April 19, 2017

This week has been full of miracles. For Easter, nothing out of the ordinary happened really. We went to church and ate dinner with the Simbeck's. The really awesome part of the day was that we contacted a referral who, her and her family, are super awesome and we are teaching them now. They like basketball and this lady was telling us to leave her and her kids with challenges and how they want to take time everyday to dedicate to God and she said that would help their family. I will; have to telly ou more next week. Mike O'bryon came to church again and he is super nice, he doesn't have much money but he listened to what they were saying in church and he gave us a little dinner one day. We have been marvelously blessed with amazing weather lately and we have been trying to get out and bike all we can and we have been able to talk to lots of wonderful people. We had interviews this week and those are always good. We always have something going on where we are running all around it seems, but it is good.
We are headed to the temple right after this, it is just Elder Stephens and I that are going down as far as missionaries. I always love the earlier sessions, but someone Elder Stephens taught in his last ward is going through the temple for the first time so we will cruise down and back with Brother Simbeck and his daughter today. We are going to the Columbus Temple this time, it is about 2 hours and 15 minutes away.
I am doing good, just trying to do my best. I hope you all have a wonderful week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

April 12, 2017

This week was an amazing week for us in Cleveland. We found some really awesome people to start teaching and then there is our investigator Brother Mike O'bryon. He is super awesome and came to church this week and loved it a lot. He is the one who lives with his mother who has MS and is single. He lives pretty close to the church so that is good too. We have been taking Brother Santiago with us to see him, he is and older retired member who has nothing to do but read his scriptures, say his prayers, eat dinner and do missionary or service work. He is also taking us to the temple next week so it will be a quick email, but I should get one in. We have also been trying to keep in contact with our other investigators and help them read and pray about the Book of Mormon so they can progress to the next step. We also went on exchanges 2 times since Wednesday so that was fun too. 

Something I have been learning a lot is just how to better fulfill my responsibilities and a lot of that comes down to caring more about people ( especially the other missionaries) and trying to motivate and inspire them more. Usually the funny things are just jokes or comments, just trying to have a wonderful time. We helped a member move out on Saturday and it was a really quick move but the Elders Quorum President, Brother Falahola, was just being fun and saying funny things. 

The Wynders were the Kirtland Site Directors, so they would come to our meetings sometimes and they were pretty involved. They are super awesome too. The new site directors are from St. George/Pine Valley, they are Elder and Sister Jennings. The weather really has been pretty good. It snowed Thursday night and then it was about 80 on Monday so all over the place, but it has been good. 

It sounds as things are going well back their and I hope it continues to be like that. We are doing good here, getting lots of biking and talking to people in.  I hope you all have a super awesome week.  Happy Easter to everyone and keep up the good work.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

April 5, 2017

It has been a really good week for our area honestly. We did see the Johnathan's and we did see Mike. It was pretty awesome, on Saturdaywe huddled in Mike's bedroom to watch the Saturday morning session. He is doing good right now, we are working on getting him to church right now. We watched the rest of the sessions at the church. There was so many great talks I thought too. I loved Elder Anderson and Elder Ballard's talks about overcoming the world and setting goals and making plans. I always love what President Monson had to tell us about charity and reading the Book of Mormon, President Uchtdorf is always great and President Eyring is one of my favorites always. We have been working and trying to improve always because there is a lot to work on. One miracle we had was to be able to teach a man yesterday who just was married to a less active lady, but now we are able to teach him. We also were able to talk to an older lady about doing her family history and she was super excited about it. She also said something like " sorry for the teeth, my doctor has them" because she had dentures of course. I thought that was funny.

 So Grandpa Terril can give all the advice he would like because I have learned that I sometimes think I'm pretty awesome and know a lot but I quickly figure out it is about opposite of that. I will take advice for sure. We also have some others we are working with, but Mike and the Johnathan's are progressing along the best right now. It has still been hanging out about 40's or 50's this week with lots of clouds and some rain too. Ohio gets somewhere and likes to stay in the same spot weather wise for sure. It sounds like everyone is staying plenty busy so I appreciate anyone who takes some time to let me know how it is going. So thanks to everyone again.

 I am glad to hear North Carolina won, they are one of my favorites for sure. March really did fly by. Thanks for all you do, I truly am grateful for that. i hope you all have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt