( Jakes i'm so proud of you in football and more proud of the young man that you are i love you so much Jakers i love you with all my heart!!! You are such a good person you are so kind and thoughtful so much like Christ!!! You are a hero to me and i miss you like crazy when i feel down i look at the picture of the family and see your handsome smiling face along with the rest of the families and it motivates me to keep on working. )

We are teaching a man, he told us that through teaching him he has hope and direction for the first time in his life of 50 years and hes trying to quit smoking too. Then his step daughter is really cool shes wanting to get baptized but has to get a job to be able to get divorced to get baptized.

But ya so the two that got baptized just moved with their mom to the area right next to ours and Im super good friends with the elders there and they'll take care of them. We got our changes and Elder llanos is my new companion, he was with Elder Famasili  our zone leader. He is from Chile.

This past week has been pretty hard. I have thought a lot about trials from the Israelites wandering for 40 years, to Liberty Jail and  Joseph sold into Egypt, to our Savior and the atonement.  How we are have hard times in our lives.  All I every wanted my whole life was to be the best missionary I can be, then to be a good mormon father like the perfect example I have. and have a great family.
 

I just feel super humbled when Joseph Smith says "The lord takes us low so he can raise us higher"  just waiting like ok lord any second I'm ready to go up now I know you love us so you give us trials, but don't love me that much ;) 

I'm excited for my new comp,  he's a stud and a super good missionary and super humble! We will have fun I just need to do more spiritual weight lifting  in my study time do like in Alma 17: 4 "search the scriptures dilligently."

 

here we go week!

I love you all and pray for everyone of you individually! Nos vemos hasta la semana que viene.

Love elder Drewster rooster Hunt

October 21, 2013

To answer your questions..
during the hurricane was the most peaceful day of my mission I just studied,listened to church artist and it felt so good with the wind haha it was a blessing for us cuz we don't have air conditioning. I wasn't his trainer I'm his second companion. 

That makes me so happy that John is home. I miss him and still do like crazy and I've decided I'm hugging you and dad first when I get off the plane then John cuz he is my hero. I love that kid so much I brag about him everyday whenever I can I love him so much just ask Elder Famasili haha I'm always talking about him!!!!

I did get the package thanks so much for the air heads, sweethish fish,garments and the 11 ties everything helped so much especially the garments cuz you sweat enough here let alone with small garments but actually ya if you could send the memory card both of mine got broke by the virus here in computers. cuz i haven't taken pics for like 4 weeks since the virus with my card happened its not the camera the camera is ok i just need to buy another one or see if i can reformat the ones i have.

 k gotta go baptize:) love ya bye

 

OCTOBER 14,2013

Alright so this week was pertty hilarious I had the best prank I've ever heard in the mission that I pulled on a Elder. (he had got me the week before) Yesterday he asked that I translate his prayer in English so he could do it in the district meeting in English and I said certainly my friend and I wrote the following

"Heavenly Father I give thee thanks to be here in the mission. watermelon. Gluegun hose holy wowzers please bless our investigators and all the missionaries in the name of Jesus Christ amen."  I gave it to him and he laughed. He says he knows English which made me laugh cuz  without a hesitation started the prayer and I totally forgot that I wrote that in the morning so he starts the prayer in the meeting and gets to watermelon and at that time I remember and think  my gosh he really doesn't know any English and he says watermelon and I burst out laughing and after the prayer  the zone leader looking at me like come on man in a prayer than I threw the translation to him and he reads it and buuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrssssts out laughing with his comp uncontrollably and he told me it was the best prank hes seen anyone pull in his whole mission and I'm so proud of myself he called me after the meeting laughing harder than I thought he could laugh. We laughed for five minutes straight as hard as I've ever laughed before I almost threw up I laughed so hard oh my gosh I love this zone leader he's just like randy and he was laughing saying with all the problems you guys have had that just takes the cake hahah it was hilarious and when I explained to the elder after the prayer why I was laughing he repeated quietly "espero ustexd dijo sandilla" haha (wait you told me to say watermelon)  He laughed at that hahaha it was sooooooooo perfect.!!!!

But we have the baptisms of two this Saturday so Im super excited for that but I started crying because I found out their moving the day after the baptism. Their mom is waiting to get baptized with her spouse.so I'm soo excited cuz this is the first FAMILY I'll have had the privileged to help enter the waters of baptism to partake of our first covenant. 

But I read the letter the boys  dad sent him and the spirit overwhelmed with what a blessing it is to have a family in the gospel or even just a mom and a dad every day when he has to wait to see his the beauty of the plan of salvation was absolutely magnified in the moment in the most beautiful way and I started crying and felt prompted to say that we were going to sing "Families can be together forever" and everyone started crying and i've never cried that hard in my mission before to the point where i couldn't sing it was so powerful. I was so grateful for the miraculous blessing it is to serve others to come to the light. it was an awesome lesson.

 

 Oh and right after we passed by the stake center and guess who was there for the stake event all of the Navolato teens including my Family cruz who we lived above they started screaming Elder Hunt frantically and it scared me and I turn around and I see hermana Suzzy who calls me seen and she starts screaming "my son"!!!!! SO I run over and start talking to them oh man it was the absolute best!!!!! But this week was really good we taught 36 lessons which was the most in the zone so that was cool to hear especially since all the hard work is helping two people get baptized this week!!!!!

Life is great

October 7, 2013

oksa dokses !! SO haha ummmm... we taught 32 lessons haha I don't get how John teaches 50 that's absolutely nuts!"!!!!! dude but I didn't know James Taylor sang with the Mormon tab choir???? when did that all go down.

  So craziest story I woke up to go to the bathroom the other day at like 4 in the morning I was suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper tired and couldn't see very well.. well we have tile floors in Mexico and I started going down the stairs then I finished falling down them and got a huge gash on my leg and arm that looks like the nike sign haha so I just sat there like are u serious! I hurt so bad but I'm to tired to get up so I got up cuz I had to pee and well I went and the next thing I remember was waking up in the bathroom idk if I fainted or was sleep walking but I woke up in the shower!!! haha I thought I died when my eyes opened light came in slowly and I couldn't remember who I was or where I was for about a minute and my arm the next day was huuuuuuge it seriously looked like a baseball I probably should've gone to the hospital but we had a service project and 5 appointments haha but I'm good now lol. 

 

We have two people that are going to get baptized the 19th and hopefully there mom too. Please put there names on the pray roll. The mom was the last person to leave the conference and the only one to stay during the intermission shes already stalwart and her step dad accepted to be baptized and is sincerely looking for the truth. As we read in Moroni 10 4 he will find it! He doesn't have a date still but he soon will haha but he comes from a ranch that's like an hour away to listen to us and comes to church every week and has for like 4 weeks now. The mom has come for  6 weeks. The 9 year old is so gung ho to get baptized when we took him to priesthood session I lent him one of my name tags and put his name over Hunt on a sticky tab so he wore my tie and came and sat by all the missionaries which was really fun. He loves the book of Mormon and gets mad if we don't start reading immediately when we arrive. but so awesome and his little sister, she is so stinking cute but she was the angriest little girl Ive ever seen for whatever reason she was just always angry but her mom  told me I've changed her cuz I'm the first person let alone missionary she gives a hug instead of a right hook to the jaw haha shes adorable and I was on splits  when the other set went to their house. The next day when we visited them  told me her daughter started crying when the other set of Elders came and I wasn't there she told her mom ekchaño hermano gandote like extraño hermano grandote "I miss the huge missionary" haha so the time after when I came she gave me a kiss on the cheek and a big hug it was so cute!!!!

 

 

"I am encircled about eternally in the arms of His love."

~ 2 Nephi 1:15

October 7, 2013

(I wrote him about me being bite by a brown recluse spider and breaking one of my toes and getting food poisoned all before John was to come home... this is what he wrote back.. )

 "well at least were not the Hunt family... oh wait "lol remember that from  our neighbor, that they say al least they are not us.  dang im super sorry you broke it.  A brown recluse holy wowzers food poison jaheesh im way sorry!!!! tell me when youre out of the hospital haha. I did get to watch conference.  It was awesome, I understood this one haha the last conference was my first Sunday exactly so that was exactly 6 months in the field.   I printed our a bunch of pics today 40 pics of the family and Jake playing football, Abby in Jake's pads and a bunch more. The members only came to the stake center for priesthood cuz for the others they watch at the Capella in Navolato. But I saw 'Jesus' who I baptized and that was very sweet! Hugging him again and watching him cry as he thanked me and said,"because of you I have found the path to our Heavenly Father." and I said, "well me and my companions" and he cut me off saying, "no you were the one who brought me to Christ, since I didn't want to give up on him." So that was a super good feeling and he started crying after we hugged and he turned around to leave! There were two other families that I saw which were both my favorite families there so it was good to at least see the priesthood but conference was awesome its sweet hearing them teach things your stoked to use for your investigators!

September 30, 2013

 So there was a lot going on....  there was a Hurricane that hit there area and then went north.
so here are some of the things he wrote to us.....

(this was our question to him) We just hear that all the phones were stolen in the Mission Office after the Hurricane? Did you hear anything about this? 

yup haha we weren't part of that it was just one zone

 What did you drink during that time?  Extra bottled water? 
we actually didn't have pure water for three days and running water to shower for four days. haha

Gotta go love ya'll this week really was awesome! We led the zone in almost every number and progressing well, were hoping for 15 investigators at church well... 

 also, I bought Octopus today hahaha

September 23, 2013

From a missionary serving in his area..he is serving just a little south Culiacan in Costa Rica)

 "There was a lot of damage,The worst part is that there is a giant canal here and it overflowed and went to the houses and just ran right through them. The
 water was up to the peoples waists. A good amount of the members got water
 in there houses and just ruined everything. couches, clothes, everything.
 It was super sad to see the things that they have lost. But it has been
 amazing to see how humble these people are! They are so strong. They have
 lost so many things but yet they are so happy. But it made me realize how great the people are here. They know that the worldly things don't matter, and they were all just happy to be alive. These past 2 days all we have been doing is service! It's great. and crazy. Seeing their houes filled with inches of
 mud and water. and some of the houses don't have concert floors. so it's
 just mud. I love giving service to the people. It makes me so happy to help
 them. I love seeing the happiness and joy in the faces of the people. I'm
 glad to be here serving in this area. To have the opportunity to be able to
 serve the people here. Whether it's spiritually or physically.
 We were without electricity for a day and water for 2 days. 
(so for family and friends, Elder Drew's area was not hit that bad, in his mission there were places that were completely wiped out.) 
The hurricane hit us but it really was just a lot of rain.. it did a lot of damage in other parts of Sinaloa but here in Culican some colonies got a lot worse than others we were completely fine we had to stay inside all day but it was a good day: read a lot, wrote letters and it felt so good with the rain haha at first they told us it was a cyclone and for us that's really all it was but it was a hurricane and we were just further out so it was just really windy and rainy the only thing we had to do was put like 10 pots out to catch the drips 

It was super cool the other week we were walking to the district meeting and a lady popped her head out the door and said le habla! she's talking to you. So we turned around we were with the hermanas cuz they didn't know how to get to the chapel. And a super sweet older lady said come in Mormons so i kinda laughed thinking oh man that's all we need is another catholic to try and bash with us then she said"I have to show you something I love dearly" and she turns around slowly taking out a liahona in her hand and she said "I have read this for 5 years over and over and it is the most accurate doctrine of any church I have ever found."  She asked us where the church there was so we told her and she asked if she could join our church we laughed and said Certainly!!!!  Then I asked her where she got the liahona and she said a man who was shipping dairy products to her little shop had it and he gave it to her. From that seed planted 5 years ago and an inspired district leader Elder Famasili who for "some reason" felt like we should have the district meeting in their chapel again when we usually switch every week a Daughter of God has a baptism date and will soon be a member of the church. The lord truly does bless us and his children even when were not looking for it, he puts us in the path of others looking for the truth.

  (mom's quote wall, I need to send more!)

Drew and his love for life

 with a member who got their mission call