Elder Stuart Hunt: Happy Halloween!

Thank you for the sweaters and the package. The sweaters are so nice!!

This week was quite a long one. For starters, we had 3 exchanges, first was with the ZLs then the next night was with the Spanish Elders in our district then tomorrow we have exchanges with the Spanish Elders again. The ZLs were great, I had an Elder from Taiwan his name is Elder Wang. He's a great person, he's been out for 19 months and already wishing to extend his mission here. Next was Elder Neddo. He's in the Spanish branch, he’s been out for 14 months and he too is wishing to extend. He’s from Dallas Texas. Then tomorrow I'm with Elder Reeve from the Spanish branch who is waiting for his Visa to be ready to go to Uruguay, but in the meantime he's in Pittsburgh until he gets his Visa. He arrived in Pittsburgh when I did.

We had a member feed us this week. I was with Elder Wang. She is a widow, so she took us to a fast food restaurant. We had really good pizza that day. Very thoughtful.

Yes, the shooting was in my area but as you should be aware, I'm fine. It happened in Squirrel Hill which is in my area, so President Bednar called us and told us to stay out of Squirrel hill that day. That night after the shooting the people held a memorial for the people who were shot and their families, it was at the intersection of Forbes & Murray. So sad! There is a major Jewish population in Squirrel Hill, so we generally don't go tracting there.

The Spanish Elders found a new person they’re teaching. He only speaks French and enough English to survive.

I love our mission President, he's the best!! He's the kind of person that is ok with anything we do as long as we always ask him first and can answer his question. He asks us one thing, “Does it fulfill your missionary purpose?" If we can answer, “Yes,” then he’s ok with it, but if it doesn't, then no. He also loves asking every missionary, "What is your why?" Like why are you out here? Every missionary’s answer is different, but over time the missionaries’ testimonies becomes stronger.

Have a great Halloween!
Elder Hunt