April 6, 2010

Aloha Family! well the calls came! to start off i have become very close with the assistants to president just by playing ball with them and so i was stoked to find out that one of them requested to be with me for his last transfer in the mission! Elder Mackay will be my new comp! he has baan the assistant to president for 6 months and will now be my comp in opening up the Payette, fruitland area! it is on the border of orgen and it runs along the snake river! im so stoked! i love elder mackay and look up to him so i know that he will teach me so much! ill go into this next transfer with a notebook and my running shoes on cause we will work so hard! i cant explain how excited i am to be able to just drive up there to a new spot and just start knocking on doors meeting people! we have no clue of who the bishops are or members or anything! ill be talking to everyone for sure! the area is bigger than kuna but way less people! about 8000 people and kuna has about 14000 so it will be intersting! Elder akina got his new comp. elder doan! he is so cool! im still in kuna till thur. morn cause i have to wait for elder mackay to finish all the transfers! he is the one that drives every on from place to place and gets the new arriving elders from the airport! i saw pres. yardley yesterday while getting elder akinas comp and i pulled him aside and asked him "why are you blessing me so much?" his answer is "its not me" he is so inspired and i cant wait to see the many miricles awaiting us in fruitland! sorry kinda short but all is well here! oh i hate saying goodbye to people! yet another hard part of the mission but nothing can take away my excitment of what is about to happen in the next six weeks! trust me you will hear of it soon! k shoots

-Elder Runnels