August 11, 2009

Aloha family and friends!  i am so thankfull foe all the letters and e mails!  i dont really have time to write all of u back but know it means a lot to me and help me alot!  so keep doind it!  My runnels ohana thanks so much for that package!  i loved all the letters and not to mention all that food!   microwave rice?  right on.  imma go wallmart and get spam for eat with it!  well this week was nnuuttss!!!  i had my first chance in my life to do alot of things!  both spritual and fun thins also! i had got a call cause some teenage boy went on a trip and his pet anaconda got loose!  so i went to look all over the house for it and finally found it under a dresser!  im not gunna lie!  i was so scared!  i had it bite a stick and carefully put it back in a big glass case!  good times!  we have been doing alot of service lately!  we drove by an old lady and she was rakeing a huge yard so i had my comp stop and we helped her rake it all in our church clothes and it was at 830 pm!  we also helped a family move!  it was the most grimy dirty place ever!  im talkin mice, dirt, clothes every where, rotting food! all kine stuff everywhere!  i just went in and started throwing everything away!  gross stuff!  but we got it done and the hale is clean once again!  we get free food all over here!  mostly pizza shops give it to us for free oh and there are these crip shave ice shacks all over all its good kine too!  trust me i was shocked!  its free for missionaries so we stop there plenty!  well on a more for real note!  the sisters called us up and told us there was a lady struggling in life with health problems and the docters told her there was nothing they could do. super bad pain 24 7 and she was giving up on life!  i offered her a blessing and she told me before it that she was just done with living and she wanted to be with her husband in heaven.  small kine suisidal!  i blessed her and the sprit was sooo strong in the room!  she just called me personaly yesterday and said she was feeling alot better and was ready to push through life and thanked me alot!  i told her it was cause of her faith and the sprit.  not me so thank her heavenly father!  we have 3 dates for baptism now and they are all excited for it!  its going to be held on the 22 this month!  chee hoo!  fun things i ate this week!  moose! elk! unseasoned dry pot roast/ jerky!  yum! oh and aligator!  no joke!  fun things i did!  bow and arrow into hay stacks , learned how to correctly throw ninja stars,  learned how to focus my chee energy to move objects,  bass fished,  trackted in the cold idaho rain,  seen skunks,  quails, hawaks, oh and i had the rare privlidge of seeing first hand how cows reproduce! the ninja star and chee energy things have long storys behind it!  long story short (dont do drugs and have the elders over to ur house)  the weather here is soo off!  hot 115 degree weather on day then 50 degree rain weather two days than hot again!  idaho needs to pick one,  hot or cold!  well guys i hope all of u at home are staying strong in the gospel!  i am seeing miricles every day and i hope for all of u to be as stoked about missionary work as i am!  think about how much it is blessing us,  now stop being selfish and share it with those u meet!  if u feel impressed to share with someone! do not  DO NOT  hesitate!  the joy u will feel in doing that is undiscribable!  i pray for u all and i hope the best for u!  ok till next weeks p day!  take care!  -ELDER RUNNELS

p.s.  try to make sure these people get this
Darrel, Pat, Dean, Zac, and the Lungs or at least Justin