Final Email

We made it to the last email!!!! I would have to say we I have probably had easier weeks to stay focused in my two years. We have still been out working and trying to find those who need the gospel. A super great guy we have been teaching I said goodbye to yesterday comes to mind. We have been teaching him on and off, kind of, for a couple months. His name is Antonio and he is the one, I may have mentioned before, who was investigating before, lived in Utah, and his brother is a member of the church. He had lost some hope because of some situations in his life about being baptized and I hope he was uplifted as we went and visited him yesterday. There are many other super great people I have for sure met with my time out here in Ohio, there will for sure be many that I miss. I am also excited to see everyone here soon too!!! Like I may have said before, I knew things were winding down, but it kind of seemed like things came pretty abruptly to a close as well. Thank you all, ever so very much for all of everything. I don't know if I could have done it without all of you. I am excited to see how everyone is doing and to hear your stories too!! I know the Savior lives and that His Gospel has been restored. Though we or everything  around us may not turn out perfectly we can always have hope and press onward. I hope you all have a super wonderful week!!!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

August 30, 2017

This has been kind of a crazy week for sure, including today. We have been all over the place it seems, had exchanges yesterday, and Stanford came to church on Sunday so that was good. We also got to go with Stanford to the family fun day last Saturday, it was a Stake activity at the stake center, Stanford and I played cornhole (it is a popular Ohio game, kind of like horseshoes in a way) so that was fun. I also got to see Charine briefly som that was pretty awesome. We have been able to keep meeting with people so that has been really good, there are lots of people just on the cusp of progressing along. Stanford is doing well though,he has been starting to read and pray better and the more contact he is getting with the church the better it has been.  We had a lesson yesterday with a newer investigator named Lakisha, who we or at least I had some questions about how interested she really was in learning. We couldn't find anyone to come with us to go to her lesson and the last person we thought would have a good chance of coming with about 2 hours notice was Andy Shullick, a single man who was baptized about a year ago and who we would have to pick up to come with us. We decided to call him and we took him and had a super awesome lesson with her which was pretty great. I am very grateful for him coming and the lesson we had. 

I will email again next tuesday and it is transfers next week. My mind is going about 100 miles an hour it seems sometimes, I am super excited to see everyone for sure, but have met tons of awesome people I will miss too.   Thank you for all the updates and for all you do for me. I hope you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You are all awesome.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

August 16, 2017

It has been a very interesting week for us here in Lorain. We are seeing some progress in some of the people we are teaching and that has been good. Some are slowly making progress in reading the Book of Mormon or praying or thinking about coming to church so that has been good. We have been continuing to meet with people like James (another one) who has some health problems but is looking for a church right now, or keep in contact with Stanford who still wants to meet up with us and it is good. We are doing quite a bit of finding and still though of course there is almost always a less active person we can go by and see. We have also been able to go out with members quite abit and that is fun too, this ward has quite a few people around our age who like to come out,  lots of other members who are pretty great too. There is one lady named Sister Rose who lives in an apartment building you might think was abandoned and she is so funny. She knows she needs to come back to church, and she doesn't have a car but she calls her walker her Cadillac so that is super fun. We also went on exchanges 2 times with Sandusky this week and we had some good times doing missionary work.
 We just have most of the normal stuff going on, exchanges and looking for those who need the gospel. We get to find some funny or interesting people to talk to so that is usually great! I hope you all have a wonderful week! I feel like I cant think of to much to say this week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

August 9, 2017

Hey, this week has been another good one. We have been getting out and teaching and just having a good old time. We have been able to continue teaching Stanford. Stanford has had some rough stuff going on in his life and he is trying to turn his life around right now. We visited him last night and we took the Stencil boys (Ethan just got home from his mission last week and Blaine is going to be a senior in high school this year) and it was a super awesome lesson we had. We have ran into some characters this week like the man who had been drinking a little and gave us some vegetables to take home or the man who thinks he is god, which was pretty strange. It always makes for some good stories though. We have been able to start keeping in contact with some of our investigators a little more this past little bit and it has been great to get to work with people a little longer than a visit or 2. The weather has continued to be awesome and it has been super nice. We have some other wonderful people on the brink of progressing along super good so we are excited about that too.
 I am still doing good, we are trying to get some things rolling along here and I think they are going to soon. I hope you all had a good week and that you have a great week to come! I also got some pictures for you!!!!!!!!
Have a super awesome week and thank you so much for all you do!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

Picture Update

Elder Whittaker, Elder Hunt, Elder Welsh, Elder Brockbank, 

Elder Knickerbocker, Elder Brooke, & Elder Nageli

Elder Hunt and Elder Walker

August 2, 2017

Hey, this week has been great! I can't believe how nice the weather has been and it is awesome! We have been blessed to find so many people to teach and it has been great. Yesterday we were on exchanges and Elder Worthington and I went to visit a lady named Sister Olson who needs some extra help and so we mowed her lawn. When we got done she had been preparing her aid a little for us to visit so, she invited her to listen in on the lesson and we were able to teach her which was really awesome. We have been able to get a good pool of investigators, now we just have to help all of them get going and progressing. Our new ward mission leader, Brother Ybarra is pretty great. He has come out teaching a few times with us lately and he is kind of like Brother Phillips from kirtland, lots of energy and a very kind heart.
 In response to one of the letters i would love to go to the temple a lot when I get back. Nothing to special happened for my birthday. We went to the Guthrie's after church and they are always good cooks so that was good. We didnt ever make it out to that part of Avon, and I haven't heard any updates from the other Elders yet on how Lorraine's cousin is doing.
 Hey, corn on the cob is great! I had some Friday at the Lee's, they are a rosie old couple that feeds us Friday. I hope you all have a super awesome week!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

July 25, 2017

It has been a pretty awesome week for us really. I am staying right here in Lorain in the same spot with the same companion.  It is kind of crazy though. I have been companions with a lot of the people who are going home this week so that is really weird. We have continued to be blessed with lots of great people to teach, we found some pretty awesome people lately, but it is just getting them to stick that has been a little more difficult. It seems if you can at least meet a few times people will progress, at least some. We just taught 2 middle aged ladies yesterday and they are looking for truth and answers it seems for their families. We have been trying to continue to ride bikes and it has been great. The weather has been marvelous here and I hope it stays like that. I also had some of the best pie I think I have ever had Sunday. We ate dinner at the Buchanan's, they are retired I think but own a berry farm and Sister Buchanan cuts hair. Brother Buchanan used to be a top 40 recording artist a while back, in country music I believe too. Anyway, she makes the best pies ever! We have been trying to hunt down quite a few less actives lately too, there are a lot it seems here. We just keep plugging away.



I am still doing well, I am very blessed to be able to serve here and this week I have learned much. I have learned more that it is all about service. That to lift where you stand is one of the best things you can do. I hope you all have a super awesome week too! We are going to try to get going "harder in the paint", and do what we need to do. Thanks for all you do.
Love Elder Koden Hunt