The Thanksgiving Exodus

So this week was super fun and we had a lot of cool miracles. Because
of thanksgiving every single person that lives in Manhattan decided to
pack their bags and hit the road. It was kinda weird how quiet and
silent it was in this town. Everyday pretty much felt like a Sunday
afternoon in Provo. It was strange. However despite not having anyone
in town we were able to see some super awesome miracles!

We got this call from a doctor in Utah that hosted a couple from China
and they had taken them to the temple a few times. So we stopped by
and gave them a temple magazine and a Book of Mormon and set up a
church tour. They came to the church tour and we showed them around.
They thought it was all pretty cool but they didn't believe in God so
it was hard. Then we got to the baptismal font and we had invited them
to baptism and they weren't super enthusiastic about it. But then we
remembered they really loved the temples so we talked about how
baptism is the first step into the temple. And then we talked about
eternal marriage and they completely changed. They said that they
really loved the idea of eternal marriage and how there is life after
death. I'm so grateful to know that there is such thing as eternal
marriage and how blessed I am to have that knowledge!

Thanksgiving was awesome! We started by having our elders quorum
president come to the church and bring us and the sisters hot
chocolate and donuts and he brought his kid that is a non member and
we talked about baptism and he loves the gospel! So we are going to
try and get him baptized on Christmas Eve! #NocheBlanca. Then we went
to our second councilors house and had some awesome food! Best turkey
gravy I've ever had! So good!

Love you all! Hope you had the best thanksgiving ever!
-Elder Hunt

Some wierd weather is Upon us in Manhattan! It's raining, but it's like 32 degrees so it gets frozen, so it's not snow on the trees it's ice.

Elder jones went home yesterday. Love that guy! Changed my life.

Our thanksgiving food. Super good.

Our district thanksgiving picture, the middle elders were late so they weren't in the food picture. Shame on them

Big Streeeetch ‏

So this week was another typical week in my mission. There was another
emergency transfer on Tuesday and elder Mitchell left to Topeka and I
got elder French! Just in case anyone lost count this is my 13th
companion on my mission and the 5th emergency transfer that I have
been apart of. Hahah but it's okay Because if I've learned one thing,
it's the lords work. Every companion I have learned something from,
and ever ET there is some miracle waiting to happen. So even though it
was hard to see elder Mitchell leave it definitely is stretching me a
lot more!! So that's exciting!

This week we had some pretty awesome miracles happen. We got this head
quarter referral and we went and knocked it and nobody answered, so we
knocked around and on one answered so we tried back a little later in
the day. When we knocked someone answered and we explained who we were
and that we had gotten a request that he wanted a Book of Mormon. He
wa shocked, he said he never requested it but he said that he was
super interested and had wanted a Book of Mormon for a while now, so
that was pretty cool. Unfortunately he is going out of town for
thanksgiving and we won't be able to meet with him until next week but
it's all good! Actually a lot of our people are going out of town this
week for the Holliday but it's a great opportunity to find the people
that don't have families and help them find the gospel!

Ive been studying a lot about charity recently and reading Moroni 7
and reading the institute Manuel that goes a long with it. Turns out
charity is a pretty important aspect of the gospel. Like it's one of
the most important attributes that we can obtain in this life. Love
for the savior and love for our fellowmen. Guess there's a reason
those are the two greatest commandments.

Anyways! Love you guys! Hope you are having the best week ever!

-Elder Hunt

Ping Pong

So this week I have played an out of control amount of ping pong, haha
watch out for when I get home. I might have found a new passion haha
jk. So we are really trying to get more people into the church
building because it's super hard to meet with people in their dorm or
apartment. So whenever we meet someone their first commitment (after
read the Book of Mormon and baptism) is to show them the church.
Usually this is followed by a challenge in ping pong so they actually
show up. We played so much ping pong and then would show the
restoration video and point out the spirit in the building and
everyone is loving being in the church! So it's been awesome!

This week we finally got to sit down with one of guys that has been so
close to getting baptized for like three months! We fasted with him
and he's figured he knows he need to be baptized! He should be getting
baptized next weekend. And then we had another amazing miracle! The
sisters were passing off one of their investigators to us and it was
kind of awkward because they didn't inform him that a pass off was
something that needed to happen. So it wasn't going the best. So I
asked him if he would like a tour of the church, and he said yes. So
we all drove to the church and gave him a super awesome tour! And he
prayed in front of the baptismal font and it was super powerful! He
came to church and we gave him a calendar and he's super solid on
getting baptized on the 28th!

Life is doing super good. Getting into the Christmas season! We had
interviews this week and we were shown the "a savior is born" or the
new church 2 min video and it's amazing! It's super unique and not
like any of the other three so I'm excited to start using it in
missionary work!

So I've heard a lot about crazy that was happening in the world this
week, and I don't know a whole lot of details but it just seems like s
bunch of stuff is happening! And as we talk to people most people are
really scared. But as I was talking about it with my companion, it's
really just fulfillment of prophecy. In the last days "men's hearts
shall fail them". And as long as we stay true to what we know and not
what we don't know everything will be okay. God lives and is in
control!

Love you all!
-Elder Hunt

Interviews this week

Our crazy MLC picture haha

Time Management

So if I've learned one thing on my mission it's time management. and
thats not a skill that I have always had. The first of the month is
usually pretty hectic. I don't think I got to really work in my area
until Friday afternoon! We had MLC on Wednesday so we had to spend
Monday and Tuesday preparing for the meeting (because preparation
always precedes power) and then we drove down to Wichita on Tuesday
night. Let me tell you something, driving down Kansas at night is
kinda sketch. It's completely dark and flat and it's just black
everywhere and you fell that you are in the middle of no where,
literally.

MLC was super awesome! Always such a revelatory experience. This time
we really focused on a "Therefore What" of the month of October (what
lessons were learned, what we need to change what is working what
isn't) and then also "Therefore What" of Elder Stevenson. We really
focused on the commitment pattern found in preach my gospel, really
focusing on promising blessings and then also creating a sustaining a
vision for ourselves and the people we teach! Those meetings are super
exhausting! 8:30-5... that's a long meeting! But it's so worth it!
Then we spent most of Thursday preparing for Zone Training, which was
stressful because we didn't know what we were going to train on all
day! But at the last minute we finally got something put together and
it went really well!

Thursday night was the K-state v. Baylor game, so everyone was at the
game, but we promised the Lord that we were going to work hard because
we hadn't had time to see anyone yet in the week. We committed and the
Lord provided! Funny how that seems to always work out. We were able
to see many people and they all committed to church and baptism so
that was another miracle! Despite everything being crazy and hectic
ultimately it's the Lords work and he will guide us to where ever we
need to be and he will help us through everything! So even though
things get stressful, they don't really because it's the Lord works
not mine!

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

Halloween with Elder Stevenson

So I have been meaning to mention in my emails the last couple weeks
that we were getting another Apostle in our mission! Elder Stevenson
came down here to the Salina Stake Conference so this whole weekend I
got to be with an Apostle of the Lord. We had 4, 2 hour meetings
throughout the weekend, which met a lot of sitting down and even more
spiritual experiences. It was the best thing that has ever happened!
He talked about a lot of different things and I could write a million
things about the things that he said but I think the main theme that
he talked about is trusting in the Lord. Recognizing that he qualifies
whom he calls and that if we had to do this alone it would be
impossible but because we don't have to its completely possible!

Also, I had another really unique once in a life time experience this
weekend. I got to sing with a couple other missionaries to the
apostle. We sand the EFY medley and it was pretty good, I mean i was
nervous as all heck but I think it went pretty well! That was
definitely a new experience that probably won't ever happen again! So
that was pretty awesome!

This week we saw some really awesome miracles! My new companion, Elder
Mitchell is super awesome and I love working around him! We served
around each other when I was in Derby. He was teaching these people
that moved to Manhattan when he left. We found them yesterday and they
are so solid! And then right after that we went to a former and he was
home and we invited him to come and have a church tour right then and
he followed us to the church and he loved it so much and is also
preparing for baptism! Also we went out to dinner with someone that we
have been working with a long time with members of the branch here and
he is also looking really good for baptism this month!
#NonStopNovember

I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to serve a mission, and to
be called to the place I am and to be serving with the people I am
serving with. As I listened to an Apostle of Jesus Christ I couldn't
help but feel his electrifying apostolic witness of Jesus Christ. As
he bore his powerful testimony of the restored gospel, of the reality
of a living savior, and of continuing revelation I literally felt the
power that he held. I know that Jesus Christ lives, that this is his
Church on the earth today, and I will forever be thankful for the
opportunity God has given me to gain yet again another witness!

Love you all so much!

-Elder Hunt

Our last district picture before Elder Malo left for Dodge

We're the next mormon Boy Band

old picture, but my new companion is the Elder on the far right