June 8, 2009

Fam Fam Fam what is hanging in Gilbert? This weekend it snowed, imagine that, flippen JUNE and snowing geemaneez. We have been working crazy hard. This past week we got 15 lessons again and 1 new investigator. For only proselyting 2 hrs. a night President is absolutely floored. He told me today that he is leaving me in for the new President so I will be here at least another 8 weeks from right now. So Saturday we were on team ups and we spent the entire day in the office folding Talons (our Newsletter) and we were only at 11 lessons when Sunday came around. Sunday evening there was going to be a Jenny Phillips Fireside (famous LDS singer who is on a lot of efy stuff and others) To motivate my companion I said I really want to go to this fireside but there is no way in heck I’m going to go to it until we have 15 lessons. Well guess what, before 5 oclock hit (when the fireside started) we were at 15 lessons. We went and it was a neat experience. They go through the life of pioneers coming across the plains and all the hardships they went through and she sings throughout the fireside with her husband. It was quite impressive. So I have been having a blast working my tail off. Its kinda funny as I work my tail off the rest of the mission gets their tails reamed because the flippen office elders are having more discussions than they are. Zone Conference is tomorrow and I’m sure u will hear all about that on Wednesday during email. I have a killer outfit I’m going to wear. Very tiny purple running shorts and a bunch of other junk for the basketball game. It will be great u will have to wait and see the pictures lawl. Well I hope all is going great and here is your written letter daddy, lol.
Love, Elder Flippen Hinton

May 27, 2009

(From e-mail) So this week was a very exciting week we were able to find 3 new investigators and teach 15 lessons which is the goal for full time proselyting missionaries, this week we are going for 20. I’ve learned its all about desire and to always be inspired. The other day we were gassing up and I had a guy get right in my face just screaming at the top of his lungs, it was kinda hilarious because everything he said was exactly what we believe. When you get negative opposition like that its easy to back down but idk what it is about it but it just makes me want to work harder and harder. President Fisher is now currently doing his last round of zone conferences. The end of June he will do his final transfer and then leave 10 days later so we are swamped in the office and these next couple transfers will be interesting ones since the new President will be switching alot of stuff I’m guessing. So I have a lot on my plate I’m pretty sure I will survive this transfer President told me its possible for me to be in there 9 months that’s a long stinking time but my goal in the office is to downright dominate other companionships in lessons so it makes them look stupid that office elders are smoking them on lessons. We had a few investigators at church and the ward is really excited to see a lot of missionary work getting done, since the others have been lazy pieces of hud. Elder Ellenberger is willing to work I just have the wonderful ability of being able to push people higher and higher it may be my intimidating personality idk well I hope you all have a great week love you all. Last week President Fisher’s granddaughter who was visiting cracked her head open while Pres. and Sis. Fisher where in a leadership meeting so we were able to give her a blessing, that pretty much the excitement. hehe Tell Sean to man up gonna smoke him in any sport he can think of in 15 months and something days lol

May 14, 2009

Everything is going great here in montana, we are working hard and loving it. The office is keeping us swamped with work and then we leave each night for about 2 hours to proselyte the missionaries before me were teaching on avg 0-4 lessons we are avging 11, which is amazing for just 2 hours each day im going for 20 by the time i leave the office each week or even more if i can. I pretty much just tell my companions how it is, I am here to work and party while doing it if u dont like that i dont give a crap, thx lets go teach. This week new missionaries came in and we got to train them plus get alot of good food while doing it. Today old missionaries are going home so we get a really good meal but our p-day is cut short to go get ready for it. We have been playing some pretty hardcore ultimate frisbee/basketball on p-days its great. Im still giving old man Elder carter a heart attack atleast once a day, i am usually rolling on the floor laughing when it happens. I wore this amazing tie and president did not like it and banned it hahahah same with sister fisher, i have some great pictures haha. I also have the ugliest tie in the world which is being saved for zone conference but that is our secret. Everything is going great in montana except its like 27 degrees today WHAT THE HECK ITS LIKE SUMMER, but oh well hopefully it gos back to being warm i hate suit jackets lawl. Well love u all it was great talking to u on sunday dont party too hard without me, 16 months and we will have a drpepper/chipotle party haha
> Love
> Elder Flippen HINTON
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Woohoo! Pictures!

Elder Oaks Visit

4/22/09
We saw Elder Oaks a few times this past weekend he is a really enthusiastic, very crazy speaker, in the Saturday adult session we were laughing all the way through it, he was just making jokes the whole time. Sunday we got to have a special just us missionaries meeting with him. You know he is only like 5 foot 7. We got to go up and shake his hand. Conference Sunday he went around to everyone before the meeting and shook everyone's hand it was cool to be in the presence of an apostle. He opened the missionary meeting up for question/answer it was really cool. He talked about keeping our line in the water always and told the story behind what he wrote in preach my gospel. It was extremely cool. HE then described the missionary selection process in detail. Saturday night he told us sooo much stuff and he had to of said at least 10 different times, now I don't want to read this on the internet tomorrow hahahaha. It was a pretty cool experience, we cleaned the mission home up real nice and the office, because there was a high possibility he was going to stop by. When we were eating dinner Saturday night I was like 5 feet from him.

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