Elder Stuart Hunt: Inner city gangs, member dinners and trying to share the gospel message

Alright to begin with this week let's talk about the city of Pittsburgh. It’s been raining for the past 3 days and the people here are all a part of some inner city gang. So, every person knows at least one gang sign. I see people with 5 packs of cigarettes, they smoke so much here like you have no idea. I've seen cigars that are huge, and the people try to keep them in their mouth all the time it's funny (but not really) to watch the cigar drop out when they try to keep the cigar in their mouth when they yawn.

There is a lot of history here, the buildings look like they’re from the 30s and probably are some were built in the 20s too. Some look like they’re from the 50s which is not that bad. I mean the roofs are collapsed on the insides, but the outsides are fine excluding the roofs.

Now me... I'm doing great and yes can you send me the winter coat that you were talking about? The Clif bars are great. I’m eating fine, don't worry about my health but I know me saying that won't stop you from worrying mom, so I guess it’s pointless to tell you otherwise.

The members feed us a lot. I love it because I get to meet them, and some members from the ward are from Salt Lake City so I tell them I'm from Sandy and they reply with... I'll give you 3 guesses but you’re only going to need 1... that's right, Provo.

We made 5 dozen chocolate chip cookies to give to investigators we might meet. They weren’t as good as yours mom. Most of our people we teach don't follow through with the appointments we set up together. When we do have a meeting with someone we give a little gospel message. My skills are slightly improving from freezing up and can't speak to giving them my testimony. We met this 1 person that believes that god hates his children and to punish us we "smoke" until we get cancer and when we have cancer we suffer with the cancer for 5-10 years and we die and that's it. She said that there's no afterlife and when we’re buried that’s it. We couldn't tell her that God actually loves us because she didn’t want to hear it so that's sad 😢

Love Elder Hunt