November 8, 2015 - Milledgeville, GA

Hey FAM!!!

I definitely had to break out my winter clothes this past week. Yesterday was the first day that I wore Kevins long coat and I was worried about it catching in my chains and I biked yesterday with it on and it seemed okay. I don't know if it will be a problem or not but I think it will work for now. 

So I got some pretty crazy news on Saturday at Transfer Calls. So I was somewhat nervous about what would happen from transfer calls because we are in a car share right now and there are 11 new sisters coming into our mission which would mean the car would be taken away and sisters would come into our area. So I was somewhat nervous and it turned out that Elder Schiers is getting transferred. Then President Cottle read off who would be Trainers for the next transfer. Guess whose name was read off first...You guessed it "Elder Hill" I was freaking out cause it was so unexpected and it's pretty unusual for a missionary as young as me to be training. So on Tuesday I'll have a son:) I'll let you know how that goes.

Yesterday Elder Schiers was saying goodbye to people and he wanted to say goodbye to the Weltz family. They are Awesome! Sister Weltz just came back from Logan, Utah to visit her daughter and she told me that it snowed and it's getting colder. She told me that shes going back to Logan onDecember 1st. I said that she should go to the North Logan 13th ward on that next Sunday and ask around for the Hill family. So if a lady with a southern accent comes up to you it might be sister Weltz! That would be pretty cool if it worked out like that! 

My week was pretty wet and rainy but we really focused on meeting with less actives this week and taught 13 lessons with less actives! One of the less actives we met with is Brother Fraley and he is a returned missionary. He's also met Thomas S. Monson and President Gordon B Hinkley. It was crazy! He has a pretty crazy story I'll have to tell you when I get home. Dont worry I'll remember.

Mom please get better and take it easy this week. Have lots of oranges and get better. I'll be praying for you!

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! SO MUCH

-Elder Mitchell Hill

#I'maDAD  #Tooyoung  #It'stheHolidays   #   

Here's your sign!!!

Milledgeville, GA District!

November 1, 2015 - Milledgeville, GA

Hey Fam!!!

I'm glad that you got my letter and enjoyed it! Elder Schiers and I built a 750 puzzle of Noahs ark and had a lock down where we weren't allowed to leave our apartment so we just built a puzzle haha:) 

This past week was pretty eventful. On Thursday I witnessed an accident where a car hit a concrete wall! Elder Schiers and I were riding our bikes on a street and we looked to our left and saw this car tried to dodge a parked car and hit a concrete wall. It was crazy, we called the police and the medics checked him out. After it was under control we left and I was just in awe of being in the right place at the right time! Also we were riding our bikes in the rain and we had to go up a steep hill and I was going up and my foot snagged my chain guard and half of it busted.It's not a big deal but I just have to be careful to not cut my leg. Theres a missionary that is going home next transfer who has a really nice bike that he's willing to give me so I might take him up on that because my bike right now has just had it. On Halloween I was able to be apart of my first baptism on the mission! Elder Godwin and Elder Davis baptized three people and Elder Schiers and I were witnesses. We also were able to help confirm and help them receive the Holy Ghost on Sunday. Even though they weren't our investigators it was a team effort because the kids run around quite a bit and it took all four of us to help them during the lessons and such.It was pretty remarkable, the power of the priesthood is incredible. Millidgeville hasn't had a baptism in 4 years and so it was great to help the ward out in that way. Elder Schiers and I are teaching this lady and her family that is looking for ways to come closer to God and she is willing to do anything she can to do that. We are going to ask if she'd like to be baptized this week so the work is moving along! 

With the time change it gets pitch black at around 6:00 and it's been raining for 5 days straight. It's not cold rain but you just feel "soggy" I dont know if thats the right word for it but you just feel like your body is damp all the time. Kevin has probably experienced that I'm sure. We have transfer calls on Saturday so we will see if I stay or go. My guess is that I'll stay but you never know! It's crazy that I'm going on my 5th month here in Georgia! I've learned so much and my testimony is being solidified! The church is true! I know that for sure! I don't know how it couldn't be true!

I hope all is well! Keep it up with SDL, work, holding down the fort, school, and being the best family!

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

- Elder Mitchell Hill    

#USUgamessoundawesome    #ItsBBALLseason   #runnynoseseason

Puzzle built during lockdown.

​So the city of Milllidgeville is pretty historic. Back in the civil war there was a man called captain Shermin. Back in the 1800's Millidgeville was supposed to be the state capitol but after alot of events Atlanta became the capital, but anyway captain Shermin would go into towns with the confederate army and kill and set houses on fire, but there was man who lived in this mansion who offered to give the army and captain shermin a place to stay. Some people asked why would someone want to let murders into their house. The man who owned the house said because "he's not going to set his own house on fire." So this is the house where Captain Shermin stayed at in Millidgeville.

October 26, 2015 - Milledgeville, GA

Hey Fam!!

So in Waynesboro I didn't baptize anyone but I worked with an investigator who we had on date for the 10th of October but I got transferred, but I actually just got word this past week that he got baptized. So I was just planting seeds and things worked out in the end! I actually had es car go out here at a member's house and it's very unique I'll put it that way! I'm glad everything is settling down, and going well! That pumpkin walk looks soo cool! Elder Schiers and I went to an investigators house and carved pumpkins there. Although I think the ones at the pumpkin walk were probably alot better than mine. I''ll send you a picture:) 

This past week was a pretty crazy week! I feel like I've said that alot but it's like every week something crazy happens. This time every year there is a Deep Roots festival at Millidgeville. There thousands of people that come from all over the south to come to the small town of Millidgeville for the Georgia Barbeque state championship. There is a car show, tents selling food, clothes, and Georgia things. There were live bands that came and performed and it was quite the experience. Elder Schiers and I taught 30 lessons in one day. We gave away 150 pass along cards and it was awesome! We also volunteered at the Deep Roots festival and we got free T-Shirts and got to take down the stage sets after each performance. It was pretty cool. I'm not sure if you know or have heard of JR. JR but they are an alternative rock band that are pretty well known and I got to meet each one of them and teach them what we do as missionaries! It was definitely something that I'll always remember and it was soo cool! 

We also went to the bishops house last night and Bishop Thompson loves to hunt and he is really cgood at cooking it! He killed a 5 point deer last week end and we had a really good dinner. He fried some deer heart, made some really good stew with venison meat in it, and he smoked some ribs for us too. It was pretty GOOD! Dad you would've loved it! The deer heart tasted pretty irony but thats what I expected from an organ that pumps iron 24/7. (HAHA did you get that joke:)

Anyway, In my patriarchal blessing it talks about how I'll be sent to the lions den and where I'll experience first hand the iniquities of the world. I definitely saw iniquity that night:)  but like Daniel in the lions den the lord delivered us out of bondage:) Daniel has become one of my favorite prophets because I can see many traits in him that I see in myself. I was reading my patriarchal blessing last night and all the qualities it tells me that I should have are apparent in Daniels life, so it's been cool to relate to a prophet in that way.

I'll continue to be the best servant of the Lord I can be and help bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man to many people!

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

<3 Elder Mitchell Hill

#DeepRoots2k15   #Deepsouthcookin     #misshome   #4months  #20togo

With our investigator Devin at Deep Roots

My interpretation of Daniel and the Lions Den

October 19, 2015 - Millidgeville, GA

Hey Fam!!

I had a pretty good week here in good ol' Millidgeville. I'm not sure if you know but there are four missionaries in Millidgeville and we share a car, but we arent given the miles we need so we still bike 15-20 miles a day. My legs are getting Skrong:) Oh fun fact about the south, if there is a "t" in a word it suddenly turns into a "k". Example: Straight-Skraight  Stop-Skop.  It's very interesting haha. When I got my call and it said English on it, it really meant southern American Speaking because boy some words down here don't mean the same thing. On Saturday the whole Macon zone was able to work with the American Red Cross and the Macon fire department and we got to install free fire alarms for people who didn't have any in their homes. We tracted for 8 hours and installed over 400 fire alarms as a zone! It was awesome! The American Red Cross said they have never had that much success in their whole existence. (They probably haven't worked with Mormons before) I'm sure we are on their website or something cause they took alot of pictures! Mom told me to eat something fun down here so a member from the ward made us jalapeno jelly. It was very interesting, it's hot and sweet at the same time it's interesting. 

The work in Millidgeville is going alright. The town is very stagnant and set in their ways, but we are doing our best to help people in Millidgeville see the truth. Elder Schiers and I were in a discussion with a lady named Shan Hill and this man pulled up in a white truck and said "Come over here!!" Elder Schiers just got up and went over and I was hesitant because of the sketchy area we were in and the fact that a girl in the back yelled "Don't do it!" So I followed him but I was cautious and it turns out that all he wanted to do is rebuke us. The lady in the passenger seat filmed us and all he wanted to do is just say everything we believed in was wrong. He was a preacher for the Lord is Light church and invited us to come. He was one of those kind of people that rearranged our answers to his questions to make him have the upper hand. Like he asked us 

"How do we have a relationship with God?"

I said" Through praying to God and acting on the promptings from the Holy Ghost."

He said" No, it's only through the Holy Ghost and prayer we receive guidance from God."

I was like "Didn't I just say that?"

Anyway there's alot of work needed to be done here in Millidgeville but that doesn't scare me. I hope your week goes well and my testimony is growing and I'm doing well!

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! 

-Elder Mitchell Hill

#MaconMiracles   #Almost Halloween  #Skay Skrong

Jalapeno Jelly

Savin' Lives

October 12, 2015 - Millidgeville, GA

HEY FAM!! HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!

The rain jacket is doing well, it doesn't rain as much here as it did in Waynesboro so that's a plus kind of. Thank you so much in advance for the package you know I love everything I get from you guys:) The campus here is really cool! It reminds me alot of Logan actually with main streets and buildings lining the roads instead of trees

My week this week was pretty good. I'm not sure if Kevin has been white washed before but it's alot more difficult than it may seem. It's just been hard because we live like 6 miles away from another set of missionaries that cover the same area so we often run into places where they have tracted and it's frustrating. So we are still trying to find people to teach and we will keep working hard on that. Elder Schiers' bike broke down so we have had to walk like 15-20 miles a day so his bike should be fixed today so that will help alot. The other day I had an eye opening experience and it really irritated me. 

Elder Schiers and I were walking and we were faced with a decision to go into a project neighborhood that has drive by shootings often to cut some walking distance off or to go around it and make our walk 10 miles longer. So we walked through it and we were about through it when we came to a group of people smoking and we heard 2-3 year old kids raise their hands and say "Don't Shoot" "Don't Shoot" (they thought we were cops and it disgusted me... I was just like they are 2-3 years old and their parents are teaching them that white cops just shoot people regardless of what they do. And it was just a really wierd experience so we walked the other way and went up the next street, but don't worry nothing really bad happened.

My testimony in faith in Jesus Christ is really building and I really regret not spending as much time in the scriptures as I do out here. The scriptures contain so much guidance and they give us direction in life and I feel like I didn't use them to the best of my ability back home. But thats just another thing I've learned on my mission

I HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A GOOD WEEK! I'll try to eat something you guys would be proud of but I have a scholarship in sight and I'd rather take that than a donut.>>>  

I LOVE YOU GUYS and thanks for all that you do for me!!

Love,

Elder Hill

#Millidgeville  #DontworryBehappy   #keepitupHillfam   #WeRkillinit

October 5, 2015 - Millidgeville, GA

Hey Fam!!!

I'm doing GREAT! It has definitely been wet down here! As you know, I was transferred and I now serve in Millidgeville Georgia and boy it sure is different from Waynesboro. I live right next to Georgia's military college and Georgia State university of liberal arts! The campus is sooo pretty and it's been fun serving in a town where people are active and actually do things outside! The town here is soo cool and it remind me alot of the town in Dukes of Hazard! Also fun fact, Millidgeville is home to the largest insame asylum hospital in the world! At one point it held over 13,000 patients and now it's abandoned.  I haven't been there yet but when I do I'll take a picture of casper the friendly ghost for you guys:) My new companion is Elder Schiers from Parowan, Utah. We both were white washed into Millidgeville with two other missionaries. We have been living in a four pad for the past week. The other missionaries that we live with is Elder Davis and Elder Godwin! It's been alot of fun, but today we move into our new apartment so Elder Schiers and I will be living in our own place not to far from the other missionaries. It's good to hear that things are going well for you guys in Utah, I've been praying for you and I wish I could share the fun with you, but I will when I come back:)  

Elder Schiers and I have had already quite the week! The rain down here has gotten pretty crazy and it seems that every time I ride my bike there is a memorable story haha:) On my second day in Millidgeville Elder Schiers headed out on our bikes and we got about 3 miles from our house when it started to sprinkle. So we didn't think too much of it but it started to pick up and within 3 minutes I was drenched! We were about 5 miles from our house so we started to head back. The raindrops felt like hail and riding became increasingly difficult.. We kept going and we got to about 2 miles left with a hill that was at a 50 degree angle left that lasted for about a half mile. The good ol' hard working Mitch kicked in and we powered through it! After that Elder Schiers and I rode downhill to our house where we hit the HOT shower! It was quite the physical experience and I'm sure it won't be the last but don't worry as long as God is with me I can do all things!

I thoroughly enjoyed General Conference and I've learned more this conference than all the conferences I've attended combined! I was soo intrigued by every single word from every speakers and the spirit really pierced my heart. It was hard for me to find a talk that was my favorite, but Elder Hollands talk on motherly love and how it's compared to the pure love of Christ really spoke to me! Love you mom:) I love you guys! Also I liked the message by the prophet in the Sunday morning session and even though he struggled to speak, it made his message that much more powerful because he knew it was that important for us to hear! My testimony is sure growing and I feel like I'm really finding myself and who I want to become!

I hope you guys have a great week! I LOVE YOU GUYS SOO MUCH!
Mitchell

September 21, 2015 - Waynesboro, GA

Hey Fam!!

I'm doing great and it's great to hear from you as always!! 

Well, my week was very hectic and a lot happened this week! On Tuesday we had Zone Training meeting and in the zone training meeting for a break the zone shoots free throws and if you miss you're out and the winner gets to write their name on this necklace that's been here for 10 years! Guess who won?!! Haha me and this other Elder who played basketball in high school went back and forth making three after three and it was quite entertaining! Also Kristy and Dad would be proud of me! This week I bailed some hay! There is an investigator we have and his name is Bob and he is 77 years old with a hay farm of 15 acres and I learned to be a farmer for a day. So after the bail tractor came around we had to pick up the 60 lbs. hay bails and through them into this trailer and run to the next one and do the same thing. We did it for 5 hours and I was SOOOO itchy at the end of it all! We needed up with bailing 550 bails of hay and then we had to unload them and deliver them! It was crazy, and we were promised lunch but because of all the work we didn't have time so I did it on an empty stomach and the Lord definitely helped me through that time. Kristy would love the horses here! Also Elder Duran and I helped get Marren Hopkins on date for BAPTISM! I'm sooo pumped for him! I hope it all goes well and after he's baptized on the 10th of October that he remains faithful!!

We are still riding close to 30 miles a day and along with all the working out and running I do in the morning and at night.

I loved the pictures you sent!! I definitely want to see that bear when I get back! Keep the Faith! I'm doing great and I'm glad you are too!

I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH!!!

-Elder Mitchell Hill

#Sore  #themountainslookamazing    #misstherec   #missyouguys   #goodluckKevin   #HUGS

Don't do it Mitch!!

ZTM shootout winner!!