Thanksgiving Dinner

Well, it sounds like things are going good there. I is amazing that Logan is home already, I can still remember really well his farewell luncheon at the New Castle church. I was not feeling good at all, I think that was right before we played Pineview my Junior year because I was really sick that game. But here nothing much has changed. We are still teaching Jamie, Jim Skrocky, Donques, Tina, Daniel, Muril, Courtney, and Bob. They are all moving along very slowly and no baptismal dates yet. We taught Jamie the word of wisdom and she didnt really want to give up her coffee at all, but Brother Blatter was with us and he helped her understand more about it, and by the end it was our best lesson yet. The next day her coffee pot broke too. But if her little boy would quit getting sick maybe she could make it to church. For thanksgiving we ate at the Phillips. There was me and my companion, the 2 sets of sisters in the ward, the phillips daughter and son in law, and the phillips. It was good, and their son in law is a chef at the cheesecake factory and brought a whole 52 dollar cheesecake, so that was different than pie. The picture was from the Christensons, there names are Seth and Bobbi lee. They fed us more dessert (pie), and after 2 more houses after them we were pretty full on desert. The coldest it has gotten here was today I think and it was 24 degrees, and no snow. They got about 6 inches south of here in the snow belt, but we didnt get any in Kirtland. I just came from my $17 barber shop, free haircuts are really nice. Since it is the last day of the month and we are low on miles, even though I said I wasnt going back I guess we are going to go shop at ALDI, I wouldnt recommend going there. My companion really thought I was going to get a call last night to be a trainer, but neither of us did so there is a good chance I will be here in Kirtland for another transfer, but we will know for sure by next Sunday. Also remember that I will be emailing on Tuesday next week. Christmas conference is tomorrow for the whole mission so that should be fun. But things are still going good here. Our work is slowly picking up a little too. Church was really good yesterday, it was really all about service and how love is service in action, this was mainly taught by the new bishop, bishop oeser because we were combined for 5th sunday.   I really do appreciate all the support eveyone gives to me. I hope it keeps going good there and have a great week. 

Love Elder Koden Hunt  

(I'll post the picture as soon as I get it)

Mailing Error

I apologize to anyone who tried to send a package before today. It was just brought to my attention that I transposed the last 2 numbers of the zip code. I have fixed it now. I am sorry if you felt like dumb at the Post Office for my mistake! ;)

November 16, 2015

So yes I got the package and thank you so much, you havent forgotten what I like. I made some syrup on sunday and my companion loves hot chocolate so that was great. I will make the papers for the journal work out somehow so I don't have to buy a new one haha. But this week has been long, but actually really good. We went on exchanges on Wednesday so I worked with Elder Bowcut, he is one of the district leaders and he is into music and is really smart. After my last email it got rainy and cold and so we were out walking around in the rain and cold some last week. We ended up doing quite a bit of tracting because no one could visit or would cancel on us most of the time. But, our investigators are still moving along at baby speed, but they are moving along. Jaime said last night she is still thinking about baptism pretty seriously. We had stake conference this weekend and Elder Perkins of the 70 came and it was really good, he is only 54 so a lot younger than I thought. Jim Skrocky, the investigator who married a member, stood up in the adult session on Saturday and pretty much bore his testimony of the sabbath day, which was really amazing to everyone there especially his wife. So he is coming along great at this point. Donques is slowing down so he will need some more work and looks like will take some time. We were also able to find a guy named John who seems pretty intrested so we will see how he works out. But we are still eating good, this week we had soup, roast and potatoes, chicken and rice, nothing to fancy, but pretty good from my before mission missionary standards. Actually I think it is just the area. I am glad to hear everything is going good. So before I forget I wont be emailing you again until Thanksgiving which is our preparation day.   Well I guess thats about it for now so have a great week and love you all.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

These pictures are of the Morley Farmhouse where Elder Hunt is currently living

Is he the cutest missionary you ever did see?! 

Not a normal week

So this week was a little different from the normal. We started the week out normal and everything was great. We were able to visit Jaime, and she is coming along but like a snail, Donques is on the verge just taking everything to heart, but just has a little something holding him up. Boyd will talk to us anytime of anyday and actually on wednesday he made us and brother packer ( who is a high councilor and former bishop of the kirtland ward) go to Mcdonalds and get ice cream with him. But then we had zone conference on thursday which was really long. Then on Friday my companion was sick so we  had to keep taking breaks and come in a little early. On saturday we had the veterens day tribute at the sites and that took almost the whole day because we did the performance twice. Mostly all the site sisters just sang, but they did throw us in for 2 songs. So there wasnt as much trying to talk to people as i was getting used to so it was different. The weather is still really nice actually, yesterday it was a little colder, about 50 all day, but no snow, a little rain in the night time, and quite a bit of sun for Ohio.  It is kinda funny that you got snow there before I did here, and I'm in the snow belt they say.  But it is going good here in kirtland, we have a great ward and probably the most energetic and excited ward mission leader there ever was. Whenever we go to his house he just loads us up with whatever are in his cupboards like apple butter and cereal and candy corns and lots of other things. He is pretty much a missionary himself. I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Johnson Farm

So yes I am still here in Kirtland. Almost always the trainer stays with his companion for 2 transfers because that is how long the training goes. So me and my companion are still together until december 9 anyway, which means I won't email on the 7, but tuesday the 8 that week.  We were actually able to go to the Johnson farm and take a tour with him (Donald) last week. He drove us down and it was a really good tour, especially for him. He is at the point where he doesn't really remember everything. He loves arbys and is really nice and really funny, he just says it how it is. I have a couple pictures of the Johnson farm I will send. There were a lot of cupcakes that didn't get eaten, so they made us take a bunch home but we didn't eat them. We are still in the same situation of people talking with us but not progressing a whole lot. Jaime did come to church, but Donques decided he didn't want to on Sunday morning. Hopefully our investigators start keeping a few more commitments. I didn't get any mail since I last emailed, so Aunt Shirley's package is still somewhere out there. I really am grateful for everyones support, there isn't many other missionaries that get the letters and packages and things i do so thank everyone so, so much. And thank you so much for your prayers too. So it sounds like things are still really busy there. I guess we have another investigator named Boyd. He is old and lonely and talks our ear off, but he likes us to visit him and really wants to take us to McDonalds for ice cream, so i guess we will be doing that sometime. I'm still getting great meals which is really awesome. Also for Aunt Stacey Hunt there is a sister from Texas here that gets plenty of yalls and all those other texas words in, so we have one proud texan in our mission.I hope ricky gets feeling better, as you know i hate being sick and have been blessed enough to be healthy so far.   The veterans day tribute is at the sites and it is mainly all the site sisters, us, the zone leaders from shaker heights, and the painesville elders, along with a few senior missionaries. We are just singing american songs i guess, I only sing 2 songs I think, like Green Beret if you have heard of that. But the weather has been cooler here for sure and rainy, except today is pretty warm. It hasn't turned to winter yet. We get to rake up lots of leaves now because they are all falling and there is a lot of leaves.  Well have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Halloween Preparations

So first, sorry I forgot to tell you that transfers are tomorrow so the week of transfers preparation day is on Tuesday not Monday. This week has been a pretty good week for us. Jaime decided that she didn't want to give us a date yet. She said things are to stressful right now to make that kind of commitment. We met another investigator named Donques Gambrel, he is a black guy and lives a rocks throw from our east boundary in Painesville. He is really wanting to know more. Yesterday we were walking around and saw him walking down the srteet. He said he was running because he was going to try and make it to the NFL. He said his brother almost did,  he said he wanted to come to church on Sunday. We actually have I think 7 or 8 investigators, but Jaime is the only one that comes to church and none read or pray or anything like that. So the challenge is to get them progressing. Last Monday we had a little time so we took a tour of the Morely farm and talked with the Horsely's and they said a Jones with glasses came through that knew me but we couldn't think of there name. My companion is actually a really smart guy and he is really good at explaining scriptures and things that are hard to understand. He is really self reliant and likes to keep things neat and tidy. The weather has been slowly getting cooler but it really hasn't been to bad yet.  Thank you so much for the bread, it is really good all the bread and jam is a lot better than store bread for sure. We are still working on eating it though so hopefully we do before it goes bad. I  grandma Julie letter and allie's and i think that is it. It seems it is taking about 4 days for mail to get here. Yesterday we went and had family home evening at Brother Phillips and decorated cupcakes to give out at the ward trunk or treat tonight. That is where the picture of donald is from. Thanks again for all the updates and letters and packages. It is really awesome to hear from home. Hopefully I will get a few letters out here soon, I finally found the stamps you sent. Well it's going good here and still being fed well.  Have a great week.

Love Elder Koden Hunt

Elder Hunt and Donald

Donald was baptized the first week Koden was in the field

Yummy Cupcakes!

Cold & Rainy

So things went pretty good this week. It is has been kinda cold and rainy all week but luckily it hasn't rained on us. It even snowed a skiff a couple days ago. It is in the 40's right now but it is supposed to warm up a little. So our investigator Jaime said she would give us a baptismal date this week, so hopefully she does. We were able to find 3 or 4 other people who said they were interested so hopefully we can catch them this week and make some progress with them. I went on exchanges again with Elder Demke, but this time we stayed in my area and that is when we found most of the potentials. I got to find out how to wax a car from my companion last week (Like I said before he loves cars and tells me all about everyone that we see), so that was interesting. I ate dinner at Micheal Jackson's house this week, and also had some really good pizza from Sister Tomlinson, she owns a pizza shop called Noce. We have been riding our bikes less and walking a little more because it is no fun to ride in the cold and wet. The Fosters live below us ( a senior couple), and that is nice because they always want to help us and give us ice cream and cleaning supplies and other things. I will have to send you a picture of Donald next week, he got baptised my first saturday here and he is a funny old guy. So the farm house is good and quiet. I haven't talked in church, but i said a prayer in sacrament and on Sunday we gave the lesson in elders quorum. I have figured out that I'm not to good at talking to people, but i kinda already knew that, and I am very impatient just ask my companion haha.  Last week we shopped at Aldi, and I hope I never go there again it has no name brand cheap stuff, nothing good. Luckily we found a Wal-mart to go shop at today. I did get letters from grandma julie, aunt luchel, aunt shirley(2), and dax. Thanks so much for all the letters from you guys and from all the family. Whenever I have a package or a couple letters I hear about it from everybody i see that walks into the sites. But were still chugging along here. I hope it is still going good there. Well i guess thats about all i got for now.

Love Elder Koden Hunt