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August 9th, 2010

Update on Elder Hinton from his Mom:

Sorry that Kyler hasn't sent an official letter, but he is in Worland, Wyoming now. He was a little sad to leave Billings because there were several baptisms coming up there, but that's the way it goes. He lives in the home of the Stake President there in Worland. They are an older couple and all their kids are gone from home. I hope he is behaving himself. The last family he lived with in Billings, the mom kept him in supply of Dr. Pepper. I am not sure what is happening now at the Stake Presidents house!! He is still working hard, he is a zone leader and still manages to get about 40 discussions a week. He does a lot of traveling around to neighboring cities. He has 2 ladies getting baptized. One is Diana Allred who decided it was time, she apparently sent sons on missions but was anti her whole life then one day she said she was ready and they taught her the first four lessons and set a baptismal date. The other lady, Ann Martinson, he taught the restoration to on the first day he was in Wyoming, went back and taught the plan of salvation and committed her to baptism on Aug. 6th and she accepted. But then it got postponed so she could get married. Then they left on a honeymoon, so she will be baptized when they return. She has been living with an inactive member. I think bothe ladies are like in their 50's. We also got his travel itinerary, he arrives home at 4pm on September 30th after leaving Billings at 9am and flying to Minneapolis for a layover!! That's the scoop!

Monday, July 5th, 2010

So this week has been amazing.... Last Sunday we had Frank Wagners Grandson's baptism.... then on Thursday we had Denise Moore and Riley Moore's baptism.... that was really spiritual.... Pres Gardner came to it also.... Elder Harman performed the baptism of Riley and a member in the Shiloh ward that was a really good family friend Steve Zabawa performed the baptism for Denise.... They were both Confirmed on Sunday... I performed Denise's confirmation and Elder Harman performed Riley's... that was a wonderful experience not only for Denise and Riley but for me also.... It was also fast and testimony meeting... my last one in Blue Creek Ward... Ive now served in blue creek for 9 months.... so it was really great the thanks I recieved... it was a great day... So found out on Friday I was being transferred to Worland Wyoming for my last 2 transfers... I was going to leave Sunday morning but then I would have missed the confirmation but President didn't want me to miss out on that experience (i didn't either haha) so I am in Billings until Wednesday at like 10ish... I get to see Elder Llewellyn before he goes home too otherwise I would have missed him... So everything seems to be working out pretty well.... Now since I am leaving Blue Creek I am going to have to somehow stay motivated to help the small town of Worland... I hear there are like 6000 people there... We are going to be living with the family the Snyders... I guess he is the Stake President there... I got my temple recommend renewed yesterday... Can't believe it's been 2 years since I got it... time flies... I have less than 1900 hours left haha... Than Chipotle here we come... We had some great things happen with Jack Beadling and Ruth Wilden this week also... they both said they wanted to be baptized... I talked to Pres... I tried to get him to reconsider but I guess I'm supposed to be in Worland... They still count as my baptisms though I taught them everything haha... Well I hope u are having a fantastic trip... I sent home 1 Really huge box through ups... it has tons of stuff in it... and I sent home 2 ups Flat Rate boxes so I had to spend like 55 dollars to send all this stuff home but it was worth it... I don't have any bag space haha... I don't know where exactly I want to go to college... thanks for the ideas I've just been thinking about it I won't make any decisions until I come home so I can figure out exactly what I want to do... So my 2 years mark is Septiember 24th which is a Friday the transfer ends that Sunday... my ministerial certificate expires the 28th a Tuesday (the official ending of the transfer) and than September 30th a Thursday is the day I fly home and I'm guessing I will be home sometime around 10 am to noon because missionaries usually leave the airport here in Billings around 7-7:30 am... but we will have official flight plans later after all the plane tickets get ordered... I still don't know what I am doing with my bike I hope I can find someone to buy it but idk we will see what happens... Hope all is well back home... hope this is long enough for the blog haha!!! Love ya
Elder Hinton

Message From Elder Hinton 5/17/10

so this guy named jack beadling.... we started teaching him 3 weeks ago.... we go to teach him the 2nd lesson last week and he said that he read half of 3 nephi and all of 1st nephi...his 23 year old son john was there....for the first 30 minutes we were there he explained to john everything he had read in full detail...it was awesome....after he was done we taught the plan of salvation and set up a lesson to come back the following thursday (a couple days ago)...so we go back the following week to teach the 3rd lesson and he has completely finished the Book of Mormon and is starting to reread it so he can understand it more fully. So we teach him the 3rd lesson and commit him to come to church and we get a family in the ward to come pick him up....he stayed for all three blocks yesterday and LOVED IT.... fit right in... everyone in the ward fellowshipped him...it was great....so we are going back this thursday to teach the 4th lesson and we are going to set a baptismal date. Denise also vame to church and we will have a date set with her and her son this thursday...hopefully.... so that is the exciting news!!!
Love
Elder Hinton

Mon April 26, 2010

So life is going pretty good... 4 months left woooohooo.... I gues I will type a quick letter since I've been hounded by both mom and dad now.... We had a pretty stellar week... I'm loving serving in Blue Creek.... this area has really suffered since I last left.... they just haven't had missionaries who have wanted to do anything so that's part of the reason I got sent back here.... Since I got here I picked it up from 1 lesson a week that they were teaching to since I got here 20+ weekly which is way sweet... We are seeing lots of great things happening.... We have a really solid lady named Denise Moore.... We have just finished teaching the lessons to her and are hoping to get a specific date set on Thursday.... We have a few more that we are working with also that are pretty close to baptism... We had 3 investigators come to church... We hace also been working with the less actives around here also... We have had a lot of less actives that have come to church since I've come back here too.... We hace a 9 year old who will be baptized as soon as we finish the last lesson with him they want to set a daye when their whole family can come though we may have to wait a few weeks.... There is a member who just moved into the ward who served his mission in Taiwan and went back there for school and married a native there.... So a couple nights ago they made us Taiwanese food it was good.... very spicy!!!... We have been helping people move like mad men.... It is insane how busy we have been.... Since the begining of this transfer 2 weeks ago I think we've helped 8 people move.... Flippen Insane haha.... It has been pretty cool to rebuild the trust of the ward since I've been back... Since the ward didn't really have the best trust of the missionaries. We now have dinners every single night... The bishop gives us the names of 5 people every week to go visit and we go contact and teach all 5 the same day... It is way sweet.... We also have weekly teamups with the ward every Thursday night and that helps the work tremendously.... So they were switching around the car shares and they shorted us hardcore with miles.... So I drive into the mission home and talk to Pres about about this and we are having a discussion with the assistants and they are defending what they did and all the sudden they are like hey we have an appointment we have to go end of story... So they leave and President says he hold on a second to me... Comes back out with keys and gives me my own car and tells me not to worry about miles muahahahahahahaa... life is going great.... Elder Harman is the bomb he is from Maryland.... way cool kid.... Any other questions? Hope this is good enough for the blog =)
Elder Hinton
4 months 20 something days hahaha

April 12, 2010

A note from Kyler's mom:

Elder Hinton hasn't sent us a letter for awhile, he and I e-mail back and forth on P-day, but he used to send us some mail letters too, but he's been slacking lately, so I thought I would type up a little update about him! He absolutely loved his time in Wolf Pointe, and would have been happy about finishing his mission there, but he has been transferred back to Billings and is serving in the same Ward he was in while he was serving as and office Elder in Billings. Right before he left WP we recieved a letter from a sweet Indian lady, Sis. Pilgrim. She also knew Grandma and Grandpa Hinton when they served there. She sang praises of Kyler and the kind of missionary he was. She also said he was the only missionary who would turn off the lights of the church building after they had meetings there! She is concerned about wasting the Church's money and said the missionaries were leaving the lights on. It was a fun letter to recieve. But he is doing great in Billings! He has a couple of investigators that he is close to committing to baptism. So he hope it works out for them. Mark got a call during Spring Break from a Sis. Shepherd who is the RS president in Billings, She was passing through AZ and gave us a call. She was also impressed with Kyler and told how he is always prepared with info and plans at PEC which I guess it is something the missionaries hadn't done. Then I recieved a call Friday night before Conference from a Brother Pollick who is a former Bishopric member in Billings and had just fed the missionaries dinner that night and just wanted to call and tell us what a great job our son was doing. He said the entire ward was ecstatic to get him back there again. OK, so I think I have bragged enough about our missionary, we can't wait to talk to him next month!