November 26, 2008

Dear Family,

So this week has been crazy my new companion Elder Barrera is crazily enthusiastic so we work well together. On Sunday I talked in sacrament meeting for 26 minutes and no I am not exxaggerating I got up there and just took off I didn’t even have any notes I just talked and told people how it was. I sat down and there was like 3 min left for Elder Hansen haha. I rocked it. Monday we were tracting me and Elder Barrera and we run into a Colombian lady who only speaks Spanish but E. Barrera is from Chile so he is fluent. She then begins making us a Chilean dish and we are already 45 min late to dinner we were supposed to be picked up so we are heaving this food down our mouths and we are choking it down. We are 1 hour and 10 min late and it’s a 20 min drive ARRGGHH. So we jet out the door and start sprinting back to our house, grab the car and zoom off down the road finally get there but we are completely stuffed to the core and there is a ton of deer meat and mashed potatoes so we are crunching it in as much as possible because we just got 2 full meals within 10 minutes of each other haha PUUUUUUUKE. Then Brother Wayland who we ate at let us take pictures of his deer which I will show u hahahahahahah. Love, Elder Hinton

November 22, 2008

Dear Family,
How is the weather in AZ? Yesterday it was 60 degrees outside, it was supernice. But they say the warmth always proceeds the super cold so I am scared. Ya tomorrow we get transfer calls and I will find out who my new companion is. We pretty much lounged around all day and played 4 games of Monopoly. I drank 2 44 oz. sodas so I’ve had to go all day long. Haha We have been tracting a lot but have not had much success. We do have a few appointments this weekend though. Your package did not make it here today so I just bought a book of 20 stamps to hold me over. It is almost my 2 month mark, crazzziness. So what is everyone up to? I’ve been doing missionary work….Imagine that. I get to speak in one of my wards on Sunday but hopefully we have to go into Butte early to drop Elder Hansen off and pick up the new guy but that is the only possible way of me getting out of it. So for Elder Hansen’s 2 year mark we went to Crazy Bears Pizza and ordered a 24 inch pizza. When we went up to pay for it, this LDS family who was just passing through the town had already bought it for us. What has been going on in the football world? Isn’t BYU playing Utah Thanksgiving weekend? Tomorrow I am going to go cut wood poles and chop wood from about 7 am to 2 pm. How fun. We do a lot of service in this area. Oh and tell Korey he better be pumping himself full of steroids because he will still get dominated when I get home. Cya next week, Love, Elder Hinton

Pictures!

Kyler taking on Montana!

November 12, 2008

Dear Family,
How is Arizona? How is school going for Kasey and Kurtis? Every week we seem to be able to teach more and more people. We’ve done team ups with the missionaries in Dillon, MT. Since we bummed a ride from a member in Sheridan, we spent a day there and then bummed a ride with a member from the Dillon Ward to Butte for district Meeting. The Assistants to the Pres. were there since they were doing team ups with the Zone Leaders and President came and conducted interviews. We then ate at Silverbow Pizza Buffet and then the Zone leaders took us back to Sheridan and went on team ups with us yesterday and have spent today with us e-mailing and playing games. We have had a pretty busy week. We taught 12 lessons and have one person picking a date for baptism. We do a lot of tracting and still have no miles left to use on our car. So it’s a pain but we get by. President Fisher during District Meeting told us to find a family to teach, he said finding individuals are great but we need strong families, so that is the goal for the last 1 ½ weeks of the transfer. It’s getting quite cold and the trench coat, gloves, and beanie work great. Hey only about 22 months left, I am almost there. Tonight after dinner we are headed to the Church for a pie and ice cream social hopefully investigators will come since we invited them. Elder Hansen pooped out and doesn’t want to play basketball today.. geez. So by the time you get this letter you should have already sent off my package with goodies and stamps, right?? So what is going on for Thanksgiving? You might have to cut down how many potatoes you cook haha.

It is so weird actually being out here on a mission. It was always so far away and now I’m thrown into it. That’s crazy. How are Chris and Carter and Ryan doing? You need to ask Jarom Taylor if he knows an Elder Meyers who served in Wellington. He says he came home with Jarom Elder Meyers is going to take us out to lunch. Yay! I am supposed to tell you thanks Mom for making me paint all those times since Sister Rash really appreciated me painting her whole office including the ceiling and since Elder Hansen didn’t really have a clue about painting. Had to have someone do it right!

We seem to tract into a lot of theologists who spout a lot of stuff off and then can’t back it up. It is hilarious to see them stumble over the things we tell them. We went to this old couples house who are members for dinner. They picked us up and drove us to Alder and kept us there for nearly 2 hours. They hadn’t started making dinner until we got there and we got to hear Br. Stocker yodel through I believe 19 country western songs. Death was imminent haha. But I made it through.

How are things back home? I’ve always thought about how different life will be when I get home from these 2 years. I will probably still be that loud crazy guy I was when I left but I don’t know. Well have a great week.

Love, Elder Hinton

November 5, 2008

Dear Family, So we had a crazy week. We traveled yesterday to Butte and it was big time snowing it was a lot of fun. We have district meetings every Tuesday. We have been teaching a lot of people. Elder Hansen goes home 2 days before Thanksgiving and I will have a new companion. So I heard Barack Hussein Obombedus won? But anyways members here are really nice and they give us a lot of stuff. I think I eat more ice cream out here in Montana, I get heaping bowls of Ice Cream 2 -3 times a day. Yikes not helping my workout program haha. Not doing too much today there is a ton of snow on the ground we will probably go clean the car play monopoly, write letters and then SLEEP woooohooo. So what else is going on in the world? Show Granger’s Mom the picture of me and Granger that I sent u last week. Well anything else u like to know? Getting mail during the week is great too its always fun to go get the mail and actually have something in it. haha. Well have a Great week Elder H I N T O N <------aka the best Elder Hinton to ever go on a mission (Cough Korey wishes he was this good Cough Cough) Elder Hinton

Finally, Pictures!!

Kyler had some issues getting pictures sent, so finally we get to see Kyler taking on Montana!

Here are a few pictures of Kyler at the MTC

October 29th, 2008

(Letter from e-mail)

Dear Family,
We have finally got the work here progressing tracting is fun because its fun hearing some of the rejections that some of these whackos have to say it cracks me up. My trainer drives but like on team ups only me and him are allowed to drive our assigned car so i just call and get driving privileges. We are starting to teach alot more lessons and we aren't as lost as we have been. Still no new investigators but i think we have 3-4 that may become investigators so we are working it. We get fed every night but tonight we aren't because we wanted more time for P-day so im going to cook some spaghetti tonight. Otherwise we have alot of cold cereal and ramen for Lunch yay. We actually have 2 homes we stay in. The bottom of the jensens store but on the weekends when we drive to Whitehall to save on miles we stay with Bishop Moulton in his basement. I ate at some Davis' last night and they said their daughter lives in Hurricane Utah haha who would ever live there?????? lol haha. So what is going on around the house. Im just freezing here. the weather is so sporadic. oh and u may have to send some smaller clothes eventually since my abs are turning into rock hard steel plated abs of madness from doing sit ups all morning all lunch and all night muahahaha. Peace i am going now to completely dominate this companion of mine who thinks he knows how to shoot a basketball. dont worry i have a cell phone i can call the paramedics. Peace. Oh how are the other missionaries doing? I will write letters later today. Oh and tell The Heningers thanks for the Halloween candy i will write them a letter today anyways but u know us missionaries are always starving so anything is amazing haha. cya Elder Kyler Wayne Hinton who Montana probably already wishes he was gone haha jk I had a guy tell me he thought i was the senior companion because i can talk to
people so well. I told him if he could of only seen me at home muahahahah peace
Love, Elder Hinton

(Letter in the mail)

Dear Family

What is happening? So here in Sheridan we are working and trying to find all the people we can. There are a lot of religions in this tiny town. Like 75-80% of the Ward is less active which is utterly pathetic. Everyone we talk to has their reason for being offended. I’m like GO and read David A. Bednar’s talk on not being offended. If you know the Church is true does it really matter that you don’t like a specific person? Geez its just an excuse. We also run into a lot of people who say some crazy things that contradict themselves. Its hilarious. Cracks me up. But yeah we don’t drive if we don’t have to. We usually drive to the town we proselyte in then walk from there. We also drive to get cell service at night to make phone calls. The mission tour was was good. James M. Dunn talked on being exactly honest, obedient and all that stuff, it was long and good. We went to Helena for it. We drive to Butte every Tuesday for District Meeting. It only has like 8 people. Elder Hansen is cool and knowledgeable but can’t keep up with my spunk. Haha But he is a good trainer. It’s hunting season now so we see more deer than ever on the roads. I watched the car in front of us completely demolish a deer. They know they can’t get shot in town is why there are so many. This transfer is nearly half over then I will be getting a new companion since Elder Hansen is finished. He’s from Keller, Texas and I don’t believe he is related to any Hansen’s in our Ward. So how is the rest of the family doing? Have a great week.
Love, Elder Kyler Wayne Hinton