In the Field!

Hey y'all, its my first P-Day out here in the field. 

Arriving at the Spokane Airport with a new batch of missionaries

My family always teased me about getting my mission call to Idaho. When I opened my call and saw Spokane Washington the first 5 words out of my mouth were "At least it's not Idaho." To my dismay, I found out my mission covered a ton of Idaho. So sure enough I am coming to you live from MOSCOW, IDAHO. It is pronounced Moscoe, if you say Moscow like Russia's Moscow, the people around here will start throwing crap at you. It is essentially the buttcrack of the country. And I couldn't be more glad to be here.

It is snowy as all get out around here. We have this crappy little 2 wheel drive Corolla. I have to push us everywhere that we go because we get stuck so much.

The work here is good. My first companion is Elder Lewis from Houston, Texas. He has been out 23 months and is referred to commonly as "The Patriarch". He is super awesome. I've learned a ton from him in just the one week. We have around 10 investigators, which is awesome because when we moved into the area there were a big fat zero.

Meeting trainer - Elder Lewis from Houston

We have 2 progressing very well. Josefina is awesome. She has been on and off with the missionaries for a couple years but we finally got her and her whole family to come to church and we are teaching her again next week. We also have Ray who is on date to be baptized. He is from California. When he was younger, he got into it with gangs and what not and suffered a lot of head trauma. He has a ton of trouble remembering things, especially when we are supposed to meet with him, lol. Bless his heart. He loves Jesus Christ.

I have lived off of straight cereal for the past week. So that has been awesome. It is depressing around here. It gets dark at like 4:30. No bueno. I'm still always tired at all times. 

Hope y'all are all following the #LightTheWorld initiative, it's awesome.

Yeah, I'm not really sure what else to write. Love y'all. I'll try to take more pictures this week :)

-Elder J Steele Rapier

P.S. For those of you wanting to send me stuff (please do), ask my mom for my address :)

New apartment

Comfy new bed!