March 15, 2017

This week Ohio let us know it isn't quite spring yet, but it has been another wonderful week. It has been about 25 and some of the time snow pretty much he whole last week.We went on exchanges again this week and Elder Miller and I were on our bikes pretty much the whole day and it was not the warmest day ever. We were trying to find someone to teach, and we did teach a couple less actives but no investigators. Elder Stephens and Elder May had all their appointments cancel on them except 1. As Elder Stephens puts it "we went hard in the paint", but not a whole lot of luck. We were being looked out for though, because the next day we were able to contact 3 referrals and we started teaching them all. We also still have James and a couple others we are blessed to be able to teach so it is really great. There is also a less active man who his daughter is getting home from her mission in April and we have been able to teach him, take him teaching with us and he will be feeding us dinner twice in 3 days. He whipped up some pretty good food too. his wife is super picky and doesn't really eat anything he cooks. We also have been learning that people just cant sit around and wait for things to fall in their lap. One man we are teaching sort of has that mentality and we cant help him much if he doesn't want to do anything, but he is starting to change, slowly.

Things are going good here. We have a whole lot of blessing all the time. What I learned the most... that is a tough one. Honestly, it is that it all comes back to Jesus Christ. There is a lot of stuff, but it is really simple too. Faith in Jesus Christ so we can repent and then make covenants and keep going. You always have some help when you need it from Christ, I know that too. I can tell you for sure that through Jesus Christ we can be happy and peaceful. Many people have it temporarily, maybe, but we can have it all the time now and beyond. Christ is the Savior, Joseph Smith was called of Him, The Book of Mormon are Christ's words.

I just get pumped about everything these days so I am just excited for everything for sure.  We have zone conference tomorrow and then exchanges and transfers are next week so I will be talking to you Tuesday. I would assume I am staying here with Elder Stephans, but you never know for sure. Thanks for all you do.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

March 8, 2017

This week we have been blessed in more ways than one. Of course when we hit March then it starts acting like winter a little more, snow then melt again, and proabaly more snow this weekend as well. We had some really awesome days in the past week teaching people. One of the people we are working with is getting ready to go to the temple for the first time, so that is pretty cool. His wife has already been before, but he hasnt. We also found a man and his 8 and 7 year old sons who are very interested. We got to see James again, his foot which was broken is good enough to come down the stairs and let us in now, I will have to get a picture with him next time I see him if I remember. We have stayed very busy ourselves, we had interviews yesterday and President Brown was in a really good mood so it was lots of fun, but we have much still to do. These days we usually get our bikes, drive for a ways, and then teach and ride or walk around trying to talk to as many people as we can. It is always good to have good conversations with people and we ahve had a good amount of those lately so that has been good too.
 I am doing well, we are still building our teaching pool up but we are having a grand time. Elder Stephens is great, we get along good. The apartment is doing good. They do their own thing most of the time and they are good missionaries. Transfers are in 2 weeks, so coming right up on us again. We do jump forward Sunday so we are excited about that too, sometimes people are scared of the dark it seems.   Thanks for all the updates as well, it is good to hear about what is going on in Enterprise. It is funny you mention the wind because I don't mind the wind a all out here because it doesn't blow very hard or very much compared to Enterprise. Sometimes I like the wind here which kind of sounds crazy. I learn so very much each and everyday which is always good, now I just have to not forget all I learn everyday. Thanks again for all that you do. I hope you have a super solid week and have lots of fun while your at it!
Love Elder Koden Hunt

March 1, 2017

Another wild week for sure in Cleveland. First off, the weather is absolutely crazy here. We had a 75 degree day Fridayy to freezing cold and about 30 Saturday, snow Sunday that melted away and is now in the 50's and raining. We had a great week though. We talked to a lot of people and found many again who seem pretty solid if we can get in contact with them on round 2. Corrina came to church, but we found out she is moving to the ward next door, so we wont be teaching her anymore but it is a better living situation for her. We had a super huge Phillipino meal Saturdayy which was super good. We also had a great lesson on the Book of Mormon with one of our investigators in Cleveland with Brother Merryman. Brother Merryman is originally from Idaho but has lived in Cleveland a long time, I think he rode his petal bike out here like 40 or 50 years ago. He cant read or write to much, but the one exception was being able to read the Book of Mormon. We also had dinner at the Drewes last night they are a fun older couple. I never thought it would happen, but I got to try eating some lamb chop and it wasn't too bad. Time fly's so you have to stay in the grove as long as possible for sure. I thank you though for everything. I hope things keep going good for all of you and have a super awesome week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt 

Pictures

Elder Lancaster, Elder Hunt, Elder Davis (Kod's comp), & Elder Hulet in the rain. 

Elder Lancaster & Elder Hunt in the rain. 

Mission Conference

February 22, 2017

This week has been super busy for us. We have been going all over to appointments it seems. Corrina told us she couldn't come to church because of some family thing but ended up coming anyway and it was great for her. Brother Lloyd who is in the bishopric gave a "throw down" talk as we called it. He pretty much told the ward they are just living life and not doing anything to get better but just scoot on by. I cant remember anyone giving a talk like his in person before. It has been super warm which is great for our exchanges since now we bring the other 2 missionaries to our area and no one has a car we do lots of biking. I was just biking around in my shirt for some of the time. Nothing super crazy this week though, just trying to talk to all the people outside and around and making our way around to all sorts of places. We are always looking for someone who wants to talk to us.  We had our meeting with President Brown yesterday and you always find something to work on after those meetings.  I thank everyone for all they do. I m doing good though, just chugging right along.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

February 15, 2017

This week has been a super great week for us. Of course last week I got Elder Stephens as my companion, he has been out 6 weeks longer than me and he is great. He is from Magdolina New Mexico and has 8 younger siblings. We have lots of similar interests so that is good. He likes being outside and playing sports. Elder Cortez also is living with us now too, i knew him from Toledo. Elder Robinson is particular about some things so that is what reminded him of me mostly. It has also been pretty fair for the weather so more people are out and about for us to talk to which is great. We were able to set a baptismal date with Corrina, so that is always good. We have struggled a little getting in contact with people this week, but have been able to do some good work I think. We have done a good share of biking and visiting less active members this week. Yesterday we went to a food bank in the basement of a baptist church and helped out there, mostly just giving people their food or helping them carry it outside. We also helped another man move into the ward on Saturday, he is a super nice guy. Yesterday we had a cool experience, we had just got done eating our lunch and got out of the truck to go knock on a less actives door. We saw a guy walking down the street so we talked to him. After a little bit he told us he hadn't prayed this morning and that he was about to relapse on taking drugs( which he was in the process of taking addiction recovery classes), but because he talked to us he wasn't doing that anymore and was going to work. I feel I have learned mainly how to better teach people this week. Elder Stephens is a superb teacher. I am doing pretty good right now I think. We are just chugging along doing missionary work, time for sure fly's by that's all I know.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

February 7, 2017

Another awesome week here in the Land of Cleveland. The verdict is I am staying in the same spot and Elder Davis is leaving, he is going south of Akron a little ways to Massillon. Elder Edmond is also leaving and going to Hiram. Elder Cortez is replacing Elder Edmomd ( I knew him from Toledo) and my new companion is Elder Stephens who is a zone leader in Youngstown. This transfer it seems a new person is always popping up and this week it was Carina. She came to church last week and this week drove to Stake Conference in Westlake too. She is really excited to learn. We keep working with Ami, Sister Jenkins, Henry and others which is a great blessing. We got our fair share of biking and talking to all sorts of people this week. Yesterday we went with Brother Cagahastian who is a member, he is single, older, and is a doctor, to visit our investigator James. James is great, but we couldn't meet with him because he couldn't walk down the stairs to open the door for us. Stake Conference was great. Elder Corbridge of the 70 was the visiting authority, he is from Idaho originally. He gave a great talk on the purpose of life is...... Life. He also mentioned how we don't go to church to get entertained or necessarily to learn, which can happen, but to worship. It is up to us what we get out of church. It has been pretty decent weather this week, It is pouring rain today though, but things are going great.
 Thanks for the updates, they are always fun to hear about. I am doing great though, we are going to finish emailing, eat lunch, and probably play basketball or volleyball in Westlake at the Stake Center. Have a wonderful, fabulous, awesome week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt