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

April 19, 2017

This week has been full of miracles. For Easter, nothing out of the ordinary happened really. We went to church and ate dinner with the Simbeck's. The really awesome part of the day was that we contacted a referral who, her and her family, are super awesome and we are teaching them now. They like basketball and this lady was telling us to leave her and her kids with challenges and how they want to take time everyday to dedicate to God and she said that would help their family. I will; have to telly ou more next week. Mike O'bryon came to church again and he is super nice, he doesn't have much money but he listened to what they were saying in church and he gave us a little dinner one day. We have been marvelously blessed with amazing weather lately and we have been trying to get out and bike all we can and we have been able to talk to lots of wonderful people. We had interviews this week and those are always good. We always have something going on where we are running all around it seems, but it is good.
We are headed to the temple right after this, it is just Elder Stephens and I that are going down as far as missionaries. I always love the earlier sessions, but someone Elder Stephens taught in his last ward is going through the temple for the first time so we will cruise down and back with Brother Simbeck and his daughter today. We are going to the Columbus Temple this time, it is about 2 hours and 15 minutes away.
I am doing good, just trying to do my best. I hope you all have a wonderful week.
Love Elder Koden Hunt

April 12, 2017

This week was an amazing week for us in Cleveland. We found some really awesome people to start teaching and then there is our investigator Brother Mike O'bryon. He is super awesome and came to church this week and loved it a lot. He is the one who lives with his mother who has MS and is single. He lives pretty close to the church so that is good too. We have been taking Brother Santiago with us to see him, he is and older retired member who has nothing to do but read his scriptures, say his prayers, eat dinner and do missionary or service work. He is also taking us to the temple next week so it will be a quick email, but I should get one in. We have also been trying to keep in contact with our other investigators and help them read and pray about the Book of Mormon so they can progress to the next step. We also went on exchanges 2 times since Wednesday so that was fun too. 

Something I have been learning a lot is just how to better fulfill my responsibilities and a lot of that comes down to caring more about people ( especially the other missionaries) and trying to motivate and inspire them more. Usually the funny things are just jokes or comments, just trying to have a wonderful time. We helped a member move out on Saturday and it was a really quick move but the Elders Quorum President, Brother Falahola, was just being fun and saying funny things. 

The Wynders were the Kirtland Site Directors, so they would come to our meetings sometimes and they were pretty involved. They are super awesome too. The new site directors are from St. George/Pine Valley, they are Elder and Sister Jennings. The weather really has been pretty good. It snowed Thursday night and then it was about 80 on Monday so all over the place, but it has been good. 

It sounds as things are going well back their and I hope it continues to be like that. We are doing good here, getting lots of biking and talking to people in.  I hope you all have a super awesome week.  Happy Easter to everyone and keep up the good work.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

April 5, 2017

It has been a really good week for our area honestly. We did see the Johnathan's and we did see Mike. It was pretty awesome, on Saturdaywe huddled in Mike's bedroom to watch the Saturday morning session. He is doing good right now, we are working on getting him to church right now. We watched the rest of the sessions at the church. There was so many great talks I thought too. I loved Elder Anderson and Elder Ballard's talks about overcoming the world and setting goals and making plans. I always love what President Monson had to tell us about charity and reading the Book of Mormon, President Uchtdorf is always great and President Eyring is one of my favorites always. We have been working and trying to improve always because there is a lot to work on. One miracle we had was to be able to teach a man yesterday who just was married to a less active lady, but now we are able to teach him. We also were able to talk to an older lady about doing her family history and she was super excited about it. She also said something like " sorry for the teeth, my doctor has them" because she had dentures of course. I thought that was funny.

 So Grandpa Terril can give all the advice he would like because I have learned that I sometimes think I'm pretty awesome and know a lot but I quickly figure out it is about opposite of that. I will take advice for sure. We also have some others we are working with, but Mike and the Johnathan's are progressing along the best right now. It has still been hanging out about 40's or 50's this week with lots of clouds and some rain too. Ohio gets somewhere and likes to stay in the same spot weather wise for sure. It sounds like everyone is staying plenty busy so I appreciate anyone who takes some time to let me know how it is going. So thanks to everyone again.

 I am glad to hear North Carolina won, they are one of my favorites for sure. March really did fly by. Thanks for all you do, I truly am grateful for that. i hope you all have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt