Happy Memorial Day everyone! This week was full of lots of small miracles in the form of people answering their doors or phones and lots of crazy stuff. Let's start with Elder Meyers's iPad. We were helping someone move some things in our tiny Corrola. Elder Meyers set his iPad on top of the car. He forgot about it. We drove off. Yes, elder Meyers's iPad is no more and we believe that it is in the hands of a dastardly Italian man that was to dishonest to give it back when we asked for it. We even bribed him with some bags of popcorn we got from the library. Moral of the story? Never trust an Italian man over the age of 65.

Next interesting story. We went to teach someone last night. When we got there he was eating dinner and had very recently taken a hit from the bong sitting on the floor.

We had some awesome lessons this week. There were only 8, but the quality was great! Some of the miracles that happened were as follows....we had three people come to church! And even more exciting was that Allen passed his interview for baptism! Elder Meyers and I were a little worried about it because he is very unconventional, not necessarily in a bad way or good way, but he makes others feel uncomfortable. I literally had nightmares all last night of being in church and having him run up and start yelling at everyone. This week was a tough one, but all the hard work was worth it! We spent lots of time organizing our area. That was exhausting. The pictures are as follows.

1. Stopped by a family's house we'd never visited before. This sign was there and it was funny. We talked with the lady about it and she was saying how frustrating the mailmen were....just sticking packages on the ground....here they will get stolen in a couple seconds.

2. We noticed this sign as we were driving to the mission office. Cali life!

3. That is Elder and Sister Fowles. They serve in our Ward with us as missionaries and we're just released. Elder Fowles in one of the funniest guys I know. When it was announced that we placed in the chili cook off he was crying he was laughing so hard!

4. This is why you don't drink and drive. But actually this guy was mad at us for parking in 'his spot' (notice the Guest parking only sign) and tried to box us in with his truck so the towers could tow us. I backed up and we peaced out. We were both pretty mad about that. The guy (with the bong) we were teaching after that offered to have his sister slash the guys tires. We are loved by our investigators!!

To polish this off, I want to share a quote with all of you from Marion G. Romney, a member of the quorum of the twelve apostles.

"That man is a child of God is the most important knowledge available to mortals. Such knowledge is beyond the ken of the uninspired mind. Neither logic, science, philosophy, nor any other field of worldly learning has ever been, or ever will be, able to find it out. Those who limit their search to such learning techniques will continue to be as they have always been, “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”" 

I want to add my testimony to this. There isn't any way to find out the truth of Gods personality and being except for the way God has provided. That is studying, pondering, and praying. 

"To know thyself is to come to know that you and I are literally the offspring of Deity." The joy that comes from a correct knowledge and understanding of our Father and His Son cannot be matched. How do we come to this knowledge? By studying what God has provided for us, namely the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Many people wonder why we need any book, or why we need the extra book of the Book of Mormon. God provides an answer. "Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth? Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also. And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever. Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written. For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written." 

I know we are all sons and daughters of God. I know that anyone can come to a knowledge of that better by reading the Book of Mormon, pondering, and praying about it than by any other means. I leave these things with you all in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Elder Hunter

picture above is Brother Cunningham from the Braun Heights Ward who personally delivered a cookie et al package from home!

This picture on the right is of someone from our Ward directory......it very much epitomizes the Anaheim 4th Ward!

 The picture in the center of the letter is of Hunter before leaving on the mission when his brother Justus called for mother's day.  We couldn't get a good picture of Hunter's mother's day call but we loved talking with him!