October 19, 2010

Wow What a week!!! I hate e mailing cause i have so much to tell you
all about and im super bad at typing! I still use two fingers but on
my mission ive learned to type with 3 fingers now! I use both
pointers and my right thumb to hit the space bar!!! I knew i would
gain new talents on my mission! hahaha Nah but anyway this week was
crazy and it was the best week ever!! I ate at I hop for the first
time scince i entered the M.T.C. and it was fun! We got to do some
cool service this week and i love doing that cause we were able to
work hard in the physical sence and it was nice to break a sweat! We
cut down pine trees and chopped them for fire wood! We gave it to a
widow and helped another clean her yard! We had stake confrence here
in Meridian south and i got to meet with Elder Cecil O. Samuelson of
the first quorm of the seventy! He is also the President of B.Y.U.
provo and it was nice to speak with him for a while! We just talked
alot about my family and the Laie Temple! I also got to have a
personal interview with Elder Paul V. Johnson of the first quorm of
the seventy and i loved that! We talked for a while in Pres. Cannons
office and we just talked alot about my mission and my zone! I felt
so much love meeting with a man who has regular meetings with the
prophet and the twelve! I loved the spirit in the room and i know for
sure he is a man called of God! I was just blown away at how much fun
we had in the interview! I felt blessed to be one of the few elders
and sisters to meet him personally! So after all that, We had a zone
confrence/ Mission tour with elder Johnson and it ws wonderful! Im
reading in the war chapters in the Book Of Mormon now and my new Hero
is Teancum!! He was a baller! I switch up my heros as the weeks go
by! so now ill tell you all about my day yesterday! Its long so get
out your popcorn! I interviewed with Elder Johnson from 8:00 to 8:30
then we had zone confrence till 3:00!!! Just sitting down in the
chapel but it was super uplifting and i recieved tons of revelation!
Then in a leadership meeting from 3:00-4:00pm then we get a call from
Grandma Richardson, crying because Sam her dog (a white German
Sheperd) died in the night and she needed us to bury him! So we ran
home and dug a huge hole cause this dog was huganguss!!! We burried
him than went off to meet another elder who was on his way to the
emergency room! we called pres. and went to help him! Then I took
his (the sick elders) comp out with me to work cause he is a Grennie
and in our first lesson with a lady, our fellowshipper threw up and it
was right during the spiritual part of the lesson! It was crazy ! He
had food poisening! It was just a crazy day!! By far the most
spiritual day of my mission and by far the most random! I cant type
all that really happened but ill tell you all when i get home! It was
nutts! Any way i just love my mission with all my heart! I love our
leaders of our church and i love you all! The church is true!!! Go
share it with someone! Till next week,

- Elder Runnels