Hunter didn't send us a letter to publish for Everyone this week so we are giving you what he wrote to our family:

Kumen, I'm sure you did great! Stop being such a worry wart!! Did you not finish your email there......? Anyhow, it was great seeing and talking to you!

  

Mom, thank you so much for fixing up my lama skin! Just please be gentle with it.....and by that I mean just keeping it away from the other kids because I'm afraid they will play with it until it is ripped apart....thank you so much for your efforts! I love you so much! People in California are very much like Texas soil. People here can be so humble, and seemingly ready to accept the gospel, but then they reject it. Just last night after we finished talking, we went and fixed an investigators bike. We found a new axle, and fixed up the chain so it would work. Afterwards (this was the Jehovah's Witness that we taught last week) she asked us if she could ask us a few questions! And now they are so much more willing to listen to us! I'm super excited about that. I'm glad the spirit reconfirmed the importance of the Book of Mormon to you. Did you know that the church was under condemnation for taking the Book of Mormon to lightly when Joseph smith was on the earth, and that condemnation was repeated by Ezra Taft Benson I think. It's so true! The other day my comp told me he was talking to a guy at the soup kitchen he was serving at (we were on exchanges) and he was talk into a guy about the restoration of the gospel and he said 'and the Book of Mormon is proof of it' which is what I always tell people. And he heard himself say that and thought nooooooooo, I'm turning into Johnson!! Which is a good thing because it means I'm doing at least something right! Mommy I love you! I will share my testimony when I skype again next Christmas! Jk, I will write it at the end of this email. How is everything going with the thing that I sent? Have you talked with Mike about it? Has Elder Meyers's mom friended you on Facebook? She is AWESOME! Lemme know who you want me to email to because I didn't see anything in this email! Also could you please make photocopies of those 2 pieces? I need them for Sunday...Love you!

Avery, I loved your talk!! It was amazing!! You are so cute I loved hearing you sing yesterday and I loved seeing ranger!!

Ammon, great job, you're almost there! The little heart you put in somehow ended up on where you said lovable and nowhere near where you meant it to be. I was looking at the calendar, and it turns out I will most likely be coming home at the beginning of August. The last transfer ends August 1 2016, and I will hopefully be able to stay a couple more days past that. But right now I'm looking at a 16 transfer mission because of when I came out, and when school starts. Hopefully we will have an 8 week transfer so I have two extra weeks. I've still got 12 more months before I need to start thinking about that though!

Zenock keep doing well in school! Enjoy your summer! You only have like 3 weeks of school left now! Craziness! Have a fun summer too!

Dad, I'm glad you were able to talk to Sandy a bit. Tell her I miss heeeeeer! Has Grandpa gotten his results back yet? We are doing the best we can to use the Book of Mormon as much as possible. Promise! It was wonderful talking to you guys yesterday! I absolutely loved it!

I know the church is true. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet, because the more I study the Book of Mormon the more and more I become convinced that a 14 year old boy could not have written it. This church is Gods Kingdom as He has organized it on earth. Jesus Christ is my Savior and my Older Brother and He loves me and everyone. I know He lives. I know my Heavenly Father cares about all of us. I know families can be together forever! I love you all, and I leave this short testimony with you, in the name of Jesus Christ amen.

Hunter

P.S. The talks I was thinking about that you could share with Sister Valdez was The Only True and Living Church by Boyd K. Packer, given in October 1971 and What Will the Church do for You, a Man by Gordon B. Hinckley in April 1972, and Why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Marion G. Romney given in October 1972. These are all super good ones. They would be good to watch with her maybe. Hope they help!