October 21, 2016

This week has been probably the craziest week of my mission really. So things were going just normal, on Friday I went on exchanges with Elder Wheelright from the Toledo 2 Ward in our ward and we were having a great day, talking to lots of great potential investigators and then all the sudden we get a call from President Brown and he says " what are your plans this evening", so we tell him. Then a few minutes later he calls back right as we are visiting with our investigator Cody, so I answer the phone and President says " You need to meet the assistants at your apartment and you and Elder Eardley are now in a triple up with Elder Brockbank ( Who was across the river in Perrysburg ans East Toledo) and his companion is going home who the assistants are picking up". So we got Elder Brockbank who has been out for 6 months and went to our dinner an hour late before exchanging back. So for about a week I have been with 2 companions. We also had interviews with President Brown yesterday and then went to the temple in Detroit with Brother Stephenson today.
 So that is the crazy extra stuff, the important stuff is that our investigator Erin continues to do pretty good. she said she is planning on coming to church this week. Also we met a new person, a referral named Frank who looks similar to Brother Yawu from Akron ( I think I sent a picture of him to you). We had a really great Restoration lesson with him which was awesome. We still work with lots of less active people, some trying harder than others to come back. A man named Justice who has been baptized about a year has his mom from Ghana living with him right now, so hopefully we can start teaching her.
It is amazing to see how Heavenly Father will guide us if we listen to the spirit, especially in the little things I've seen this week. Even just talking to one more person or saying one little thing makes a huge difference.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

Downtown Toledo

Detroit Temple

Elder Eardley, Elder Hunt, and Elder Brockbank

at the Detroit Temple

October 10, 2016

We had another really good week from Toledo. We were able to and again blessed to find some new people we can start working with. One of the people, a girl named Erin, had met with missionaries before and she is super willing to learn to do the things we ask. We have had a tough time getting in contact with Roy lately, he has been working like crazy and doing who knows what else. He doesnt have a cell phone so it is tough to get in contact with him. He didnt make it to church. But we are still working with lots of less actives and recent converts and anyone else who wants to talk to us. 

We went on exchanages with the assistants this week, so that was really great. We both were here in Toledo, I went with Elder Lancaster and he is awesome, he is actually the one I replaced when I came here. But that was about the only different thing for us this week. 

It is starting to turn to fall here for sure, this morning it got down to 40 so for sure a little chilly. Elder Eardley said he wants to go golfing with Kyler and that Kyler might be better than him haha. That is awesome that he did so good, you will have to tell him congrats for me.  Our most interesting meal was either roast, mashed potatoes with cheese, and baked squash stuff, or chilli with,noodles, bread, and pumkin pie. A lot of times we dont get anything too crazy that is. The most interesting person we meet was on exchnages. I gave this old black guy a card and he said "wow", then he wanted Elder Lancaster to give him a card so he did and the guy was telling me I needed to give better cards because mine wasnt as good as Elder Lancasters. We were pretty sure he was drunk, or at least Elder Lancaster smelt. We stopped by a refferal and no one answered, but we knocked a couple doors and a lady opened the door right up, we taught her and then she said we could come back and she reffered us to her mother in law. It was really cool.  Elder Eardley and I get along good.  I appreciate all you do for me. I hope you have a great week. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Elder Lancaster, Elder Hunt, and Brother Insch (the ward mission leader)

September 12, 2016

This week was really a great week for us, but we should be back on the normal email schedule, at least for a little bit. We had some good lessons with our investigators this week and Mikayla and Kris are all set to get baptized on Saturday so that will be good. We were able to get out and talk to lots of people which was great too. I went on exchanges to Wauseon with Elder Schwartz and it was good. Elder Whittaker came here with Elder Eardley.  They have a huge area, the whole branch, that they cover so we drove about 45 minutes towards the bottom of there area and the person who gave us a ride is originally from Oak City Utah.  This area is good because there is a lot of diversity, you have suburbs, downtown, and some countryside so we are able to always be mixing things up. It is flat so helps for biking, even though it is fun to go down hills. We also had Stake conference this Sunday, so we went to that and Elder Dunnigan who is an area 70 from Michigan was here. I am doing great, things can be difficult sometimes for sure, but we do keep learning and trying to get better. I have learned that if you just do what they ask you to do when its not the easiest, then it doesnt get easy, but it gets easier and you are just able to do it. Easier said than done, but there are many wonderful opportunities to help people to see the difference the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes.  It sounds like you are still doing good back there and i hope you have a great week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

September 12, 2016

This week was really a great week for us, but we should be back on the normal email schedule, at least for a little bit. We had some good lessons with our investigators this week and Mikayla and Kris are all set to get baptized on Saturday so that will be good. We were able to get out and talk to lots of people which was great too. I went on exchanges to Wauseon with Elder Schwartz and it was good. Elder Whittaker came here with Elder Eardley.  They have a huge area, the whole branch, that they cover so we drove about 45 minutes towards the bottom of there area and the person who gave us a ride is originally from Oak City Utah.  This area is good because there is a lot of diversity, you have suburbs, downtown, and some countryside so we are able to always be mixing things up. It is flat so helps for biking, even though it is fun to go down hills. We also had Stake conference this Sunday, so we went to that and Elder Dunnigan who is an area 70 from Michigan was here. I am doing great, things can be difficult sometimes for sure, but we do keep learning and trying to get better. I have learned that if you just do what they ask you to do when its not the easiest, then it doesnt get easy, but it gets easier and you are just able to do it. Easier said than done, but there are many wonderful opportunities to help people to see the difference the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes.  It sounds like you are still doing good back there and i hope you have a great week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

Picture update

Elder Hunt's apartment in Toledo

Elder Eardley outside their apartment

Elder Hunt, Chris, Mckayla, & Elder Eardley

Alvaro, Juana, & Brandon

The District

October 4, 2016

We did hear that the old rockets of Toledo almost pulled it off. Our ward mission leader was at the game I think because he is a dean for Toledo. But General conference was good for sure. There was a lot of good talks, it was hard to pick a favorite but yesterday in District meeting I said I liked the first talk of conference by President Uchtdorf. It talked about how blessed we are to have the gospel and how things shouldn't get old or boring, but should always be exciting. And always President Monson in Priesthood session telling us to keep the word of wisdom and take care of our bodies, you will have to read it. We watched conference at the church. Our week was a little slower, lots of people we work with doing things and running all over the place. It was a crazy week really, we had preparation day, Mission Leadership counsel in Cleveland that took pretty much all day, then lots of planning, Zone Training Meeting on planning, and finding people to teach mainly. Then we both stayed here and went on exchanges with Bryan South elders, which is right out next to Indiana. We then had conference and transfers this week. Yesterday we had something cool happen, I was going to buy Elder Eardley dinner at Chipotle ( kind of like Costa Vida) and when we got up to pay, a lady that was in line ahead of us already bought for us. But I am still doing really well, we are still working with Roy and I am for the most part having joy, i'm almost perfect at that, but not quite haha.  I had to put my jacket on yesterday, so things are cooling down for sure here too. Every area I have been in is the same, but also they are a lot different. Same culture and houses and things, and same work, but different feel and  the way people are I guess.  Toledo is a great spot for sure. Have a wonderful week and that again all goes well.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

September 26, 2016

Well, another deep cleaning day is in the books, so that is good. But this week went good. We had a couple good lessons with Roy who yes, is our serious investigator right now. we have some others but no one coming to church at this point. He also came to church and even payed his tithing. Tuesday was Zone Conference and we just had to talk about talking to everyone and have some practices on it.  They talked about committing people to do things and memorizing more things to use when teaching and lots of other little things like keeping your apartment clean. I then went on exchanges with Elder Clawson who has been out about 10 weeks to Perrysburg, but really just Toledo on the other side of the river is where we stayed most of the time.  We hoped on the bikes Friday and rode into Toledo for most of the day just trying to find people to talk to. I did not speak at the baptism, I just said a prayer and we of course got everything ready for it. At Zone training meeting about a month ago we talked about how we need to use members to take teaching more and to ultimately get referrals because they can get to the people we cant. But we have zone training meeting again this week on Friday too. Your funny story this week is at zone conference we were supposed to memorize the principles of the lessons in order, but one of the companionship's had texted President Brown and asked him a principle and he had said the wrong one, so they brought that up after he was telling us about getting them memorized and it was funny, he was of course a little embarrassed too. It is raining today and we finally got some real fall weather here for a couple days and it was really nice. But another adventurous week for us here. We will just keep chugging along here. I am doing good though, can't really complain about anything that's for sure.

Love Elder Koden Hunt