There are a lot of questions from mom for me to answer this week. The week was pretty good, a lot better than last week.

 We are probably going to golf again next week, but today is bball as usual. Last week I shot lights out! it was awesome. As for cool experiences we went over to Christine Peterson's house and she let us in for the first time. We talked to her about the Book of Mormon and how it can bless lives and how to study it. Pres. Ware's counsel from my interview last transfer has been helping a lot. We went back a few days later and she had already read 5 chapters in the Book of Mormon and she was so much happier. Instead of sitting at home all day she went out and served her family members and helped them around the house. She told us that we are rubbing off on her hahaha. In just 4 days her attitude has changed so much and she loves the Book of Mormon. She does smoke and drink alcohol, coffee, and tea. So that will be a challenge, but she is doing great and has made tons of progress. Marsha Blackburn showed up to church this week for the first time in 23 years. We were so excited. We have been constantly inviting her ever since I got here. Our WML was also way excited to see her there. She said she will be back next week! She also is getting excited about family history. This week we went to Brewster to help with the fire clean up. We cleared tin and the foundation remaining from the fire of a double wide mobile home. Other people went to the warehouse to organize donations. There are so many church members willing to help out. John Smith came with us and wants to come back and help next week. We needed 40 volunteers to go help from our stake and we ended up with over 60. It was awesome to see so many people willing to help. We are going back wednesday. We haven't done any more exchanges yet and the ward program is still being set up, but that will take effect very soon. Something funny that happened is Elder Stevens was talking about Elder Solis doing a runway model walk for them. Elder Solis is a really feminine mexican elder that Elder Stevens is bugged by a lot hahaha. It was hilarious to hear him tell the story. Yes I would say my laundry and clothes are doing pretty good. We buy a lot of frozen foods for lunches like mini pizzas and stuff. we chopped up potatoes and used John Smith's deep fryer yesterday and made french fries it was good. We have been doing Insanity for exercise. It is killer haha. Yea I wrote to jake last week. Jon writes me all the time. He is trying so hard to find a new job cuz all of these new kids are getting promotions and nobody understands why haha. He wants to graduate early and go on his mission in February or march.  I hope your questions were answered. yes I do wash my pillow case and yes I have been taking care of my eyebrows. my hygeine is good dont worry.

It sounds like that priests trip was awesome! We should have done more stuff like that when i was in there. Of course grandpa was taking credit for the cooking hahaha. I can't believe it is taking so long for people to get their calls. Hopefully somebody gets called here hahaha. Transfer calls are in less than 3 weeks. It is crazy that the transfer is half over. This next one will be a little more nerve racking. Are you excited for everyone to go back to SCHOOL!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Suckas!! just kidding that was rude I know how it feels. Summer is almost gone but it sounds like you guys had a good one.

Thanks for all the updates with the golf world and everything. The paul george injury is gonna make it pretty easy for the Cavs in the east. Thanks for all the prayers and support! I can tell this week that it worked!

Love, Elder Newbold

 

It was awesome to hear from you and all that you have been doing! Sounds like Canada was as fun as ever. It wouldn't be as fun without Jaxon being around very much though. Where was he at? That would be exciting to see Colton again. This week we have had a hard time getting people to answer the door. Summer vacations and people on the lake all the time. We went with John Smith to go pick up his truck at the car dealership and saw Ezgar (the guy from our apartments) working there. We talked to him for a minute but every time we have gone over to his house he doesn't answer so I don't know how interested he is. We had dinner at the Earl's and she wanted to take a picture of us and send it to our moms because she gets those from her kids on their missions and she enjoys them. There are a lot of Earls in town. that is probably the most common last name here. We went and visited some less actives. Bruce Nelson is a guy that is in his early 40's and is a sound guy for a local band here. Its cool to talk to him about that. He has an awesome decked out recording studio in his house. I may have told you about him before. He is extremely inactive but he has been letting us pray with him and we are going to watch a Mormon Message with him next time.

Christine has been very flaky with appointments as usual. Every time we go over there she has an excuse or is gone. We are going to keep inviting her to church and probably read some scriptures and show a mormon message if we ever get in with her. A church tour would be helpful as well. Yesterday was ward conference in 7th ward and it was good to hear the Stake President speak a few times. He is awesome and everybody loves hearing him speak, he is an awesome public speaker.

We had a baptismal interview with president Allred (1st counselor in mission presidency) for John Smith yesterday. We were originally going to have the baptism on August 2nd but president Allred would like to postpone it until after John goes to court for the no contact order violation. He did say that he sees that John is sincerely trying to change his life and after the court date sees no reason why he shouldn't be baptized. We will continue to make constant contact with John to prepare him for baptism.

On saturday we went and did service for Zach Hontz, who is one of our investigators. I have probably written about him before. We helped him put in a walkway in his backyard. Then we helped brother Asay paint the inside of his garage. We do that pretty much every saturday. On wednesday we are traveling to Wenatchee to clean up from the fires up there. They are pretty much under control now.

Thanks for writing about Canada and hopefully that priest quorum trip goes good. Let me know about my friend's mission calls when they happen. Can you find out Jake's mission email? I want to write him. Hope you guys have an awesome week!

Love, Elder Newbold

It was good to get some big letters from you this week!! Sounds like everyone is having a blast. That is awesome that some of you got to hear Colton on Sunday and I am sure it was awesome. There was a missionary in our zone that went home to Idaho last week and he has already come back to visit. He kind of reminded me of Colton but Im sure he can go more than a week without returning hahaha. Those were some really funny pics you guys sent me, especially the one of Mom haha how did you get that?

This week we had the Doctrine of Christ training with Pres. Ware and the AP's. It is a training that missionaries go to in their 2nd transfer in the mission field. We were originally going to do it in Quincy like we did last transfer but the ZL's called and said that we would need to get a ride to Kennewick because they cancelled the training in Quincy. So we had a member of our ward that drives to Kennewick for work take us down there and a couple that works in the temple that lives in Moses Lake take us back after the training. I saw my MTC comps there. Elder Tays was laughing after we met them because they are pretty interesting. Thank goodness it was only 12 days haha. President Ware gave us a shout out in front of everyone about how awesome we are doing in Moses Lake.

We took a member of the bishopric in 7th ward out with us on Friday night. Not many people answered the door but we got in to see Tristan because Bro. Welty is also the seminary teacher and he needed Tristan's Mom to sign a waiver for him to take seminary. We had a good conversation with her and she said that she has already noticed a lot of positive changes in Tristan since he joined the church. It was really good to hear her say that and we will see if she becomes interested. We also ran into this guy named Ezgar in the parking lot of our apartments and he agreed to let us come teach him the restoration this week.

PEC was very effective in 7th ward yesterday. Bishop Allred is very excited about the missionary work happening in the ward and we are setting up a program with the ward. Every tuesday night someone from the elders quorum will come out with us. Thursdays a high priest will come and saturday afternoons we will have priests join us. We need to do better at scheduling solid appointments so that we can match up our investigators and less actives with the member that is coming out with us.

That is exciting about Rory winning the British. He is my favorite player and even better that he beat sergio. The course in Moses Lake is really good. It is comparable to Thanksgiving Point except probably not quite that good. The front nine is really long though. It has a little more links to it than Tpoint too. That priest quorum temple trip should be awesome! Where are you at in the Book of Mormon? I am excited to hear where Riley and Benson are going on their missions.

Have fun in Canada. Tell Cassidy congrats and tell Colton hey and thanks for setting a good example for all of his cousins. The gospel is true.

Love, Elder Newbold (Hunter)

This has been a pretty good week. Transfer calls came on saturday night. Me and Elder Tays are both staying in Moses Lake. We were the only companionship in the whole zone that wasn't broken up. There are 6 missionaries from the MTC coming to Moses Lake next week. 28 coming into the mission. That is a ton and there is going to be that many again at the end of August. The temple trip was fun. We had two big vans come and pick everybody up and we drove 1 1/2 hours to Richland to go to the temple. Sister Ahlstrom was talking to me about Lehi the whole way back. We know a ton of the same people. I'm pretty sure she dated Brett Bartholomew for like 2 years in high school. We left at 7 AM and got back around 3 in the afternoon. It was fun. Every scripture I turned to in the Book of Mormon while I was in the temple talked about having faith in Jesus Christ so I will continue to do my best to strengthen that. We did get to go golfing last week and I played really well. It was kind of hard adjusting to the putter and the greens but I probably hit like 13 fairways. Chris was dying every time I hit the ball and was constantly talking about my swing. He said watching me helps him to see what he needs to fix in his swing. It was the best I had hit the ball in a while. I was surprised. The richest guy in Moses Lake is Dr. Earl. He used to be a bishop in one of the wards and his house is huge. He has a big basketball court and patio area in his yard. That is where we hung out. We have district meeting every week and I think we have the best district. We have had two zone meetings. We will have a zone conference next transfer. We have zone conferences every other transfer and temple trip and interviews the other transfer. I did bear my testimony in 4th ward last week to introduce myself to anyone who didn't know me. I have met tons of them already. I explained that missionary work is most effective when full-time missionaries and ward members are working together and how our brothers and sisters that need the gospel are all around us. I hope it was effective. John Smith is continuing to progress. Last night we visited Christine Peterson who is one of our investigators in 7th ward. She feels a void in her life and feels very alone. I was able to promise her that if she comes to church and starts to learn about the gospel, she will feel the emptiness start to fill up with happiness. She then asked me to offer a prayer for her to have courage to get out of the house and do stuff and to be happy. the spirit was strong during that. When we walked away we were both talking about how awesome it was.

Thats too bad about the State Am. +7 in two holes is rough. I did that in a high school tournament and it really doesn't bode well for the rest of the round. But there is always next year. Maybe I can give it a shot with ya in '16. Everybody is talking about Lebron. That is pretty awesome how he handled it and everything. That would be a sweet career if he is successful in Cleveland. I was disappointed to read your update on Hayward though. 15 million? Hopefully they have enough young talent to be good.

Canada should be awesome! It probably isn't as hot there as it is here or in Utah. We have been cooking out there. I am grateful for short sleeved white shirts. Tender mercy:) haha.

Tristan is planning on going on a mission in a year and he got ordained to priest last week. He is getting his patriarchal blessing soon as well. He is on fire! Chris was also ordained a priest.

I though Dallin didn't leave till August? Im sure he did great on his talk. I am so excited that Riley is going on a mission that is way awesome!!! He will be a really good missionary with his personality and everything. Let me know when all those guys get their calls.

Keep me updated on Canada and have lots of fun. Some pictures would be great. Thanks for all your prayers and support and updates on whats going on.

Love, Elder Newbold (Hunter)

Thats awesome that you guys had a good 4th. I had such an awesome view. The city fireworks were set up right outside my apartments so it felt like a 3D firework show. The whole sky was lit up it was awesome!! You guys went to ST ah man. I definitely miss my favorite places to eat but I still have free subway once a week and that mexican place is really good. It saves us money so we use it quite a bit for lunches. Thats too bad about Cassidy but everything will work out the way that it is supposed to. Colton has less than 10 days that is crazy! I wish I could go to Canada but definitely not the part about sharing the house with Ryker and those guys haha that would be rough! Good luck!! I haven't met any canadians here yet but maybe I will soon! Eventually you will break through on that song writing thing. Among the finalists is pretty good!! Let me know when those guys get their calls in our ward. Yea i totally know Carson G! He was my locker partner when I was a sophomore. I didn't use the locker that much but yea he is a cool kid Im sure he is a good missionary. Our mission is getting the mini Ipads sometime between this fall and next spring. Elder Tays was kind of bent out of shape about that hahaha.  The letter to dad has more detail this week but both of these letters are for all of you guys so thanks for writing and I will keep you updated on the upcoming transfer! (they are every 6 weeks)

Love, Hunter

Thanks for the awesome letters! The baptism was awesome and i will try and send another picture. So we get free meals at this mexican place called tacos mi casa and we were picking up our food and I saw Julius Randle go to the Lakers. That was pretty devastating but then we went back to the church to fill the font and everything. Chris took a huge step in his life and it was really cool to see. Him and Donna are going to take us golfing 18 holes either today or next week so sweeetttt!!!! That is crazy about Colton coming home in two weeks. There is an elder in our zone who has two weeks left as well. Hopefully Riley does make it out on a mission. It would be good for him. It seems like Carson just barely left though haha.

Answers to moms questions......

1.We have to be in by 6:00. We can attend gatherings in the afternoon if we are with a recent convert or investigator.

2. Yes we get along great and I learn a lot from him.

3. He is a convert. He converted when he was 23 and went on his mission at 24. Church basketball got him involved with the church.

4. We play bball every week pretty much, today we are having pday at Dr. Earl's house (the richest guy in Moses Lake)

5. We are going to try and commit John Smith to baptism this week. He attended Chris' baptism.

6. Good foods you would have loved our meal the other night. Clams and oysters, 5 different kinds of shrimp, salmon, and crab legs. It was awesome.

7. I am getting my hair cut tomorrow by Elder Morales, I guess we will see how it goes.

8. My shoes are like walking on clouds.

9. I don't think I need anything else sent but thanks anyways.

Good luck in the State Am next week. I bet you can go further than you think. Just like you told me, do your best and the Lord will fill in the rest hahaha. Its true for anything! Hopefully Dante Exum turns out to be awesome! I bet he is way good. Sounds like Jazz and Penn State are gonna be set in no time. There are a ton of missionaries that are dying for updates about the World Cup but don't worry about it. It is so boring haha.

Yesterday at church Tristan had his priesthood interview and he even told us that he wants to go on a mission in a year!! He was just baptized last week. That is a lot of faith. We are losing investigators because of the baptisms but we still have a couple really solid ones. Most of them are really flaky with appointments and stuff so it is hard to get any set appointments. We really need help from the members. They say they are going to help us out so we will see. It is incredible how much more successful the work is when investigators are referrals. We haven't had much success tracting at all. Chris and Tristan were both member referalls and same with our 2 solid investigators. We still need to keep trying to find people anyway and have faith. Thanks for all the support and prayers for me! I pray for you guys too. Its so fun to see all that you are doing. Good luck with everything in the upcoming week!

Just so you know pday is probably going to be on Wednesday next week because it is our zone temple trip so if you don't hear from me till wednesday you know why. they might still have pday on monday so i don't know for sure.

 

Dad, Sounds like everything is going well with the golf. Hopefully it is good timing and you are peaking at the right time!! I am playing later today. 18 holes at Moses Point with Chris and  sister Goude. Apparently sister Goude is awesome at golf so we will see. That would have been sweet to have Wadsworth as your caddie dang it.

 

Thats pretty sad about Cassidy but hopefully things work out however they are supposed to. Im sure she has already learned a ton though. The MTC crams all kind of stuff into your brain. I can't even imagine 6 weeks there. That would have been a little rough. The mission field is way better. I am jealous of you guys going up to canada. I got the wedding invitation in the mail a couple days ago. Should be fun for you guys. Tell Cassidy congratulations again from me, and Colton too. thats crazy how little time he has left. Time is definitely flying. I will hit 2 months before I even know what happened. We were just barely talking about my 1 month mark hahaha. There is no time to waste.

 

NBA free agency is always awesome. That would be crazy if Lebron returned to cleveland to play with Irving and Wiggins. That would probably be bad for everybody else though so hopefully it doesn't happen. British open is coming up soon thats exciting.

 

This week we put John Smith on date for July 26th. He will most likely be interviewed by a member of the mission presidency. He has a hearing on the 24th after violating a restraining order but if the case is dismissed as expected, we will have the baptismal interview, so it is kind of in limbo at this point. We got two new investigators this week. One of them was a referral and one of them lives with a less active member. Pretty much all of our investigators right now live with their girlfriends or boyfriends so baptism will be a challenge but we will continue to teach them. What advice do you have about how to handle that situation?

 

I don't know anything about the big dam so who knows but maybe I will find out haha. Transfers are next wednesday. They are every 6 weeks. We find out saturday night what will happen. Anything can happen but usually you stay in an area for about 3 transfers. 1 or 2 is short and 4-5 is long. One elder has been here 5 transfers so he is most likely out of here. Weird stuff does happen though so its still kind of intense to find out. Elder Tays was only in Moses Lake one transfer before me so chances are we are both staying until at least the end of August but I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for writing and good luck with everything going on!!!

 

Love, Elder Newbold (Hunter)

 

 

 

Mom that is a ton of questions so I will just answer them in order haha. There is no target but there is wal mart. We drive a chevy cruze. we do quite a bit of walking since we are only allowed 600 miles per month. It is good exercise. Chris is still planning on baptism on the 26th. He is going to be getting married to Donna in the near future. Tonight we are going to explain to him that when he moves into the 4th ward he can't move into her house unless they are married. He is doing really well though. He wore a tie to church yesterday for the first time so he was pretty excited about that. There is some sad news about Tristan though. Since he is 17 his mom has to sign a waiver for him to get baptized. She said she would sign but is not happy about the decision he has made. She is a member of the Grace Harvest church. He feels like it would cause family problems if he was baptized and he wouldn't be close with his mom anymore. We are going over there tomorrow. I brought up the situation in PEC and the bishop suggested that we try and catch the mom at home, although she is not very willing to meet with the missionaries. We will see how that goes. He still would like to be baptized when he feels like it is a better time but hopefully tomorrow we can say the right thing. We also have another meeting with chris tonight. That guy is awesome. We watched the Joseph Smith prophet of the restoration movie with him the other night and he fed us crab legs and steak. It was sweeeeet!!! Another cool story, we were talking about remembering Heavenly Father on fathers day at the activity day girls dinner on thursday night and when we were taking a tv back to the church library, there is this guy standing there in the church in a tank top with tattoos and everything. He asked us what we were called and we said the missionaries. He said he has some questions about things he has been reading in the Bible and wants to meet with us. That was so awesome we meet with him tomorrow night. His name is Adrian Salazar. We were joking around because we had been trying to find people all day going from door to door and then in the church there was a guy that walked in and found us. It was pretty funny but Im excited to teach him. Yes i heard from Jon for the first time today!!! I hope I have time to write him something. No our mission does not have facebook or Ipads and sister ware says they are not planning on it. I got your package those pics were hilarious. I hope Ashtyn will start to realize how much work I did around there hahaha. We do our emailing for an hour at the Moses Lake Library and if we have time, another half hour at the family history center later in the day. We met with this guy named John Smith for the second time the other day. He is my all time favorite so far. He is 33 years old and he has some form of schizophrenia. He is a good guy. It is funny to hear him tell us about whats been happening in his life. He rides his bike from Moses Lake to Pasco occasionally, which is an hour and fifteen minute car ride. Anyway it was good to hear from ya and maybe I'll talk to ya later.

Dad, I heard about the game last night. The people we were having dinner with are way into it. I was suprised it was not even a close series. Was Lebron okay the whole series? Thanks for all the updates. Thats so cool you made the State Am!!! I guess you are better than Riley Bunker haha. Blake Carter is a ridiculous golfer. Now you just need to go shoot low and make the match play! Did you feel any pressure? I didn't know you were planning on selling the 4 wheeler. You are getting rid of all the fun toys we used to have. Maybe you should get one of those side by side 4 wheelers. Daws would love that. I do attend ward council and PEC in both wards. We are at the church for about 7 hours every sunday. Yesterday 7th ward canceled PEC because of Fathers Day. We both go to the early ward's meetings and then one of us goes to sacrament meeting at 9 and the other one goes to the meeting for the other ward. We spend a ton of time talking about missionary work in those meetings. We talked a lot about Tristan and his situation yesterday. (Mom's letter has tons of details because of all the questions). I've said this to people a few times already. it is pretty crazy to see the difference between someone who has the gospel in their life and someone who doesn't. Its kind of hard to explain but its easy to tell. I've never been around very many non members and people that need the gospel. That would be awesome if Bro. Wadsworth could be your caddie for the tournament hahaha. I'm excited to hear all about that. Too bad the sports world is about to get boring for a couple months but time seems to be flying so far. I've almost been out a month already. That probably sounds pretty funny but it feels like I just left yesterday. Basketball went pretty good last week. I've been humbled a little since my companion is probably a better shooter than me hahaha. We've had some pretty intense games of HORSE and it always comes down to the last letter. We might not play this week though because some guys just about started going at it last week. It got way too competitive. I just started laughing. Hopefully we still get to play. It's up to the ZL's but one of them just about started fighting somebody. Well thanks for continuing to write and I'll maybe get some time later today but if not talk to ya next week!!!

Love, Hunter