Heloooo everyone!  Sorry I have not written in such a long time!  Where in the heck as january gone?!?!  This weeeeeeeek is my last week of this transfer!  Things that have happened since I wrote about 20 years ago......Last Monday we went ice skating.  I slipped a lot!  Then a couple minutes before we left I slipped again!  And in the process of getting up, I slipped again!  My hands went behind me and I stopped my fall with my forehead, a little abouve the inside corner of my left eyebrow.  For those of you who weren't aware, water is extremely hard when you hit it very fast in a liquid form.  It is much harder when you hit it in a solid form!  I got a solid goose egg, a cut, and a mild concussion all in one go!  This week was suuuuuuuper busy.  We biked about 100 miles (this is estimating).  I know in three days we biked about 50 miles, so 100 is a safe guess.  My area is 6 square miles, so it's not huge, but we basically do bike sprints to every place we go so we make up for the lack of distance in speed.  We taught 15 lessons this week!  That is a TON for our area.  it is impossible to get to people when they are not busy.  It is incredible how busy people are! Too busy to hear about or care about the Kingdom of God, which makes sense, because I mean, c'mon, priorities.  Kingdom of God vs. drinking/smoking/videogames/dinner/  Drinking/smoking/video games/dinner OBVIOUSLY come first!  That was extremely frustrated sarcasm for those of you who couldn't tee......but enough complaining!  On Thursday we went on splits with some guys from the ward aaaaand I got to go with a new guy named C H, which is a pretty fantastic name if you ask me!  Anyway, on our way into this retirement home there was this glass doorway.  And a glass door.  The door was open and I couldn't tell the difference between the open door and the glass doorway.  It was sooooooo clean.  Anyway, I was walking (full speed mind you.  I was probably doing a solid 3 or 4 mph!) and I walked straight into the doorway!  I smacked my recently concussed head (in the same exact spot as where I hit it on the ice) and hit it with my right knee.  I have never been so stunned in my life.  To have your velocity go from 1/5 m/s to 1 in an instant without seeing the cause is VERY confusing.  I stood there for a second wondering why I had been clubbed in the face by nothing and a couple ladies were freaked out, and then I saw the imprint of my face on the glass that had not been there a few seconds before.  That is all that happened this week!  Just lots of biking, teaching, and rejection!  A good way to describe the people we are working with (and a lot of people in the world) is this passage from the Book of Mormon (in Helaman 13).  
26  Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.
27 But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say; Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth--and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet.
28 Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him.
29 O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you?  Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides?  Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light?
 I love all of you and here are some pictures finally!!!
Elder Hunter

Photos

1. 5 generations of trainers and trainees!!!

Back in December Hunter was able to help one of his investigators A, enter the waters of baptism.  A sweet day!

Elder Hunter in front of the Temple.  Our temple trip two weeks ago!!! The picture with the people is our Zone. Top row from left to right is: elders Erickson, Wilding, Henderson, and then his trainer (and my grandpa!) Beutler, Hamby!!!!!!!, then Elder Chung (those of you in Fairfax might recognize him)

Middle row: Elders....my own good self, Cipcic, Z. Johnson, and Christensen.  Bottom: Elders Karn, Halle, and Sisters Jessen, and Contravo.

2-4. since we no longer have a car, this is how we got another guy in the ward to come to a lesson with us! (Elders can't teach a single woman by herself unless a male is present or 2 other females are)