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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Dear Family, What is hanging? How is everyone doing? Getting excited fro Christmas? Today was the 4th day of Christmas….pretty exciting I know. Judy Heintz was baptized on Sunday, that was neat. I am freezing my butt off here in Montana but that’s cool. Been working on my scripture case cover. It is going to be off the chain. I will send pictures once it is done. We have been working hard and freezing at the same time. I guess we can choose if we want to go outside in that bad of weather or call it a snow day and stay in. We have chosen to go out and we have been blessed with 4 new investigators. This transfer only has 2 more weeks in it. I have no clue if I will stay or if I will go but if I am to be transferred I hope I can drink these 60 cans of soda in the fridge here that I got on sale at Safeway. I kind of hope I stay and I kind of hope I get transferred to the office so I can use a computer all day (jk) but I think it would be tight to be an office Elder. Oh last Thursday, Sis. Fisher our Mission President’s wife was put in the hospital in an induced coma. We got a phone call right after we had eaten breakfast if we could fast for her so we did but that night we were in Whitehall so we bought Subway sandwiches so we could warm them up for breakfast so we could feast after 24 hours. Have a great week. Will be talking to you soon. Love, Elder Hinton

December 10th, 2008

Dear Family, How is the weather in Az? This weekend the low is supposed to be negative 20 and the high negative 8. It will be brutal. So this past week has been crazy, we drive into Dillon last Thursday for District Meeting. Afterward we drive to the Dillon DMV since Elder Barrera’s license expires the next day. Well Dillon can’t do it on a Thursday so we get special permission from the Assistanst to drive all the way to Butte. We finally get into Butte and get to the DMV right before it closes and they tell Elder Barrera they can’t issue a new one because we were missing something so needless to say I am now the designated driver. We stay the night in Butte then we drove back to Sheridan the next day. Yesterday was Zone Conference/Christmas Party. I drove from Sheridan all the way to Butte and then to Helena and back on icy roads and a lot of wind, it was a ton of fun, while watching for deer and elk! We have the Ward Christmas Party tonight and that should be fun, we are hoping some good potential investigators show up. Judy Heintz’s baptism is right after Church on Sunday. The package is fantastic. Can’t wait to open them all. We had a less active member take us to a reataurant that was cool. Sand last Sunday we got this big time inactive lady to come to Church. Everybody was asking what we did. Sheridan Ward seems to be getting more and more excited each day. Have a great week. Love, Elder Hinton

December 3rd, 2008

Dear Family,What is up yo, I mean Howdy Partner (not). I refuse to pick up Montana lingo haha.. Well anyways this past week has been great we have been able to teach a lot and we get to know more and more people each day. Personal study in the morning is fantastic. We have met some awesome people and we are trying to get the gospel into their lives. We have one family in Whitehall that told us they would read and pray about the Book of Mormon and they would do it exactly how Moroni 19:3-5 says they should. So hopefully they will act on their answer. I can’t wait for the 12 days of Christmas package. Elder Barrera is great to work with. We are on tract this week to teach at least 30 lessons. It should be a great week. Our missionary Christmas Party is in Helena on the 9th and the Ward Party is on the 10th. Sheridan Ward loved my talk so much they asked me to talk again in January to introduce Preach My Gospel to the Ward, they are a little behind. I’ve seen 3 deer die by cars and 1 dog. I should keep a running total for my mission. I’ve been able to give a lot of priesthood blessings. Hopefully we will get the Sheridan Ward booming with members. We had a meeting with the Bishop Sunday night and I used some of my true Kyler Hinton character on him to get him excited about missionary work. I hope I stay in this area a while. My scripture cover I’m making out of leahter is going to be tight. I will send pictures in a few weeks when it is close to being done. How is everyone at home? Get writing me letters or else! Muhahaha Also that was cool to read Chris and Carter’s e-mail you sent. Keep doing that. That’s cool. Have a wonderful week. See you in who knows how long. Haha Talk to you on the 25th. Take it easy. Love, Elder Hinton

Mission Pics!

November 26, 2008

Dear Family,
What is happening? Everything getting crazy for the holidays? When or if it ever comes down to it and I only have one stamp left and I can only write one letter the decision is easy, Ryland is getting the letter, so keep me stocked up on stamps. It was cool to read the letters from Chris and Carter. The Ward must seem empty with so many priests gone. So I’ve decided Kevin is going to get called to Montana and I am going to train him, that’d be crazy eh? We are teaching a ton right now, Sheridan is going to be booming it just doesn’t know it yet. I hop you like the pictures I sent. When is my 12 days of Christmas package coming? I hope it is loaded with everything! Kasey start eating everything because you will have to on your mission and anyways you are always so hungry it doesn’t matter you just want nourishment. Kurt, how is WOW going? Dad it sounds like you are staying busy. Oh Mom and for counting down I just round so only 21 months left. Haha. Time flies so fast though, days just blow together. Probably because we work so hard that time just goes. Always seems life the alarm clock rings right away. This should be a fun transfer. Keep the letters and packages flowing, slackers. Haha The pictures of the deer and elk were wicked, huh? Have a great week.
Love, Elder Hinton