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

3 new investigators

hello everyone. well transfers were last week and guess what? i have a new companion! I am senior companion.  his name is elder clawson.  he came to korea on tuesday. which also labels me as a trainer.  shocked!

this week has been interesting i have been able to see how much Heavenly Father plays a huge role in the language. i have worked hard my time here to learn korean to do my best but it just hasn’t clicked.  you have to hear and understand. then speak and boy is it hard. but i have been very blessed this week as to how my 'ears have been opened' and my 'tongue has been loosed'  i can only say things that i have studied but the Lord is helping me understand everything that i need too. 

WE have found possibly 3 new investigators.  last night we visited some members and it was the first time i have visited members where i have actually spoke the majority of the time.  the Lord is truly in this work.

my comp is a workaholic. we have been busy lately and all he wants to do is go and talk to people. obviously the language is difficult but he is brilliant and is picking it up super fast. i'm trying to find the balance between pushing to motivate and still making sure he is having fun and not hating his life.  he is a great missionary and willing to work hard.

yesterday i had a chance to stand up in front of the priests cuz they wanted me to say some good words i guess. i went off about elder christoffersons talk about 'manning up'. i thought it was interesting to see that i am not a man nor close to it but it was a good experience.

this work is crazy and is even better now that the Lord is using me to speak korean now.  my heart is full of joy and i don’t know how i can thank Him anymore for what He has let me do this last week. we are tired.  this work as a senior companion is so different.

i'm blessed to know that He really does love and care about all of us and the Lord does have a timeline. He has a plan.

--

Elder Hunter

Passed!

ok so sorry there hasn’t been a big email lately, im gonna try my best this week.

i passed my final korean test. yay....it took me longer than i had hoped but i feel that the lord didn’t want me to finish it quickly and that i had more important trials to take care of.  i am on a korean study phase now where i am always looking to find new words and add it to my as what elder herman would call it 'my eternal book of knowledge' haha miss him. 

for pday we had a football tournament it was pretty fun. we had a draft and everything. elder coats put together a football sports illustrated i sent it to dad enjoy it.  i had the first pick and my team took second.  it was fun. sprained my ankle but i am good now haha. 

taught a 25-minute lesson yesterday in church alone. that was a blessing to see and feel a little confidence in the gift of the limited korean the Lord has given me.

There is someone in this ward that hasn’t got confirmed yet and he came to church yesterday.  i have been trying the past 6 weeks and he came.  hopefully he can get confirmed last week.  talked to him about commandments and compared a fight dad and i had about doing homework to commandments. i don’t know how i got to relate or even make sense but he understood and it helped him understand. thank you for the Spirit!

also someone that has had the first 2 lessons, that has come to church every week for months, and that watched conference went in for an interview with the bishop and told him he wants to be baptized next month. so that is exciting. our ward has been working on ward member referrals and it is so great to see this man who is a referral have that desire.  i think it will be great for the ward to see that it really can happen!!

that’s it for this week thanks for everything love you guys!

--

Elder Hunter

Smile!

hello everyone!

this week has been good and i have a lot to write so here we go.

we went to the temple on tuesday it was awesome.  i felt i should talk with my mission president and i was looking for some comforting words or some encouragement and i didn’t get it. haha but i did get the few words of 'you will be blessed.' and that’s enough for me. it has helped remind me of doctrine and covenants 78:17-18 and how it is hard but i will be blessed. so far the counsel i have gotten from my 2 mission presidents is smile, and you will be blessed. i guess that’s what i gotta do smile and trust it will be worth it.

my comp has been a little sick which has left me with a lot of personal study. so far i think the best conference ever given was november of 2008 or march 2012 i could read those talks over and over again. in 2008 elder bednar talked about prayer and about giving thanks.  i have tried doing that this week and it has made all the difference. as i hope some people may know i love prayer! i love the fact that i can pray! 

however i have gotten in the habit of giving thanks, then asking for help for myself.  i realized in his talk that i will only gain more knowledge and help if i continue to try to be the answers to others prayers, even if that means just me praying for them.  it has made a big difference in my life this last week.

learned something cool this week in korean. in jacob 7:27  enos states he will obey.  in korean there are 2 different types of obedience. 1 is full complete obedience with all your heart and the other is only partial obedience on a outward obedience/doing it because he has too. enos in jacob accepts it because he has too but after he prays he wants to follow and obey with all his heart. i thought that was kinda cool. 

i have been able to read a lot in the book of mormon this week. what an amazing guy shelaman and moroni are! first i think it’s neat to see that all 2,000 warriors were a complete group and never once is one name brought out alone. they accomplished great things together as a group and not only because they were a group but...their mothers knew it too and taught them!!!! 

obey your mom.  she is your mission president right now hahaha at least that’s what we here when we go back(mom don’t hold this against me when i get home) i also think its interesting how in alma 62:4-5 because of moroni's standards many people wanted to follow because he was so public about his standards and didn’t hide them!

lastly as many people know this week last year i got my mission call and also grandpa hunter died followed with the funeral and macays around the world trip.  the part i wish to focus on is grandpa. 

we had the opportunity to go give a blessing to a grandma yesterday. boy did that scare and remind me of grandpa.  a year has gone by and wow. i sure do miss him and grandma.  but yesterday i decided to do some more studying and found the same scriptures that gave me comfort last year.  alma 40;12 and 23 

not only will i see grandpa again but he will be able to remember who i am!  how thankful i am for this!! and how thankful i am that he won’t put me in an arm bar either. last night was a little emotional thinking about how it is time to get his work done for him.  thinking about if he will accept it etc.  started to think about what type of missionary i would want to teach my grandpa 1 peter 4:6.  

obviously one who is a good missionary right? then i got to think if i was that missionary and if not, how i could get there? 

this week has gone by fast.  i am thankful for the blessings i have to be here in korea. 

i love you guys.