Random Pictures

Tyler Merkley (From Rancho Cucamonga) in Manhattan!!

Jose, Kaileigh and Jaylyn and The new Baby. Elder Whitaker and I helped baptized them! 

Family Posterity Picture!

Pretending to show my trainer something! 

Last Week in Kansas

Elder Mohler, Tippetts, Hilborn, Jaggi, Call, Brunsvik, Hunt and Sisters Joyner and Hawkes

Last Zone P-day!

Goodbye to Ethan Thompson

Goodbye to the Hirschi Family!!!

Goodbye at the Keeper with President and Sister McCuistion! They are the best!

Unending Love; Amazing Grace

Well this is it. My last email home. It's really strange actually, I
don't feel like today is any different honestly. I don't feel like I
am leaving anytime soon. I could stay in Kansas forever, with all the
amazing people, and the magnificent sunsets, it truly is sacred ground
and I will be forever grateful that God trusted me enough to send me
to the best mission in the world. I have loved every second, I have
never been happier and while it's sad to leave and I'm sure it will
only get harder, I am really excited to apply the life lessons I have
learned and find even more happiness!

This week has been such a great week! As always. God is so good! We've
seen some amazing miracles and then I also had some first time
experiences which was fun! I finally had a close encounter with a dog,
nothing like huge but I feel like every missionary has a scary
encounter with a dog so that is nice. And then we had this really cool
experience. Monday night we get this call from the stake Sunday school
president and he wanted us to do a hour and a half presentation on the
history of the church, fundamental beliefs, and how those beliefs
effect how we view life to a bunch of Mason's. So we went and did put
little presentation and then opened it up for questions. And let me
tell you... Wow! I am so thankful for the restored gospel because
their is so much confusion out there! But there was this old man who
was pretty much blind and deaf unless you got super close to him and
shouted, he asked a question having to do with Jesus and I went over
close to him and told him my testimony of Jesus Christ and the Book of
Mormon and how I had come to know. Then the questioning went on but he
turned to me and whispered "if that's really what you believe, you
stick with it" The spirit testified so strong to me of the
truthfulness of the gospel! It ended okay but all i know I was so
mentally exhausted afterward.

This ward that I am serving in now is so amazing! I'm so grateful to
be able to serve around such saints and examples. I will be forever
grateful for the lessons that these people have taught me! Overall I
am just so thankful for my mission, the entire mission experience!
These past two years have been the best and like I said before I'm
extremely sad to be leaving and I'm sure when it hits me for real it
will be even more hard. But if I've learned one thing it's to choose
joy, and I'm excited to choose joy and find even more happiness in my
future. The best is yet to come!

I will be having a homecoming in Rancho next weekend on the 4th at 9
and I will also being giving a homecoming in Provo at the end of
September as well! Everyone is welcome to attend :)

Love you all so much! Thanks for the prayers and the support!
-Elder Hunt

Calling Topeka to repentance

Zone bowling last week!

Our goodbye zone lunch

If the Savior Stood Beside Me

Hey hey Everyone! 
This week has been SOO good! So many amazing miracles happened I don't think it's possible to fit them all in one email! The Lord is SO good! So first and greatest thing that happened was Prince got baptized!!! The baptism was so spiritual and he brought his two friends and they loved it! 

Then there was this family a while ago that was preparing for baptism over in the Sherwood ward and they moved to our ward so that is awesome! They came to church and he should be getting baptized this next week! And we also have Andrea who gave a lesson on family history in Sunday school is also going to be baptized this weekend!! So tons of good things happening! And then Saturday night we got a call from the Lawrence Zone Leaders and they have another investigator that has already met all the requirement for baptism and she is moving to our area! She didn't come yesterday but she will be getting baptized next week! Life is SOOOO GOOD! We are doing tons of finding and it's so cool that the Lord is preparing so many people!! 

This week Elder Hilborn and I were reading in 3 Nephi 17 about the Savior's visit to the America's and his dealings with the children! In my studies I have been coming across many scriptures about becoming like a little children. And the spirit has taught me that the Savior wants us to become like little children so He can bless us as he does the little children and have the personal relationship with him as little children do. If you haven't read 3 Nephi 17 in a while I would strongly recommend that you do so! It's amazing! 

Love you all Mucho! 
-Elder Hunt

Johnathan Lawton is going on a mission to LA and we went to his farewell party. Wasn't it like two weeks ago I was at mine?

We didn't have a dinner so we crashed a wedding (I mean not really crashed because I was invited by someone from Sherwood but we weren't going to go until our dinner cancelled) and they made us take a picture for the guest 

Prince got baptized with Jeremy! It was so awesome! Also zoom into Princes shirt. We didn't realize until after the baptism but he said "I wanted to wear my favorite shirt on my favorite day" TOPEKA IS LITERALLY THE BEST 

Tupac's Back

This week has been so much fun! Another great week. So many good
things happening up here in Top City! I love Topeka with all my heart!
I am starting my 11th month serving here in Topeka, and it's been the
best 11 months of my life!

This week we got found this kid Prince that the other elders were
teaching but kind of stopped teaching him because he was deaf and
can't really understand everything. So they told us we could go over
since my companion can say kind of sign. We went over and taught the
restoration and he almost fell out of his chair when we told him about
prophets! He came to church yesterday and is set for baptism this
saturday! So exciting!

So there is this funny story. We were eating with these members for
dinner. They are awesome, the netherlands. They are straight from
Africa and came here to Topeka a long time ago and have set up shop
here. They are the best. But Sis. Netherland brought her non member
daughter to dinner and while we were eating they were talking about
her other children and she starts talking about this one son that is a
rapper. Turns out she full-heartedly believes that her son is Tupac
and she started telling us how he is coming back in a year. The
daughter was like rolling her eyes and trying to say no and then Sis.
Netherland went off "What you gonna say, when your brother come home
and he Tupac? Give me a logical answer." and we were trying so hard
not to laugh because she was actually serious. It was the best. I LOVE
TOPEKA!!! So if Tupac is back in the next year... I know his Mom. Also
found out this week that Cobon, who we baptized a while ago is Linda
Brown (from Brown V. Board) step son.

I love being a missionary! We had zone conference this week and it was
so good! I had to give my closing testimony. And that was strange, and
the conference Different for sure because of the new mission president
but it was still super spiritual! Life is going by so quickly... I
can't get over it. I know I say that everyday but every week I swear
it goes faster.

Love you all so much!
-Elder Hunt

Lucky Number 13

Hey everyone! This week has been crazy! I went to my 13th MLC (which
also means 13 zone training, 13 drives to Wichita, 13 MLC Preps etc.),
which was awesome. It was way different than the other MLCs that I
have gone to. It was in the gym this time, as opposed to the primary
room and we had tables instead of just holding every thing on our
laps. It was a super good meeting! We talked about the area book
planner app that we have on our iPad and how to use that most
effectively and how to use Preach My Gospel better. It was different
but super good.

This week I found myself saying "if it's not one thing, it's another"
quite a bit. It seemed like every time we had even a second of time to
work in our area we would get a call from a member asking us to come
help them move or give a blessing, or someone in the zone that
desperately needed a ride, or something of that nature. It was crazy.
We were running around like chickens with our legs cut off. But just
another testimony that the Lord provides when we give it our all! We
saw so many miracles in the small amount of time it was ridiculous. We
found this family that was sitting on their porch and they accepted a
Book of Mormon and then as we walked by back to our car they were
reading it together as a family! It was so cool! And Andrea came to
church again which is awesome, and she is giving a lesson on family
history in Young Women's!!!! She is just waiting for her Dads
permission to get baptized, but we fasted this week for him so we are
excited for that miracle!

This week I have been thinking a lot about having large visions for
ourselves. It's something that I have learned a lot about on my
mission. A vision of who we want to become and what we want to
accomplish. Hellen Keller once said "It's a terrible thing to see and
have no vision". We are Sons and Daughters of God, with unlimited
potential. We were not sent here to fail, but to succeed gloriously
and as we rely on Christ and put our trust in him he can help us
accomplish any vision that we have for ourselves, no matter how big
they might be.

Love you all SOOOO much!
-Elder Hunt

MLC August 2016

Interview Training July 2016

Funny Picture MLC 2016

Council with the Lord

What's up everyone!!
This week was such a great week! The Lord sure did provide this week!
He is the best! Towards the beginning of the week there was defintely
a lot of things that didn't exactly happen the way we wanted them too.
We actually had people coming up to us and trying to tell us what we
believed and we were like uhh this is strange. haha but we pushed
through and we refound this kid that we had been teaching a while ago
and he and his sister came to church yesterday and loved it! That was
a amazing miracle! and then there were a bunch of people that were
super interested towards the end of the week!

This week we had interviews with President McCuisition which was super
good! They were different then Prez Bell's interviews, but so good and
the spirit was so strong and testified of his calling! He is such a
great guy!

This week I have been thinking a lot about prayer and how important
that is in our everyday lives. This week I have been trying to have a
"Counciling" prayer every single day where I can council with the Lord
and it's so cool how if we have an open heart and open mind the Lord
will answer our prayers and reveal his will unto us. Our relationship
with Heavenly Father can be as real and prevalent as any other
relationship we have in our lives!

This week is MLC so there is a lot that we are going to be doing this
week so I'm pretty excited for that. MLC week is always super busy and
goes by quick. I swear the days are getting faster and faster.

Anyways Hope you all have an amazing week!

Love you!
-Elder Hunt


Kansas Sunrise!