A Savior Is Born

Hey everyone!
Hopefully you had the best Christmas of your lives! I know this
Christmas was the best one yet. I love being a missionary so much
especially during the Christmas season, and I'm pretty sad that it's
over. There really is a special spirit that falls over the earth
around this time and it's super cool.

This week during the Book of mormon change challenge (bomc2) I got to
third nephi... Kind of behind but trying to catch up! And I got to 3
Nephi 1:13, where Nephi is pleading with the Lord because the people
are so wicked that if the sign of the birth of the messiah doesn't
happen, then all the righteous will be put to death. The scripture
reads "Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is
at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow
come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfil all
that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy
prophets." How cool!! The savior, on the night before his birth, took
the time to comfort his people. Instead of being preoccupied with
himself and the daunting mission that lay before him, the Savior was
still Turing outwards. He always puts us first because of his
unconditional LOVE for us. That might have been one of the last things
he did before leaving his kingdoms above and descending beneath
everything, and he took the time to succor his people.

Christmas is super awesome! I love it! This Christmas was a little
different, as you could guess everyone was gone home this week so
Manhattan was pretty bare, but the Lord always provides miracles.
ALWAYS! We were able to still get members out with us and find people
(lonely college students with no where to go ) life is good. Skyping
was fun too! So Christmas Eve we were going to I hop (think "the Santa
Claus") because we didn't have anywhere to eat and eating in our
apartment sounded even more sad, and we get a call from the sisters
and they are freaking out, they are walking around at like 7 o clock
and some guy dressed in all black followed them for like four blocks
and was getting closer so we had to leave I hop and go and drive next
to them until they got home. So miracle that nothing bad happened!

Love you all! Have the best week ever!
-Elder Hunt

Sushi on Christmas Eve

BOMC2

So this week has been so crazy and has just flown by! It's been insane! With finals week upon us I got to reflect on how grateful I am that I don't have to take finals! My heart goes out to all of the college students right now! haha I did actually take a final, we have been going to institute on Wednesday night with the branch and we had the final this week and had to write an essay (something that I haven't done for who knows how long) on the Old Testament and really the only thing that would hold me back from passing the class (and getting college credit haha) is I never completed the readings. Soooo if I could get Genesis through 2 Samuel read before the end of the year I would be set. Unfortunately that's not really going to happen.  

Something that our mission has done, starting Thanksgiving and ending the first of the year, is we are reading the Book of Mormon as a mission. IT'S BEEN SO AMAZING! It's called the Book of Mormon Change Challenge, or in KWM terms, BOM C Squared. I am almost done with Alma (which is really behind) and it's been so cool. The spirit is so strong every single time and I learn so much! We have been highlighting different subjects (red- character of Christ, Green- The atonement and Blue-Faith) and it's crazy how much these subjects stand out. Especially the Character of Christ. 

This week we also had Zone Conference and we talked about Spiritual Giancy (another KWM term) and really focused everything on making sure that Love for the Savior is the only motive that we have. President Bell gave an amazing talk on the Character of Christ and that we need to all develop the character of Christ. Always turning outwards never inwards. He gave all these examples (character of Christ by elder bednar gives all those great examples if you want to read it) and it was just super awesome! Then we had an ugly sweat contest and christmas party! Favorite quote of Zone Confrence "We gotta be super consecrated this morning so we can go crazy this afternoon" -President Bell. I LOVE THEM! 

We also saw a lot of super sick miracles this week! We went on a few exchanges and were able to get to know everyone that is in the zone and get the transfer started off all great! I love Christmas time, and A Savior is Born works amazingly on softening peoples hearts! Every single time we show that video we always get the response of "It's so diverse" and I love that! It really shows that God is no respecter of persons! He loves every single one of us, no matter who we are, how old, where we are from, what we have done. It's so cool! 

Love you all! 

-Elder Hunt

A Savior is Born

So this week has been another amazing week here in Kansas! And what's

even more surprising is that it's mid December and still in the 60s...
And sunny? Maybe they're on to something with the whole global warming
thing.... Haha but it's been nice, not complaining in the slightest.
This week was transfers and I got to stay in Manhattan so that's super
nice. I love this branch, (unfortunately we go on a 3 week hiatus
after this week) and everyone is so awesome! I love it!

We had a super awesome miracle happen yesterday! The sisters
investigator brought her friend to church yesterday and they stayed
for the whole block and he loved it! And the topics were the
millennium and missionary work! And he participated and it was so
cool! He's preparing for baptism on the first couple weekend in
January! So cool!

Some things I have been thinking about recently was from elder
claytons talk during the Christmas devotional. He was talking about
how the angel appeared to the shepherds and said "fear not" and how
while he was at the time talking to the shepherds to not be afraid of
him, the Angel. He was also telling us that we don't have to be afraid
any more. A savior is born and because of that we don't have to fear.
We have a savior and have no need to fear! So despite the craziness of
the world, and men's hearts failing them we can remember the Angels
words and "fear not".

If you haven't checked out the savior is born video! Go do so, its so
amazing and brings the spirit super strongly! Christmas.mormon.org

Love you all!
-Elder Hunt

Even missionaries need a little Santa some times

Christmas in Manhattan

So transfers are this week and I'm staying right here in Manhattan!
I'm so excited! I was pretty sure that I was leaving so I prepared
myself but I got good news and I'm staying! So that's pretty awesome!
I love it here so much! It's the best place ever and in so excited for
the coming transfer! I'm still with Elder French! It's going to be
good! The zone has stayed pretty much the same too so that's super
fun! Also ill be here for Christmas!

This week was super good. We had MLC on Tuesday so we drove down
Monday night. The meeting was so awesome! We talked all about a triple
digit vision. The vision they we have for the mission is to baptize
100 a month! And so we talked about being escalator missionaries and
not elevator missionaries (escalator always going up, elevators go up
and down) and how we can always be doing more that what's expected and
expecting the impossible (Luke 17). The meeting was 830-5 so we were
exhausted afterwords but it was good!

Then we got back home and we had to do stake reports with our stake
president which is always kind of stressful. You have to know
everything about everyone that is preparing for baptism and the people
that have been baptized in the last two years and how they are doing
and what the missionaries and members are doing to help them out. It's
intense but it's always an uplifting experience. Then we had zone
training on Friday which went super good, probably one of the least
stressful zone trainings of my mission. I trained on triple digit
vision and always inviting to baptism for a specific date every single
day! It was good and then we gave out zone shirts!

We had a super awesome miracle this week! One of our investigators
that has been coming pretty much to everything got his answer that he
needs to be baptized! So excited! We are meeting with him tonight to
set it all up and hopefully it will be this weekend! It's gonna be
awesome! I love it here so much! Glad I get to stay another six weeks!

Love you all! Check out a savior is born at Christmas.mormon.org!
#ASaviorIsBorn

-Elder Hunt

  

Our Zone Shirts

Our MLC

Oh yeah and we got to go to another k state game #GoWildcats

Kansas sunsets 🏻