November 10, 2009

Aloha Family!  well i just got back from the temple and i cant express how much i love it!  THE BOISE TEMPLE IS SO BEAUTIFULL!  I hope that everyone makes an effort to get to the temple sometime cause i know how much it blesses my life!  that sucks u gotta fly to kona to do it tho!  so president told me there is another boy from honolulu headded out here in jan. and his name is pono akina,  he said he wants to stack our mission with polys!  he has such a great love for all of us!  Well today we set another baptism date and im super excited about that cause it is a potential priesthood holder and his family will follow if he is faithfull! we had many many inactives andf investigators come to sacrement meeting due to the childrens program! we made little flyers and went around sat night passing them out to all the people we work with!  it was such a sucess!  the lords hand is in all we do and we see so many miricles!  no joke!  if i even tryed to write half the miricles ive seen this week it would be in volumes!  president could not be happier of what is going on in kuna and i love my mission!  so i thought in the fall there is alot of red and  yellow all over the town and nice colored leaves, but all we continue to see this fall is Blue and Orange!  im so sick of boise state this and boise state that and the most commonly asked question i get, "did you know boise beat hawaii"  i look at them like "REALLY?"  my responce is always with all sencerness "no, i am just so caught up in the lords work as we all should be, that i missed it"  then the members feel dumb and they change the subject and say "i loved your talk in steak confrence"   i testify that the gospel can help us with all our problems in life... big or small!  i saw my long lost comp. elder garcia in the temple today!  he was sitting on the couch when i got out of my session and i asked where his other 2 comps. were and he said "in the session"  so i said "why are u out here?"  he said "my ashma is affecting my breathing so i did not feel up to going in"  i just said " garcia im sure that the air in the room is the same air out here and u will be fine,  the altitude is 2 feet more then where u are right now"  and it instantly brought back memorys of when he used to hate me and he was silent!   i really do miss him!  i dont laugh nearly as much now but we work 1000 times more!  any way nuff stories but i cant wait to play flag football today at our zone activity!  i hope all is well in Hawaii nei and i hope u all continue to wax strong in the gospel of Jesus Christ!  i love and miss u all but i miss the ocean more to tell u the truth!  aloha till next week!

-Elder Runnels