Methodist Pastors, the Temple, and Jail

Went to the temple this week

Whattup y'all, I took a week off last week from writing an email because I was feeling kind of lazy.  Not to worry because I'm back.

Elder Ahern and I had a killer week out here in the great Palouse. We went to the Temple. It rained a ton - I felt like I was walking around in Seattle. The rain was actually so bad that there was a ton of flooding. We had kind of a cool service opportunity because of it. We went to a little community library that was right next to the river; they were scared it was going to flood, so we moved every single book and DVD out. Then 3 days later we moved all of it back in, lol. 

Greeted by a muddy dog while out tracting

Elder Ahern and I found 4 new people to teach this week, of course 2 of them were in the pit (trailer park). They are about as stereotypical hillbilly-ish as it gets. The other 2 people were normal (thank goodness). We ran into a Methodist Pastor who was actually super cool; he didn't try to bash with us or anything. We had an hour lesson about the Plan of Salvation with him, it really was a cool experience. 

We tracted a lot this week, it's fun. I actually really like tracting, you get lots of funny experiences. We had some solid lessons, and we have 2 investigators on baptismal date right now. They need to come to church though. Brian and Melissa are awesome, only problem is they like smoking weed a little bit too much. 

We taught another lesson in jail this week. We met this really nice lady who's in for drug charges, she loves the church and has met with missionaries before. It was cool to teach her but it was annoying because we had to pass the phone back and forth and we couldn't hear what she was saying when the other person had the phone. 

This week I learned a lot about submitting with cheerfulness. We walked around a ton in the rain, and at times it was rather easy to wish I was somewhere else doing something else. I have come to understand that the Lord expects not only a sacrifice of our time and talents but of our poor attitudes. Being positive and learning to do the will of the Lord with a good attitude has made me a better man, more importantly it has helped me become a more effective servant of the Lord.

I love you all - keep on keepin on. I pray for all of you :)

-E.Rapier

Dinner with the Ellis family from the Palouse Ward

Eyebrows - not sure what's going on here :)