This week, once again, has been crazy. It was the week where changes went down. Change week is always the most interesting week of the change. We are so busy, worried, stressed, happy, excited, baggy, tired, animated, etc. For this week, we have all the emotions in us. But, now that it's Friday, I can say, in reflexion: Mission Accomplished. Everything went smoothly. There were minor problems, but with minor problems come quick solutions without a bunch of hassle. I have a new companion! I don't remember if I mentioned early to y'all, but a couple of weeks ago, I got to choose my companion. Out of all the missionaries, I chose Elder Moises Hernandez. He entered the mission with me, so we've got a special bond. He's from Nicaragua, and he's awesome. It's interesting to a see a companionship when the two of them have been District Leaders and Trainers. We're two leaders put together that mesh well. You know what that means? Miracles. I love this kid, he's so fun. We get a long super well. My trainer, Elder Aragon, has left the office and entered back into the real mission field...poor fella.
Last Saturday, we had our District P-Day. Normally, it's against the rules to have P-Day on Saturday, but it was President Markham's idea. He wanted to go to a place called El Tejar in Chimaltenango to make bricks. It doesn't sound like much fun, but we made it so fun! So really, you get some dirt (clay) and add water to make it into a finer clay. To make it fine, you have to walk in it and get the clumps out with your feet. So the mud pile was like 8 inches deep and it was super fun. Since we're all 20 year old young men, mud wrestling was inevitable. Normally, you get a little dirty, with our mud wrestling, we were covered from head to toe with clay. So fun! Attached is a couple pictures of the day.
On Tuesday, we got the new missionaries, the ones entering the next day. Our goal as an office is to walk a ton and absolutely destroy the news that have come. Mission Accomplished. All the news got back that night absolutely destroyed. Why? Because that's what we do in this mission. We don't have cars or bikes. We have our two legs and we walk fast. There is urgency in all things. We taught the news that we give all of ourselves, every day. Until we can't go much more. Then we go to bed, wake up, and do the same thing over again. For two years. The Lord blesses us with health and strength to do it. At about 8:15 at night, I went down a huge hill. Imagine a hill twice as big as the one from the cemetery on 8th East until past Grandma Hunt´s house in the cul-de-sac. That's what we went down. Why? So we'd end the night coming up it. We started running, but after about 10 seconds, they were dead. So they busted it out, step by step, until we got to the top. It was so fantastic because they didn't complain. All the news were destroyed, but there were no complaints. Maybe because we bought them all Domino's that night for dinner.
That Tuesday night, we still had to come into the office to get stuff done for Wednesday. I got to bed at 2:00 AM and we got up Wednesday morning at 4 AM. 2 hours of sleep! No need to say: it was a long day.
After the mission, read this day with me. Something really...interesting happened. So, put that on your list of one of the first things to talk about with me when I'm back home.
Well, since it's such a busy week, I don't have much time to write. Just enjoying every moment as much as I can and am loving serving the Lord.
I'm His representative, and I testify that He lives.
--Elder Hunt
