Aug 19, 2009

Alright here goes an attempt at a letter.... So these past weeks have been crazy, last monday was leadership meeting where we drove to Helena, so missed a whole day of proselyting....Then we went down to Gardiner, MT and Mammoth, WY for the weekend which was a lot of fun, not the most amount of work down there but its good to get out in those areas and attempt to get work started. "Yesterday (Tuesday) was Zone Conference... that was a lot of fun it was president Gardners 2nd round of zone conferences and they were extremely good.... Tomorrow the Zone leaders are on teamups with us, so we will be able to get alot of work done.... Next Tuesday I will be on Team ups with the Bozeman Elders since they are in my district, so i will lose another day in livingston but no big deal it will help them out and i will still be able to get atleast 30 discussions so that will be a lot of fun. We are working our butts off... Still low on miles on our vehicle but that is life we will get over it.... Biking is good for the health anyways... One of these P-days we will be going into Billings for the temple that will prolly be in 3 weeks but im not sure.... We have alot of people progressing who have made giant strides now we are working on getting them to commit to baptism, so we will see what happens.... Well i hope u all have a great week love u alot.... now send me letters and pics thx = )
> Love Elder Hinton
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Aug 7,2009

Dear Fam,
What is happening? So transfer calls came yesterday and I am staying here in Livingston and I am the new District Leader over Bozeman. Elder Lanham is getting transferred down to Riverton, WY and I will be getting an Elder Clyde. So that will be fun. I will be able to see all my buddies at Leadership conference in like a week. I will also get to go on teamups with all the Elders in my District. That will be cool. Things are going great. Working my butt off, working on the big 11 month mark! Yipee. So since I am staying in Livingston and will have extra miles since I am a DL and since we have been rocking it up so hard core here, just maybe I will have enough miles to get down to Yellowstone a few time this next transfer. So what is everyone up to? Life going good? School Starting to get closer and closer? You are going to hate me when I say this but the other day it was 61 degrees outside here. Haha This has been the wettest summer Montana has seen in 20 years. That doesn’t look well for winter…. It could be grueling (frowny face). So anyways I thought I would send you a quick update on what was happening.
Lvoe, Elder Kyler Hinton

Letter and Pics! Good Ol Kyler!

Even though I am emailing you today I figured I would write this letter to appease Dad! Yesterday we had the baptism for Heather Burrill. Way exciting! We had like most of the Ward come to it. Crazily spiritual! Elder Lanham got to baptize her. It was super sweet. So yesterday morning before District Meeting we are helping this nonmember family move to Bozeman. After District Meeting this family that we helped move picked us up to give us a ride back to Livingston. As we are leaving they hand us 2 gifts cards each. She is like I know you told me you don’t accept anything but I already paid for these and you are taking them. Elder Lanham and I each got a $25 giftcards to Chili’s and Applebees. That is indeed a tender mercy. Then when we got home we went for 3 ½ hours cleaning some crazy ladies house before we went to the baptism. So last week we indeed taught 30 discussions again. So far in this transfer including the last 2 days we have taught a total of 161 lessons since I have been in Livingston. We find out in 2 days if we are getting transferred or not. So my 10 month mark came and went and now I’m working on the big 11. Time flies. So we are getting good use out of those bikes. Biking like flippen crazy. If I find out I am getting transferred I am going to have to go find a bike box. This evening we have a lesson with Shelby Felkins who we will be setting a date with. Keith Brown, who I hardcore committed to stop drinking coffee, doesn’t feel he should so we are back to square one with him. But he did promise to come to church on Sunday. So I am using WOW to help people, met this 20 year old kid and since I’ve been coming over every week, talking WOW with him and then blasting him with the spirit, he has been coming back to Church which he hasn’t been in 2 years and is now working on receiving the Melchezidek Priesthood. Oh last Saturday we were biking down a street and the Fawcett family in our Ward calls out to us. They are having a family reunion and they want us to come eat watermelon with them, so of course we do and they have some family members from Peoria, AZ there and we get to talking and the lady is like WHAT??? You are a Hinton? And I am like Duh.. that’s what the tag says. She is like , I have some Hinton’s in my Ward back home. I am like, “Sean and Micole”? She is like “Yeah, he was my Bishop.” She was probably in her high 20’s but I forgot to get her name. But Holy Cow you can find a connection anywhere. Even in good ‘ole Livingston, MT. How funny is that? Well umm guys and gals, you owe me some flippen letters and pictures. So send them or else. (smiley face)

Pics!