They ended up texting us and basically saying they weren't interested. :/ it was sad, but we left them with a good impression and the Book of Mormon. I hope they read it! We found another family though! They had been taught by the elders in one Ward, then moved, and we found them in their new place and they asked, how did you find us? And we were like, what are you talking about? Then we talked with them for 30 minutes. It was fantastic! 

I can't wait to help everyone pack, and I'll definitely keep all of you in my prayers, but should I pray that we'll find someone to rent the house or buy it? Also, do you think maybe you could find someone for me to teach and then we can just eat after we visit President Freckleton? 

I'm glad the car didn't get towed at Kumens graduation, I started reading that part and the first thought that came to my head was, "I wonder if the car got towed...." 

Thank you for sharing those quotes with me dad, I really like them! I think that's a good way to describe one of the things I've learned. Not to toss the importance of planning a lesson, but lessons I've taught have gone much better when I've been spiritually prepared and been doing well with the 'righteous routines' and not prepared an actual lesson plan than when I have prepared a lesson plan and haven't been spiritually prepared. Spiritual preparation doesn't just come during the personal study in the morning either! It's in the weeks and months you spend constantly striving to do what you're supposed to. 

My personal opinion on why the Lord wants us to move to Colorado is this. There is a person or persons there that are ready for the gospel, or ready to come back to it, and our family is the Lords way of making it happen. I think it's interesting that you found out you were leaving practically immediately after Sarah and Kate got baptized. There's a Sarah and a Kate and maybe even a Rachel or Mallory or Makenna in Colorado waiting for our family!

News for the week......everything fell through and almost no one was home the whole week. But we did find a lady that when we asked her if she was religious and she said no and we asked why and she said I don't know! Then we gave her a Book of Mormon, explained a little of the restoration, and she asked us if we were going to co e back to pick it up and we were like no, and she got super excited and asked if we were going to come follow up with her to see if she'd been able to read and we were like, uh, yeaaaahhhhhh!!! That was really awesome. In other news.........Thursday night, President called to release me as a Zone Leader, and Saturday night I got the call to go to La Habra, Love you Dad!

Hunter

P.S. Can you ask the family to please not write anything about me going home in their letters? I know it's probably hard, but in these last few weeks, I don't want it to be any harder than it needs to be. :)

Wow, that's nuts! Why were you selected? Do you know why yet? Weren't you going to be there for 4-5 years? Well this was quite a surprise! We can totally drive 4 vehicles up and then have three people drive back down that would be a blast! It is sad to be leaving Texas when we were expecting to be there a while. The thought that I had is that the Lord wants our family in Colorado Springs! I love our family so much, and I know the Lords hand has been in all of our moves. I can't wait to help you pack up! I guess I can joke with President that I'm getting transferred to Colorado! Will you find some non-members for me to teach when I get back before I get released? That would be fantastic. I'll be more careful on my bike, I was just taking a golden opportunity! I'm the first person to stop and talk to people, but these hills were so steep that not even people were walking on them! It was crazy! I love the lyrics to the song, I think that's one of the simplest ways to be a missionary! 

So the family!! Not yesterday, but last Sunday, we were visiting a former, and they weren't there so we knocked on 2 doors around them in a complex. The mom came to the door and said they were Catholic and one of the daughters yelled that from behind as well. Then we said something and they ended up accepting a Book of Mormon and inviting us in and giving us brownies and we set up a return appointment for yesterday! Woohoooooo!!!!! So we went back yesterday with some brownies we had made and just talked with them about a mission and prophets and revelation, and ended up teaching a big part of the restoration and it was awesome and they had awesome questions and they brought up stuff like they have problems with some of the doctrines of the Catholic Church  and it was just incredible!!! We spent a lot of time emphasizing the Book of Mormon and invited them to is presentation called Christ in the Americas where brother Linford presents all this artifact y'all and historical evidences that support the things that the Book of Mormon talks about and he has the most powerful testimony of the savior and its incredible. And ye said ye would come to it!!! So I am super duper excited for that. I'm so excited for where that is going to go. :) 

Love you so much!

Hunter

So glad you enjoyed Sarah's baptism, that sounds like an absolutely incredible experience. I did read the talk by Packer, and I'm still reading it over again, there's so much in it, I love it! Thank you so much! The one standing around wasn't watching it, it had been his companion. He just said, well, I'm not even going to bother trying to hide it." He's such a good guy, but good guys do dumb things. We didn't really even reprimand them. We told them they knew what they were doing was wrong and talked about being on a mission and how it's the only chance we have to serve the Lord like this. The one elder that was standing brushing his teeth has had a bunch of bad comp and is just completely unmotivated. He has a rough background and is basically the only active member in his family and he just wants to be done. We just talked to him about how he was doing and then helped them take their tv out to the dump. In southern Cali, everyone gets rid of everything by putting it by the dump. Couches, tv's, fridges, cabinets, beds, bikes, you name it. All the kids would love it! It's so easy to be disobedient here. Everything is just given to you. I told president, not the details, and told him we had taken care of it. 

Hahaha, this week we got Quran bashed! It was funny. We Tracted a lot, and are just trying as hard as we can to find people. Lots of tracting. Yay! I love it! It's so much fun. Last night we knocked on a door and the mom pulled the 'we're Catholic' card and was about to shut the door, then we said something and we ended up giving her a Book of Mormon and went in and talked with their family for 15 minutes or so and they gave us brownies (not weed brownies) and said we could come back on Sunday. It was awesome! That's about all that happened this week. I'll try to think of some other things. Love you!

Hunter 

PS  Ooh! On Tuesday we went on bike again. We went 46 miles including some of the steepest hills in the mission! I was accelerating super fast down a hill and when I hit 45 mph I chickened out and hit my brakes because it was really fast. I would've gone 60 easy. It was really fun!