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
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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
Elder Hinton
4 months 20 something days hahaha
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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!
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!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Pics From Kyler
Kyler hurt his ankle playin ball...Ouch!
And by the way Kyler... you are not supposed to look at your blog... only email! haha February 10, 2010
Finally a letter in the mail from Elder Hinton:
Dear Family, How is it going in Gilbert? How has everyone been lately? Anything exciting been going on? So last week was pretty flippen cool. About 2 weeks ago I wrote you about our record breaking 56 discussion week. Well we shattered that puny record. Last week we had 78 discussions and we found 13 new investigators. Reaching that high of a goal was amazing. But the best part of it was getting my District fired up so they could reach 70+ also. Poplar taught 73 and found 14 investigators, Glasgow (not on the rez) taught 73 and found 14 new investigators. It does not get any sweeter than that! We were able to thrash the nations and President wants this spread thoughout the mission. I have the feeling that I won't be in WolfPoint much longer even with my persistent attitude about me finishing my mission here. I have at least another 4 weeks here. I hope I get at least 1 more transfer after this one but I just don't know. I have a feeling I will be placed dead center in Billings to help inspire and light on fire the rest of the missionary force. We will see what happens. I just hope I find out why Grandma and Grandpa needed me back here in Wolf Point. Well anyways, I hope sometime in the future (hopefully the near future) this snow will melt and I don't have to deal with it ever again. Haha. Well I hope all is well. 7 months and counting!
Love, Elder Hinton
PS Kasey will be dominated in basketball....relay the message!
Dear Family, How is it going in Gilbert? How has everyone been lately? Anything exciting been going on? So last week was pretty flippen cool. About 2 weeks ago I wrote you about our record breaking 56 discussion week. Well we shattered that puny record. Last week we had 78 discussions and we found 13 new investigators. Reaching that high of a goal was amazing. But the best part of it was getting my District fired up so they could reach 70+ also. Poplar taught 73 and found 14 investigators, Glasgow (not on the rez) taught 73 and found 14 new investigators. It does not get any sweeter than that! We were able to thrash the nations and President wants this spread thoughout the mission. I have the feeling that I won't be in WolfPoint much longer even with my persistent attitude about me finishing my mission here. I have at least another 4 weeks here. I hope I get at least 1 more transfer after this one but I just don't know. I have a feeling I will be placed dead center in Billings to help inspire and light on fire the rest of the missionary force. We will see what happens. I just hope I find out why Grandma and Grandpa needed me back here in Wolf Point. Well anyways, I hope sometime in the future (hopefully the near future) this snow will melt and I don't have to deal with it ever again. Haha. Well I hope all is well. 7 months and counting!
Love, Elder Hinton
PS Kasey will be dominated in basketball....relay the message!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
February 1, 2010
You will never guess what happened last week. We had the mission record at 56 lessons... this past week we dominated that... we taught 78 discussions and found 13 new investigators... what makes it even sweeter is my distict followed suit... I was able to pump them up to do it also... Poplar taught 73 lessons and found 14 new investigators... Glasgow taught 70 and found 7 new investigators... PRESIDENT IS FLIPPEN FREAKIN OUT!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
January 11, 2010
Kyler writes today that he is exhausted after a very busy week in Wolf Point, he sent us the letter the Mission President sent out to the mission which tells you what he did the week before.
To the Great MBM missionaries in "Marvelous" Montana and "Wonderful" Wyoming.
This is a great year to be alive and on a mission none the less.
Way to go Elder Hinton and Elder Lewelyn. 56 lessons! Incredible! Who said it couldn't be done? Inspite of 1 morning for district meeting, 1 morning for leadership training, and 1 morning it was so cold that they couldn't get the car started til 1:00 pm, they still got it done. Only 6 were with L.A. members, the rest were with non-members. 12 new investigators!!! Wolf Point leads the charge!!! Thanks to Elders Tabor and Coker for giving up the car share for a week. Now the bar has been raised!!! (again)
After the Leadership brainstorming session, the theme for this year is "2010...Let the Miracle Begin!"
We had 376 baptisms last year. We are convinced we can achieve 600 baptisms this year. That means 50 baptisms per month. That means if each zone had 5 baptisms/month we could achieve it. Last month the Missoula zone had 11 Baptisms!!!! Yes...it can be done!!!
2010 Let the Miracle Begin!!!!
Have a wonderful day.
Pres. Gardner
To the Great MBM missionaries in "Marvelous" Montana and "Wonderful" Wyoming.
This is a great year to be alive and on a mission none the less.
Way to go Elder Hinton and Elder Lewelyn. 56 lessons! Incredible! Who said it couldn't be done? Inspite of 1 morning for district meeting, 1 morning for leadership training, and 1 morning it was so cold that they couldn't get the car started til 1:00 pm, they still got it done. Only 6 were with L.A. members, the rest were with non-members. 12 new investigators!!! Wolf Point leads the charge!!! Thanks to Elders Tabor and Coker for giving up the car share for a week. Now the bar has been raised!!! (again)
After the Leadership brainstorming session, the theme for this year is "2010...Let the Miracle Begin!"
We had 376 baptisms last year. We are convinced we can achieve 600 baptisms this year. That means 50 baptisms per month. That means if each zone had 5 baptisms/month we could achieve it. Last month the Missoula zone had 11 Baptisms!!!! Yes...it can be done!!!
2010 Let the Miracle Begin!!!!
Have a wonderful day.
Pres. Gardner
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