November 28, 2016

Well, it has been pretty good since I emailed last. Last Wednesday night we stopped by a referral and we were able to teach him the Restoration and give him a Book of Mormon which was really great, and of course he is from Africa like 2 of the others we are working with. Thanksgiving was good. We played a little basketball in the morning with a couple other missionaries, we went to Wal-Mart and got an umbrella, then we went to the Insch's house until about 6. We played a game with their son and daughter in law called Codenames, it was pretty fun. We ate dinner at the Insch's and it was good. Most people in Ohio don't make as many things homemade, but we were very grateful to eat at there house. Nothing to crazy we ate, the regular things except we had green bean casserole which I don't think I ever had before coming here, but everyone has it. We also had pie from Costco, apple, pecan, and pumpkin, they were really good. The rest of the evening we visited a old man in a care center who is a member, a returning less active, and did some stop-bys at people's homes.
This week I stayed here in Toledo with Elder Cortez for exchanges. He is from Mexico and has been out about 2 months, but speaks English pretty good for how long he has been out. It was really great to have him with me because the after stopping by a less actives home, we started knocking doors and the first door we knocked on 2 little kids came to the door and then left. We waited for a minute and then went to the next door. At the next door the lady said she didn't speak English so Elder Cortez started talking in Spanish to her. She wasn't interested but said the, door we just knocked on, that house spoke Spanish. So we went back to the previous door we had knocked on and eventually a lady answered and Elder Cortez and her started speaking Spanish and we found out that she is a member of the church. She was baptized in Nicaragua and moved here about 11 years ago and hasn't been to church in 11 years. So we are going to take someone who speaks Spanish with us to see her this week hopefully.
Also, Larry Mitchell, the man with the gold dollar tooth came to church on yesterday so that was awesome. Elder Eardley and I spoke, along with President Hamilton who is in the mission presidency and it was all about member missionary work. President Hamilton doesn't sugar coat it either.
We are still teaching most of the people we were before, at least investigators even with the split of the ward.  We have our Christmas Conference in Kirtland tomorrow so that will be fun, but a long drive. I hope you have a really fun and awesome week. I am doing great.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

Happy Thankgiving

So as always "You do better in toledo", but it is always crazy in Toledo. It was transfer week last week, so last Wednesday Elder Eardley took and brought back a load of missionaries from Cleveland and I stayed in Toledo with Elder Nelson for most of the day. Then Thursday we had to go get the truck worked on ( a recall for the airbags) about 20 minutes away so we did our planning while we were waiting for it to get finished. We also had a great lesson with Roxy who said she would be at church this week. Friday it was about 75 which was really odd, and Saturday was about 32 with it trying to snow a little. We also saw Frank with Brother Insch and it went well. He had read from the Book of Mormon and he is doing awesome. Monday was our meeting in Cleveland and yesterday the Toledo South Zone Leaders were with us for the day because there vehicle had to be used by the trainers and trainee's to go to a meeting. Today it is rainy and cold too. You never know what might happen here. We also got news on Monday that starting January 1st preparation day will be on Wednesday, so you can get ready for that. We are having Thanksgiving with the Insch's tomorrow so as always lots of fun. I am glad to hear about everyone and how they are doing. I am doing really well.  Our area is still the same as it was before except we only cover about 1/3 of the ward which is all the city part of it, the sisters have the more country part now.  I hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving where ever you are at. Thanks again so much for everything.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

November 14, 2016- A week late :/

So another wild week in Toledo, that seems to be the way it goes out here. We had some great lessons this week, we weren't able to get back in touch with that family again though, we are trying again today. A man named Frank who is from Nigeria we are teaching and he loves to hear the lessons but doesn't read super good so we are trying to help him read the Book of Mormon right now. we are still working with Victoria and she is coming along super well as well. Another girl named Roxy we are trying to help to believe in Jesus Christ, so that is lots of fun as well. 

So we are moving to a new spot, the address is 3357  Airport Highway #7 Toledo, Ohio 43609.

I guess I should mention we are staying together again for round 3. We will still be living by ourselves, and Elder Brockbank is going back across the river to Perrysburg to train a new missionary. This transfer does go until December 28. They are putting sisters in our old apartment, so we won't be covering the whole ward anymore. Elder Koppenhafer is coming out to be in our zone now so that will be fun too. Our new apartment has a baby blue bath tub so I will have to take a picture next week for you, i'm excited about that haha. 

We had some great visits this week with members. Yesterday Steve, Mikayla and Chris's step dad cooked us up a whole barbeque of ribs, chicken, hamburgers, and all sorts of stuff because they wont be in our area anymore starting tomorrow. It is always lots of fun to go to the Insch's house (our ward mission leader), he is just a funny guy. He was super excited because they bought us dinner at the scout fundraiser and thought it was spaghetti, but it was pancakes and he loves pancakes so he was just really excited. We always have lots of side things to take care of for sure so that makes things just cruise on by. 

I went on exchanges with Elder Schwartz again this week, but this time stayed in Toledo so that was good. I do have some pictures to send this week. The weather here has still been really nice, just a little jacket weather about 60. The weather says it might snow this weekend though. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt  

November 7, 2016

Well this was another week full of things going on for sure. It was also a very good week and it for sure flew by. On tuesday we had district meeting in Bowling Green and afterwards I went on exchanges with Elder Nelson in Bowling Green. I was a good exchange, it was a very warm day though. We met a guy who had  a piece of grass in his yard that he caught some how after the Tigers won the 1984 World Series. We had a really good lesson with a lady named Roxy on Wednesday. She really likes sports and is really open to learning about the Gospel. We then had some planning and things to do for Stake Coordination and what we call a Mission Presidents Fireside on Sunday. Stake coordination is coordination with the Stake President, President Eddington, President Brown, and a few others. The fireside is just where President Brown and Eddington talk for a few minutes and it is really for investigators and it went well too. We are still teaching Victoria and she is doing great. She didnt come to church, but her son had some crazy things going I guess. We also hauled some wood for a part member family in the Perrysburg Ward and that was fun to do. We got a good chunk of cleaning in this morning and that about wraps things up.

     We got a referral this week, so we went to contact it. We did meet the lady and set up a time to go visit her the next day. We went back the next day and were able to teach her the Restoration, and her sons who are 8 and 5 I think were excited to get a new book as well. when we got done with the lesson we were about to leave and a man who wasnt to happy to see us when we came in, and who sat in the other room while we were talking, came over and started talking to us. He said he just wanted to listen and he liked what he heard and was excited for us to come back. So that was a pretty cool story.

        Christmas conference is where the mission gets together in Kirtland for a conference about Christmas, it is a pretty cool thing. 

Things are flying by for sure. Sometimes long days but almost always short weeks.  I am doing well though. I hope you have a wonderful week. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt

October 31, 2016

It has been a very fast week out here in Toledo for us as well. Last Monday we made it over to the church to play some basketball so that was good for me anyway. Tuesday we had our meeting in Cleveland which took most of the day, and then between planning and going to appointment, going on exchanges with Elder Talbot who has been out about 10 weeks, and then Zone Training meeting on Friday, it was a flash it seemed like. Being with 3 adds a new dynamic to everything we do for sure, we will probably get everything figured out about the time we get back to just 2. We have still been teaching Victoria, and she came to church this week with her son again so that is going well, just trying to work everyone else in with there busy schedules when we can. We have still been blessed to be able to teach people about the Restoration and to give away Books of Mormon to people . We are really pushing still to get members out teaching with us, that is one of President Brown's big pushes. Nothing super crazy happened this week, we met a man tracting who reads his bible in Greek, he was Catholic and Elder Brockbank is super good at making conversations out of nothing, but besides that just teaching people and trying to find others and planning. The primary program was Sunday, I thought it was really good especially with the few amount of kids there were. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I will talk to you again after I do some cleaning next Monday.

Love Elder Koden Hunt