Monday, February 23, 2009

Honesty is the best Policy

Hey,

Well i am officially an old man. I woke up on my birthday and thought i
could see grey hairs. Oh well. It was a good day. Haha well i am going to be
honest with you two. The fight was alot bigger than i made it seem. I told
Michael the whole thing but either you didnt send it to him or he fetching didnt
write me back. And tell him if he didnt write me back that is dumb of him and i
am angry with him right now. Haha i have debated or not whether i was going to
tell you everything or not but i figure you should know. So just read the email
that i sent michael and that will tell you everything. :) Haha hopefully Dad you
will be proud of it because where i did punch. Dont worry though everything is
all good. I cant wait to get home and act the whole thing out. Makes it better.
I just had a thought. Maybe Dad you should read it first and decide if Mom
should know. :) My companion didnt play sports in high school so yea it was
pretty much just me against them. Just ask questions and i will answer them next
week. So i was really confused at first when i started reading the email. It
really did take me a second to figure it was Dad first. That is good Preston is
finally gone. I know who Nick Draper is. I played football with him on the
cowboys. I think so anyways. Not sure about John Paul though. Maybe if i saw a
picture. Sounds like everything is going well there with the business and such.
Who takes all of the phone calls now? Zap is going alright. It is probably the
dirtest city in the world but its alright. There is alot of drama with the
branch here though. I swear if the missionaries werent here everyone would go
apostate. We pretty much eat the same here. I havent had boursch though for a
while. Its like a watery soup. We dont really cook for ourselves though we have
a little lady that does for us. That is crazy about Zach Taylor. I will send
shopkas later. That one i was wearing isnt mine. I am going to get the biggest
one in the world though. There isnt a walmart here though. Oh transfers coming
up soon so if you want that package to have a chance to get to me soon you need
to send it soon. Tell grandma Staheli thanks for the package. Good stuff in it.
So last week on saturday we went to this little sporting event that vitalee was
running in. He isnt the most athletic guy but he tried and it was awesome to be
there are support him. I ran with him and another elder after the thing and i
sprinted a couple times and man was a sick after. Haha it was ridiculous. I am
not slow or anything but just being sick after running just a little bit made me
feel bad. Haha it was crazy because before we went inside everybody who was
suppose to run was outside smoking and drinking. Guess it works better than
gatorade. That is something you could send me though. I finished Day of Defense
so now i am ready to bash with people. Well sounds like everything is going well
over there. I love you guys. And just know everything good and i am safe. :)
Love you.
Elder Hukill

Monday, February 16, 2009

Holy Fetch- I'm going to be 20!!

Hey,
Holy Fetch i am going to be 20 this week. Haha i seriously feel like i am still 14 or 15. I think about it and i think this is the 2nd year in a row i havent been with you mom or dad. Its all good though. I wont get the package until the beginning of march most likely. But its ok. I will just go buy myself a new tie or something and say its from you guys. Sounds like everything went well with the baby blessing and what not. How much did Don have to do with the open house? I dont know what kind of food though that i want. Just send like stuff like takes like 2 ingredients and stuff like that. We actually found a store here that sells skippy peanut butter so i am good with that. Thats good about bree and her like "Boyfriend" or whatever he is. Does he play sports? Where is he from? Vatalee is amazing. He is 35 and single and the most humble person i know. He is "unoffically" on date for baptism. Hopefully the end of the month though he will get baptized. He said he can remember checkers games that he played 10 times ago and everything about them. Its crazy. He is awesome. He comes to church every week. I dont really see President any more than before. Everything is fine though. It was just annoying last week to watch the other Elders play that gay little magic game. Its all good though. Zap though is probably the dirtest city in the world. It has been raining alot these last couple of days and they say the rain will make your hair fall out because the rain is really acidic because of the factories around here. It pretty much is a factory city. With no mountains or anything. the city has about 1 million people in it. There really arent mountains anywhere in ukraine except for the krem. Last week though was actually very intersting though. Dont be worried or anything like that everything is alright. But me and my companion got into a fight last week. We were just walking down the street and these kids started fighting us. I punched 2 of them. Haha seriously too. I have never punched anyone before in my life and i did on my mission. But nothing to big. Everything is alright. Really dont worry. Just thought i would share that. :) Well thats about all that has been going on this side of the world. I hope everything is well. Love you guys.
Elder Hukill

FYI- I don't wear Extra Large

Hey,

Well another week has passed by without to much going on. Same old stuff. The weather though sounds warmer here though than it does in St. George. I looked up our house on the church website and showed some members and the other missionaries. Its like a google earth thing. It was crazy. Everyone thought it was funny that we didnt have any neighbors or anything else around us. The members though were pretty impressed with the swimming pool though. Earlier today the other elders came over and with my companion played this card game called "Magic". I just made fun of them the whole time. I could not stoop that low and play it. I remember kids playing that during lunch at high school. No way i will ever play it. I bought a pull up bar though that i use every night. Thats about the only thing new though. I havent been to McDonalds yet here. I dont know where it is. This city has about 1 million people in it or more. I know aaron spendlove but we just called him AJ. Thats good he is going on a mission. I got the package with the 3 shirts that i probably will give them all to BoBa because they are huge for me. I dont wear XL FYI. Thanks for those though and the Dictionary. Dad that story was really funny. Also will you send actually food things instead of candy when you do it. Candy is good but food is better. Thank you for all of the stuff though. :) I still dont understand how the franchise works. I dont see how you make money on it if Brent and Mike set it all up. Who is the "big pinecone" as they would say in russian? We have a cleaning lady that cooks for us once a week and we just eat that. Its really good for the most part and a lot of it. I would kill for there to be a dennys here. Our investigator Vatalee is doing well. He is amazing at checkers are we even played without looking once and still won. He could even do every move that happend in the game. It was amazing. He is amazing and really humble. We bought him new sport shoes the other day because his got stolen. Haha and FYI i played for the 8th grade team when i was in 7th grade. Just so you didnt forget. YOu should go snowboarding with Tyson sometime. He would love it. Same old though going on here. Russian is coming along and all is well. Oh yea in the next package will you send some pictures of me like playing football and just pictures before my mission and stuff. The people here love that stuff. So just anything that looks good or interesting. Well thats all for this week. Hope all is well. Love you all.
Elder Hukill

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Gross tasting dirty snow flake!!

Hey Family,

Last week seemed like a long week for me as well. The weeks in Nikolaev went fast because i knew when everything was at all of that so it went fast but i am still trying to get used to everything here so hopefully time will pick up again. The senior couple here does not speak russian. We have to translate for them. We are teaching this way awesome guy named vatalee who is the city and region checkers champion. He is so cool. That is funny that Makenna knows Taylor Swift. You can just mail the Helaman Army letters with packages and stuff. Put Gavin on his feet and tell him to walk. Getting around here is the same. Walking and public transportation. My apartment is alot older than my other apartment was. But its alright. The shower is better so that makes up for everything in my opinion. Haha most people in the mission are from Utah is the funny thing. But what do you expect. I havent heard anything about BoBa or anything so i dont know whats going on. He was a little Butt before i left so i dont know whats going on. I havent bought anymore winter clothes since being here. The only clothing i buy is ties. Nothing to cool has been going on around here. It was snowing the other day while we were outside signboarding and the snow flakes were the biggest i have ever seen. I ate one and it was so gross. This is a very dirty city. I got one package today because it was Zone conference. We had a lesson with a 82 year old guy who was going crazy. He said Peter the Great came in the middle of the night. Haha so yea it was interesting. Where is Aaron living? I havent written him a letter because i knew he was getting out so i need his new address. Tell him i say hey though. Dad what do you do with the franchising? Tell Tyson i say hey. . My companion and i get along good. We are different from each other but we get along which is good. There really isnt anything to exciting going on though. Soon though. Zap is the place to be and i am excited to be here. Sorry if i didnt answer all your questions. If you have them just ask. :) Well love you guys.

Elder Hukill

In a new City, Zaparozha-or something like that

Hey Family,

Well i survived another week here in Ukraine. Nothing to exciting except for the fact that i am in a new city. I am in a city called Zaparozha or something like that in english. I am 2 hours south of Dnepr. I am way stoked to be here though because we have like 10 investigators. Its took my companion (whose name is Elder Steadman from Sandy) 45 minutes to tell me about all of the investigators that we have. So it was pretty exciting to here about it all. The senior couple here is really awesome and they help out with the work alot. They have big plans for here which is awesome. There is alot more teaching done here than finding and stuff which is a big change for me. So i am really excited to be here even though i miss Nikolaev. Packing fetching was terrible but i got it all in and everything. That place is so awesome. But i took a 9 hours train ride that felt like an eternity. I was with 2 other elders. I felt like i was sitting in a prison cell. But it was cool to be on a train. Do you know if Kipp is planning on a mission or what he is doing? That is cool Don has an article in the ensign. I will probably write him a letter sometime soon. Yesterday at church was really awesome because i understood so much of what was being said. It is amazing how just moving to another city has changed how much i understand. Like i seriously was amazed. There is a greenie here so its cool to see the progression from where i was to where i am now. Even though its still hard but still. The weather is warmer today and not to bad. Thanks for finally telling me about my car. I am not expecting to be seeing any of that money from drew to be honest with you. Haha oh well. Thanks for putting and taking care of all of my money stuff. And i call opening a franchise in hawaii. Well good luck with it all. Haha. Is Tyson still working for you? Who is taking all of the calls and stuff now? Everything is going good here. I still write in my journal even though its only once a week. Well love you guys and hope everything is going well for you there. Sorry if i didnt answer all of your questions that you wanted me too. Just ask next week if i missed some.
Love you.