August 24, 2010.

Man, it is a good day! I just had Jamba Juice and it just made this 100 degree day feel so much better! So my new area is awesome! We love it so much and we got 3 new investigators this week! (by we i mean Heavenly Father did) But he allowed us to be a part of it! I feel so blessed to be here and serving the people i love so much! I have had a chance to go back to Kuna my old area on exchanges and i go there all the time for their district meetings! I love seeing all my old friends!!! I feel like I have come full circle here in kuna! I was able to see some people i baptised still active and it blows my mind that they are just strong rooted in the gospel! Nothing brings me more joy than that! We live in Meridian and its with an old lady that is soo sWeet! We call her Grandma and she calls us her boys! We have to get home everynight fast and plan quick so we can heve our nightly glass of Chocolate Milk with her and tell her all about our day! She is my biggest fan when i play the ukulele for her and lies to me and says it sound good! Grandma is awesome and we make sure she takes her pills every morning and night! We want her to be healthy! So a random story... This week we were looking at our area book and found a name that was on the "potential investigators" list so we visited them! It was fri. night and we seen a bunce of cars outside of their house and thought for a second it was not a good time... We decided to Knock anyway and to our surprise they invited us in! They were in the middle of having their "worship night" and were so kind to us! They were all christain and they were all eating so we ate with them... Some, well most were drinking so we were carefull cause in our minds we were like "no one is this nice to us except members" to our surprise they asked us to stay for worship and we asked what they do... "we sing praises" they said so we said we would love to! long story short we sang gospel christain rock songs with the pastor on guitar and it was fun! We checked and double checked the drinks they gave us cause we had to drive home after! Can never be too sure ah? but all was well! They asked if we would ever be interested in giving the sermons at the fri. night meetings and we said we would love to! They are a group of about 25 and they all have the load of Mormon friends that they love and look up to! This is what really opened the door! I cant stress enough the example we can be to our neighbors and friends! OH i was able to take Pres. Cannons son out to do some missionary work! The Assistants called me and asked if i could take Paul (Pres. son) out for the night cause he was in town from Utah and i said of corse! He was visiting and wanted to do work so i was able to go on splits with him! We taught 2 lessons and they were powerfull! How often do we get to go out with the mission Pres. son? it was fun! I love my Mission so much and i love feeling so close to my Father in heaven! Life is Good and never better! I hope all is well back home! I love you all...

-Elder Runnels