grandfather(middle left), uncle(left), father(middle right), and me.

September 20, 2010

Dear Family and friends,

This past week seemed to take forever and I don't know why because we were busy. It's even hard to remember what we did each day...so yeah we'll see how well I can do at telling you stuff.

Um....this week was alright. We had our ups and downs like usual. Our focus this week was to try to find some more people to teach since we lost a couple investigators because of personal reasons. We had this one girl that seemed good, so we went to teach her and she seemed so nervous or on the edge for some reason. It turned out that she was worried about her mother coming home from work because she is really against religion and stuff, so because we don't want her to get in trouble with her mother we made our way out and told her to read the Book of Mormon that we had given her and to ask her mother if it'd be alright for her to be taught. It's so difficult with teens like that because you have to have the parents permission to be able to teach them and it just makes it more difficult. It sad that a parent can restrict their kids from following their desires. Hopefully her mother will come around on the idea so we can go back and teach.

Oh oh oh oh oh, we had super great news this week!!!! We now have another person with a baptismal date!!!!! He is so awesome and amazing. The members at church have thought that he was a member ever since he's been coming to church. He(Ian) is scheduled to be baptized on the 8th of October and then confirmed on the 10th. The 10th is significant because it is 10/10/2010 which is basically 10/10/10/20 which is the process that we go about doing our work-talk to someone in the first 10 minutes, stop at least 10 people, give out 10 Books of Mormon, and have 20 sit down lessons. Elder Stein and I had the goal of having someone baptized on that date and it's happening with Elder Davis and I! I'm so excited for Ian though. He is so awesome and now his wife is starting to want to learn and so is his sister and mother. Oh man- so many people could have the gospel in their life so soon!! The missionary work is doing well here in Walsall!!! and it should hopefully just get better!

Another person we have been teaching is a single mother named Kira. She has 2 little boys and lives on her own. We had been coming by her house quite a few times, but she was usually busy and only available to talk for about 10 minutes or so. We were finally able to go in and teach her, but her 2 year old was so loud and it was hard to teach anything, so we decided to use the cups visual we have to teach the restoration so that we could possibly entertain her little son. I finally got him interested by the cups and stacking them up, so it was quiet and Elder Davis was then able to teach her. I taught a little bit, but I was mainly just trying to keep her son Cody quiet and entertained. It ended up being good- at least better than we were thinking. She was supposed to be at church, but her younger son Owen was sick. She should be good though and the gospel will definitely help her out in her life!

I don't remember if I had ever told you about the Slovakian couple we were trying to teach. Well we went over for our second time and we really learned about their situation and life and it is so sad. I literally almost cried while there. They aren't making much money, the landlord is raising the rent on their flat(which consists of only 1 small room), their child on the way isn't growing correctly, son is sick, etc..... It's sad and we're seeing what we can do for them- asking members about flats that don't cost very much that they can move to. It's so hard because you want to help so much, but you can't really do much. Plus they might be in the country illegally so we don't really want to get involved with that.

Everything sounds like it's going good at home except Sister being lost.....maybe she's been naughty and is being sent home :) jk. I'm sure she'll write soon. It's great to here about all that you guys are doing and keep it up.

Elder Davis and I are having so much fun. We get along really well. I'm actually older than he is, but he's been out for 7+ months. Last P-day when we were on our way to come emailing, there was some guy in town centre(that's how the english spell it) with a microphone and speakers and was saying stuff like "beware of the mormons". It was funny. I really wanted to just go shake his hand and tell him to have a good day, but Elder Davis stopped me.

This week in my reading I have really come to a greater understanding of the laws of justice and mercy. Alma 42 really helps to illustrate it and makes it so logical. We will be judged based off of mercy ONLY if we repent. If we do that, we can then return to God when we are judged. Along with that God is always there to forgive us no matter what- all we have to do is sincerely repent. I also was learning about the plan of restoration in Alma 41. It just makes so much sense. It's amazing how much sense the Book of Mormon makes when you truly want to learn and you are reading with the Spirit. Because of this understanding I've come to recognize it just continues to testify to me of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and that it can answer any question we have or can help us with any problem. I really have come to love reading it and it makes me want to give them out to everyone so that it can bless their lives. Elder Davis and I have given out 15 in the past 2 weeks. Hopefully we can keep that up and even exceed that number!

I love this church and the gospel!!!!!! It's so true!!!! How could something that makes so much sense not be true? If you want to come to know for yourself all you have to do is do a simple experiment: 1. read from the Book of Mormon and then 2. sincerely ask God to know if it's true. If you sincerely ask, God will not let you down in answering your question because he loves everyone so much and wants them to come to know the truth.

I love and miss you all!!! but I'm where I need to be at this point in my life!

Love Elder Hulet

Mother: I got all of the packages. Um.... could I maybe get a MoTab Cd for an investigator that loves music? and also maybe a CD of the Prince of Egypt soundtrack?

Sister Kennedy: Wow, is all i have to say. I hope it works out because that'd be awesome.

Friends and Fam- Thanks for the letters and packages- it makes Elder Davis jealous!! and that's all that matters.

Off to zone p-day- playing some FOOTBALL(soccer)!!!

Mission Football on the 27th!!!

OH and the picture is of my grandfather(middle left), uncle(left), father(middle right), and me.