Heya everyone, sorry this is late! I got permission to send emails today so here you go! This last week was interesting. I'll start with the service project I threw together was in the canyon. There is this Christian retreat camp thing and it's waaaay down at the end of one of the canyons with nothing in it. So none of us knew it was there. A couple weeks ago when I was on exchanges, after a lesson in the canyon Elder Kupu and I decided to take a look down this one side road just because we could. And we found this place! I spoke to one of the head guys there and told him if they ever needed help with anything they could give us a call and we could get a couple guys to come help out.

Lo and behold, two weeks later we got a call and a couple of the guys that help take care of the place said they needed help cleaning the whole place up for a group that was coming over the weekend! They had found out last minute and were freaking out because there was so much to do. They asked if we could come Wednesday or Thursday so we came Wednesday. Called up everyone in the zone to get as many people as possible there and we were able to get 16-18 out of the 22 people in our zone there! We weed whacked lots of weeds, ripped out lots of nasty plants, wiped down mattresses, vacuumed the sketchy dorms, mopped the floors of some that didn't have carpets, I got bit by a fire ant, we cleaned and moped the kitchen (picture a scout camp kind of thing). When we finished up Kevin (the guy we were helping) came up to me and asked us to put our names all down on a piece of paper so he could sign off our service hours. The whole time he had thought that we have to have a quota of service hours for school or something else!

So I explained to him that we didn't need service hours, we just wanted to help. In all there was about 150 man hours of work provided by our zone. He was super grateful and couldn't believe we were just coming to help. So now they love Mormons.

Story two!

Tuesday night we were going to go to a bible study in Orange. We went, but couldn't find it, so we got our and walked around for a bit. Right where we parked there was his open room with a few people inside, so we went to ask them if they knew where a bible study was in the area.

The hey said, "no, but you should stay here!" So we did. Turned out they were an ex-Mormons for Jesus group (not trying to step on anyone's feelings here but......here we go! That is the dumbest and most contradictory name for any organization I can imagine. Mainly because only 3 out of the 15 people there were formerly LDS.) That was really interesting. Most of the people there were "concerned Christians' or otherwise had questions that their Mormon friends didn't answer in their bygone days of middle school. The whole time they (the three) were trying to tell us we were wrong about what we believed. Quick request of everyone. If you ever have a question about what Mormons believe, or, even bigger, WHY we believe something, please ask me. If you want to learn math, go to a math teacher. If you want to learn history go to a history teacher. If you want to learn about Mormons, go to an ex-Mormons for Jesus meeting. Just kidding! Go to a Mormon!!!!! So that was fun and exciting, and it makes a great story.

Last thing for the week....transfers have come and gone again! Bother Elder Kuehne and I have been transferred out of Peters Canyon and will be splitting the Young Single Adult Ward with the sisters in our zone!

It'll be interesting getting used to teaching a different demographic.

It'll also be interesting being with one companion for so long.

Sooooooo looooooongggg!! That's about all I can think of now! Love you all!

Elder Hunter

Picture of Kuehne with a snake. And elder Nelson is behind him. Kevin is to the left.