July 12, 2017

This week was one full of events for sure. Of course going to see President Uchtdorf was awesome. He is just so smooth and good with people and he is a fabulous speaker. He talked about lots of different things, but one thing that stuck with me a lot was what he related to Independence Day. He was talking about of course the 4th of July and what that means for this country and then said everyday should be an independence day for us. When we go to bed at night we can review the day, repent where we need, and go to bed having put the day behind us, except of course what we learn, and starting the next day fresh. We can go to bed with the past day out of our minds. Then we wake up and pray we will do the best we can and begin as if yesterday didnt really happen. He also talked a lot about having a testimony of the Book of Mormon.
We are still working to find people who are really prepared still. We taught one lady named Stephanie who has lots of health issues and is living in a pretty rough place, but she wants to learn and get the blessings from the gospel. We have been doing lots of biking lately like usual. It has been warming up and raining quite a bit too. Nothing super crazy for us, just in search of those who are ready and helping those who need a hand. I have for sure learned a lot about what it means to truly care for people and hopefully do what Christ would do this week. The teaching has gone pretty good, we have been able to have some good lessons, and some that aren't official lessons, but we have been able to share things with people and it has been good. I have learned how to study the scriptures better I think this week so that has been something I have really enjoyed learning more about and got to study about too.
It sounds like you are all having lots of fun and I hope you all have the best week ever. I am grateful to be here in Lorain and be able to learn all I have here. You will probably get message from a lady who said she saw a blog to take pictures of missionaries and send them to their moms, so we arent sure who it was, just a random lady.
Love Elder Koden Hunt