Nope the missionaries here aren't as spoiled as I thought they would be. I don't have my i-pad, I don't have my i-phone, and I don't have my car. It's me and my cute bike. It's great prep for Suriname though. To get a car in the mission you have have a health condition, be a AP, ZL, Spanish, ASL, or YSA missionary to get your car. I don't fit any of those categories so I get a bike. Biking isn't bad in Mesa though. You literally can't bike for more than 2 minutes before someone honks and waves at you.
Missionaries in the Mesa mission don't get i-phones. But they do get i-pads. I have to wait three weeks to receive mine. So I'll officially have an i-pad for 3 weeks of my mission. The missionaries are definitely spoiled though in the fact that we're eating dinner with a member family every night. It's the coolest because we'll go to the store or go eat somewhere and someone will pay for our stuff (or buy us extra stuff). At the grocery store by our apartment, if you scan the bar code that's on the Book of Mormons they have here, you get a VP discount. There's all sorts of stuff like that here in Mesa.
My companion is Elder Roberson. He's from the heart of Portland, Oregon, and he's AWESOME! I've been learning sooo much. He keeps telling me that I've come to the mission field pre trained though.
Elder Burr and Buehler left a day before I did, so I got to hang out with the other Dutch missionaries headed to the Netherlands for a day. It felt sooo taboo being there in the MTC with just me and Zuster Parker. I got to teach by myself that day though. The lesson was awesome!! It was a solid 35 minute lesson of just Dutch!
The flight was good. Got up at 2:10 and all that fun stuff. There were three other reassignment missionaries besides me and Sister Parker. Two Portuguese and a Spanish missionary. Luckily there's missionaries from Brazil here in the mission so the Portuguese reassignments got to be paired with them. And Spanish is obviously in Mesa. I'm like one of 4 people in Mesa that speak some Dutch.
At orientation we went over some rules about cars, i-pads, etc. President and Sister Jenkins are super nice. They let us take a 2 hour nap at the mission home after orientation. I remember I woke up from my nap, walked down the hall still tired from the nap and Elder Madsen and his comp were there. It surprised me soo much but I was so happy to see them. I got to spend the night with them. I got to see a baptismal service that night was so cool.
I'm in the Mesa South Stake covering the Cooper and Kingsborough Park wards. We were at some apartments making visits and we were about to leave and the lock on our bikes wouldn't unlock. We tried to unlock it and were starting to panic a little bit after 10 minutes. We finally got the bikes unlocked. Not 1 minute past and we were on the sidewalk, and there was a girl walking down the street. We talked to her and she totally agreed with everything we were saying. Her name is Briana and she accepted a Book of Mormon and a return appointment! It was super cool, it was my first street contact!
The neighborhoods here remind me a lot of Orem with St. George landscaping. Most people here are either already Mormon, work with Mormons, or are super active in their churches. Everyone is super active in their churches if they adhere to one. We'll talk to people in the streets or on their front porches and they'll talk to us about how they've already seen/read some of the Book of Mormon and how they're comfortable with what they have.
We're teaching a hand full of people. We're teaching the Farley family who have been investigating the church for 22 years! The husband already knows the church is true, but his wife has been anti-Mormon. But for the past month, she's been sitting in on the lessons. The first time in the past 22 years! Hopefully stuff comes about from it.
I'm loving Arizona and everyone here! I'm beginning to see why I've been called here. The work is progressing!
Ik hou van jullie!
Elder Hunt
Zuster Schwab
Broedar Norton
Broeder Bonny
This is Elder Hunt with President and Sister Jenkins. He is From Idaho and was called in 2013
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