Dear Family,
So everything is going good. 2 more weeks left in the transfer, man time flies. So we have been biking our butts off since we have no more miles on our truck. How lame. Well anyways last week we had zone conference. So we lost a full day Thurs. and also Wednesday night we were traveling, and at the end of the week we had still taught 27 discussions. Flippen insane! Well anyways we street contacted into this C.U.T lady, (Church Universal Triumphant), pretty much they believe whatever the freak they want. We went and taught her a lesson and she wouldn’t flippen shut up and all of the sudden she would stop and pray and be like, I am sorry these men came to witness to me and all I have been doing is talking. Then she would look up and keep right on going. Flippen crazy lady. She kept saying weird things too like “you gotta search your inner Christ self God” Well, long story short, don’t think we are going back. Heather Burril gets her baptismal interview tomorrow and the baptism is next Tuesday. That will be sweet. So there is this kid who is like 19 we have been trying to get a hold of. He is the only member in his family, but is less-active. Well anyways after all these weeks we catch him home and guess what? He is logging onto World of Warcraft!!!! I’m like BOOM show me your characters. He had a bunch of level 80’s. So we talked WOW for a little while. Won his heart with WOW, gave him a few tips and pointers. Taught him a lesson. Then he came to Church and sat by me for the first time in years. Tight World of Warcraft ftw!!! So I told you about that sweet place we have to live in Big Timber. But the problem is we have so much work here in Livingston it is extremely hard to find time to go out there, it’s pretty much impossible. So next Friday I will find out if I’m staying here or going. Oh did I tell ya here in Livingston we get free Dairy Queen. We eat it once a week so we don’t abuse it. It’s a nice little treat. So do we know when Kevdog reports to the MTC? By the time you get this letter I will probably be over 10 months and working on my 11 month mark. Yayayaya. So what has been going on around town? Anything exciting happening in the family? I was reading the Conference Ensign and it said President Anderson who served as the Mission President of Guadalajara Mexico mission from 2002-2005 was called to the Seventy. Was this one of Korey’s mission President’s?? (Note from Kathy: NO, he wasn’t) I think the other day it got up to 90 degrees. Oh boy it was hot. Hopefully we will be able to find a ride into Billings on Wed. If we do I will email after the Temple. IDK why I am telling you this since you probably won’t get this letter by then. Haha Wed. we are setting a baptismal date with a girl named Shelby Felkins who came to Church yesterday. That will be way sweet. A few more are right there and we are working our tails off to get dates set.
Love you all a ton, send me letters and pictures, Thx, Elder Hinton
P.S. Zone Conference was awesome and President Gardner is tight!
Monday, July 27, 2009
July 19. 2009
Dear Fam,
Okay, I got a cool experience to share with you. So we walk into downtown to try a guy named Bill Weathington. We go and he doesn’t answer so we walk back and we are like, hey lets get some ice cream, so we take like a 5-10 minute break to get ice cream. (I got moose tracks) mmmm good. Well anyways, it is getting close to dinner and Elder Lanham says well we better start heading and for some reason I’m like lets walk back to Bill’s place and my comp says like whatttt? We’d have to go all the way back there and then be late for dinner and I’m like oh I see your point and then I make a wah wah face QQ (2 eyes crying if you didn’t catch it) and I’m like K lets go. IDK why because he wasn’t home 20 minutes before. We get all the way back there and we are in this side room and there are a bunch of buttons to page all the rooms in the building (you can’t get in without them letting you in) Well, we page Bill W. and no answer?!?!? ZOMG!?!?!
We are in there for like 2 minutes and another guy walks in and pages a different room, no answer from the guy he was looking for either. We start talking and long story short, we teach a 1st lesson and part of the plan of salvation and we are going back on Friday. He was way stoked and solid. Amazing how the Lord works to lead us to someone. He was prepared for the gospel, it was tight. But ya you were probably surprised to get 2 letters in one week. KaBang. Well anyways Love Ya, thanks for the package and the pics and letters. Send more pics and letters PLZ. Elder Hinton
P.S. So I bought a bike and when I was in line, some member passing through bought my helmet, saved me $25 dollars, was pretty sweet!
Okay, I got a cool experience to share with you. So we walk into downtown to try a guy named Bill Weathington. We go and he doesn’t answer so we walk back and we are like, hey lets get some ice cream, so we take like a 5-10 minute break to get ice cream. (I got moose tracks) mmmm good. Well anyways, it is getting close to dinner and Elder Lanham says well we better start heading and for some reason I’m like lets walk back to Bill’s place and my comp says like whatttt? We’d have to go all the way back there and then be late for dinner and I’m like oh I see your point and then I make a wah wah face QQ (2 eyes crying if you didn’t catch it) and I’m like K lets go. IDK why because he wasn’t home 20 minutes before. We get all the way back there and we are in this side room and there are a bunch of buttons to page all the rooms in the building (you can’t get in without them letting you in) Well, we page Bill W. and no answer?!?!? ZOMG!?!?!
We are in there for like 2 minutes and another guy walks in and pages a different room, no answer from the guy he was looking for either. We start talking and long story short, we teach a 1st lesson and part of the plan of salvation and we are going back on Friday. He was way stoked and solid. Amazing how the Lord works to lead us to someone. He was prepared for the gospel, it was tight. But ya you were probably surprised to get 2 letters in one week. KaBang. Well anyways Love Ya, thanks for the package and the pics and letters. Send more pics and letters PLZ. Elder Hinton
P.S. So I bought a bike and when I was in line, some member passing through bought my helmet, saved me $25 dollars, was pretty sweet!
July 13, 2009
Dear Family,
Had another crazy, extremely tiring week. We ended the week at 33 lessons! On Thursday alone we were able to teach 12 discussions. I was so pooped after that day. Lawl This week might be a little slower but I hope not. Tuesday we are probably going to be gone all morning building a fence. That will use up a lot of our teaching time, but I don’t mind serving people. We may drive into Bozeman Wed. morning and stay all day. Since we have to be in Bozeman again very early on Thursday to drive to Helena for Zone Conference. So we may miss out teaching lessons Wed. night also. Then Thurs. is Zone Conference and it will take 3 hours to drive all the way back to Livingston. We got shorted hardcore the amount of miles allotted to us this transfer so we borrowed some bikes from the ward. They are extremely lame sauce. I might have to get a bike but I am considering how much I would actually use it since you can’t ride it in the winter. So, IDK. Like I said we had a baptism just over a week ago. We have another on the 28th of July for Heather Burril. She is solid, found her the first week I was here so I am stoked. We are setting another date but Shelby Felkins missed Church so we are going to have to push it back into the first week of Aug. probably. Chris Norris is completely solid. We taught him the first discussion the first week I was here. He has been reading and praying. We taught him the second and committed him to come to Church. We are going to be setting a date with him real soon also. He works a crazy shift at the mine, 4 days on and 4 days off so its either we catch him or we don’t but his 4 days off is this next weekend and he committed to be at Church. Last week we found this girl named Tony Kostman. Taught an amazing first lesson. She committed to read and pray. Found out her husband is actually a member, went to 4 years of Seminary and then kinda fell off the band wagon. He said he has never prayed to know so he committed also. Hopefully that will go well and we can se a date. We are teaching so much it’s insane. President Gardner told us that we are leading the mission with discussions taught. Craziness. We are already in week 4 of the transfer. IDK why but I think I’m going to get transferred but you never know. My butt feels completely bruised because of all the bike riding we did on these craptastic bikes. Haha. So we went out to Big Timber on Friday. It is one of the branches we cover and we met a member, Bro. and Sis. Spackman. They picked us up and fed us dinner. But they have a sweet set up for missionaries. They have a complete basement with our own bathroom, kitchen, the whole chabang. But I called Pres. Gardner and he approved that we live there when we go to Big Timber. So that means we can spend more time in Big Timber without wasting tons of miles and it means we get some relief from the cramped Vandvorfs. Well, Love you all a ton, Elder Hinton
Had another crazy, extremely tiring week. We ended the week at 33 lessons! On Thursday alone we were able to teach 12 discussions. I was so pooped after that day. Lawl This week might be a little slower but I hope not. Tuesday we are probably going to be gone all morning building a fence. That will use up a lot of our teaching time, but I don’t mind serving people. We may drive into Bozeman Wed. morning and stay all day. Since we have to be in Bozeman again very early on Thursday to drive to Helena for Zone Conference. So we may miss out teaching lessons Wed. night also. Then Thurs. is Zone Conference and it will take 3 hours to drive all the way back to Livingston. We got shorted hardcore the amount of miles allotted to us this transfer so we borrowed some bikes from the ward. They are extremely lame sauce. I might have to get a bike but I am considering how much I would actually use it since you can’t ride it in the winter. So, IDK. Like I said we had a baptism just over a week ago. We have another on the 28th of July for Heather Burril. She is solid, found her the first week I was here so I am stoked. We are setting another date but Shelby Felkins missed Church so we are going to have to push it back into the first week of Aug. probably. Chris Norris is completely solid. We taught him the first discussion the first week I was here. He has been reading and praying. We taught him the second and committed him to come to Church. We are going to be setting a date with him real soon also. He works a crazy shift at the mine, 4 days on and 4 days off so its either we catch him or we don’t but his 4 days off is this next weekend and he committed to be at Church. Last week we found this girl named Tony Kostman. Taught an amazing first lesson. She committed to read and pray. Found out her husband is actually a member, went to 4 years of Seminary and then kinda fell off the band wagon. He said he has never prayed to know so he committed also. Hopefully that will go well and we can se a date. We are teaching so much it’s insane. President Gardner told us that we are leading the mission with discussions taught. Craziness. We are already in week 4 of the transfer. IDK why but I think I’m going to get transferred but you never know. My butt feels completely bruised because of all the bike riding we did on these craptastic bikes. Haha. So we went out to Big Timber on Friday. It is one of the branches we cover and we met a member, Bro. and Sis. Spackman. They picked us up and fed us dinner. But they have a sweet set up for missionaries. They have a complete basement with our own bathroom, kitchen, the whole chabang. But I called Pres. Gardner and he approved that we live there when we go to Big Timber. So that means we can spend more time in Big Timber without wasting tons of miles and it means we get some relief from the cramped Vandvorfs. Well, Love you all a ton, Elder Hinton
Thursday, July 16, 2009
June 30, 2009
Dear Family,
Holy cow, I have just come off of the best, most tiring, absolutely incredible week of my mission. We were able to teach 30 discussions in one week. This is absolutely unheard of for the Montana Billings Mission. We also found 5 new investigators. We have a baptism next Friday. The week before I got here the Elders taught 7 lessons. So Sunday evening we weekly planned for exactly 30 lessons. I told Elder Lanham, I always reach my goals. We worked like the pig dogs and prayed even harder than that. We were indeed blessed for our actions. I am so extremely tired that we are taking 5-10 minute power naps in the car every once in a while. This next week we are going to do a repeat, especially since we have all of our lessons pretty much set. Every time we try to set a new one it’s almost impossible to find another time. Holy Cow I’m exhausted I will finish this letter later. This week will also be another interesting week. President Fisher is officially released on Wednesday. It will be an extremely sad moment. Especially since I got to know him so well in the office. But President Gardner I am sure will be amazing. It sounded like the Reunion went great. That will be sad if they switch to every 2 years the year I get home. That means I won’t be to a Reunion for 4 years…weird. Well anyways I thought getting up after gaming all night was tiring. But I’ve learned that I will never be more tired in my life than I will be here on my mission. You peeps need to start writing me more letters, you don’t know how nice it is to stop by the house, fix me a PB&J and kick back and read letters for a few minutes before we go back to teaching. But anyways I will try and write more. Love you all. Have a great week. Love, Elder Hinton
Holy cow, I have just come off of the best, most tiring, absolutely incredible week of my mission. We were able to teach 30 discussions in one week. This is absolutely unheard of for the Montana Billings Mission. We also found 5 new investigators. We have a baptism next Friday. The week before I got here the Elders taught 7 lessons. So Sunday evening we weekly planned for exactly 30 lessons. I told Elder Lanham, I always reach my goals. We worked like the pig dogs and prayed even harder than that. We were indeed blessed for our actions. I am so extremely tired that we are taking 5-10 minute power naps in the car every once in a while. This next week we are going to do a repeat, especially since we have all of our lessons pretty much set. Every time we try to set a new one it’s almost impossible to find another time. Holy Cow I’m exhausted I will finish this letter later. This week will also be another interesting week. President Fisher is officially released on Wednesday. It will be an extremely sad moment. Especially since I got to know him so well in the office. But President Gardner I am sure will be amazing. It sounded like the Reunion went great. That will be sad if they switch to every 2 years the year I get home. That means I won’t be to a Reunion for 4 years…weird. Well anyways I thought getting up after gaming all night was tiring. But I’ve learned that I will never be more tired in my life than I will be here on my mission. You peeps need to start writing me more letters, you don’t know how nice it is to stop by the house, fix me a PB&J and kick back and read letters for a few minutes before we go back to teaching. But anyways I will try and write more. Love you all. Have a great week. Love, Elder Hinton
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