Dad I hope you had a safe flight back! I like the thoughts of spending time in the wilderness. That's one of the reasons I like to go mountain biking (running for me) on PDay. That's awesome that you were able to have a cool experience! Thanks for not going onto my fb account. I didn't post that. I posted it, but only so mom could see it. Like, no one could see it but mom. Or at least that's what was supposed to happen. My new area is Disneyland. Like the entire Disneyland is IN MY AREA!!! It's pretty cool. We can hear and see the fireworks when they go off at night. My companion is Elder Meyers. He is 6'4 and was playing football as a defensive end for Southern Utah University. He is a big guy, so I'm glad to finally have someone to work out with in the mission. He is a lot like me when I first came out. Just full of greenie Fire and ready to go. He is just like me in wanting to not do studies and go out and tract. Which is kinda a waste of time. So it's a good thing we finally got our area book! So now we have numbers to call and people to visit that have spoken with missionaries before. We try to contact people when we're out biking around too. The problem here is that no one wants to talk about religion at all. They are so stubborn and "normal nice Christian people" will yell at you and curse you and tell you they're not interested. I was very skeptical about using Facebook at first too, but the vision for using it is so much more than simply proselyting on a mission. The vision for giving missionaries iPads is to make it easier for missionaries to stay in contact with investigators and new members, and to continue their missionary efforts after their missions. Every time a group of 10,000 missionaries goes home and a group of 10,000 comes out it'll hopefully just be an increase in 10,000 missionaries. You can't see people on Facebook, unless you FaceTime them, which is allowed, but it is easier to have well thought out explanations, and time to think of thought provoking questions. It is certainly better to teach people face to face, but try it. Try talking to a nonmember friend on Facebook about the gospel. Or just a random person. 

I did not hear about the sister missionary that died. That is really sad. But the Lord definitely is increasing the work on the other side of the veil! I hope you have a fun time with Jeff and Krista! What is grandpa and grandmas email again? I lost it and didn't have time to write last week. Love you all!!

Elder Hunter