White Easter

This week was kind of hectic! We have been running around trying to help people get baptized and since we have a full time car (and don't have to worry too much about miles) we can help other companionship get in contact with their people. We have been working a lot with Laura and Kayleigh from last week, and unfortunately she didn't get baptized this weekend. She was pretty much MIA all week and then she came to church and it was like uhhhh where the heck were you all week? you're 8... it shouldn't be hard to get in contact with you. But she came and that was super good! She'll be getting baptized next week!

Then we started teaching this guy named Marcus. HE IS SO COOL! He has hair that goes up like 8 inches in the sky and he's so interested... and then we found out that his Grandpa is a Less Active member that lives right across the street and he's so awesome! He's like 60s, African American red hair and loves video games. He's a baller. Also he's like a super solid missionary. He told us "If you guys don't want to pray in my house, bring new people over and we can teach them how to pray!" So cool! Love that whole family! Marcus really wants to know the truth and is always asking about questions and more reading assignments! He had some big concerns come up about anti and we were said "Yeah.. Satan has his army and tries to bring you down, but just like Satan has his army, God also has an Army... and that's us" and he was like wide eyed and the spirit was so strong and he opened up and completely got rid of his concern! IT was awesome!.

This week in the car we have been listening to a lot of talks and we got to this talk called "Why 1820?" by Hyrum W. Smith. In it he talks about why he believes that the Restoration had to occur in 1820 (https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/1988_09_27_ADV_Smith.mp3 Here's the link if you want to hear it... it's pretty sweet!) and in it he tells as story that I thought was so inspiring! So back when David O' Mckay (I think) was prophet there was a stake youth fireside going on and he decided to attend out of the blue. The stake president was giving his remarks when the prophet walked in and I'm sure the stake president almost had a heart attack, but he kept going with his remarks. About half way through with his talk he stopped and said "I feel impressed to tell you that before the world was, all of you were captains and general fighting for the Lord" and then he went on with his talk. When he was finished he looked down to see the Prophet just staring at him, so after the meeting he quickly ran to the prophet and asked, "Did I say something wrong" and the prophet said "No, just inaccurate. There was no captains in attendance tonight.. only generals" and then Bro. Smith goes on to say, if we could have a glimpse of who we were (and really are) it would make the hair on our neck stand up! I thought that that was perfect, we are all children of God and were chosen to come here at a specific time! Now is the time to prove ourselves and find out who we really are! Just a spiritual thought of the week that I found super fascinating! If you have some time you really should check out that talk! 

Anyways! Hope everyone had a great Easter! Mine was pretty unique! It snowed last night! Like 2.5 inches and then was sunny all day long.. It isn't very often that you get to see purple blooming flowers with snow, or SUPER green trees all covered in white snow. It was pretty beautiful and definitely made for a great Easter! HALLELUJA!

Love you all! 

-Elder Hunt

So this is a funny video. Every week they send out an update on how the mission did that weekend! And then this happened 😂😂

Out of the Box

So much happened this week it's crazy! So if you are sick of reading
these things this one is going to be a good one, hopefully! hahah
anyways so this week started off with zone confrence! Holy crud do I
love my mission! We talked about how much we should love our mission
and how that love for the Savior drives us to keep pushing through. We
sang "How Firm a Foundation" and we always sing all the verses expect
6 because that's the old age verse and Prez and Mama Bell don't like
that one. But if you haven't read the verses of that song recently you
should!

THEN ON WEDNESDAY WE HAD A TEMPLE TRIP! All of the Wichita Stake
missionaries got to go down to Oklahoma City and do a session and have
such a great time! It's about a 2 and a half hour drive down so we had
a lot of pondering to do and lots of preparation. I came with a
question and was praying about it and just not really feeling a
definite answer. We went through the temple and in the temple I opened
up the scriptures and BOOM there it was. Now I'm sure that any page I
would have turned to, God would have been able to answer my question
through the spirit but it's amazing how much you really feel God's
love when you get such a blatant answer. Then afterwords we got to
meet with the Temple President for a question and answer session and
that was SO awesome! Spiritually blown away!

Then we came home and in our mail we found coupons to free Chipotle!
(Like not some buy one get one sorta deal, but a straight FREE
burrito. and as we find out free meaning double meet, guac, extra
anything. Free!) And then we went to throw away the other junk mail
that we got and as we looked down we saw a couple more of those free
chipotle coupons in the trash! So needless to say, Chipotle will be
the meal of choice for the next couple days. God is good!

Now here's the story with action and drama! So when I was first
serving in this ward Elder Whitaker and I were teaching this woman
named Laura! She is so awesome and had so much going against her ever
joining the church. Whenever I would see missionaries that were
serving here throughout my mission I would always ask about her and
she was usually always doing the same. So these last 2 weeks she had a
complete turn around because her granddaughter turns 8 on the 20th and
she wanted to get baptized with her! So all was well, things were
going great! Laura passed her baptismal interview and it was SOO
Great. Then they got a hold of some Anti. Laura's concerns were easy
to overcome and she was still good, but her granddaughter's mom
wouldn't hear it and pretty much took Kayleigh (the granddaughter) and
dropped off the face of the map. We all kept trying to reach her with
no success. We finally found out where they lived and it was this
apartment complex that hated missionaries (plot twist, it was actually
the apartment complex that I lived in when I first got to the mission)
They had kicked missionaries off in the past but they never told us
anything so we decided to go on. We had the building but not the
actual apartment number, so we knock around a little bit keeping an
eye out for security guard and we were good. We finally knock this guy
that answered and he told us that he knew where the lived and gave us
the apartment. They weren't home, so we resolved that we were just
going to go later in the evening figuring the rumors that we heard
were exaggerated. They weren't. as we left the building to get to our
car this guy stops us and tells us that we can't be there (and it's
not like these apartments are fancy, or gated or anything. Think
ghetto, loud music, smokey hallways, constant yelling from the
tenants, type place). The guard is nice enough but very straight
forward that we couldn't be back unless we check in with the office.
So the day goes on and we come back and try the office but it's
closed. So we go and knock and get no response and then we quickly
leave. We knew we couldn't give up though! So we started thinking
outside the box. So we decided to run home and change into normal
clothes and then go knock one last time. We figured if we were in
normal clothes they wouldn't be able to realize that we were
missionaries and not bother us and we would be able to see the Mom and
get everything back on track. So we drive across town and finally get
back to the apartment. We knock, no response we try one last neighbor
that has never answered and as we are about to leave, THE MOM WALKS
UP!!!! (Now here's another part of the story, I've only met the Mom
once, 18 months ago for about 20 second, not joking so I had no idea
what to say, or how to say it, or ANYTHING!) So I start talking and
establish that I'm a missionary (in my regular clothes haha) and it's
super awkward but I could feel the spirit telling me what to say, I
barely even remember what I said, but it worked. She let us in and it
worked! Now today Laura got baptized and Kayleigh is next week! It was
such a cool miracle! God was so in control of that situation, nothing
we could have done would have made a difference but because our
efforts were magnified by God, the Spirit of the Lord worked through
us and we were able to see a miracle!

Then yesterday we get to the YSA ward that we cover as well and the
bishop pulls us aside right before the start of the meeting and asks
us to give talks because the other speaker wasn't going to make it!
Thank goodness "How Firm a Foundation" was stuck in my head, so I just
read the lyrics and gave a talk on each verse about the Atonement. It
wasn't the best talk I've ever given but it turned out alll good!

This week truly has been so amazing. Such a testimony builder of all
the wonderful miracles of God. He loves us, more then we could
possibly imagine! Sorry I wrote so much, but hopefully if you were
getting bored of these things this one added some more action!

Love you all so much!

-Elder Hunt

Laura's Baptism!!!

Temple!!!!!

After zone conference.  We all came out together and the sisters bore their closing testimonies.. Weird

Wichita and Derby Stake Missionaries at Zone Conference!!

The Oklahoma temple is so white it's hard to look at, especially in the afternoon but it's beautiful!!

Ballin' Out

What is up everyone!

This week has been so much fun! It started off Monday night having a

zone leader meeting with everyone and boy it was good. President bell

is my favorite human being ever! He is so loving and caring and

PASSIONATE about this work! That went pretty late, and then we had MLC

on Tuesday and that's a pretty long meeting but sooo good! We have

accountabilities which take forever and then we council about things

that we came prepared with. We recently have been talking about an

escalator vs, and elevator mentality. Basically instead of progressing

one person towards baptism and then starting over,(like an elevator,

just going up and down) we profess everyone and have multiple people

progressing on different steps all the time, so we are always going up

and never going down! So that was super good and we had a great

discussion!


Then we have been playing a lot of basketball with a 12 year old

investigator. We teach lessons as we are playing and it's so cool how

he can just learn right on the sport. And for any of you that actually

know me, you know how bad I am at basketball. But it's actually a lot

of fun! And then he came to a baptism that happened this weekend and

loved it! The baptism was so cool! It was a part member family and the

three sons got baptized, and as I watched them enter the waters of

baptism I just felt that the family was that much closer to God. I

could feel how happy God was at that moment and it was a great Sunday!


Anyways life is good, Kansas is the best! The weather has been so good

and people have been out and about and it's been good! Wichita is the

place to be! Love you all!! :)

-Elder Hunt

I feel like i send one of these home every other week, but I promise it's been a month since we last took one. 

My old district (When I was in derby)  at MLC 

That is so much fun you got to see elder bednar, he came to the mission the April before I came and we still talk about what he taught all the time. He definitely stressed a lot about how when you make a covenant with God you won't give up your agency, he said the same thing to missionaries on how when we accept our mission call we give up our agency, it's a pretty cool concept. I love seeing apostles! They bring such an amazing spirit, it's so crazy, you can literally feel it when they walk into the room. I felt so cool when elder holland walked in! And elder Stevenson! They just have an undeniable crazy feel about them you know they are special witnesses. Did he leave any apostolic promises? That's another classic apostle move and it's so powerful. Someone was talking about Easter this month and General confrence, and I was pretty sure that the last Easter was yesterday. It feels like such a short time ago it's rediculous. I know I say that a lot but time really goes by way to quickly.

Jesus Fire Fire‏

This week was pretty fun. We had transfers this week which always is a
blast. On Tuesday we got to take out the new missionaries for their
first day. The commitment is always to have the new missionary invite
someone to be baptized on their first day. So we got dropped off at
this apartment complex (because my companion was taking another new
missionary to another part of Wichita) and we just start talking to
everyone. The first person we talked to opened right up, and the new
missionary got to testify and invite! It was pretty awesome,
#GreenieFire! and then we just kept talking to everyone and he was
super pumped for the rest of his mission.

Then we had transfer devotional which was super good. A lot of amazing
missionaries are going home or going to different areas (and not going
to be in the MLC anymore which is really a bummer). Some of the most
influential people in my mission went home and it was sad, but its all
good!

This week is MLC, so we spent a while on preparing for that, and March
is looking full of MAAAAD Miracles! Life is so good! We also saw a lot
of cool miracles. We played a bunch of basketball with this 12 year
old kid who is super awesome! We had him read from the book of mormon
and he told us what he learned and it was super awesome!

Love you all!
-Elder Hunt

The guy in the middle is my favorite missionary! He was my zone leader in top city and then we served together in the Salina stake!