April 15, 2009

Okay here goes nothing, since Mommy is complaining so much about a letter not being able to be posted on the blog, here is the letter. This week has been the same old same old. The weather has turned to the worst again this week it is now snowing outside again and it is supposed to be getting worse and worse towards the end of this week. Last month we had a total of 45 baptisms it wasnt bad but 8 were not confirmed in the month of February so Salt Lake's report says we had 53 which is awesome!!! In the mornings we study, then we hitch a ride to the mission home where i will forward all the mail each and every day, call all the referrals out and call everyone with non contacted referrals and get on their case and then I will submit all the baptismal records that we have received from missionaries and send them to salt lake then i pring up a report for the stake president from the stake where the person was baptized i then type up a form letter and send it to the recent convert, I then update the numbers on our huge baptismal board. Usually we get picked up for dinner around 5 and then dinner drops us off where we need to go after that. But it has been really hard to get dinners lately since the ward we cover (Which is Blue Creek) is south of the river all the way until Wyoming Border so getting out to proselyte in our area is a huge pain in the butt and sometimes it is rough when a dinner falls through an when appointments cancel because we cant really get out to where we need to go since the sisters always have the car. So we do eat out alot being office Elders mainly i grab 69 cent tacos from Del Taco. Yesterday for District meeting we went to Red Robin afterwards, there were 6 of us and a member from our ward the olsons paid all of our bills it was really nice. Sister Granja the Brazillian sister left tuesday and flew back to finish her mission in nauvoo, so now Sister parks who just got back from BYU Idaho is now a temporary sister for the next 3 weeks until a new missionary flies in to be companions with sister lingmann. President Fisher has been gone this whole week because he is touring the mission doing Zone Conferences and Sister Fisher is back with her so that is really good. Our Zone Conference is next monday or tuesday i believe. This Sunday will be great, all the missionaries are going to The Heights stake conference (the other stake in Billings) we are then going to listen to Elder Oaks then following his talk we will be fed and the Elder Oaks is going to speak specifically to the missionaries, and only the missionaries around billings will get to hear him since it is too much to bring the missionaries from wyoming and missoula/kalispell. but ya thats pretty much what is happening. IS THIS A BIG ENOUGH LETTER FOR YOU???
Love
Elder FLippen Hinton

April 1, 2009

This week has been transfers, so I have been crazy busy in the office. We had the new missionaries come in yesterday and we had lunch and dinner with them and we trained them also. We had a big 15 passenger van break down in missoula so the missionaries on it had to get bus tickets into Billings and then last night Elder Llewellyn and I and also the assistants went and picked them up so I didn't get too much sleep. Tonight we have the Devotional/dinner for the missionaries that are going home which will be cool too, they always have good food! I may be driving up to Missoula on Friday to go drive the 15 passenger van back because that's when the new transmission will be ready. We were going to have to drive down to wyoming today but we got out of it and the assistants have to do it. But ya we get to do a bunch of stuff normal missionaries never get to do so it's very cool. Elder Heywood came in with the new missionaries yesterday so it was cool to talk to him especially since I played football against him, and he was in Kevin's/Sis. Florence's ward. P-day is cut short since we have to be in the office by 4 to help set up for the dinner tonight so that is kinda lame but we don't really have a certain time we have to be in by we can stay in the office all night long if we had to lawl. So what is everyone up to? How is the other missionaries doing? How is Kari, Trent, and the kids? (aka RYDOG DOING) <------Going to give him the Squuueeezzzeee when I get home! Can you believe I am working on 7 months shoot I am almost done haha =). So how is everyone in Gilbert doing? Still winding down the Kyler is gone party? How are the Ellsworths doing? Sean down to 180 yet? haha I hear dad is on a diet holy cow what is he at now 140? is Kasey 7 foot 10 yet? I hope he is really tall when I get home because the taller he is the harder the fall is when I own him haha! How is Kurtis doing? he have all my toons level 80 yet? lawl. Long enough for you woman? haha jk love you all
oh there is this Brother Piatt in the ward i'm in, he served in Alabama from 96-98 and he says there was an Elder Hinton in his mission, I think it's Brett is that where he served? but anyways he said an elder hinton gave him a blessing while on his mission before he went into a hospital and he said that blessing put a stop to kidney disease for 5 years. Elder Hinton