here is when I will be calling you on christmas. So I will be calling you at 7 o'clock post-meridian (PM) our time, which is 4 o'clock post-meridian (PM) your time. haha. But yeah I'll call the house phone first, and if you are at grandma's I'll call the cell next. I most likely won't be able to email next p-day since we are having it on thursday instead of wednesday, and since that's christmas eve, the library might be closed. But It'll be ok since I get to call you the next day. So just remember to let me know somehow, like send me a dear elder as soon as you get this, what number to call. The number I'll be calling from will have a 540 area code, just so you know that it's me. If you have ANY questions, send me a letter asap and I'll try and see what I can do.
NOW I'll answer the letter :)
Things are going very well. The area is progressing and things are going good. I did get the suit and I laughed a little bit because nobody in our apartment has ever seen a wool suit that like before haha. The only thing is that I probably won't be able to wear it in the summer simply because it's going to be super hot. But it's good for this time of the year for sure. I wore it the other day and it was really nice. Kind of weird feeling but yeah.
Back to the letter! Things are going much better with Elder Terry. We still have disagreements, but I am seeing the blessings of being humble and contrite when it comes to companions. Last night we had a heated discussion about illegal immigration according to the gospel (don't ask me why, but you know how staunch I am on my political views, which is why I don't like to bring them up, but he did so yeah it wasn't pretty at first) and we argued for a while, and then I just felt really guilty and said "alright we shouldn't be arguing about this anyways." cause I know for one that political stuff shouldn't eb worried about on a mission and two that if we are being contentious with each other, the work cannot progress, because the spirit won't be there. So we worked that out and all is good.
We were down in richmond yesterday because we had a christmas mission conference and it was awesome. Learned tons of things that are helping me become a better missionary. It's so cool when you can actually see the progression you yourself are making in becoming soemthing ebtter. It helps alot.
The talk went really well. It was awesome because we got picked up by president millburn at our church and we drove over the mountains and into west virginia, down into a little area called franklin. They have a ward there, but it really should bea branch. But Elder Terry and I didn't really have as much time as we thought we would to talk so we basically just bore our testimonies and told the ward there why it's so important to do missionary work. Oh holy cow you are going to be so suprised when I come home how much better I am at talking in church haha
Yeah ryan told me about the freezing rain! That's intense. It doesn't freeze very often there haha. It's funny though cause recieved a warning last week for a severe ice storm and we were like "whatever, virginia people are just wimps" and it started raining later that day at about 5 and no joke, everyone we were going to see called and canceled all our apoints within five minutes after that. It was ridiculous. They all told us to get off the road and we were like, ok? it's just raining? chill out everyone. haha. We called our zone leaders and they were just like "alright, go ahead and stay in until we call you and tell you what to do." so we go in and we have dinner and fix up our area book and we are looking outside and it's still just RAINING. and we are expecting a call so that we can go back outa nd work, and we get NOTHING. So we stay effective and work on the area book and plan and whatnot but we were so frustrated because we had to stay in when we definitely could be working. RIDICULOUS VIRGINIA DRIVERS!
Yeah the snow melted a while ago. Our snowman we built is the only snow still around, and he is only a tiny mound now. He'll probably be gone by tommorow. sadday :(
Yeah the guy in the cave, his name was brother jones. It was really sad. And my old companion elder hinds actually knew him and he was his ward mission leader. it was way ridiculous. And I think we may be going into some caverns here someday for p-day! haha just kidding but we might :)
Oh and about our trip to the airplane crash thing, yeah that didn't happen this week so oh well. We'll see.
We have a tiny little fake christmas tree on a table in our living room. It isn't as bad as a charlie brown christmas tree, but we call it that haha. It has lights and a star on it. We have like a couple ornaments that members have given us but besides that, we have candy canes haha.
haha seminary is good! I really wish I'd hear something back from sis. dunmire-beer! She is awesome!
Well things are going well here and I am happy. It doesn't matter really when the package gets here so don't worry about it! I love you guys so much and if you have any questions about anything, let me know asap! I love you all and I hope you are safe. God bless!
Love,
Hunter
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Virginia winter wonder!
Sooooo yeah. Here I am again. bahhh.
Yeah I'm not down about (Mr No Name). We laid it on the table for him and he was given the choice and he chose the wrong one. So hopefully he'll see that. I'm not stressing about it though.
I'll tell you what I am stressing about though. Let me tell you a little something. I know now that all the things I've learned from you and Dad, especially when I argued with Dad alot where you would say "even if you know you are right, don't argue about it" were prepapatory for this mission. haha. I'm having a little trouble with my companion on that side, just because he is a little inflectious, and even in instances where I KNOW 100% that he is wrong, he will argue with me to the bitter end. So I don't carry on the arguement and just let him go. I've learned my lesson when it ocmes to arguements like that. They really go no where. So thank you for that. Also he doesn't seem to understand the concept that people have agency to choose. It seems like every time we knock on the door, and someone turns us away, he gets all upset and starts ranting and raving about what we've done wrong. And especially in instances where I know I did my best to simply bare testimony and tell them the way we are supposed to, this kind of thing gets extremely annoying and somewhat frustrating. I told him yesterday to stop beating himself up about it and he got all mad at me and told me that's how he gets better. I told him there's a difference between beating yourself up about it and dwelling on it, versus taking it and learning from it and moving on. He likes to dwell on it and let it sit there.
Alright, now that I've made myself sound like a horrible person for ripping on him. But I'm really not, we get along most of the time and I just have problem with his missionary inflection. He seems robotic and it drives me CRAZY. But I do love him as a brother. I never say negative things to him and we do get along quite well. I get worried with these differences in opinion sometimes, but I know this is what we need to do to better ourselves and prepare ourselves for the future.
So yeah things are going fine there it's not as bad as I make it sound.
Thank you for being proud of me :) I am going with the mission pres this sunday to give a talk and I am excited. I think I finally figured out a way to give a good talk haha. So yeah, wish me luck!
Yeah Jordan told me all about the football stuff. That's tough luck but oh well. haha there's always next year.
By the way, tell dad I am still workin on his letter, it just takes forever for me to have time to write one. I have so much stuff to do on p-day by the time I get time to write letters, I have maybe 2 hours to hand write like 8 letters. UGH. But let both sets of grandparents know tehy should be getting a letter from me soon. Send stamps in the christmas package if you can!
I'm glad didn't fall off the roof this year. Send me a picture of the finished house when you can! hahaha. I liked the story about the skit. That sounds awesome. I wish I could've been there for that but oh well.
It snowed this week! haha. Like they told us that we might get ice, and then they were like, maybe 1-3 inches of snow, and then we woke up the next morning and it snowed like 6-7 inches. We built a GIANT 8-9 foot tall snow man and we made christmas cards with pictures of us by it. So expect one of those soon ;) Yeah I was able to take 3 pictures with just the camera but now my memory is full haha. but yeah
Oh and it's so funny when it snows here. It's worse than oregon is. Like, EVERYTHING just shuts down like it's the end of the stinking world. It was so funny last night, they had a severe ice storm warning, and it start sleeting at like 5, and no joke, 5 minutes after it started raining, ALL of our apointments (we had solid appointments from 5 until 9pm) called us and canceled because they didn't want us to be out on the roads. So we called our district leader (who lives with us) and he said he'd call the zone leaders so he did and they said to go in and stay in until they gave the word. So we went in and ate dinner and planned and updated the area book and whatnot, and then we look outside and it's just...raining. And I'm like, what the heck? Why is everyone FREAKING OUT? It's just RAIN. And so we sit inside, cause the zone leaders haven't called and told us anything, so I'm getting super frustrated with all this cause I'd much rather be out doing work if it's just going to rain, but then at about 8:30 it started iwth the freezing rain which turned into ice. So if we HAD been at our apointments we would've been in trouble. So yeah. But it was all melted this morning.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
I will definitely share with the other elders. Sevilles famiyl sent me some happy bread the other day and we all shared it and it wa awesome.
I will definitely stay safe. I am learning and working hard. I am trying to continue progressing and getting better. I love you all so much and I hope you have a good week. You'll hear from me next week. I'll let you know soon when I can call you. Clear your schedule on christmas! haha.
I pray about you guys too every night. I love you all and miss you more than I can tell you. I have to seperate myself from my emotions a little sometimes other wise I'd probably by crying in the library. hahaha.
Love you all and if you need anything before next wednesday, write me a dear elder!
LOVE
Yeah I'm not down about (Mr No Name). We laid it on the table for him and he was given the choice and he chose the wrong one. So hopefully he'll see that. I'm not stressing about it though.
I'll tell you what I am stressing about though. Let me tell you a little something. I know now that all the things I've learned from you and Dad, especially when I argued with Dad alot where you would say "even if you know you are right, don't argue about it" were prepapatory for this mission. haha. I'm having a little trouble with my companion on that side, just because he is a little inflectious, and even in instances where I KNOW 100% that he is wrong, he will argue with me to the bitter end. So I don't carry on the arguement and just let him go. I've learned my lesson when it ocmes to arguements like that. They really go no where. So thank you for that. Also he doesn't seem to understand the concept that people have agency to choose. It seems like every time we knock on the door, and someone turns us away, he gets all upset and starts ranting and raving about what we've done wrong. And especially in instances where I know I did my best to simply bare testimony and tell them the way we are supposed to, this kind of thing gets extremely annoying and somewhat frustrating. I told him yesterday to stop beating himself up about it and he got all mad at me and told me that's how he gets better. I told him there's a difference between beating yourself up about it and dwelling on it, versus taking it and learning from it and moving on. He likes to dwell on it and let it sit there.
Alright, now that I've made myself sound like a horrible person for ripping on him. But I'm really not, we get along most of the time and I just have problem with his missionary inflection. He seems robotic and it drives me CRAZY. But I do love him as a brother. I never say negative things to him and we do get along quite well. I get worried with these differences in opinion sometimes, but I know this is what we need to do to better ourselves and prepare ourselves for the future.
So yeah things are going fine there it's not as bad as I make it sound.
Thank you for being proud of me :) I am going with the mission pres this sunday to give a talk and I am excited. I think I finally figured out a way to give a good talk haha. So yeah, wish me luck!
Yeah Jordan told me all about the football stuff. That's tough luck but oh well. haha there's always next year.
By the way, tell dad I am still workin on his letter, it just takes forever for me to have time to write one. I have so much stuff to do on p-day by the time I get time to write letters, I have maybe 2 hours to hand write like 8 letters. UGH. But let both sets of grandparents know tehy should be getting a letter from me soon. Send stamps in the christmas package if you can!
I'm glad didn't fall off the roof this year. Send me a picture of the finished house when you can! hahaha. I liked the story about the skit. That sounds awesome. I wish I could've been there for that but oh well.
It snowed this week! haha. Like they told us that we might get ice, and then they were like, maybe 1-3 inches of snow, and then we woke up the next morning and it snowed like 6-7 inches. We built a GIANT 8-9 foot tall snow man and we made christmas cards with pictures of us by it. So expect one of those soon ;) Yeah I was able to take 3 pictures with just the camera but now my memory is full haha. but yeah
Oh and it's so funny when it snows here. It's worse than oregon is. Like, EVERYTHING just shuts down like it's the end of the stinking world. It was so funny last night, they had a severe ice storm warning, and it start sleeting at like 5, and no joke, 5 minutes after it started raining, ALL of our apointments (we had solid appointments from 5 until 9pm) called us and canceled because they didn't want us to be out on the roads. So we called our district leader (who lives with us) and he said he'd call the zone leaders so he did and they said to go in and stay in until they gave the word. So we went in and ate dinner and planned and updated the area book and whatnot, and then we look outside and it's just...raining. And I'm like, what the heck? Why is everyone FREAKING OUT? It's just RAIN. And so we sit inside, cause the zone leaders haven't called and told us anything, so I'm getting super frustrated with all this cause I'd much rather be out doing work if it's just going to rain, but then at about 8:30 it started iwth the freezing rain which turned into ice. So if we HAD been at our apointments we would've been in trouble. So yeah. But it was all melted this morning.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
We'll have a good christmas I know we will. By the way tell dad that next wednesday for p-day we are going hike up to this old plan wreck from the 60's up in the mountains. we'll take pictures!
OH by the way. Did you hear on the news about that guy who died in the caves in utah? I don't know if you did or not but heres the story. this man and his wife are from charlottesville which is in my zone and an hour away from here. They have one little girl who is very young and another one on the way. In face that's why they went to utah was to tell everyone about their new baby. Anyways, this man, his name is bro. jones, decided to go cave spelunking. He went into this cave down by utah lake called nutty putty cave. He was climbing down this shaft that was super narrow and like, almost vertical. He got stuck down there and his head was facing down so all his blood rushed to his head. He was with a group so it didn't take long to find him. They tried to get him out, but the pully that was pulling him up broke and he fell back down. He was alive after that, but his pulse slowly fell. He died down in the cave. He was able to talk to his wife and child on a little phone before he died. The worst part is because of the place where he was stuck, they can't get the body out. So they are just going to seal the cave. They had the memorial service here in our zone last week. We didn't go but I can just imagine what it was like.
DON'T GO IN ANY CAVES.
I will definitely share with the other elders. Sevilles famiyl sent me some happy bread the other day and we all shared it and it wa awesome.
I will definitely stay safe. I am learning and working hard. I am trying to continue progressing and getting better. I love you all so much and I hope you have a good week. You'll hear from me next week. I'll let you know soon when I can call you. Clear your schedule on christmas! haha.
I pray about you guys too every night. I love you all and miss you more than I can tell you. I have to seperate myself from my emotions a little sometimes other wise I'd probably by crying in the library. hahaha.
Love you all and if you need anything before next wednesday, write me a dear elder!
LOVE
our Thanksgiving was good. We got up at 530 so we could study and whatnot and then go to the turkey bowl at 9. We played football for a while and it was fun. The ground was super slick but it made it more fun. But yeah after that we came home and did our weekly planning session, we went to a less-actives house for lunch. His name is (Mr. no name). He co-owns a restaurant downtown and lives in a pretty big house downtown. Elder Terry is pretty close friends with him. But yeah it was delicious. We had twice-baked potatoes which is something I don't remember ever having before, but they were DELICIOUS. ahh. haha. But yeah funny story about (Mr.No name). He's been less-active for a really long time. Elder Terry's been here for almost 7 months. Elder Terry's been visiting with (Mr.no name) since he started here and (Mr. no name) has only been to church 3 times in that 7 months. So we were having a lesson (two days after Thanksgiving lunch with him and his family) and he was complaining about how the bishop wouldn't "get off his lazy *bleep*" to help (mr. no name) get back to the temple. And we talked to him about this all and said well (mr. no name) you need to come to church, or at least partake of the sacrament in your home. Well (Mr.No Name) has had really REALLY bad back problems, so he took that as we were judging him or something and got really angry. So Elder Terry, (with the spirit guiding him I might add) explaining to (Mr. No Name) that we loved him. And his Heavenly Father loved him. And that we only want to help him. We would do anything we could to help him. And the lesson ended with a very spiritual prayer, and (Mr.No Name) was crying and elder terry was crying and they hugged and he was nice to me as we left. He was quiet but we figured everything had been figured out. So we go on our way to this town way out in the boonies called Grottoes, and we are working out there and we get a call from the Spanish Elders who are in our area. Now unbeknownst to us, for some weird and ridiculous reason, the spanish elders are working with (Mr. No name) too. So they call us and are like "Did you meet with (Mr. No name)today?" "ya? why?" "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
So we explained it all and they were like holy cow. Basically (Mr. No name) sent them a text saying that he wanted to be excommunicated and all this garbage because of Elder Terry "judging him and putting all this pressure on him"
what a load.
Anyways that day was a horrible and as far as I know (Mr. No name) is still pretty ticked at missionaries in general.
Yeah the Roarks are awesome! My old branch was basically made up of two families: The roarks and the Daltons. Everyone was either a roark, a dalton, or married to one of the too. haha. Except, ironically, the branch presidency. But sis. roark is so nice and you should send her something thanking her. Send me a copy of that picture! haha.
My talk was actually pretty good, I thought. It was the first talk I've ever given where I didn't write it out. I just made a rough outline on what I wanted to talk about, and did that. And what was REALLY weird, is that I didn't even have enough time to say everything I wanted to. It was four of us speaking, to recent converts a missionary and a returned missionary. It was missionary sunday I guess. So I gave a talk about what else? missionary work. So I talked about why missionary work is so important, and why we do it, and how we do it, along with what members need to do to help that work along. I had a whole big meaty section on attributes of a good missionary, but I had to cut that out because of time restrictions. The only thing I could've done better I think is tabbed my scriptures that I was gonna use haha. I took forever finding some of the scriptures and stuff I was using haha. Also, you know how I make stupid little comments when I'm up there and am trying to fnid something but I don't have anything to say? Like "ooo maybe I should've marked these scriptures" yeah I did that alot and everyone was just like, what the heck? lol. but the talk was good and I wasn't very nervous just hoping that it got accross what I was trying to tell them.
I'm also going with the mission president to a small branch out in west virginia this sunday to talk about missionary work again. It's closed right now but I have a feeling that us giong out there is a sign it's going to open up soon. They want missionaries so bad out there.
I'm glad Dad did all the talking for me! haha no one would know what was going on if you cried through it all! hahahahaha just kidding mom. I love you and I'm glad you still miss me cause I still miss you guys alot!
Your mexico pictures were awesome. YOu probably could've refrained from sending me the ones with girls in bikini's in em, but I forgive you! haha. There was only like, one so I just put it outta sight. ha. So don't worry about that. But the resort was awesome looking! I'm glad you had fun though I certainly would have haha.
OH. Another funny story about getting sick. SO. Three days ago my companion (Elder Terry) and the other Elder who lives in our apartment, (Elder Hiltbrand) started getting sick. The next morning they woke up and they just felt TERRIBLE. So me and Elder Stokes (elder hiltbrands companion) went out and worked in my area and I was senior companion for the day so that was a little different experience. But we worked all day and it was good. We came back and apparently Elder Terry had got a little better, but Elder Hiltbrand had gotten much worse. Temperature of like 103+ degrees all day. like 103.7 degrees. And we were planning for the next day, and Elder Hiltbrand comes in and is like, totally delirious. And he's super weak and can barely stand up. And then he's just like "I think you guys need to take me to the hospital." So we called the mission medical officer, (she agreed) gave him a blessing, and then elder terry and him left. It was interesting because they left at like 10:20 pm and we are uspposed to be in bed at 10:30. So I did Elder Hiltbrand's district leader stuff for him while he was gone and then went to bed. Apparently it took them two hours to get into the hospital and then when they got in, he had to get into one of those stupid hospital gowns, and then the doctor came in and all they did was put a stethescope up to his chest and said "well looks like it's only bacteria. Go upstairs and get some antibiotics and go home"
haha it was so bad. BUt they are doing much better now.
With hte video and cassette player thing, if you send me a cassette or a cd or a dvd, as long as it's from the family or the ward, and it's like a letter I can watch/listen to it. SO if the ward sent me a video like they do every year to all the missionaries, I definitely could watch it. Same if you sent me one. Just nothing like actual movies obviously haha.
I wanna hear dads song so send it to me!
haha make sure dad doesn't hurt himself up on the roof. You should take a picture of the house when it's done and send that too me! haha.
I doubt it's gonna snow enough to take the power out so don't expect it. haha. It's funny cause you know how the whole state freaks out in oregon when it snows there? Yeah it's basically the same in virginia. No body knows how to drive in it. hahaha.
Thank you so much for all you guys do for me. I love you so much and miss you alot. I'm a little nervous for the christmas season because it's gonna be hard not spending christmas with you guys. It's gonna be even harder after I have to hang up the phone with you on christmas. BUt look at it this way: at least I get to talk to you all on christmas! haha I'm excited!
Keep me in your prayers so that I can continue to become a missionary and not just do missionary things. Love you all so much and I'll hear from you again soon I hope!
Love,
Hunter
So we explained it all and they were like holy cow. Basically (Mr. No name) sent them a text saying that he wanted to be excommunicated and all this garbage because of Elder Terry "judging him and putting all this pressure on him"
what a load.
Anyways that day was a horrible and as far as I know (Mr. No name) is still pretty ticked at missionaries in general.
Yeah the Roarks are awesome! My old branch was basically made up of two families: The roarks and the Daltons. Everyone was either a roark, a dalton, or married to one of the too. haha. Except, ironically, the branch presidency. But sis. roark is so nice and you should send her something thanking her. Send me a copy of that picture! haha.
My talk was actually pretty good, I thought. It was the first talk I've ever given where I didn't write it out. I just made a rough outline on what I wanted to talk about, and did that. And what was REALLY weird, is that I didn't even have enough time to say everything I wanted to. It was four of us speaking, to recent converts a missionary and a returned missionary. It was missionary sunday I guess. So I gave a talk about what else? missionary work. So I talked about why missionary work is so important, and why we do it, and how we do it, along with what members need to do to help that work along. I had a whole big meaty section on attributes of a good missionary, but I had to cut that out because of time restrictions. The only thing I could've done better I think is tabbed my scriptures that I was gonna use haha. I took forever finding some of the scriptures and stuff I was using haha. Also, you know how I make stupid little comments when I'm up there and am trying to fnid something but I don't have anything to say? Like "ooo maybe I should've marked these scriptures" yeah I did that alot and everyone was just like, what the heck? lol. but the talk was good and I wasn't very nervous just hoping that it got accross what I was trying to tell them.
I'm also going with the mission president to a small branch out in west virginia this sunday to talk about missionary work again. It's closed right now but I have a feeling that us giong out there is a sign it's going to open up soon. They want missionaries so bad out there.
I'm glad Dad did all the talking for me! haha no one would know what was going on if you cried through it all! hahahahaha just kidding mom. I love you and I'm glad you still miss me cause I still miss you guys alot!
Your mexico pictures were awesome. YOu probably could've refrained from sending me the ones with girls in bikini's in em, but I forgive you! haha. There was only like, one so I just put it outta sight. ha. So don't worry about that. But the resort was awesome looking! I'm glad you had fun though I certainly would have haha.
OH. Another funny story about getting sick. SO. Three days ago my companion (Elder Terry) and the other Elder who lives in our apartment, (Elder Hiltbrand) started getting sick. The next morning they woke up and they just felt TERRIBLE. So me and Elder Stokes (elder hiltbrands companion) went out and worked in my area and I was senior companion for the day so that was a little different experience. But we worked all day and it was good. We came back and apparently Elder Terry had got a little better, but Elder Hiltbrand had gotten much worse. Temperature of like 103+ degrees all day. like 103.7 degrees. And we were planning for the next day, and Elder Hiltbrand comes in and is like, totally delirious. And he's super weak and can barely stand up. And then he's just like "I think you guys need to take me to the hospital." So we called the mission medical officer, (she agreed) gave him a blessing, and then elder terry and him left. It was interesting because they left at like 10:20 pm and we are uspposed to be in bed at 10:30. So I did Elder Hiltbrand's district leader stuff for him while he was gone and then went to bed. Apparently it took them two hours to get into the hospital and then when they got in, he had to get into one of those stupid hospital gowns, and then the doctor came in and all they did was put a stethescope up to his chest and said "well looks like it's only bacteria. Go upstairs and get some antibiotics and go home"
haha it was so bad. BUt they are doing much better now.
With hte video and cassette player thing, if you send me a cassette or a cd or a dvd, as long as it's from the family or the ward, and it's like a letter I can watch/listen to it. SO if the ward sent me a video like they do every year to all the missionaries, I definitely could watch it. Same if you sent me one. Just nothing like actual movies obviously haha.
I wanna hear dads song so send it to me!
haha make sure dad doesn't hurt himself up on the roof. You should take a picture of the house when it's done and send that too me! haha.
I doubt it's gonna snow enough to take the power out so don't expect it. haha. It's funny cause you know how the whole state freaks out in oregon when it snows there? Yeah it's basically the same in virginia. No body knows how to drive in it. hahaha.
Thank you so much for all you guys do for me. I love you so much and miss you alot. I'm a little nervous for the christmas season because it's gonna be hard not spending christmas with you guys. It's gonna be even harder after I have to hang up the phone with you on christmas. BUt look at it this way: at least I get to talk to you all on christmas! haha I'm excited!
Keep me in your prayers so that I can continue to become a missionary and not just do missionary things. Love you all so much and I'll hear from you again soon I hope!
Love,
Hunter
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