WE ARE ON FIRE!

Hey y'all -

It has been a lit week, hahaha. Ok, I will stop with the dad humor. For those of you who don't know, more than half of our mission is on fire! We were told to stay inside for like 2 days so we didn't get bronchitis and die.  Elder Brinkerhoff and I had too much going on, so we stayed outside anyway. 

Covering three areas led to straight miracles this week. We found 8 new investigators...WHATTT?? Yeah, I couldn't believe it. We found a family of 5 people - holy cow, they have been prepared. They live in a trailer park and moved down from Alaska like a year ago. They are Christians looking for a church. We were able to teach them the restoration, and they fed us dinner!! Man, God was looking out for us this week in a major way. 

We have a YSA investigator named Lexi who's been being taught for a long time. She finally committed to a date in 2 weeks and we will be baptizing her then. 

Blessings on blessings, we found a little mexican guy named Caesar and put him on date for next month. He begged us to be able to come to church and asked us how to pay tithing. It was awesome. 

In one week we metaphorically and spiritually speaking lit the town of Cheney on fire. I can't describe the joy I have felt from seeing the results of obedience and diligence. :) 

I wanna just talk about the process. I know the Lord works over time and I am so glad to see progress both in myself spiritually and in my growing up. I am definitely still childish but I am just glad that the Lord loves me enough to refine me. We were reading about being a true disciple on Sunday in Elder's Quorum; the process of discipleship is refining and testing. In short, it isn't easy but it is always worth it.

I love you all, work hard :)

-E.Rapier

Pacific Northwest on fire = bad air quality

This Elder is outstanding in his field