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

October 24, 2016

So things haven't been to crazy since a couple of days ago. Friday evening we went to the ward chilli cook off and were the judges. It is a smaller ward for sure, so there were just 8 to judge. I still couldn't make up my mind which one to choose with only a couple either. We also saw Brother Mildenburger, a nice old less active man that evening too. We had a great lesson with Victoria, the lady from Africa on Saturday and she came to church with her son for the second time in a row. Erin didn't come but we will be seeing her later today. We are still working on all the other people. We will be in a triple up until I think the 16th of November when transfers are. Elder Brockbank is from Provo and went to Provo High School, he has 4 siblings, I know one of them is an older brother. He said he could see the MTC from his house. Things went well with the interviews and we will just be getting ready for another meeting this week. It continues to cool down a little bit around here, staying about the 50's, except yesterday was about 70, for most of the time with a breeze and lots of clouds. We just continue to try to get the members to come out with us and to, as always find more people to teach. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt

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)