Kyler's First Letter!

9/25/08

Dear Mom and Dad and the rest of the fam,

I do not get a P-day this week but usually P-day would be on Thursday. I’ve got pretty well settled with 3 other elders who also are headed to Billings. Elder Clouse is my companion. Hopefully these 3 weeks go by as quick as possible because I want to get up in Montana. We have an early night tonight so we can write home since we will have a regular day tomorrow instead of a P-day which is a bummer since I will probably only get to the temple once or twice. Hey Mom I thought we had an agreement of no crying. But it will be alright you will have no one to keep you entertained now. Well my flight went alright when I landed Stacey found me right when I came down the escalators and my 2 bags were the first ones out of the baggage claim so it went quickly. We then proceeded to Stacey’s mother-in-laws (Mark’s parents house) and Stacey put Emily to sleep. We then drove over and picked Mark up from work and met Kevin at Chuck-a-rama. Mark wouldn’t let me pay either. Kevin then dropped me off at the MTC where I dropped my baggage off and then went inside where I received my name tag and a bunch of different items such as my blue card which gets my food and into my room, etc. Aunt Lucinda and the 2 girls met me at the room and we went into the orientation together. I gave Lucinda the address for me at the MTC. After the 1st orientation was done all family got booted out and we went through a bunch of different lines and received many different missionary items. We then went and sat in our rooms and kind of settled in till about 3:30 where we had a long drawn out orientation. Then we had dinner. THEY HAVE SODA!!! I saw Granger Haviland, we talked for a while then we broke off in a branch and I am branch 53 with 7 other elders and we had a few quick interviews and given a quick lesson. From today at the MTC I hope the next 3 weeks go quick. I depart Oct. 14th. Well I need to have companion inventory and go to bed. Peace Dogs!

Love, Kyler Hinton, The Flippen Missionary Yeah!

Save this so I have a Journal LOL

Elder Hinton

These are pictures of Kyler recieving his mission call, the night before leaving - getting set apart as a missionary, and at the airport - 4:30 am!

Our Last Sunday

Today Kyler spoke in church about prayer. He did such a great job! He wouldn't let my mom read what he was going to say, so she was kind of worried he'd say something embaressing, but he really brought the spirit in the room.

A family friend, thanks Michelle Ellsworth!, made this cake, it turned out great! The family and a few friends got together for cake and ice cream, today is Kyler's Birthday! We loaded Kyler up with Dr Pepper and Chipotle for the next 2 days to enjoy before leaving.

16 Ties, Really?

Now, the information says to bring 5 or 6 ties, but Kyler has 16 to take with him. He is very proud of all his ties and every store he would go to he'd head straight for the ties. I know each one will get well used over 2 years. I told him (his sister Kinsey) that his companions will want to borrow all his spiffy ties. Is he prepared or what?

Billings, Montana!