May 24, 2017

Talk about having a super blessed week, this was one of them. We found some super awesome people to start teaching this past week, one is the family and the dad has already read the Book of Mormon 2 times! He has some family who are members of the church so that is how he has read already. We went on exchanges twice and it has been fun, really great as far as the work, and pretty crazy for us too. We also had 4 people come to church on Sunday. James Mitchell came again and so did Cherine and Mike Obryon. Also, Jared who is someone we have been working with for a little bit came to church. He is in a band and is super into music. I think he had a little concert he did a little bit ago too somewhere. We have been blessed to be able to set some baptismal dates with some more people too, thanks to President Brown and his counsel, which makes things super fun.
We were up in Cleveland Monday and we had a crazy lady in a wheelchair ask us if our church had a choir and we said yes. She then went on to sing to us which was kind another one of a kind experience. It is amazing how many people want to talk about Christ though. For us this past week, some people blast some christian soul music which makes you smile and other just want to get in a big circle and have you say a prayer.
 The weather was pretty awesome this past week, but I think it is going to rain most of the next few days, but it looks like it wont be to cold either. I am so blessed by the gospel! I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy no school too.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

May 17, 2017

Another week and especially couple of days since we talked for us here. We have just been so greatly blessed in so many ways. Monday we had district meeting and then we had some great lessons with some of our investigators including Mike Obryon and James Mitchell. Brother Obryon is still striving to hit his baptismal date in June. We were pretty busy yesterday as we had a meeting at the mission office and then went our with Brother Simbeck and had some more great appointments mainly talking a lot about the Restoration and how to find peace in our lives. I totally left my camrea home like usual when we went to see James this week so I will try to remember next time. The weather has been very good for us here luckily, it has stayed pretty warm. I hope it warms up for all of you there for sure. Thanks for the pictures, the fort looks pretty awesome. We are going to be doing missionary work again this week like usual. We have exchanges and and always lots of things to do here so that is good. We forgot to bring the converter for the sd card for my camera so hopefully next week I can send you the pictures I took. I hope all goes good for you and you have a wonderful week. Thanks again for all that you do!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

May 10, 2017

It seems the weather in Utah you talk about always is what happens here the next week, so I am excited to hear good weather coming. It was a rainy and cold week really this past one. it rained for 2 or 3 days straight I think and was in the 40's some of the time, but we were still blessed a lot. We again had great conversations with people and were able to find some wonderful people to teach. I went on exchanges with Elder Parra this past week and he is from the Dominican Republic and he is like that one speaker from General Conference that spoke about how he got baptized, super excited and sincere.  Yesterday we were biking around and went to an appointment we had with a potential investigator. We got there and her husband came out and we were able to teach them and they said we could continue to teach them too. The cool part is the husband, who's name is Bryan, reminds me of Uncle Jeremy so that is pretty sweet. Also, the highlight of this week is James Mitchell. James is the 71 year old man that lives in Cleveland we have been teaching since my first couple of days here, but he was able to come to church on Sunday which was great. I will have to get a picture for next week, but he is super awesome and loved church. We also are going to help the lady who tried to give us money again, but the Lloyd's are great and they hooked us up to help there other neighbor with her yard work which is a pretty great thing, a great way to find people. I also had some really awesome donuts this week, I know you asked about a donut shop and I think this is the one. It is called Spudnuts, Brother Romick brought us some when we were going out teaching with him and they were great. We see President Brown about 4 times a transfer or so, we also are in touch with him sometimes too, more than others. President Brown is great. We try to play basketball as much as we can, but it has been a little slower lately in that category.  I am still doing great, as always lots of things to take care of and be done all around which is great to keep us busy. I hope your week goes good and you keep having some wonderful weather. Talk to you soon!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

May 2, 2017

This week has been great! First things first, I am staying in Cleveland again and so is Elder Stephens. Elder Stephens is great, he is an awesome companion. I try to keep in touch with my companions for sure. Elder Robinson is getting transferred from our apartment and Elder Nelson who I know well will be living with us now. There are lots I would love to keep in touch with. So this week has again been packed for us. We have had lots of appointments and so we have been blessed to teach a whole lot of people this week. Mike is still struggling with some things so we are trying to help him work through those all we can. I can really feel how the Lord is really helping him right now even though things are tough for him. The referral family is super busy so we have talked to them a couple times, but no lessons yet. We have been chugging along and we are so blessed to always have lots of people to talk to who show some interest, sooner or later they will be progressing I know for sure. We were able to help the Lloyd's who take good care of us, with some service for their neighbors. It was an 88 year old lady and when she saw us doing it she wanted us to do some more than we were planning for her so we did. She was adamant about giving each of us 100 dollars for helping her, which of course we couldn't take, but we are going to go back and help them this week too. That was a big highlight. Also, a less active and her boyfriend who isn't a member came to church this week so that was pretty awesome its self. We also saw some pretty cool older cars this week too.
It sounds like things are going good for you too. I hope you have a wonderful week and thanks again for all that you do.
Love Elder Koden Hunt  

Columbia Temple Trip April 2017

Elder Hunt and a temple worker (Elder Hulet photobombing in the background)

Cool Car....

Cool Old Car....

The district April 2017 in Cleveland area

April 26,2017

Well, another crazy fast week for us here. The temple was really awesome, there was a lot of other missionaries from the mission that knew the man that was going through the temple for the first time. It was super great and we even made it home in time, barely. Right before we got home maybe the biggest rain storm I have ever seen came and it was like it just picked up some water off the lake and dumped it down. We then had exchanges with our district leader in his area on Friday, were all over the place until Monday then we had Zone conference in Kirtland again. It was super awesome, a lot about talking with everyone and teaching everyone the gospel of Christ. We gave a little discussion and helped out with some other little things. We then went on exchanges yesterday and it was good. It is starting to feel more like summer than winter around here, most of the trees have leaves now. Elder Stephens saw Mike O'bryon yesterday and he is doing good, his mom is starting to get over some health issues she had. The other family was so busy they couldn't meet last week so we are going by them later today. We have been able to talk to all sorts of people on our bikes lately and we have meet some really awesome people, we are always just trying to see them more than once.  Transfers are next week so I will be emailing on Tuesday. Elder Stephens has 2 transfers left, he is actually going to run track at Utah State when he gets home so that is cool. It is tough to predict this transfer, it is a toss up if I stay for 1 more or get transferred. Transfers are always exciting for all the missionaries. I will have an update next week for sure. 

Time really is flying by, I am not sure where the last transfer went for us either.  My favorite place to eat in Cleveland, we haven't really made it to any  local places to eat. Handel's ice cream was super duper awesome for sure, so that might be my favorite. I did have a donut from that donut place once at a members house. It wasn't the best kind of donut so I didn't get to good of a feel for it.   

 My favorite scripture is a lot of them these days, but I always have to go back to Alma 26: 12, because it is a great reminder to me that we can only have the strength we need if we rely on the Lord and his strength. With his help we can accomplish what we need to, even all things. I hope you all have a wonderful one!

Love Elder Koden Hunt