This Is True Happiness.

i am so excited to go and do grandpa’s baptism tomorrow!! we gave a blessing to an old lady this week too.. it reminded me of grandpa's blessing.

this week was great!  we were finally able to teach our less actives (now fully active) sister and she is golden!  her daughter begs her to come to church ever since they came to the ward Christmas party. the mom trusts us more now and not the internet, she also loves the Book of Mormon. our ward has a new mission plan, which includes allowing us to take investigators to meals with members. we took an investigator last night and the members were awesome and we now know our investigators needs!

our most progressive investigator came to church hung over yesterday, which i actually count as a huge miracle. since she wasn't feeling well, we were able to explain to her that the ward wasn't giving her pressure to be a member, but that they were just being friendly. she has 2 great fellow shippers and she says, she loves 'progressing' in her knowledge.

our new gospel doctrine class started and it was perfect to have her learn about Heavenly Father. we are excited for the news of our investigator that we 家俺d to 何乞 is getting baptized. She lives right next to our church and will come to our ward. When the sisters came into our area, we referred them to her, Elder Clawson is hoping that he can baptize her since she was one of the first people he taught and testified to.

the English class we started 3 transfers ago, is now up to 26 people and almost 1/2 are members. our ward is getting excited!  we have 2 less actives coming to church weekly and since we have found an investigator through the less actives, we are going to be focusing this month on less actives and finding more contacts through them. our focus on investigators is fellow shippers and getting them all to church so the ward can do the rest of the work.

i love missionary work!  this is true happiness!  my personal study is good and I have been able to focus more lately.  this week I found it interesting to use the commandment of the Sabbath day with the message of the restoration. training is good no complaints.

we have progressing investigators, member’s trust, and great relationships with everyone involved. it is a huge blessing to see this area progress so much!

have a good week!  i love missionary work!

Elder Hunter

We both kept smiles on our face and we got through it!

Hello wonderful family, Merry Christmas.

This week has been super long slow and difficult.  It seemed that just about everything went wrong including us referring our Korean grandma to the sister missionaries which is sad because we wont get to teach her but so great because they are such better teachers than we are. That put our 'teaching pool' down to 4 people.  Which is sad because we have been working harder than 4 investigators but it is more than we had when I came in.  

Although this week was hard and trying I also saw so many blessings. Moms 25 days of Christmas has been one of them. Also seeing that as I just make myself go one, maybe even two steps further, that, that is when the Lord blesses the people I care about so much.

Friday for some reason was especially hard. It was raining and with the snow that was already on the ground it made everything so much harder. We had already been doing so much calling and we still had 3 hours till our English class.  Well I made my comp and I go out and contact. I don’t think he was very happy with my decision but that’s what we had planned for and I wanted to follow through with it. I was very thankful he was willing to just follow though.  We went and froze! It was so awful! But, we both kept smiles on our face and we got through it.  

As soon as we were done, someone called me. It was someone that I have been calling every week that I have been in this area inviting him to English class. He hasn’t been able to come because his church worships on Friday nights.  Well he called and said my church was canceled and I will come to English class. For English class, he ended up playing chess with a 6 year old, practicing English.

Then our 70 year old grandpa investigator showed up and taught them both how to play better chess. After that the new comer started asking questions about the Book of Mormon after answering them, I was ready to call it a night, but our 70 year old investigator, who is a complete stud said, hey I want to watch the restoration video again. Ha-ha so we watched it and testified of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith.  

Before we left, our grandpa investigator then shared his testimony and pretty much told the newcomer he should join the church because of how great it is. ha-ha

We now have a new investigator, bringing our investigators to 5.  They both want to meet together to play chess and learn about the church together. That’s the Big Miracle this week.

Whereas this week was hard, last night during planning, knowing that we worked through everything, even though it was hard, it was so fulfilling!

I Love you guys, thanks for everything!!

--

Elder Hunter

BRRRRRR

It's beginning to look a lot like.. a white Christmas in Korea.

Heavenly Father Sincerely Blesses Us

hey everyone this week has been good!  

we had a baptism this week and it went great he is super happy and just a super good experience.  

we spent thanksgiving at a family named the wilcox's and they were so great to us, gave us a super great thanksgiving! we got permission to watch byu sports so watched 2 football games and a basketball game. it was good. we were there all day and it was super great.  

also a little girl got baptized this sunday and we are super close to the family.  we took a journal mom sent me. had the boys put stickers on every page and then everyone in the family wrote a little note. i had planned on giving it to her but i ended up having the dad give it to her and it was awesome such a cool feeling.we now have another baptism planned for the 22 of december.  the aaronic priesthood is going to be teaching him lesson 3 next sunday so it should be super exciting!!  that's all the news from here!! investigators are progressing and not a day goes by that i don't see miracles!! thank you so much for this opportunity!!!

-- 
Elder Hunter

Nothin' Better Than Being A Missionary, Having Thanksgiving Dinner and Watching BYU Football and Basketball!

Elder Coats LOVES Elder Hunter

What A Team!

the Lord is in this work, completely.

hello everyone!!! i have been pretty skimpy with the emails lately so i am sorry hopefully this one will help everyone in this thanksgiving time!!! snack congrats on signing that’s super cool. mom thanks for the package and wow i was so excited!! the handle on the bag broke about 40 feet from the house so i had to put it on my back and carry it 4 floors. ha-ha i loved it and thank you so much!!! mom you’re the best!!!

so here is the low down on some investigators.

1. gets baptized this Sunday. he is awesome so ready and will be a great member he is a member referral and it is so great!

2. grandma. she is great learning her abc's and is so cute. she has come to 2 musical things in the past 2 weeks and loves it and just keeps saying thank you to us. everyone in my district has met her and loves her and she loves us.

3. grandpa he was in the us for 30 years and is helping us teach grandma they are friends now since they have gone to the music things together so they want to learn together. we plan on hopefully giving dates to them this week.  

we have met a lot of other investigators but a lot of them only have english interest or are to scared to really learn yet so they are all going to come to english.  

i went on splits a couple weeks ago with elder hill and we found bananas for 2. we found an old blender in the house and made banana nutella milkshakes. topped off with contacting 90 people in 2 days.

an inactive member came to an event last week that i texted her about. we have sinse met her 2 sisters and they want to take us to dinner.

we met with an old investigator this week who wants to get baptized but his parents say no so we have to wait till he is 18 but we are going to try and go meet with them. hopefully i can speak korean. ha-ha.  

a member brought his little brother to church last week so the ward is saying he will get baptized in december.

cool story i was looking through less active member records and saw a ladies picture. i didn’t pay much attention to it so kept going. about 15 pages later i saw that same ladies name on a record that didn’t have a picture on it. i went back right then, and called the lady. well we met on saturday and it went awesome!!!  

last night was the korea mission 50th anniversary it was great to participate in that.  they handed out the wristbands that were my idea that greg and sally made and it was super cool.  

yesterday in seocho ward someone asked elder gillis to share how the spirit is in missionary work and he talked about how i didn’t speak korean but that how because i'm training i can and the lord is helping me and everyone was shocked.  

i have talked to some seocho ward members and all they can say is elder hunter you have gotten skinnier and your korean has really progressed. i’ll take the compliments ha-ha.

lastly stake conference was also this week and one of the stake presidency members is in our ward. the stake is making a big push on missionary work lately and it is great. anyway he went up on saturday and asked some questions about how people came into the church etc. then he said what will follow, this is what i have heard from my zone leaders and i paraphrase--- 'ok i'm gonna talk a little about my ward and sorry if i offend anyone but  this has got to be said.  how many of you know elder hunter? how many of you knew him when he was with his korean companion? well let me tell you. elder hunter came over with his korean comp for dinner and he was shy, he can’t speak korean and he knows it, his companion did everything for him.  

when i found out elder hunter was training i didn’t know what was gonna happen and i prayed super hard for him. well guess what? last week they had 2 new investigators at the music fireside and he came over for dinner. ’what follows is not a paraphrase' and i don’t know what happened but elder hunter speaks korean and him and his companion are working hard and are great missionaries, and we as members aren’t helping them enough.

they are working hard, but imagine how hard elder hunter and elder clawson would work if we helped them out? wow!  when i heard this story i couldn’t stop jumping up and down.  not because of my name or anything like that, but because someone other then myself can see that the Lord is in this work completely!!!!!!!!!!!!  

i love this work and i love being a missionary.

Elder Hunter

November 15, 2012

Miracles

hey!! this week was good!! working hard is sure rewarding!  

we got a new investigator on monday!  he is hilarious and such a good guy too.  we have been so busy lately. i think that me becoming senior companion was a bad idea, because i have so much that i want to do and not enough time in the day, so we are always hurrying from place to place. 

our grandma investigator is so cute.  she has had a hard time in life and in our lesson on Tuesday we gave her a blessing. as she left, i asked if she would help be our korean grandma since our families aren't here and ah, she is so cute she just bowed, super deep and said thank you so much! she is so cute. she prayed on thursday.  on friday when she came to english class our district made a card with pictures of us and gave it to her. we also had a picture of Jesus we put into a frame and gave it to her.    

speaking of english class we are doing one big english class with our district and guess how many people came this week?? 19!!! super super cool.  i started the class last transfer and it has gotten huge thanks to every ones help!  well sorry that's about all i have for this week. 

we are seeing miracles left and right thanks to our hard work now, i just pray that our investigators with have the faith to act.  

-- 
Elder Hunter