Letter received September 26, 2014

Familia!
New transfer, new companion, same wonderful area! :)  I am excited to be here in C-Ville for another 6 weeks.  My companion, as you read in my email, is Elder Jerman from Mesa, Arizona.  This is his 3rd transfer so he just got done training.  He's a great missionary and fun to be with.  We've been working hard around here lately with 20+ lessons a week and lots of great service.  This last weekend we were able to bale hay out at the Risch's which was super fun.  We rode our bikes out to their house which is a 10 mile ride through the hilly countryside and we made it in 52 minutes.  Great ride :)  The Krammes family has been doing good lately!  We were able to show Sister Krammes how to use familysearch.org so she can start doing her genealogy for temple work.  Brooke Krammes, the youngest daughter, made the best decision ever...she chose Alto Sax for band.  I was so excited when I found out.  I've been able to teach her a couple of times as she starts to learn it.  She also let me play it and it took me a little bit but I played the Alma Mater from memory :)  Felt so great.  I missed the sax!  The weather is really starting to cool down now which is awesome because I get to break out my sweaters.  I love sweaters.  Looks like it could be another intense winter.  Elder Jerman and I went fishing on p-day.  Didn't have too much luck but it was a good time.  That'll be our p-day activity.  So I was studying in the book of Enos today.  I love the example Enos sets and his story in general.  Enos was granted a remission of his sins because of his faith in Christ.  Because of that same faith the Lord promised to grant Enos his desires.  That is the faith that I am striving to strengthen.  I know that the Lord has a plan for me and that He will provide but I also know that it's by faith that I need to live so that I may see that glorious plan come to pass.  I love the song "Be Still My Soul."  It speaks to me...as a lot of music does.  Well I'm going to get this in the mail.  I love you!  Hope all is well!  :)
Much love,
Elder Conner Gunnoe

From our email on September 22, 2014

What a week it has been around here! Obviously transfers were this last week and I again stayed in Connersville which I am pleasantly surprised about :) Looking forward to another 6 weeks in the promise land of C-Ville. Still District Leader and my new companion is Elder Jake Jerman from Mesa Arizona! He is only 4 months out so he just got done being trained by Elder Bradshaw (the one i was in the MTC with :D) He's a great missionary and has tons of potential that I hope to help him realize. We had another busy week as we taught 23 lessons and did some great service around the area :) Got to bale hay out at the Risch's on saturday which was super fun :) The weather has really been cooling off around here which is nice.. oh and we actually rode our bikes to the Risch's which is a 10 mile ride and we made it in 52 minutes :) Good times!! Today as you saw on the pics we went fishing which was fun :) Next monday we're going to a member's property out in Liberty because he has a pretty large pond that apparently has some decent fish in it so we'll see how that goes... Other than that not too much crazy goin on.. Life is extremely good and we are continuing to work hard and labor in this part of the Lord's vineyard! Almost 15 months down!! scary stuff honestly.. time is flying which is a good and bad thing but it is what it is... I love you and hope you have a wonderful week!!! :)

Email from September 8, 2014

Well it was a long but great week!! Monday of course we had the chalk draw and of course P-day on tuesday.. Wednesday i was able to go on exchanges with Elder McFarland here in Connersville! It was a great day as we went around and visited people and worked out things for this past weekend. Thursday we had a revelatory Zone Meeting up in Anderson at the end of which we had a very powerful testimony meeting as we each bore testimony about how the Savior has changed us. Friday we had some preparations to do for saturday in addition to our normal teaching schedule... then finally Saturday came... we left at 12 noon to head for the Columbus Ohio Temple!! We were able to go through a session in the afternoon immediately after which we started a baptistry session with 7 of the recent converts!! All in all we had a total of 17 members of the Connersville Ward attend that evening. It was an amazing experience had by all followed by an awesome dinner at cracker barrel! Good times with wonderful people! Sunday was a great day with testimony meeting and some great teaching in the afternoon and evening. Sorry i'm on late today we are down in Cinci with the amazing Elder Bradshaw (the one that came out with me :D) and his companion Elder Jerman (pronounced German).. we are spending the day with them and the assistants because Brother Wright (the member who is going with us to the Reds game tonight) works in Cinci so he dropped us off with the elders this morning and will meet back up with us later! It's going to be an awesome evening of baseball!!! :D i'm so excited :) I hope everything is going well back home!! I love you so much!! Have a wonderful week!! :)

Message from a sweet Sister in Elder Gunnoe's ward in Connersville...

You should know how very busy Elder Gunnoe and Elder Grubbe are in hastening the work here.  Even though this was their prep day they were doing service for a family and gave up a lot of their time to get it done.  Then I spent from 6:30 to 9pm with them as they taught and we planned for tomorrow.  They have three appointments set up for tomorrow plus some new implementations of goals they are working on.  They literally are busy working very hard for the Connersville people.  Don't be too disappointed when hand written letters lose their frequency, that just means they are so very busy doing the work!  That is something I did learn about my son while on his mission, if he had time to write me long letters each week and an email on P-day then maybe he had too much time on his hands and when the letters lessened he explained that he had learned to work harder and that of course took lots of time.  So please learn from my experience, if the letters become less frequent then that is a GREAT thing...not that he loves you less but is learning to love the Lord more!! :)

Letter received August 7, 2014

Parentals!

Whoa!  Those 5 weeks flew by!  Week 6 of the transfer is already here.  And in that 5 weeks...we were greatly blessed to see the entire Krammes family AND Hailey and Allysa be baptized and confirmed!  God's grace has definitely attended us here in Connersville.  We have seen so many blessing and so much opposition it's crazy.  I love the Krammes family so much...seeing the great changes they've made in their lives is life changing for me.  It's a great testimony builder for me seeing such great faith exercised and witnessing the blessings that come from it.  I've really learned a lot with this whole experience of being with the Krammes' from the start.  The Spirit has been present in all of our lives throughout it all!

Well as you know I am staying in Connersville for another 6 weeks.  When I found out I was staying and also found out I was District Leader I received a massive surge of motivation and determination to do whatever it is that the Lord has for me to accomplish here.  We are going to work very hard and start helping the ward see our motivation and work with them to bring about the Lord's purposes.  This is the hastening and we need as many people on board as possible.  I'm excited for another transfer here in the Promised Land of Connersville!  I love this ward, I love the people we are working with, I love my companion and fellow missionaries.  I love life :)  And I love my momma and daddy and brother :)  I hope you're enjoying time with family.  Give everyone a hug for me.  I love you!

Love,
Elder Gunnoe

Letter received July 11, 2014

Parentals,
Wassup!  Long time no talk...my bad :(  It has been an amazing couple of weeks here in the promised land of Connersville.  So obviously I am staying for this transfer and I am very grateful for that opportunity because so many miracles have been happening.  We keep exceeding our expectations of what's going to happen.  2 weekends ago we were able to baptize 3 amazing girls - Brooke, Hailey and Allysa!  It was a very spiritual experience.  Then this past weekend we baptized Jeremy Sr. and his youngest son Landon which was amazing as well.  Now this weekend we will be baptizing the 2 oldest kids - Jeremy Jr. and Kenzie :)  It's definitely an exciting time!  I am so grateful for this chance I have to be a part of the Lord's work at this time and in this area.  This ward is so awesome!  I love them all so much :)  We have interviews this week which I'm looking forward to - to see President again :)  We've been able to do more service with the Risch family lately which has been awesome.  It's just great being with their family :)  I can't believe I'm a year out.  Only 365 short days left.  Time is flying.  Elder Grubbe and I are doing great :)  Thank you so much for the packages - 4th of July and 1 year :)  You da bomb!  :)  We've been getting quite a bit of rain here.  The crops are shooting up :)  I'll include some programs of the baptisms for you guys and our awesome BBQ flyer :)  I hope all is well back home.  Say "Hi" to everyone for me.  I love you so much!  Have a wonderful week.
Much love,
Elder Conner Gunnoe

From email dated July 7, 2014

Momdre!! what an amazing week it has been here in the promise land of Connersville! :) 2 of Heavenly Father's sons were brought into the waters of baptism! And as you know we hosted an awesome BBQ today for our investigators and the member's :) it was a really fun time :) i have been doing very well lately! It has just been a wonderful life here lately but very very very busy. we are constantly running all over creation doing this and doing that. It's crazy how much work we've been doing.. we couldn't do it without Him though :) That's definitely something that i've learned is always recognizing God's hand in our work helps it to be constantly there. Always having an attitude of gratitude and knowing where the credit needs to go. it's been amazing to watch things unfold and all of the pieces come together in the lives of those we're working with! We've been able to have some amazing experiences lately as we have been focusing on a couple of families. I cannot believe that i am about to be a year out! only 368 days left!! :( that's scary!! time is flying crazy and i know when the holiday season rolls around again it will fly even faster! i am looking forward to it though because it will be amazing experience as it has been thus far :) I love you so much! i'll work on the letter!! Have a great week!! hug yourself for me :) Love you!!

Elder G