse in the parking lot of the church the other week

Random pictures of everyday life

casa

Here are pictures of our condo

week 6! 1

Time just flies by faster every single day...

So.  Cinthia is doing really well still.  She came to a baptismal service on Saturday and she really liked it!  She was not able to come to church because she had a job interview, but we are going to teach her tonight and present her with a baptismal calendar so that she can see what she needs to do to be prepared to be baptized on the 14 of December.  We are super excited!!!  I would like to come back on the 14, if possible.  Probably with Elder Nealy because he taught her too and would probably like to come back.  But, it's not set in stone yet.  we will have to wait and see.

Something cool this week.  Every lesson this week that we taught to an investigator, we invited them to be baptized or they already had a date!  (I hope that makes sense).  It's cool because that's something that I have never done before and inviting people to be baptized is good!  :)

We had this one lesson on Thursday with a guy named Eliseo.  We contacted him in an apartment complex and asked him if we could share something really quick, like 20 minutes.  He actually said yes!  So we went and sat down and taught him about prophets and the authority and about the life of Jesus Christ and how we need to follow his example.  The lesson went really well and we invited him to be baptized for the 7 of December and he said yes!!!  We were happy.  Then...  We went back the next day for our appointment and he told us that he did not want us to come by anymore because he was "good with God" and did not think that he needed to be baptized again... So, that was sad.  But, things like that happen!  It was the quickest investigator with a baptismal date that has ever been dropped jaja.

And as with all the other people that have had dates... It has been way too hard to actually find them...  They never answer their phones, never are home, nothing...  So, without contact, we can't do anything else but drop them.  It is really sad, but they just are not ready yet.  We were about to drop Johan, but we finally found him again!!!  Hopefully we can start teaching him on a regular basis instead of every month.  We dropped about half of our investigators yesterday because we can never find them...  But, this week will be a week of miracles!  I am on borrowed time ;)  I should be home already!  jaja

Thursday was a really good day for us.  We met this one man (his name is Alberto).  We had a meeting of the zone and when we got there, he was waiting for us.  Since most of the missionaries here speak English, he could not communicate with them and so he was waiting for Spanish.  Turns out he is a member but has been less active for a long time.  He was baptized here in Mission Viejo in 1995!  Then he had some illness problems and went to live with his family in Washington.  He spent a few years there and then moved to Wyoming for work.  He stayed there for a while until April of this year and then he decided to go to Washington D.C. (during this time he had been inactive).  when he got to Washington D.C. he ran into some missionaries and started coming back to church!  then he felt like God was telling him to come back to Cali and so he just got here last Wednesday.  Hopefully the story makes sense.  Alberto is really cool.  He has a strong desire to come back to church and be active again.

I was thinking I could leave stuff with Brigg and Janet up here or leave some things with a member.  I haven't started to pack up yet, but I should soon...

Well, this is week numero seis!  time to get to work! 

I hope you have a wonderful week! 

I love you!

Love, Elder Hunt

2 years!!! OMJ!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2

OMJ.  It's been two whole years.  I have been a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for two whole years!!!  I get chills just thinking about it.  How cool is that?!  Sometimes it feels like it, sometimes it feels longer and sometimes it feels like I just got here...  Time is lost on a mission.  It doesn't exist.

This week went pretty well for us.  I will probably be coming back to Cali on the 14 of December because WE SET A DATE WITH CINTHIA.  OMJ.  Finally, after all the praying and working with Cinthia, she accepted a date to be baptized for the 14 of December!!!  WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  She came to church on Sunday too (yes, we had our Primary program too) and she liked it!  Cinthia is really cool.  She is definitely going to be baptized.  I. Am. Excited.

Other than that, not much happened this week...  We did not find any new investigators :(  we set a lot of appointments but the people here work sooooo dang much that they are never home...  That's one problem we have here.  We teach a lot of cool people one or two times, but after that, they fall through and we can never find them again... :(  hopefully this next week won't be like that again.  We want to teach people!!!

Saturday, November 9 was a good day.  I think I told you, but the zone leader here, Elder Reddin, started the mission the same day as I did.  So, we did an exchange on that day and celebrated our two year anniversary together!!!  Yay!  It was a good day.  The zone leaders are in the YSA ward.  I am so glad I am not in the YSA ward.  Too many pretty girls.

So, our church is combined with one of the English wards.  Our Youth classes and Primary are combined with the English ward because we don't have enough and neither do they.  But, all the other classes like Principles of the Gospel and Priesthood are in Spanish.  And Sacrament is in Spanish too.  And since our the wards are combined like that, the Primary program on Sunday was in Spanish and English!  It was pretty cool.  All the kids did stuff in English and Spanish, whether they were from the English ward or Spanish.  It was pretty cool.

The new car sounds pretty dang cool.  I cannot wait to ride in it!

jajaja I am glad you like the picture!  And I agree, the aprons were weird.  But, Mexicans are also weird jaja.

I would love to go and do baptisms for the dead on the 7th!  That would be soooooo cool!!! Sign me up!

I did a Space Derby one time!  I got first place because Dad used his screwdriver and wound up the rubber band that was inside.  It was cool

I haven't found or made a plate yet...  I was thinking it would be easiest to do it when I go back home because I only have one real P-Day left and there won't be much time...  And when I go back home, it will be like every day is a P-Day jajaja.  I hit my 105th P-Day in the mission yesterday.  Crazy.

We keep on working hard every day and I will do everything that I can until the very end!  Work, work, work!  That's all I know how to do now ;)

I hope you have a fantastic week!

I love you!

Love, Elder Hunt

oh yeah, I forgot to tell you.  we moved apartments on Friday too.  Since we lived in a 2 bedroom apartment, they wanted sisters to move into our apartment because 2 sisters got emergency transferred and they didn't have anywhere to live.  so, they moved us and now we live in a SUPER nice place.  it's not even an apartment.  we live in a condo!  with a washer and dryer!!!!  woo!!!  I will have to show you pictures someday.  it's nice

Almost 2 years! 3

HOLA.

This week went by pretty well.  We taught a lot of lessons! 

Last Monday, we taught Cinthia.  She is really cool.  She was not able to come to church yesterday, because Saturday was her birthday, but she worked all day and so on Sunday her family took her out...  Hopefully next week!  Next week is the Primary program, so that will be cool. 

Tuesday was a super good day.  We taught 5 lessons!  That's so good!  We taught a lesson with Virginia.  She is still the same.  Adventist people are weird.  Then we had a lesson with Angel.  He is a new investigator.  It wasn't really that good of a lesson because we only had 10 minutes and we rushed through it a lot...  So, we are going to try to start over from the beginning with him. 

We finally taught Carlos Leon too!!!  He told us he has Thursdays off now, so we are going to try to pass by then.  We tried last Thursday, but right when we got there, he was headed off to work because they called him in :(  hopefully we can teach him again soon though! 

Then we finally had an English class!  We haven't had one for like, 2 weeks...  But, people finally came and we could teach English again! 

Halloween was good!  We didn't really do a whole lot... We taught one lesson!  Do you remember a lady named Maria Moreno?  I taught her a loooooong time ago, when I first started!  We found her!!!  So, we taught her on Thursday.  Then we had to go in at 7...  I think we should have gone in earlier though.  Around 6 is when all the parties are starting and everyone thought we were dressed up as missionaries.  It was crazy!  People in Cali have some weird costumes...  Californians are strange sometimes.  No kids came trick or treating to our house...  We didn't have any candy for them anyways jaja.  Elder Tellez would have eaten it all.  We just watched movies the whole night. 

On Saturday we had exchanges!  I went with Elder Lefevre and Elder Robles in their area.  It was a lot of fun! 

This Saturday I am going on another exchange!  This time is with Elder Reddin.  He is the Zone Leader here.  We started the mission at the same time!  And you know what this Saturday is, right?  2 year mark!!!  CRAZY!!!  I cannot believe it has been 2 years already... Time goes by so quickly!!!  The mission has been worth every single second though.  Sometimes things are hard, but you really don't remember the hard parts.  Yeah, they are always there, but the joy you feel from helping other exceeds all the other bad feelings.  Being a missionary is the best!!! 

Yesterday we found a really cool investigator.  His name is Manuel.  We taught really well yesterday during that lesson!  The Spirit was really strong and Manuel said he felt "a marvelous feeling" as we taught him about the Restoration of the Gospel.  We were going to invite him to be baptized, but a little miscommunication happened between us three missionaries and we were not able to do so...  But, we have another cita with him next Sunday, and he is definitely going to be baptized!!!

I don't want to wake up to snow... Ever.  That's why I am going to stay here FOREVER!!! :)

Sounds like the new car is sweet!  Send me some pictures!  Or I could wait.  It's only 3 weeks ;) everyone is going to think our family is gothic or something!  4 black cars and a gray one!  how boring!  jaja jk

Next holiday you won't have to tell me how it is because I will actually be there!

Do you know anything about when I am coming home?  Like, when they are going to relieve me?  Or homecoming talk?  Or anything like that?

I hope you all have a fantastic week!  LOS QUIERO.

Elder Hunt

Pictures:

Pumpkin carving

We were on exchanges and we made lunch at someone's house- Elder Hunt, Elder Lefevre, Elder Robles