May 4, 2010.

Aloha ohana! This week was so awesome! i got to do so much! got to go on exchanges to cambridge idaho and it was nutts! it is way more country than anything i seen! even fruitland and kuna! the population is only 360 and there is just the most beautiful river ever there! the weiser river! ive been thinking and pondering all the wonderfull creations of our God and i am blown back at how wonderful this earth is! the drive there to cambridge was 2 hours from where we are and it was awesome! we got there had dinner than taught 2 investigators and it was super spritual! they commited to baptism and they are doing great! they will need to travel 2 hours to be baptised and to go to church every sun. but minor, they are still stoked! we had to head right back cause how far it is and we got home just in time! on friday we had a awesome day! we went all day and we must have knocked over 100 doors with only a few opened to us, only to be slammed back in our face. kinda tuff ah but we stayed optimistic on what was to come! we had 3 lessons set up! we still smiled, then in 5 min. all 3 cancelled! hahaha, no joke. so as we walked from trying to contact some one and a man was checking his mail. he called to us and said "eh dont you have a book for me?" we said of corse we do! he said he was jehovahs whitness and had hurd about us and was going through a tuff time in life! long story short we got in and taught a whole 1st lesson to him and his room mate! they commited to read and pray and we set another time to visit! i was so pumped cause we had had a slow day but heavenly father was teaching us patience! we endured it well and he poured out the blessings at the end! what a miricle! how much he had prepared this man and then put him in our path! k nuff anout that! we had our christ the light the life and the way fireside sat and sunday! we mowed a lawn for an investigator sat morn. then drove to meridian to eat at red robin! we got paid for, then went to the mission office to meet up with everyone for the fireside, but first we had interviews with pres. Yardley! he told me some great things and he is so sad he is leaving! ill miss him so much! then we had dress rehersal and the performance! it was so awesome! the sprit was so intence! everyone was wiping their eyes and it was special! our song was fun! then i asked pres. if i could just go sleep in Kuna and return back to the mission office in the morning! he said that would be great so i went to Kuna! we slept at the steak pres house there and he had a party for his wifes b day! i saw all my old friends and it was awesome! then we went to church in the morning there in kuna and we bore our testimony in all the wards! i loved being with elder Akina again in Kuna! then we shot it to the mission office to drive 2 hours to Twin falls! we got there so tired but then we had our practice and dinner! we got to ride down with the assistants in a 18 passenger van and we had a jam session on the uke the whole way! too much fun! anyway the twin performance was better than boises in my mind and i loved it! we took pictures and then left for the trip back home! twin falls is a almost 4 hour drive from fruitland! crazy! we never got home till 1145 pm and i was so tired! pres. Yardley said i could sleep in boise of head all the way back so we just drove with the A.p.s all the way back! what a blessing it was to be able to experence this! we drove along the snake river the whole way and it was beautifull! i love my mission way too much and i cant even dream of a day when ill need to leave! anyway i love you all so much and hope all is well! aloha

-Elder Runnels