Kyler's Car Accident

December 7, 2009

Dear Family,

So Rosella got baptized on Sunday. It was a way cool experience especially for me since I was able to baptize her. My companion confirmed her. So this next transfer is going to be amazing. We are the only area in the mission to have multiple sets of Elders per one unit. It is way exciting the incredible amount of work that will get done. They sent up the 2 new Elders with a car so now we just share with each other instead of the Elders in Poplar. Elder Llewellyn is my new companion. We were companion in the office. He was the only Elder I have ever been with longer than a transfer but I am so happy to have him back. We are going to thrash the nations. Now since there are more Elders and a vehicle we will now be able to cover our whole area at last. Once a week Elder Llewellyn and I will go to Frazer and Oswego. That will be fun and there is a lot of work there. So we are sharing an apartment it will be kinda crammed but I think the only hassle will be the hot water heater. Haha Well anyways last night here in Wolf Point it was minus 21 degrees and with windchill it was minus 35 degrees. That is flippen cold. Well anyways, send me more mail! Haha
Love ya, Elder Hinton

Note: Mark asked Kyler about members feeding them dinner, he said it is not a regular scheduled thing, but they do quite often get fed dinner by the members. He said they get a lot of fry bread, Navajo tacos, and pacos. Pacos are like fry bread, but they are sealed up, you open them, then add the lettuce, cheese, etc. on top. Just FYI.

PICTURES!!!

November 30, 2009

Dear Fam, How’s everyone doing? So this week was kind of a crazy week. Monday was P-day, Tuesday we were in Poplar on teamups. Wednesday we had a normal working day, Thursday was Thanksgiving. Friday we helped set up for a wedding all day. Saturday we were at a wedding all day. The wedding was well worth it though. Two amazing members here in Wolf Point got married. Jake Goodbear and Janet Runsthrough. Jake served a mission here like 30 years ago. But our Branch President, Pres. Headress asked Jake if he would be his 2nd Counselor. He didn’t know they weren’t married yet. Haha But missionaries have been working with them a long time. He is one of the coolest members in the Ward. Well anyways Friday we decorated all day and had a lot of fun sucking in helium. Haha Sunday was a normal day except we had Rosella Archdales’s baptismal interview, she passed and we are having it on Sunday! So I am way stoked! Oh ya for the wedding we got to wear flowers too and guess what ???? I actually did my hair for the wedding. Lawl! So Friday is another transfer, can you believe I have already been here 6 weeks. So Saturday we will find out who the 2 new missionaries are that are coming to help us out! It will be very exciting, our apartment might be a little cramped though. Haha Oh, I spoke in Church again on Sunday and Sis. Silk who had some pictures of Grandma and Grandpa afterwards came up to me and thanked me. She said, “I heard every word, I forgot my hearing aid today, but you are so boisterous I didn’t have a problem.” I am writing this letter and as of today I have 298 days left. Haha C ya soon, Now write me back before I bust a cap! Love, Elder Hinton

Nov. 23. 2009

Dear Family, Wolf Point is going great, hard to believe I have been here for 5 weeks already. Time flies by. Ya, I was extremely lucky. I came from Livingston which had tons of snow on the ground and in 0 degree weather to Wolf Point who right now has no snow and has been in the high 20’s to mid 40’s. How cool is that? The worst is yet to come though. Haha. Well I told ya we had to push back Rosella’s baptism date to Dec. 6th because she had strep throat and couldn’t come to Church. Well anyways last night we had another lesson with her and we went over the Plan of Salvation and a few of the commandments. We knew she drank coffee, so we threw the Word of Wisdom at her and after we got done explaining it, we committed her to live it and she was like alright I can get rid of my coffee maker. She had absolutely no problem with it. She is indeed a golden investigator! So that is awesome that Sadie had her puppies. Keep sending me names of people and pictures from Grandma’s scrapbook. Poplar is 20 miles down the road. But we go there for teamups and we play volleyball there every Monday night. It is way sweet. I love the Res! Up here we don’t have to tract, #1 because we are so busy already and #2 everyone lets you inside, it is awesome. The only thing that slows us down is having to walk everywhere, but the extra missionaries will be getting here in 2 weeks, and will help out a lot with that. We have another investigator we found a few weeks ago, Karl Hausen. We have taught him and he has been coming to Church. We are going to commit him to baptism here in the next couple of lessons! So how has everyone been doing? I miss you all and expect a lot of mail real soon. Say hi to everyone for me. Love, Elder Hinton