My new area is... unique... I cover 2 wards on bike. Little Lake & Echo Hills. Most of the Little Lake ward is in a rough part of town. Los Angeles jails dump off people on parole here in town so theres alot of murders,theft & drugs. I'm downtown Hemet.... lol I have a few investigators but not very many. I really miss Yucca Valley alot.  My area is HUGE! its way to much to cover on bike. We had a baptism yesterday. His name is Brad and he's totally awesome. He is only 16 years old and joined the church on his own.  The baptism was amazing.  The young women of the Echo Hills ward sang (A Childs Prayer) for Brad and his baptism. it was a very special thing. Theres alot of good stuff starting to happen here.  Its very diferent from Yucca Valley. I really miss everyone up there. Yesterday I went to a BBQ with a family in the E Hills ward over in Park Hill  It was very nice.  I'm still trying to get used to everything here in Hemet. I got my hair cut today so I am lookin fresh! I have the most awesome campanion ever! His name is Elder Tyau hes from Honolulu, Hawaii.  We get along great. He's totally awesome. I like all the elders I am living with they are really cool. Elder Snow is from Olympia Washington and Elder McBride is from New Jersey. There doesnt seem to be to many people from Utah In my mission.  After I email we are going to Wal Mart and then we are going over to Bishop Jorgenson's house to play tennis.  I need to get used to covering two wards. Its overwhelming with all the stuff going on. You do not get very much done because all we do is ride from appointment to appointment and it taks a good 30 mins of biking to get to one persons house and then another 40mins of biking to get to another.

 

Love,

ElderHunter

Hey mom. this past week has been a little rough saying good bye to all of my wonderful friends here.
I feel like a made a HUGE difference here!!!  I'm get transferred to Hemet on bike and ill cover 2 wards.... im still in Yucca Valley for another hour and then I'll leave.  The Boutwells are going drive me. I'm glad I was not on bike for the summer. Now the weather is a bit cooler it will be nice. My companion I'm getting is from Hawaii.  I'm taking Elder Websters spot!  I was in the MTC with him.  Yesterday was good. Did you watch conference? I enjoyed most of it.  I'm sure going to miss alot of people here. I have such a love for everyone up here its going to be hard to drive down those canyons for the last time and leave.  I feel so blessed for all of the wonderful blessings that I receive each day.  Everyday a miracle happens. Its incredible! I love being able to make all of these wonderful new friends and to help guide them towards the Savior and his true church once again restored! I got a few wonderful parting gifts from David, Joyce, the Fairbanks and George! I have a feeling of peace now and I know that moving onto other things will help me learn and grow. This morning I woke up at 6 with Elder Glascow and we went to Joshua Tree National Park one last time and had a really fun hike. I think where im at is one of the most beautiful places in the world! I have to go now sadly sorry this email is short. I love you all

This past week has been another adventure. Elder Craig C Christensen Q of 70 came to my mission to speak in Moreno Valley on Friday! It was a wonderful meeting. They spoke on the Atonement and how it can bless everyones lives. It was wonderful to hear about that. Sister Christensen is the best! I really enjoyed her talk.

On saturday it was a life changing day. We got a phone call in the morning after tracting in Yucca Valley and it was Marilyn! she was sick and asked us to come and give her a blessing. Brother Pucket went over with us to give her a blessing. When we walked in she had tears in her eyes. She has been having a few health issues, but we went in and Elder Reimann read a scripture to her in James before the blessing. After that she started crying and laughing out of her greatfulness for us coming over so soon. We gave her the blessing. It was an incredible blessing. After the blessing she looked up at us and said I want to get baptized! She has been taking the lessons for 3 years and finally she said shes ready :) after we had to rush and start filling up the font for Joyce's Baptism we stoped at the store and got her some flowers. The baptism went perfect. Elder Reimann and I carried her down into the water from her wheelchair and I baptized her. What a wonderful thing that happened. Her whole family supported her and came up from San Diego for the baptism to support her! All of her family are not members but I think that their family bond was amazing that they will support each other no what they do.  It was a very special thing I will never forget. When she came up out of the water she said "is that it?" and we said yes haha it took 2 trys becuase we had her sit in a chair. She came up and pulled her hair back and said "I probably look like a wet rat." She has the best sense of humor. I love her so much and I know we will be friends for eternity! Saturday was one of the best days by far of my mission. After the baptism later on, we had a ward social at the pavillian it was great! We have a  feild and a sand volley ball court. 

It was great to me to spend time with all of these wonderful people. I love my mission days like Saturday make all the other stuff worth enduring. with love Elder Hunter.

This past week has been odd. I went to the doctor and was told that I have a hernia. The wants me to get some blood work done to see whats going on. Thursday we walked in the door and our duplex was infested with maggots! It was gross really gross. It took us a few days to clear it all out. In other news the mission is going great! My birthday was pretty cool.  The Boutwells had me over for my birthday dinner and they made my favorite desert so I was happy.  Then Elder Glasco and Elder Fonnesbeck bought me a pinata!  When I got home that night I opened the garage door and they were standing there doing jazz hands and spirit fingers with party hats on with a pinata hung up in the garage. It was the best.  Elder Reimann took me to the Pizza Hut buffet to for lunch.   We also went out to the Fairbanks home in Joshua Tree and had flan. It was kinda like custard it tasted really good. The next day at church Sister Kincaid brought a birthday cake and a gift for me. The people here are so kind. On Sunday night we went over to the Flores family's home and they sang to me and made me a cake and brownies and Sam gave me a super cool monkey statue. Its huge! haha it was awesome. Yesterday for P-day we went down to Palm Springs so I could buy pants because I'm getting fat. So I got some pants and went to Ultra Blends in Palm Springs & Aspen Mills. We also walked down Palm Canyon Drive through all the galleries and shops.  It was raining! whoohoo! rain! its starting to cool off here to its only 85 outside right now. thats a lot better than the 105+ it has been. I have picked up a few more investigators this week as well. the work here is amazing there is so much to do. and I am always busy all the time. I couldn't ask for anything more. Except for more mail and cookies. hahaha :p I love you all and hope all of you are doing great!

Love Elder Hunter

This past week has been very busy. I picked up 4 new investigators this week. We put 3 on date to get baptized. Tony is a totally awesome guy we tracted into. Brandy and her children we have been trying to see for awhile and we finally were able to go and visit with her. All of her kids are awesome. You can tell these are very good kids. The gospel will be wonderful for these kids. The primary program will help these kids out a lot. Its so amazing to see the Lord's hand in everything that happens. I go in to see the doctor on Wednesday to see whats going on. hopefully it will be good news and not bad.  I had district meeting out in 29 Palms on Tuesday and tomorrow i'm going out to 29 Palms again to go on exchanges with Elder Bailey. i'm pretty excited. Elder Bailey is a really good missionary. On Saturday I have the chance to go to Sam & Mani's Wedding. It was a really awesome wedding. It was held outside and right before the wedding started the clouds rolled in so the sun wouldn't be beating down on everyone. I am totally excited for them. They are awesome. After the wedding we had dinner over at the Huntingtons. I met the Huntingtons at the park a few weeks ago and they invited us to come over for dinner sometime. Their grandson is currently serving his mission in Mexico and they love the missionaries and the church. I got to see their really cool art collection. I really enjoy looking at art so this was super cool. they are totally an awesome family and it was neat to listen to their stories they shared with us. I feel so blessed that we crossed paths so we could become friends. Church yesterday was pretty awesome. The Stephanos gave really good talks and we got to teach a lesson at the church. I feel so lucky to be out here in Yucca Valley there are some of the nicest people I have ever met up here.  My birthday is on Saturday. I'll be 20! Time is flying by way to fast.

Love,

Elder Hunter

This past week has been kinda lame. I have a sinus infection so I have been shut in the house the past 4 days. Last Monday I went to Indian Cove in the national park and went into the cool caves. I felt like I was in a Indiana Jones movie. There were huge boulders and it was pitch black and I had a flash light crawling through all the caves it was really cool. Then the next morning I had interviews with President Smart. It went really good. I like him a lot hes a really cool guy. Then went to go teach a few appointments then after that is when I got sick. :/ oh well. I have Antibiotics now so I'm good. Joyce is on date for baptism. I am so excited for her. This will be an awesome thing for her. Joyce is really awesome. I have enjoyed teaching her and becoming friends with her. Anyways sorry this weeks blog post is short. next week it will be longer I promise!

Hello Everyone! This past week has been busy I have had tons of meetings and stuff like that. On Friday we had to go down to Desert Hot Springs for a zone meeting and then on Tuesday out to 29 Palms for district meeting and then a ward missionary meeting with my ward mission leader. There have been alot of special things happening. On Saturday I had the honor of baptizing David. It was awesome. :) He was so excited to get baptised. His best friend Chris (my recent convert of May) was there totally supporting him 110 % and my other investigator Joyce wanted to see a baptism so we invited her to come check it out. the spirit was so strong during the baptism. After we got out David and I ran into each other out in the hall. He gave me the biggest hug and said thank you so much for doing this for me. He had tears in his eyes and you could tell he was really happy. His non member mother is totally supportive of him in every way. She is a really nice person. She came to church yesterday for the whole 3 hour block. She seemed to really enjoy church alot. When David got the Holy Ghost yesterday during sacrament meeting there was a very special feeling in the room. You could feel Christs love for him and for everyone else so strongly. Now David has his glow about him. He has a light in his eyes. Soon he will be getting the priesthood and he & Chris will be both passing the sacrament.  The both of them are also excited about scouts and all the camping trips this ward does. The gospel is exactly what these young kids need. Yesterday we decided to stop in on this family what we have not seen in awhile. The wife has been going through cancer and chemo.  She did not look good at all. she is so peppy and full of life, and is not letting anything get her down. At the end of our visit she asked me if I could give her a blessing. I felt honored that she asked me to do that. She did not want to take off her bandana all the way becuase she is almost completly bald.  So I gave her a blessing. The blessing was amazing she felt peace and comfort.  Her non member husband was greatful we did this for his wife.  Please keep this family in your prayers.  There has been so much life going on around me down here its always busy for me. I have so many people to teach its awesome. today I will be going out to Joshua Tree National Park again to go Hiking. im going to send pictures soon I promise. I love you all very much and I hope all of you are doing great.  I'm catching up on writing all of you back today.

Elder Hunter

This past week has been a very busy and crazy week. David is going to get baptized and he ask me to baptize him. I feel its a great honor for him to ask me. I am really looking for to that day! Being here on a mission has built my testimony of the Savior. I know that he lives and that he answers prayers. I see it everyday of my mission and it is amazing. So many people have been put in my path to meet and talk to. It is really cool. I seem to connect to the people here in Joshua Tree & Yucca Valley and I'm grateful for that. On Tuesday we had to go down to Rancho Mirage to a dentist for my companion to get his tooth fixed. Then we stopped by Bro Cox's smoothie shop in Palm Springs on the way back. All of my days are filled with teaching and sharing the gospel. This past week we taught 22 lessons and have many more visits on top of that. People here are really willing to accept the Savior in their lives. It's neat to see. Today Elder Glasco and I went to Joshua Tree National Park again and hiked Mt Ryan. I hiked from 1,000 ft to almost 6,000 feet. it was a tough hike but it was really cool. It seemed like I was right in the middle of the wild wild west. I could just imagine the horses running across the valley I was standing on top of.  You could hear all the rattle snakes all around us rattling but Elder Glasco and I said a prayer that nothing would harm us. I also said a prayer for it to cool down a little. right after I said that prayer a cool breeze came out of nowhere and there where a few clouds that rolled in to cover up the sun for a little bit. I thought that was really cool. It was just enough for me to stop and take a break and cool off. When we got to the top of the mountain you could see the whole national park and clear down to Mt San Janico & Palm Springs. The road looked like a spec and all the huge rocks seemed like little dots. We had zone meeting down in Desert Hot Springs on Friday and that took forever. Everything is going very very good here in sunny southern California! Don't forget to write me! I am working on writing back those who have written me today. so be expecting a letter soon from me.

I love you all very much.

Elder Hunter

This past week has been very very busy. I got a new companion Elder Reimann. He is from Denver, Colorado. He is really an awesome guy and we get along great. We have the same sense of humor so its awesome. We picked up 2 new investigator families this week. Mark and his family are from the country of Jordan in the middle east. His family moved here 2 years ago. He is searching for the truth. He is a christian and not muslim. When we came over he even had Book Of Mormon in Arabic! It was really cool. We taught him a very good lesson and we will be seeing him soon. He said he was going to pray about the Book of Mormon. He hopes that he will get an answer. The other family just moved here from Yucipa and the missionaries were teaching them there and they just moved out here. The husband is already a member but she is not. All seems to be going good with them. 

We had a ward party Friday at the church pavilion and sand volleyball court. It was alot of fun. We had a really good turn out. Yesterday was a very crazy day. We had a good dinner over at the Parkers home. This morning Elder Glasco & I got up at 6 am to go to Joshua Tree National Park to go Hiking and go see the rocks.  That place is amazing in every way. I feel so blessed its a part of my area. We went up to Barker Dam and Hidden Springs and Qual Springs. I took a ton of pictures so i'm excited to send some home. I love all of you and hope all of you are doing great.

Love Elder Hunter

This past week has been CRAZY. There has been so much stuff going on! I made the front page of the newspaper!A car blew up  in front of one of our appointments in Joshua Tree.  I took the picture thats on the front page of the newspaper!! I took the picture and video down to the news station and they were really happy that I got such good pictures. I'm sending you guys a copy of the newspaper with my picture.  Add on to that there was a chase down Acoma in Yucca Valley. The guy rolled the car and it blew up. Then he started a forest fire in all the Joshua trees. Then my companion and I wanted to find out where the smoke was coming from so we drove up into the hills to get a better view. We parked up and saw how huge the fire was. Then a park ranger type person came and told us to leave because the guy that started the fire was still running from the cops and he had loaded gun and he was up here in the hills somewhere. It was crazy! 

In other news I get to stay here in Yucca Valley for another 6 weeks! So feel free to send me letters now! :) Also we got a flat tire out in the desert yesterday lol. that was not fun.

Elder marshalll is getting transferred though :(  I'm a lil bummed but hes going to Moreno Valley (east LA) I'm sure he will have fun. I am going to meet my new companion in 3 hours.. He's getting transferred in from Corona. The work is going really good here still. its a little bit slow because of summer. It seems like everyone is at the beach or in San Diego. We had 3 investigators come to church and 7 less actives come! I feel so blessed to be here. I love all of the people here a lot. They are really cool. I just love being out here in the desert. Even though its hot im starting to get used to it. Everyday its about 100-105ish and at night it only drops to 90 :p. Anyway,s thats about all thats going on down here. I met my new mission president and his wife. They where very nice I think im going to like them a lot.  I  tracted into a HUGE athiest he tried to tear down our faith but it didnt work :p  He writes books on being an athiest and he was a pretty evil man. You just look at him and you get this dark feeling. After he yelled at us for 20mins he said he had to go take a shower and get ready for something. While my companion and I were walking away my companion said "alright enjoy the water that God gave you!" lol! It made my day. Being on a mission is an emotional rollercoaster but its worth it. I love you all and hope that all of you are doing well.

 

Love Elder Hunter

My 4th of July was a blast! My companion and I went over to the Kinkaids home in Morongo Valley and tie dyed t-shirts and had a BBQ. After that we went up to the church because both wards where there to watch the fireworks at the high school. The fireworks show was really good. It was a really good p-day.

I have another Baptism coming up in 2 weeks!  Hopefully another after that. I am on fire here in Yucca Valley. I love it here so much. The people are very nice and the members are even better. I feel so blessed to be serving here. I got my haircut on friday and it looks great! Sister Priest owns a hair salon close to my house and she cut my hair. I get to meet my new mission president this Friday President & Sister Smart.  I'm excited to meet them. I will miss the Reeves alot. They where the most amazing couple. They will be missed. Transfers are this Saturday! I don't know whats going to happen but you will find out next week.

 

Love, Elder Hunter

Hello everyone,

Everything is going great down here in southern California!

This past week we have picked up 3 more investigators and we have 2 on date for baptism.

About 75% of our investigators now are teenagers and I think its pretty awesome. Their parents might

be a road block though but most of the parents are pretty nice to us. We went over to Marlyn's Friday and

Taco peed on my backpack! hahaha that dog is lame. We also had a really nice young womens island dinner fundraiser. It was a ton of fun. The islanders from the 29 Palms Samoan branch came and danced for us and they where really good. The young women raised over $1,000 for camp. I am really proud of them. 

In sad news a really good friend of mine here passed away. Brother Knudson passed away Thursday and it was not easy to take the news. He has been feeding me and my companion the past 3 months I've been here and I got close to him and his wife. Please keep his wife in your prayers. A new family just moved here from New Mexico and they are really awesome.

I have been really busy teaching this week we got 20 sit down lessons and tracted quite a bit. I love being on a mission. There are some really good people in this world as well as some rotten aweful people.  I feel lucky I have been mainly dealing with the good. I love you all

Elder Hunter

This past week has been going great! We had a baptism on Saturday and we picked up 2 more solid investigators! It's starting to heat up down here. So I'll be getting a good tan. My hair is getting bleached from the sun. I really am lucky to be in such a good area. The members here are amazing in every way. Today I sat at the piano and taught myself 12 new hymns.Now I can play for district and zone meetings. Not one elder in Yucca Valley can play. I'm going to send more pictures soon of the baptism. The work is getting more busy. Its hard to beleive I have been out for almost 3 months! Only 21 left to go lol. My birthday is in 3 months as well. Time is flying by. I love you all and I love getting letters so keep sending them!

Love Elder Hunter

This past week has been packed with teaching and lots of tracting. I am very excited becuase my investigator Susan is getting baptized this weekend!  On top of that on Thursday President Reeves & Sister Reeves are coming up to Yucca for Multi Zones (A missionary meeting) Yucipa & Palm Desert Zones are coming. im glad they are having it up here in Yucca so I don't have to drive anywhere. I have picked up 3 new investigators this week and everything is going great! The weather has been perfect all week in the 80's with a breeze. 

My ward is amazing. all of my investigators are fellowshipped and befriended as soon as they walk in the door. The members here in Joshua tree & Yucca Valley are doing something right. The desert is amazing. everyday I get to look at layers & layers of mountains. I feel very blessed and lucky to be serving here. I will be sending more pictures soon. One person I'm teaching right now used to be homeless and a drug addict. now she went to rehab and she is getting her own apartment. you can tell she has had a hard life and now shes working very hard to get better. There is a day and night difference in her since the day we met and now. This past Sunday I wanted to cry because she was dressed up in her Sunday best. She looked like a daughter wonderful daughter of God. I have reactivated a few familys and now they are enjoying the blessing of the gospel. Two new families have moved into the ward and im very happy. They all seem like very nice people. I love being on a mission. its the most wonderful feeling in the world working hard and seeing your work pay off. Like this family that has been less active for a long time. We went over and just started visiting with them and now they really want to go to the temple. They have a long road in front of them but their heart is in the right place. I see miracles happen everyday. From small to huge. The Lord has his hand in everything we touch. I feel like many people where put into my path so I could speak to them. There's a lot of seed planting here in California but one day someone will harvest them. I love you all and I hope all of you are doing amazing. Don't forget to write me! :) Everytime I get a letter it makes my day and makes me work even harder.

 

Love Elder Hunter

District Elders and Ward Meeting House

Elder Hunter and Elder Marshall

This past week has been very busy. We keep on getting more and more investigators and its exciting! P-day we cleaned our whole house &  we went to Cabizon yesterday and went to the huge mall there.  It was nice to get out of yucca valley and go to a new city for the day. Transfers where on Saturday and i'm safe. I get to stay in Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree for another transfer. I get my new mission president in 3 weeks! I sure hope they are nice. I'm looking forward to meeting them. im sure going to miss the Reeve's though. My ward is awesome and all the members are very missionary minded and hardworking. We teach about 20 lessons a week or more and that is very good for the area i'm in. A lot of people are a flakes so its easy to weed out people who want the gospel in their lives and people who do not. We went to go teach a family and their children. I love this family they are awesome people! The husband works at a resort in Palm Springs and is the head guy of a night club.

 

The Flores family invited one of their friends over to take the lessons and we taught her. Everything went awesome and she got to learn a lot about the gospel. She liked it so much that she wants to hear more and now her dad wants to learn and take the lessons! Miricles happen everyday! I love being on a mission. if your doubting going on a mission (DONT DOUBT!) its amazing!

Last night we had dinner over at the Millets and they invited their elderly neighbor over for dinner. and we got to teach her. She is very interested in learning more and she said she was going to read the book of mormon while she went on her trip up to Nor Cal for the summer. All of the people I teach and talk to have been coming to church. That's amazing! I love everyday of my mission more and more. Some people are really cool and really nice and others are not that nice. but thats life. I know that this is the true gospel of Jesus Christ and that this is his church that he rules. Im greatful for having the chance of being on a mission and I spend everyday working hard like its my last day. I love you all. (ps) write me letters. bye

Elder Hunter and Elder Webster

MTC Companions

Elder Romney from Rexburg and Elder Park from Shelley

MTC District

All is going good here in sunny southern California.

Chris is doing very well in the chruch. He is making friends left and right! I have been working really hard with less actives and this past Sunday was the best Sunday so far on the mission. We had 11 less actives come back to church and 5 investigators come! I was almost in tears because every time I would trurn around there was more and more people coming into the chapel. Everyone of them said that they felt the spirit at church and that they are going to come back. Marilyn is a really awesome person she is a J-dub but she likes the mormons and the doctrine we teach. She has been taking the missionary lessons for 3 years and she is very close to getting baptized. She said she wanted to go to church for 1 month before she gets baptized.  She has 2 dogs, Taco (the dog that bit me) and Buttons.

We had to drop Chris Y. this week. He never answers the door anymore or returns our calls so we had to just drop him. We will try to go back in a few weeks. I don't understand why he's ditching us he totally felt the spirit and was moving forward.  I know I planted a very good seed in him for future missionaries to harvest. I went on exchanges in 29 Palms on Wednesday and had a blast with Elder Bailey who is from Wellsville, Utah. I learned a lot from him and it was nice to see how other missionaries go about doing work. There was this guy with 11 dogs!! It was really funny! Susan is doing very well. She made a lot of friends at church this past sunday and she is an amazing person. We have another investigator that lives in a halfway house and she is getting her own apartment soon. I'm so happy for her. She has quit drinking coffee and she is moving towards baptism. She inspires me to be a better person. She has gone through so much in her life. The past 10 years she has been homeless in the desert living in a tent. Now she is blossoming into this beautiful person and its because she has found the Savior in her life. :) Tracting here is really hard. We could tract for 4 hours straight and only talk to 15 people. Apparently its snake season I have all these people showing pictures to me of HUGE snakes! I still have only seen 3 :p Anyways, I love all of you and I hope all is well! Elder Hunter

This past week has been great! We went to the Redlands California temple last Thursday and it was so beautiful. Tons of palm trees,orange trees, lemon trees & grapefruit trees all around the temple grounds. that temple is amazing pictures don't even compare to what it looks like in person! the Boutwell family drove us out there and after the temple we went to CTR books and then had Subway for lunch. it was a perfect day. Saturday was a very long day we tracted for 4 hours and right when we where almost don't with tracting my companion got a call from president and it was not good news at all. I love my companion so much he is such a strong person. He took the news with stride and just worked even harder without even a tear. He is a great example to me. President even offered him to go home if he wanted to but he said "no my work is not done yet" . Right after that whole thing happened we tracted into a house where these hippie type people answered the door. We started talking to them and they are from Cedar City, Utah but just moved from Bremerton, Washington. They left the church but they want their son to be in scouts. I totally know they are going to go back to church. After that we drove down to Morongo Valley to have posole with Chris and his family. It was actually pretty good. It was different but it was good. He was so excited to get baptized later that day! Then we went back to the church to fill the font and all of these people started showing but Danny & Chris where going to be baptized in the same day. The baptism of Chris was incredible and special in every way. All of his sins where gone and he had a fresh start. I had the joy of giving him the gift of the Holy Ghost and confirming him a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints after that I gave him a powerful blessing. I hope he never forgets that blessing I gave him. Then we taught a few other lessons before dinner then we rushed back down to Morongo Valley to the Kinkaids and had fried steak with fresh corn on the cob and strawberry shortcake. Fresh food is the best food. We felt prompted to go back to Chris's house and teach him again. You could tell his whole family felt the spirit none of them are members of the church but they now want to take the missionary lessons. Chris set the example for his family and now they are following his example. Today was P-day! We went down to Palm Springs and had the most amazing P-day ever! We went on the Palm Springs Aerial Tram but to the top of a 8500 ft tall mountain it was insane. We went from 1,900 ft to 8500 ft in 10 mins! The cabin thing spinned around. We got up to the top where the lodge was and we went hiking into the San Janico State Park and national monument. It was 43 degrees up there while it was 83 in Palm Springs. It was one of the most breath taking things I have ever seen in my whole life! It was incredible! We went with the 29 Palm elders and the zone leaders.

I filmed the whole way back down so I'll send you that in a DVD. I took tons of pictures. After that we where driving around palm springs.There weere a lot of flowers and trees. The palm trees where super tall and cool looking. We went shopping and then went to Aspen Mills. A member owns it and fed us free lunch and gave us tons of bread and cookies to last us a lifetime! They were so kind to us.

Palm Springs is amazing I hope I get to serve there someday. I love all of you so much. Thank you for your letters and support it honestly helps me make it through the days of being a missionary. I made it to teaching 20 sit down lessons this week!  I guess so all the hard work is paying off!

Love Elder Hunter.