Week 3: Part II.....Boise is Home!

Hey family and friends!!!

I made it Boise! So we had our flight here at 9:45 AM yesterday. The
flight here is a joke, the lady wasn't even 3/4's of the way done giving
out drinks before the captain said we're making our descent to Boise.
President Yardley, his wife, and 4 AP's were there when we got out of
the concourse. They seem so great and nice. One of the AP's drove us
to the mission office and on the drive he told us that in February
Jeffrey R Holland came and spoke to the mission and that he is friends
with President Yardley. He told the missionaries that he would do
anything to have his kids or grand kids serve as a missionary under
President Yardley. So he sounds pretty amazing.

We dropped off our stuff at the mission office and then we headed
over to the mission pres home and we had a great lunch of taco
salad and ice cream and fresh fruit. Then we had interviews with
President Yardley and then we headed back to the mission office.
The mission office is right next to the Boise Temple. That temple
looks so cool! It's a cool blue/gray granite. Once we got back we had
meetings with the office staff who are elderly couples serving missions.
We got our missionary debit cards, health cards, and a bunch of other
stuff.

Then all of the trainers came in with us and President Yardley read
who will be going with who. So you ready? drum roll.......My trainer
is Elder Stepherson, he's from Pensacola, FL. He's been out for
7 1/2 months. We are serving in Kuna, Idaho (pronounced like quena).
It's about 20 miles southeast (maybe but I don't really know) from
Boise. Its a little tiny farm town and I love it! haha It has a mix
of old farmers and new subdivisions with people who drive in to
Boise for work.

We have a car here, a sweet Mazda 3. But I will get to use my bike
here because we're only given 40 miles a day and we cover a huge
area! We cover 7 wards!!!! That's 3 different buildings. There's four
elders in my district, Elder Bly is our District Leader. I got to meet
them last night at dinner. We had dinner at Brother Miller's house.
He's a great guy, he's in one of the wards here and he drives us
places, opens his house to use, and feeds us if we don't have a meal.

So right after I was told my area we headed there. I got to drop
my stuff off at our house. We're living in the basement of an old
elderly couple named the Thorntons. We live in middle of no where
up on a big hill. Our drive way is dirt and is 1/4 mile long lol. We have
wheat and alfalfa fields in every direction. The house is nice, the
basement is...I don't really know (lol)... lots of old furniture and smells
like cat pee but I guess I'll get used to it. I have a queen size bed
and it is so comfortable, I slept like a baby last night.

So we dropped my stuff off then we had to rush off to an appointment
we had at 5:30 PM. We were teaching the Ramos family. Brother
Ramos is a member but his wife isn't and they have 3 daughters
(ages 12,9, & 6). We taught them the 4th lesson.  I have never taught
that one before and had never really even thought about it before!
I was so scared, but I did a pretty good job I think. We split up each
topic and lesson 4 is the commandments lesson so luckily I wasn't
the one who had to talk about the law of chastity! (haha) Well we
taught them the lesson and challenged them to baptism (they had
talked a while ago and had set a date for this Saturday) and they still
want to be baptized so they are getting baptized this Saturday and
their dad is gonna get to do it! It was so great. So we're meeting
with them later today to go over all the details and get them
interviewed.

After that we tracted for over an hour. I guess we have to do like
2 hours of it per day. We didn't have any luck but we talked to some
nice people. Then we had dinner at Bro Miller's and then we went
home and I finished unpacking. This morning after we had our
personal and companion study we went out and built my bike, it's
so awesome... I love that bike! Oh, and there's a BMX track in Kuna
and on p-days we get to ride it and we can even go contact there
on the days we ride our bikes. I guess they've had some success
there and Elder Stepherson told me I could enter the races
there... lol! So we'll see what days those are on and maybe if I
have any skills left!:) Well we're at the stake center in the family
history center, that's where we get to write e-mails. We're gonna
head to Walmart after this. There isn't one in Kuna. The nearest one
is pretty far so Brother Miller is gonna drive us there. I need to get a
few things, so no worries about me, I'm in one piece and excited to
get to work. Yesterday was hard because I had a sore throat and
had a headache most of the day but today I feel great. Oh, and
my p-day is Tuesday so that's when I'll be writing.

Mom- Thanks so much for the package I really needed some
vitamins so that was great!
Dad- Happy Fathers Day! It's a few days early, but I won't get
to write you till next Tuesday.
Cody- Have a blast at EFY!
Barron- Happy Fathers Day too!!