Christmas

Well the baptisms went well, but were also very interesting. Donald tryed to baptize Zeena, but he either couldnt get the words right or couldnt get her under so brother phillips just had to do both baptisms. In this ward Brother Phillips likes the members to do as much as they can, so really all we did was get everything all lined up and let the ward run the show. There really isnt anything special going on this next week. We are still going to be working on getting Daniel to quit his smoking habit and do normal missionary stuff. But Christmas was good, we ate soup and rolls at Bishop Oesers house for lunch, had prime rib and mashed potatoes and cheesecake at the phillips for dinner, and then had cake, pecan bars and homeade oreos at the Deckers. We held the Makars off from any food, but the Packers feed us monkey bread muffins so we were pretty stuffed. Having sacrament first was really wierd for me for the first 6 weeks or so, but know I am about used to it. I will still be going to church at 10 because we are the only ward in the building. I thought the visit was awesome, it is always good to talk with you guys, and especially to facetime and to see you. Have a good week
Love Elder Koden Hunt

New Companion

So this week has been a really good week. The weather has been about 65 degrees everyday and we have been able to teach a lot of people. We are teaching a 96 year old WW2 veteran even. We have 3 people with a baptismal date for december 26, courtney and her 8 year old daughter Zeena, and Daniel. Also, yesterday was really cool because we had 5 investigators at church. The 3 with baptismal dates, plus jim who comes every week, and the really suprising one was Donques. It really was amazing that he came, so hopefully he comes back. So yes,wednesday i got my new companion. His name is Elder Ty Koppenhafer ( I get all the harder longer names haha) he is from Mancus, Colorado, which is over kinda by Blanding and Durango. He is a hard worker, his family also has cows and he likes sports too. We are even more similiar than elder Schmidtke and I, we both go about things in about the same ways. He is a good guy, his dad isnt a member and he has 2 siblings. So the first week has gone great, he has only been out 6 months and served that whole time in a area called Medina. Yes, he is the district leader. We also got a new rule yesterday that we can only use computers that are church computers, except to call home. I could be emailing at any time of the day now. So on Christmas I will either facetime or skype ( I guess try to get it set up) about 11 a.m. here so 9 in the morning for you. We are going to go to the Phillips to do that. I also will not be able to talk to you until Christmas, since that is our next preparation day. I will for sure go and check the mail on thursday and im sure I will be informed about the packages as soon as they get there haha. But I am doing great, I has been really busy, especially since I am pretty much telling us what to do for the first little while because Elder Koppenhafer doesnt know anything about the area. Thanks for all the updates and all the support. I forgot to mention I also got  aunt Jeny's postcard last week. I  got letters from aunt shirley, the stake presidency, the seminary, and Kelly Hunt this week, so you could tell them thanks so much.  I am still getting feed well, Sister Myers doesnt mess around as I have told you about getting us meals. I am starting to get into the grove of things I guess you could say, but still adjusting a little bit. It is going to start cooling down a little bit thought, so maybe winter will be here by the time I talk to you next week. But I'm doing good. It sounds like you guys are doing good and I hope that it keeps up. Have a wonderful week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Touring the sites with Daniel

Touring the sites with Daniel...

Lessons as a Missionary

So the news for this week is that I am staying in Kirtland for this transfer and for Christmas. My companion got called on Sunday to be Zone leader on the other side of the state in Lima, so i will be getting a new companion tomorrow. So now I am just going to be a regular missionary I guess you could say because my new companion is the District Leader too. He has been great and has taught me a lot, especially about being a better missionary. I have for sure learned quite a bit out here. For one how powerful prayer is, if we dont pray before we go to work for the day, or even before lessons or tracting, nothing really seems to work. But a simple prayer makes all the difference. Brother Phillips taught me that one. I am getting better at making decisions too, thanks to my companion. He has put me in charge of what we are doing the past week and a half and it has really helped me a lot. And many other things as well. For the people we are teaching, we now have 2 baptismal dates, one a man named Daniel, and the other a woman named Courtney. There dates are for the 26 of december. They are both willing to drive anywhere to meet us a almost anytime of the day. Jamie is still coming along slowly, as with about 4 others, but we did get a refferal from the Phillips to teach sister phillips sister so we will see hertomorrow and she looks really promising and they are super excited because they are the only members in their family not counting their kids. It is still only getting down into the 20s at night and no snow. We also had christmas conference with the whole mission in Kirtland last tuesday. It was really fun, they had a really good lunch and we even got to watch The Best 2 Years. I think everyone was suprised by that because if you knew President Brown that is not like him, he is a pretty strict man and has really tightened things up since he has got here. Only the assistants could have talked him into that because he had to get it approved in Salt Lake. I really do appreciate all the support, it is awesome, especially because all the site sisters dont care for me getting letters and packages too much haha.  Thanks again for all you do and I will be in Kirtland for six more weeks.  Love you all and hopefully the Jazz are doing good, the basketball team wins a few, and my 1/2 of the bull keeps looking nice. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Mission Conference with his comp

 Nativites at the Sites

 Thanksgiving with the Phillips'

With the Sister in the area

Thanksgiving Dinner

Well, it sounds like things are going good there. I is amazing that Logan is home already, I can still remember really well his farewell luncheon at the New Castle church. I was not feeling good at all, I think that was right before we played Pineview my Junior year because I was really sick that game. But here nothing much has changed. We are still teaching Jamie, Jim Skrocky, Donques, Tina, Daniel, Muril, Courtney, and Bob. They are all moving along very slowly and no baptismal dates yet. We taught Jamie the word of wisdom and she didnt really want to give up her coffee at all, but Brother Blatter was with us and he helped her understand more about it, and by the end it was our best lesson yet. The next day her coffee pot broke too. But if her little boy would quit getting sick maybe she could make it to church. For thanksgiving we ate at the Phillips. There was me and my companion, the 2 sets of sisters in the ward, the phillips daughter and son in law, and the phillips. It was good, and their son in law is a chef at the cheesecake factory and brought a whole 52 dollar cheesecake, so that was different than pie. The picture was from the Christensons, there names are Seth and Bobbi lee. They fed us more dessert (pie), and after 2 more houses after them we were pretty full on desert. The coldest it has gotten here was today I think and it was 24 degrees, and no snow. They got about 6 inches south of here in the snow belt, but we didnt get any in Kirtland. I just came from my $17 barber shop, free haircuts are really nice. Since it is the last day of the month and we are low on miles, even though I said I wasnt going back I guess we are going to go shop at ALDI, I wouldnt recommend going there. My companion really thought I was going to get a call last night to be a trainer, but neither of us did so there is a good chance I will be here in Kirtland for another transfer, but we will know for sure by next Sunday. Also remember that I will be emailing on Tuesday next week. Christmas conference is tomorrow for the whole mission so that should be fun. But things are still going good here. Our work is slowly picking up a little too. Church was really good yesterday, it was really all about service and how love is service in action, this was mainly taught by the new bishop, bishop oeser because we were combined for 5th sunday.   I really do appreciate all the support eveyone gives to me. I hope it keeps going good there and have a great week. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt  

(I'll post the picture as soon as I get it)

Mailing Error

I apologize to anyone who tried to send a package before today. It was just brought to my attention that I transposed the last 2 numbers of the zip code. I have fixed it now. I am sorry if you felt like dumb at the Post Office for my mistake! ;)

November 16, 2015

So yes I got the package and thank you so much, you havent forgotten what I like. I made some syrup on sunday and my companion loves hot chocolate so that was great. I will make the papers for the journal work out somehow so I don't have to buy a new one haha. But this week has been long, but actually really good. We went on exchanges on Wednesday so I worked with Elder Bowcut, he is one of the district leaders and he is into music and is really smart. After my last email it got rainy and cold and so we were out walking around in the rain and cold some last week. We ended up doing quite a bit of tracting because no one could visit or would cancel on us most of the time. But, our investigators are still moving along at baby speed, but they are moving along. Jaime said last night she is still thinking about baptism pretty seriously. We had stake conference this weekend and Elder Perkins of the 70 came and it was really good, he is only 54 so a lot younger than I thought. Jim Skrocky, the investigator who married a member, stood up in the adult session on Saturday and pretty much bore his testimony of the sabbath day, which was really amazing to everyone there especially his wife. So he is coming along great at this point. Donques is slowing down so he will need some more work and looks like will take some time. We were also able to find a guy named John who seems pretty intrested so we will see how he works out. But we are still eating good, this week we had soup, roast and potatoes, chicken and rice, nothing to fancy, but pretty good from my before mission missionary standards. Actually I think it is just the area. I am glad to hear everything is going good. So before I forget I wont be emailing you again until Thanksgiving which is our preparation day.   Well I guess thats about it for now so have a great week and love you all.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

These pictures are of the Morley Farmhouse where Elder Hunt is currently living

Is he the cutest missionary you ever did see?! 

Not a normal week

So this week was a little different from the normal. We started the week out normal and everything was great. We were able to visit Jaime, and she is coming along but like a snail, Donques is on the verge just taking everything to heart, but just has a little something holding him up. Boyd will talk to us anytime of anyday and actually on wednesday he made us and brother packer ( who is a high councilor and former bishop of the kirtland ward) go to Mcdonalds and get ice cream with him. But then we had zone conference on thursday which was really long. Then on Friday my companion was sick so we  had to keep taking breaks and come in a little early. On saturday we had the veterens day tribute at the sites and that took almost the whole day because we did the performance twice. Mostly all the site sisters just sang, but they did throw us in for 2 songs. So there wasnt as much trying to talk to people as i was getting used to so it was different. The weather is still really nice actually, yesterday it was a little colder, about 50 all day, but no snow, a little rain in the night time, and quite a bit of sun for Ohio.  It is kinda funny that you got snow there before I did here, and I'm in the snow belt they say.  But it is going good here in kirtland, we have a great ward and probably the most energetic and excited ward mission leader there ever was. Whenever we go to his house he just loads us up with whatever are in his cupboards like apple butter and cereal and candy corns and lots of other things. He is pretty much a missionary himself. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Johnson Farm

So yes I am still here in Kirtland. Almost always the trainer stays with his companion for 2 transfers because that is how long the training goes. So me and my companion are still together until december 9 anyway, which means I won't email on the 7, but tuesday the 8 that week.  We were actually able to go to the Johnson farm and take a tour with him (Donald) last week. He drove us down and it was a really good tour, especially for him. He is at the point where he doesn't really remember everything. He loves arbys and is really nice and really funny, he just says it how it is. I have a couple pictures of the Johnson farm I will send. There were a lot of cupcakes that didn't get eaten, so they made us take a bunch home but we didn't eat them. We are still in the same situation of people talking with us but not progressing a whole lot. Jaime did come to church, but Donques decided he didn't want to on Sunday morning. Hopefully our investigators start keeping a few more commitments. I didn't get any mail since I last emailed, so Aunt Shirley's package is still somewhere out there. I really am grateful for everyones support, there isn't many other missionaries that get the letters and packages and things i do so thank everyone so, so much. And thank you so much for your prayers too. So it sounds like things are still really busy there. I guess we have another investigator named Boyd. He is old and lonely and talks our ear off, but he likes us to visit him and really wants to take us to McDonalds for ice cream, so i guess we will be doing that sometime. I'm still getting great meals which is really awesome. Also for Aunt Stacey Hunt there is a sister from Texas here that gets plenty of yalls and all those other texas words in, so we have one proud texan in our mission.I hope ricky gets feeling better, as you know i hate being sick and have been blessed enough to be healthy so far.   The veterans day tribute is at the sites and it is mainly all the site sisters, us, the zone leaders from shaker heights, and the painesville elders, along with a few senior missionaries. We are just singing american songs i guess, I only sing 2 songs I think, like Green Beret if you have heard of that. But the weather has been cooler here for sure and rainy, except today is pretty warm. It hasn't turned to winter yet. We get to rake up lots of leaves now because they are all falling and there is a lot of leaves.  Well have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Halloween Preparations

So first, sorry I forgot to tell you that transfers are tomorrow so the week of transfers preparation day is on Tuesday not Monday. This week has been a pretty good week for us. Jaime decided that she didn't want to give us a date yet. She said things are to stressful right now to make that kind of commitment. We met another investigator named Donques Gambrel, he is a black guy and lives a rocks throw from our east boundary in Painesville. He is really wanting to know more. Yesterday we were walking around and saw him walking down the srteet. He said he was running because he was going to try and make it to the NFL. He said his brother almost did,  he said he wanted to come to church on Sunday. We actually have I think 7 or 8 investigators, but Jaime is the only one that comes to church and none read or pray or anything like that. So the challenge is to get them progressing. Last Monday we had a little time so we took a tour of the Morely farm and talked with the Horsely's and they said a Jones with glasses came through that knew me but we couldn't think of there name. My companion is actually a really smart guy and he is really good at explaining scriptures and things that are hard to understand. He is really self reliant and likes to keep things neat and tidy. The weather has been slowly getting cooler but it really hasn't been to bad yet.  Thank you so much for the bread, it is really good all the bread and jam is a lot better than store bread for sure. We are still working on eating it though so hopefully we do before it goes bad. I  grandma Julie letter and allie's and i think that is it. It seems it is taking about 4 days for mail to get here. Yesterday we went and had family home evening at Brother Phillips and decorated cupcakes to give out at the ward trunk or treat tonight. That is where the picture of donald is from. Thanks again for all the updates and letters and packages. It is really awesome to hear from home. Hopefully I will get a few letters out here soon, I finally found the stamps you sent. Well it's going good here and still being fed well.  Have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Elder Hunt and Donald

Donald was baptized the first week Koden was in the field

Yummy Cupcakes!

Cold & Rainy

So things went pretty good this week. It is has been kinda cold and rainy all week but luckily it hasn't rained on us. It even snowed a skiff a couple days ago. It is in the 40's right now but it is supposed to warm up a little. So our investigator Jaime said she would give us a baptismal date this week, so hopefully she does. We were able to find 3 or 4 other people who said they were interested so hopefully we can catch them this week and make some progress with them. I went on exchanges again with Elder Demke, but this time we stayed in my area and that is when we found most of the potentials. I got to find out how to wax a car from my companion last week (Like I said before he loves cars and tells me all about everyone that we see), so that was interesting. I ate dinner at Micheal Jackson's house this week, and also had some really good pizza from Sister Tomlinson, she owns a pizza shop called Noce. We have been riding our bikes less and walking a little more because it is no fun to ride in the cold and wet. The Fosters live below us ( a senior couple), and that is nice because they always want to help us and give us ice cream and cleaning supplies and other things. I will have to send you a picture of Donald next week, he got baptised my first saturday here and he is a funny old guy. So the farm house is good and quiet. I haven't talked in church, but i said a prayer in sacrament and on Sunday we gave the lesson in elders quorum. I have figured out that I'm not to good at talking to people, but i kinda already knew that, and I am very impatient just ask my companion haha.  Last week we shopped at Aldi, and I hope I never go there again it has no name brand cheap stuff, nothing good. Luckily we found a Wal-mart to go shop at today. I did get letters from grandma julie, aunt luchel, aunt shirley(2), and dax. Thanks so much for all the letters from you guys and from all the family. Whenever I have a package or a couple letters I hear about it from everybody i see that walks into the sites. But were still chugging along here. I hope it is still going good there. Well i guess thats about all i got for now.

Love Elder Koden Hunt 

Pictures!!!

So this week was a really good week as far as missionary work goes. We went up to fairport harbor which is actually where a lot of saints came to when trying to get to Kirtland, anyway we found quite a few people who had a little interest so that is exciting. We got moved into the Morely Farm on tuesday. It is really cool to live there, but it is kind of small and the floor isn't level, but it is just a cool old house. So i did get the coat but it actually warmed up a little and the sun was shinning for a few days, but they say the cold is coming soon.  I am getting my laundry done, and that is one great thing about the farm is that we don't have to pay anymore to wash our clothes. I got your letter and the money from the burtis and the coat. I sent a letter to grandma julie back at the mtc, but i need to figure out where I drop my letters of to send home and then maybe i can get a few more sent. I got the Johnsons package and email and they had some good questions so I will try and answer them. So we have rode our bikes over 100 miles so far, but we can drive the car around quite a bit more since we moved. So really almost everywhere I have been in Ohio is just one house after another with a lot of trees and not to much open space. It has some slight up and down hills but nothing to big. So a couple things i didn't quite realize before i went out is how important and nice it is when you have good members in the ward who give you refferals ( which we havent gotten any) and that drive you around and feed you, PB and J gets old pretty quick haha. So for our contacting so far we have mainly just go around and stop by members (except now we know almost all of them in our area), former and potential investigators. We have tracted a little bit but my companion hates to tract so I mention it to him and he always tries to think of something else to do. There aren't many anti-mormons, just a lot of devout Catholics. I haven't got anyone elses letters for a week or so if they sent any. It sounds like things are going good there. How is the weather? We got a new bishop on sunday, and the Johnson guy, Dan, got called as second counselor i think he is from st. george. My companion is a pretty good worker and rule keeper. He said his last companion wasn't so he is getting back in the hang of things though. Elder Demke follows the rules and helps Elder Ellsworth keep them. I'm not sure if they have anything or not. My companion has another brother on a mission that is my age, and one in high school, along with a 7 and 3 year old brothers. So hopefully i can get some more letters written and keep everyone happy haha. We also get to go to the church and shoot hoops in the morning so that will be fun. I'm sure I forgot to mention something but i hope you have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt  

His companion- Elder Schmidtke

Fairport Harbor

The Morley Farmhouse (He was excited to get moved)

Kirtland Temple

Conference

Well as you know the good weather ended and it did get cold and rainy. It wasn't super cold. So this week was pretty good, we were able to start teaching 3 new people. One of them was already coming to church and wasn't even being taught by the missionaries. She is really nice and isn't married but has 2 little kids. There is another guy named harry and he is very interesting.  And the other is an older lady who has had a rough life and her sister is a less active member. I also went on exchanges with Elder Demke and he is a really funny guy. He is the one from St. George, he has a twin on a mission right now and is the youngest of 11 kids. We were in Euclid so I got my first taste of what you think of when you think of Cleveland. Brother Phillips is a really good guy, and he feed us 3 times this week, they don't let you go without dinner around here. General Conference was different for sure not watching it on the couch and all of them in your church clothes, but it was really great because everything they talk about you can apply to you or the people you teach. We watched the 3 sessions on saturday at the visitors center. And we watched the 2 on saturday at the church. We are going to get moving hopefully tomorrow or wednesday. We had zone training meeting this week too, but is is just with missionaries from the zone, zone conference isn't for a little bit i think.  I did get everyones letters and they were awesome. Dax is a pretty good writer, and i did bring the camera so hopefully you get some pictures. I also got the seegmillers letter and yours, kaylee, allie, and Grandma Julie. Well I'm sure I forgot something, but everything is going good and I hope I make it through winter.

Mission Life

So there really isn't a whole lot to say this week I guess. We have been going around meeting a lot of the members in the ward. Almost everyone in the area I am in that we have talked to are devout catholics and we can get about 5 words out and they say see ya later. We do have 2 people who we are going to start working with who are investigators, but most of the time at this point we are working with less active members. The members are still making good food for dinner. One lady even bought steaks and cooked them up for us even though her husband is a vegetarian. We have been riding our bikes around a lot even though we have a car because we are really low on miles and the end of the month is coming up. We will get some more miles on October 1. It is kinda funny around here, my companion calls it the cleveland creep because it must happen a lot, but on our way here there was a red light and a car pulled up by us and then just creeped there way right on through the light. We will be moving to the Morely Farm next week sometime so that will be good to keep our miles down. I do know Elder and Sister Leavitt, and will probably know them well before long. They are in charge of the cars, phones, money, apartments, and other things over the whole mission. They got here about the same time I did. And Elder and Sister Horsely I see quite a bit at the family history center when we go there for meetings and to get our mail. And Brother Phillips is the same age as Grandpa Terril I figured out, he wears the same sunglasses and has the same hairdo as Grandpa Terril, which is kinda funny. There are quite a few people who know about Enterprise here actually.  The weather has still been really good, but today it looks a little rainy. I'm still surviving and doing pretty good. are schedule is get up at 6:30, exercise and eat breakfast and get dressed. Study from 8 to 10 or 11, eat lunch then go to our area. Work until 5 or 6, eat dinner, then keep going until 8:30 then go back so we can make it back to our appartment by 9. My companion has been out about 1 year he is the oldest and has 4 younger brothers, one of them is on a mission in Colorado. I'm so sorry i told the other elders you were going to hunt me down for not bringing the camera again. The weather has been about 70 degrees everyday, I haven't really felt any difference in the humidity either. Don't worry Dax i didn't forget about you, i'm still doing pretty good.  Today we are going to shop, clean and do laundry until about 6, then back to work we go, have a great week

Love Koden

He made it to Ohio!

So today is my first chance to email for almost two weeks now so there is for sure a lot to say. So My last week at the mtc was good, you for sure feel the spirit a lot and learn a lot but i would be lying if i didn't say i was ready to get to Ohio. So we woke up at 2 in the morning so we could get on our flight. There were over 100 other leaving also so it was pretty crazy. We flew to Atlanta first, and then we flew to Cleveland. The flight was 2 hours shorter than we thought because they already changed the time on the ticket to eastern. We went to the mission home (me and 23 other new missionaries) and ate dinner about 5 (eastern of course) and then had a couple of interviews and went over a lot of things. The next day we got up early again, at 5, and went to the Kirtland Temple. It is really cool and really different from what you might expect. Then we went to the whitney store and that is really awsome, especially the school of the prophets room. Next was transfer meeting and I got my new companion, Elder Tyler Schmitdke from olympia washington. He is a really good companion and trainer. He follows the rules, likes things neat and clean, and we get along good. He is similiar to me in that he always worked with his family in the business they owned all the time back home. He really likes music and cars or trucks or any vehicle. So I am serving in the Kirtland north area, which our boundary is about 1 mile from the sites and the temple. We are the first Elders in the area in like 15 years so everyone is really excited in the ward. So just in case you didn't realize how cool of an area it is, I am in the first ward and stake organized by the church in the latter days. Right now we are living in Euclid, which is about halfway between Kirtland and Cleveland. There are two other elders living with us. Elder Ammon Demke from st. george and Elder Trent ellsworth who was my roomate at the mtc and they are both awesome. But around general conference me and my companion are going to be moving closer to kirtland and are going to stay in the Morely Farm house, which is really cool on its own. So we have been meeting the members here in the first few days, and they are all really nice. Sister Myers, who is the meal cordinator, gets us a place to eat almost every night, and it is good food too. Not amish cooks but still pretty good. And our ward mission leader is the more excited about missionary work than anyone else i know besides apostles. He and his wife will do anything for missionaries. He actually reminds me a lot of Mr. Morgan at the elementary. So that is about it i guess. Thank you for the letters, you, allie, dax, kaylee, aunt luchel, aunt shirley, Grandma T., and I did get the green package too thank you. So my address will be 7800 Kirtland - Chardon Road, Kirtland Ohio. And you will have to get the zip code because we don't know it. This address will send my mail to the visitors center. Just my winter stuff would be good to get before long. i forgot my camera again so hopefully i remember next week. So are you still doing hair or whats going on there? My mission president is good and so is his wife. They are pretty strick and no nonsense about things thought which is good. They are really into rodeo, especially his wife. So hopefully everything is going good back home. It is green with no hills and im close to lake erie but you cant see it unless you are about 40 yards away from it. Have a great week

Love Elder Koden Hunt

1st Email

So, there is so much to tell you and I don't know where to start. The first few days were for sure an adjustment. I didn't know where anything was, I was nervous and overwhelmed and everything else. They said just to make it until Sunday and they were right. We listened to some good devotionals and now this week I'm starting to get the hang of things. The mtc is definitely a good place and you learn so much here, but I'm also excited to leave and get to Ohio. My companion is great. He is kind of a quiet person, but when he does talk he is pretty long winded. We get along good, he is for sure easy to get along with. The food really isn't to bad, it isn't the best but it isn't bad and there are a thing or to that is actually pretty good. They have the ice cream like they had at youth conference 2 times a week and that is really good. They also have about 10 different options of things to eat for every meal. My stomach has been holding up fine to, hopefully it stays that way haha. They for sure keep you busy and have you lined out around here. The weather has been wonderful up here so that is really good. The letters from you and aunt Luchel and Shirley and from grandma sherry really did push me through the first 3 or 4 days. I don't know when i will get to email again because we leave really early next Tuesday to go to Cleveland. So maybe i will be able to write not to long after I get there. Hopefully you got my letter and I just picked up your package this morning, thanks so much. I was able to get grandma Sherry's package last night also. I really have learned so much already in only a week. I never thought that you could learn so much. It is for sure hard but it is really good for me. I'm sure nothing has changed to much since I left but i guess let me know how its going. Also i have a tough time remembering where everything is in my suitcases haha. There is a lot more i could say but i just can't think of anything right now. I guess just make sure you sent my winter gear not long after I get there. Dax don't get into to much trouble alright haha. And hopefully dad gets to sleep a little these days.

I love you all and hopefully i will talk to you soon, have a great week

Elder Koden Hunt

One Last thing....

....And he's ready to go!!!! 

Bittersweet Evening

This evening was bittersweet. Koden was set apart as a Full-Time Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. President Barlow gave him great advice about obeying the mission rules, obeying the laws of the land, and tolerating companions you don't like! :) He also advised him NOT to become a Cavs fan! Dax helped lighten the mood by saying that Todd has already become one! President Barlow likened missionary work to sports, basketball in particular. You practice and practice your foul shots and get to the game and miss your foul shots to lose the game. You will have days like that. But you will also have days where you make them to win the game! A few tears were shed but only because we love this kid so much! We know he is ready to go and serve! The rest of us here will take care of his mom! :)

A Young Man Prepared

Sunday was a special day for Koden. He gave his "farewell" talk in the 3rd Ward. He gave an excellent talk about work. We know Koden will do a fantastic job serving the people of Cleveland! And what is a great talk without a great meal to go with it?! Thank you to all who came!