Elder Hunt got his first baptism yesterday! We are so incredibly proud of him:) As you can see by these pictures he is so happy, and definitely has the light of Christ. He absolutely loves doing the lords work and we know he is putting his all into his service.
Cutest Missionary Ever! (k I am biased)
Putting his God given talent to use :) Brings back so many memories!
Benetton's First baptism Alberto!
Hey Family,
Well what an amazing week it was!!! we had so many amazing things happened and the lord truely blessed us thats for sure!! The temple was absolutely amazing! its really gorgeous inside and i actually felt like i was in america because everyone that works there is from america except like one or two people and then every piece of the temple except a few things is from the USA!!! ya baby!! haha i actually got to use a urinal that works and flushes automatically!! haha everything was so clean and pure and we got to participate in all the 5 ordinances in the temple. Elder Larsen and I did confimations and sealings which was cool because it was first time thing for me to do sealings and then of course we did a session. Not gonna lie when we were watching the sealings all i could think about was my eternal family one day and i just pictured me and kels on the altar. haha but we worked really closely with the temple president which was really cool cause that doesnt happen in the temples at home. The session was the most difficult cause everything was in spanish obviously!! but they have headphones to translate, the hardest part is actually doing everything is spanish. haha but it turned out great!! afterwards we went to the church distribution center and its pretty much the time for missionaries to just splurge! haha i bought a bunch of church dvds for 2 mil which is the equivalent to like 50 cents. haha and then a bunch of BOM in guarani which were only one mil. it was way sweet!! after that we went to lunch at a place next door and as we ate we saw some other americans there talking. One of the guys look just like doug glendenning buch a little older!! it was crazy!! haha So anyways the week was really good after that and when we went to go visit Alberto (this is the guy that we were supposed to baptize awhile ago) he said that he was ready and didnt want to wait until the 30th of this month for his baptism. So guess what.... We did it on Sunday!!! i will get to that a little later. Here is some of the things that i wrote down to share for the week. I have a feeling this is gonna be a really long email. haha So in front of our house they ripped up the road and people were working on it. After about 15 minutes of work of couse they stopped to drink terere for 30 minutes. We timed them and they stuck to that schedule for the whole day!! haha it was hilarious! Then one of our members that we have been working with who was inactive has satelite! i walked in and he was watching survivorman! haha i wanted to watch so bad!! haha Oh ya so how is cody doin in the mish?! i havent heard anything about him lately. So here there is just a random person in like every family that has super blonde hair and blue eyes naturally or is a red head. Its really weird! ha oh ya by the way i took out 65.00 dollars from my account. Well 60.00 and then the charge to use the machine. So lots of woman here do the whole balance everything on their heads! its crazy how much they can hold on there!! if they are doing that though they are straight up guarnai indians! haha also we had the opportunity to give a new member a blessing. Hermana tina and it was a great blessing and the whole time she jsut kept saying oh ya i got faith!! haha So here mcdonalds is like a 5 star resturant! i am not kidding they do like everything for you and are super quick and everything is fresh and its just the same food as USA but better cause it hasnt been sitting under a heat lamp since the day before. So we had a lesson that was super far away from our house, and when we finally finished we were trying to make it home on time and the lord blessed us. Around the corner came the bishop and he gave us a ride home! what a tender mercy. haha so this week i got a crazy strong craving for cinnamon rolls! I want some so bad but they dont exist here and you cant really send them so i will just have to be patient! they would be so good for breakfast though! maybe you have an easy recipe mom? So this week we also had interviews with the president. It is such a great experience and is like a super recharge to your missionary batteries! ha we talked about my first change here and how everything was. I love interviews! haha president is great and helps you sooo much!! So it rained pretty much all week here and this guy with a truck like dads old blue toyota truck just was flying through the mud like it was a baja! it was so sick and reminded me of playing that game with dad and preston on the N64! I saw sign this week well more like a giant banner for a party... it said ¨fiesta de cerveza¨ which translates to BEER PARTY!!! everyone here is just a bunch of drunks! and its always on sundays. We had proof of that last night, there was a accident in front of the chapel a few hours after the baptism. It was crazy cause here everyone comes to the scene and gets right up in the face of the people on the ground dying and then just stands there. There was probably 200 people jsut all in the way of the police and the ambulances. Ambulances here are all privately owned so it has nothing to do with the city of state like at home. We were all joking around after at the pension that one of the people that was in the crash when they asked them what was wrong or what they needed they said cerveza! haha or beer! Also this week we met a family who has 17 kids!! look out duggars here they come!! its insane here how they just pop them out like nothing! Then we taught a family and the husbnd talked like he was mario or luigi! it was hilarious and it took all i had not to just laugh my head off!! We then went to a gas station after to buy some snacks and it made me think of all the times that me and jimmy or kelsey or preston made late night runs to maverick to buy stuff like that or get a red box!! ya i was a little homesick/trunky that night!!! Ok well i think thats all the little things that i wrote down as reminders. I got your dear elders at interviews and they made me sooooo happy!! kelseys letters totally cheered me right up and i coudnlt stop smiling!! she is so dang cute and adorable!
Thanks mom!! Your the best!! i love you!! ok so now to the most important thing! the baptism! haha so we prepared a really special baptism, we made brownies and i played a special song outta that music book granpa bought me, and members showed up to support him. haha so as i got ready to baptize him i thought for a second about the ordinance and all the words in my head were in english!! i dont know why but then i looked out and realized that everyone was a paraguayan and that i had to say it in spanish!! haha i did it though and it was perfect. We finished the baptism with a testimony meeting real short and then refreshments. Afterwards we went to his house and visited with him and he told us that he felt like the old Alberto left him and he is a new better Alberto!! it was so spiritual and the the spirit was so strong during the day!! and especially the baptism. I talked to his wife and she told me that missionaries have been working with him for 7 years!!! i then knew why i was called to serve the people here! The gospel is such an amazing thing and i am so blessed with it! We had stake conference yesteday and boyd k packer and russel m ballard talked to us! i understood pretty much all of it and they were really powerful talks!! I have pictures attached of the baptism. and then a few others from asuncion in the temple and stuff. I sure do love you guys so much! i really wish you could experience what i am experiencing! preston this is the best thing ever and i really wish i would have left earlier cause the work of the lord is the best thing we could be doing!! plus i really dont wanna have to wait a super long time for you to get home so we can do things together! haha i love ya man and think about you all the time!! i know that there is some family out there just waiting for you to bless them and their posterity for time and all eternity!! My goal for this family is to take them to the temple and be sealed for time and all eternity! that would be amazing! Hannah how is school going? thanks so much for your letters! they make me so happy! it sounds like you are gonna have alot of fun for halloween and i cant wait to see pictures of you and your costume! i really wish i could take you trick or treating! but i promise i will as soon as i get back! they dont really have halloween here like at home so your really lucky. Ashton, hows soccer buddy? sounds like you are quite the stud in the back and your team is just owning everyone!! Keep it up and i cant wait to get back and play with you! i sure do miss you and hannah and preston alot! i think about you all the time!! Sounds like you had a really great experience at state cup dad and i am sure you guys could have taken them in the finals!! next year your name is all over it! seems like finishing is what always kills us! haha anways thanks for all your help and love. I havent got any packages yet but i am sure they will bring them to zone conference in a few weeks! i am REALLY looking forward to them! I love you all! until next week!!
your son, boyfriend, brother and bestfriend Elder Hunt
Though we know he is very focused on the work, he still found time to remember my birthday :) Which, lets be honest, is impressive for any man let alone one thousands of miles away! We have decided not to email so we stay consistent with mission rules, but on rare special occasions we have decided a quick little message would be okay. I received the following message... Short and sweet, but just enough to know he still loves and cares about me :)
I LOVE YOU HONEY!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE AND AMAZING BIRTHDAY!! i have something for you!! You should get it on your bday!! your amazing sweetheart!!! I LOVE YOU!!! I MISS YOU!!!
A baptism and a short little "I love you" is the best birthday gift I could have possibly received! Thanks Benetton :)
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