Thank you to everyone who wrote Elder Hunt and remembered him in your fasting and prayers. We know it can't be easy for him being away from home during the holidays, and we too have missed him and felt of his absence, but we know he is where he is suppose to be. We have great confidence that he will be just fine once he gets passed this little bump in the road. Thanks again for all you do to show your love and support. We feel this is a slight improvement so that is a good thing. We received a letter from the mission saying they were working with him and he was doing better, so we are confident things will work out :)
Well family!!!
What a great surprise this week.... i think that i got more emails today than i have in my whole entire mission combined!!! haha 17 to be exact... there were all from the people that i love most!! This week has been a SUPER crazy week thats for sure. We had a huge meeting in asuncion for all the leaders and trainers so that means that my comp left for that on wednesday until friday. Which meant i got to have tons of different companions!! haha tuesday after district meeting we headed out after lunch with my new companion elder ayala. He is from mexico but he is an american citizen and knows english... THANKFULLY!!! haha we had a really great day and man was it great to have someone different to teach with... he actually has a very interesting story. He ended up having to wait for his visa so he went to washington state first. He was there for like 9 weeks i think and said that when he got here that this mission is way different than the states!! haha duh... we dont have cars or real houses! haha anyways he really learned alot there and just have a real way of talking to people and getting them to open up and understand and know how they can and have to apply the gospel in there lives. Man was that a change... i was like caught off guard when he started teaching because i was just expecting it to be like when i was with my comp. haha and then it turned out great. I learned alot from him and we had a great change. We changed companions again on wednesday afternoon in the bus terminal with my new companion that i would have while my real companion was gone to asuncion. I was with Elder Robaya... he is from sweden and was born in columbia so his spanish is perfect... here was the downside... he is a GREENIE!! that means he has had like 12 days in his mission... haha it seemed to me that that would be a challenge for us but luckily we didnt have to teach or anything because we had ward night in Santa Rita... oh ya thats where is area is, i went to santa rita before with elder urmston so i was ready to go back and knew the area kinda, probably better that this new elder. haha Then thrusday came around and i found out that i would be with elder woodruff... he was comps with elder urmston before when they were APs together and opened up 4 new areas together so basically he is just a missionary MACHINE!! haha he is well known for his overrally positive attitude and work ethic that he is. I KNEW that president made sure that i was with him and that it was his idea for this decision and not the zone leaders like i was told. haha oh ya so i have been talking to president every other night and so he was been well aware of everything and thats why i think i have had so many different divisions with other elders. haha i talked to him this morning actually while we had a district activity.. ha it was nice cause i really didnt wanna participate. haha he said that tomorrow after our chirstmas zone conference were gonna have an interview so we will see how that goes and what ends up happening. haha oh ya so anyways Santa Rita was really really super busy and we worked like animals i will tell you what... my feet were killing me after that day. haha we taught pretty much all brazilians so we taught in spanish and then they spoke portugese but everything was understood perfectly! which is really interesting to think that two totally different languages can function like that. they were all really good lessons because elder woodruff can teach AMAZINGLY good... he had a scripture for every doubt that anyone ever had about the Book of mormon from the bible or any doubt that they had he just came right back with something that helped them understand the truth. Anyways friday i came back and we got done with the change and got back to the house. IT RAINED LIKE CRAZY!! we sat in the house and did weekly planning and then went to our lunch appointment. I was super sick after and all i wanted to do was lay in bed. Finally after fighting my companion for hours and countless attempts of him trying to get me out of bed to go out and work i just went out... i felt like crap and had no desire to be working. But i did it anyways and man was i mad at him after!! he wanted to just finish our goal of 20 contacts but that then turned into 3 lessons and not coming home for hours. I wanted to kill him!! haha saturday was kinda the same... but a little better.... sunday came around and the RAIN WAS HORRIBLE!!! we had 4 people in priesthood and then 55 in total!! we usually have about 120 everyweek so half as much as usual. IT was pretty disappointing too because none of our investiagtors showed up due to the weather. We had a meeting with the bishop and the leaders of the ward after and man was it horrible... it smelt super bad because there was 14 sweaty wet dudes in this TINY room with no AC and its just getting worse by the minute. haha all in all though the week has BEEN SUPER LONG and exhausting and i have worked my butt off even when i sick.... so just to let EVERYONE know i AM LOST IN THE WORK!! haha but i still wanna come home... we´ll see how my interview goes tomorrow. haha thanks so much for all the love and counsel and emails that i know mom and dad you told everyone to send to help me. They did a little and i felt very loved!! i balled like a baby as i read every single one of them!! tell travis thanks for all the encouragement that he sent to me and his experiences that he has had in life in his mission and in soccer with me. they were really inspiring!! tell kelly and claudia thanks for EVERYTHING and everyone else!! its been great!! i didnt really have anything super funny happen this week.... besides this... haha i was in santa rita and elder woodruff said to contact this hosue.... and he said the guys name was john deere... haha it really wasnt but he just madet the name up and said to say it all spanishy... well i did and the lady said yes there is a guy that lives here by that name... we tried SO hard not to laugh.... if they only knew!! haha well tahnks again for everything!! i love you all ALOT!! thanks for all the prayers and fasting!!
Elder Hunt
your son brother missionary teammate and friend forever!!!
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We love Elder Hunt and want only the best for him. He is a great guy and a great Missionary! Brandon was excited to see him a couple of weeks ago. He always has such nice things to say about Hunt!
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ReplyDelete“My Father is at work until now, so I am at work”
(John 5:17)
“I bless you my children! Today I wish to speak to you about God’s work in these times and about the general picture in which your life and your mission is inserted.
“Try to understand, above all, that you did not happen to be in the reality in which you are by accident, but you are here because of a precise divine project. Whatever you might think about yourselves or others might think about you, know that your life is precious and irreplaceable in the time and place in which you find yourselves to be, according to God’s projects. You have been preordained for this reality, and for this reason God gave you irreplaceable and original potentialities. No one in the universe is equal to you, because God’s creativity is unlimited and inexhaustable, and because each one of you is absolutely unique in his being and in his way of acting.
“Unfortunatly, many on Earth live below their potentiality, because they do not make of themselves a gift to Me. I am the only One to know pefectly the Father’s project for each one of you, because from Him I received the order to bring to completion His work in every person. I am acting in you by the power of the Holy Spirit, who enlightens you, cloaks you, constantly inspires you pointing out the avenue towards Me, so that I might reveal to you the Will of the Father for each one of you.
Without me you shall never truly be able to know yourselves, nor to be able to understand what is asked of you to do in this life.
“The Holy Spirit and I are constantely at work in order to realize the Father’s project in each one of you, but we can do this only with the help of your freedom, that is, only when you willingly and freely choose to love and serve God and you offer to Him your life. This is the indispensable condition so that your potentialities activate and are at work. In fact, by the moment you decide to live for God and to be totally abandoned to His will, within you the action of the Holy Trinity starts working, and little by little, transforms your life and your thoughts. Thus, you are beginning to become conscious of who you are in God and to make a mark on reality, a creative mark, because it is divine creativity working in you. I wish you to be conscious about what I am saying to you, because the knowledge that God is active in you, independently from your human limitations and frailties, is determinant for your mission in the time in which you live.
“Yours is a grand time and a difficult time for the entire universe. Grandiose for the power of the events that the hand of God is preparing, and difficult because it is a time of battle with the powers of evil, an always more open battle.
All this does not refer to the planet earth alone, but to the entire creation and all the people who inhabit many other planets. I have already told you that they are children of God as you are, and that I gave My life for them as well. They are your brothers in whom the project of My Father has to be perfectly accomplished, just as it is in yours.
“What is the project of the Father? To bring back the entire creation to the state of integrity and perfection it had before original sin; to bring back every person to the dignity and glory of a child of God. All men and every creature that exists in the universe must be made free from corruption and death which infiltrated themselves in the work of God because of the sin of your forefathers. Humanity must return to a correct relationship with God, by recognizing His authority and by submitting to His guide. How is the Father going to realize this project? By recapitulating all creation in Me, since He gave Me all power in the whole universe.
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