ok well another great week in the mission of my life! we have seen so many miricles! we are teaching so many lessons to so many people and the spirit is so strong always! we have been setting up so many lessons that we set some for p day now! we just got back from one and we set up his baptism onthe 8! he is 15 and has a baby but is trying to change his life! his girlfriend is also being baptised on the 15 along with her sister! they all have commited this week to live the law of chastity and the word of wisdom! they are doing great and reading all the homework we give them! TWICE! they just love the gospel! crazy to think that they can be so into it so young! the faith they show is amazing and the sincereness they have is unreal! some people we teach are nutts! i thought Kuna was bad but i feel like crazy people are attracted to missionaries! no matter tho, were all Gods children! we teach a lady thats over 80 and she is awesome! she has no teeth like the rest of the town but is so sweet! we are currently teaching the mayor of fruitland! we found him while looking for people to teach and we knocked on his door! he fed us and we taught on prayer and who God is! he loved it and we are now teaching him! he will be a member soon, i feel it! such a great guy! we teach another 80 yearold with termanal cancer and he is about to die! no joke. he is on oxygen and is slowly falling away but believes all we teach and his wife who cares for him is also sitting in on the lessons! she said she prayed about it in church and believes! we have found many foreign exchange students to teach for some reason! weird situation tho. we can teach all the lessons and commit them to everything but baptism cause they are not alowed to make any "life changing" decisions while away from home! they all believe too! we teach a 17 yr old girl from Sybria russia, a 16 year old from germany, a 17 yr old boy from thailand, and a 16 yr old girl from ohman. where ever that is! she is muslim and wears the vail over her face! good times! i love meeting all kine new people everywhere! on a differnt random note... we are on the snake river next to orgen and go there for everything! there is no tax there so we go wall mart there! we love it! what you see is what you pay! oh and you cant fill your own gas! its a law that they do it for you and they wash your windows while you wait! i love orgen! when everyone here finds out im from Hawaii they sighn up for dinner and feed us spam! i think my comp. is sick and tired of it but im in heaven! i love the members here! i love the animals here! egals fly every where and hawks and falcons! oh and we have a pet albino owl that lives in our tree! i love him! his name is Howl the owl. random i know! oh we do lots of service! we got to hurd sheep and i learned the proper way to catch baby sheep! its so fun! we got to burry a bunch too cause a wild cyotte got in the pen and took off some of the sheeps heads! we get free eggs from everyone so i eats lots of spam and eggs! we get goose eggs, hen, duck, all kine eggs! the goose ones taste rubbery tho! we have had some fat lightning storms here! its awesome to see it! oh and i have ran over some awesome animals here! they roam all over the streets! every time i kill something i turn around to see them flat on the road! ive hit (not on purpose) a squrll, quail, whistle pig, snake (just this morning) and tons of crows! we also seen a dead horse that was hit by the train next to the tracks! it was cut in half by the train! crazy and its no big deal to the people here! i think its weird to see dead things everywhere! anyway we have so much fun here! so country! im learning alot about how to raise animals here! finally we will be playing in "Christ the light, the life, and the way" musical this weekend! we perform in boise next to the temple on sat the 1st and in twin falls sun! Elder Akina and i will be singing oh lord my redeemer and we also sing I know my redemer lives! i cant wait to play my ukulele in front of so many people! were expecting about 700 people at both shows and last year they had many baptisms that came from this musical! im so stoked! Eh life is good and never better! we see so many blessings and know who the credit goes to! my Lord and my God! sorry for the life story , anyway hope all is well! i love you all!
-Elder Runnels
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