jungle book

The super old one is the new member, the gente of the baptism. 

Well this week was nuts

 we had a baptism but not a conformation because she got super duper sick.

 We got a reference to a house that was literally in the middle of the jungle. We found this rad old guy and bought an all leather handmade hat from him for less than 10 bucks and we basically indiana jonesd it on this bridge that we found that was made out of a couple of sticks and some rope. suuuper sketch. 

the crazy bridge to terebithia 

Also we finally got the sun to come out and the rain to stop for a bit and the mosquitos attacked like crazy. Also we caught a giant centipede in the jungle and named it sampson. What a guy. Well we really dont know but it is almos 7 inches long. Thats the crazy part...

We also met a farmer guy in the bottom of octavio paz( deepest part of the jungle) who had a pet monkey. Also found a swamp with aligators and saw a big ole snake on a tree. I feel like I am in a movie when I am there... 

We also found a family of five!! They are really hard to get all of them in the same room at the same time ut when they are, it is absolutely swell!!! They are all super apt to feel the spirit! They have been progressing like wildfire and the middle daughter has already read all of 1st nefi. I cant even believe it. This is a miracle come true. Also i have started my consecration fast of 40 days. Ill send that chunk of papers for all of the missionaries who want to do it. 

Scripture of the week : DyC 88:78-79. Léelo. Medita sobre ella. Orar sobre ella. Actúa sobre que descubre.

Thats really all i got for ya. Sorry its a lil short. We have to go do tons of stuff today... Oh boy.

I love you all. 

Ve y Conquista

Elder Runs

our pathway through the jungle...

the culture club

I love the idea of skyping

 pics

Blink made it to the streets of tapachula

and then a heshy version

Anyway. This week was mostly just sickness and heat. We tried to put the batteries in and kill it when we werent sick but it still went alright. 

We have been teaching Pablo and Escarlet for quite a while now and on tuesday we went and pulled his whle roof off his house and put a new one on. It was swell. Tons of blisters but oh well... Then we taught a coupleof really good lessons. Then on thursday when we finally got to go out to work, We went to our first lesson and we got set up by the jehovas witnesses.... I was however completely able to defend our beliefs from thier attacks... Lucky. We see miracles every day. We also had our zone reunion and it was swell. My papito Elder Luna used me as an example and i had to try to tell one of the new mexican elders how to do something in spanish without showing him. Then i was able to show him and it was way better. This is the way that we need to work with the members. We need to show them how to do the work and not just tell them. We also hada whole lot of sickness ofthe stomach. Then i went on divisions with elder Clark and we literally walked to the border of guatemala. Wicked cool. ( stairs in the jungle pic) Then we got to skype on sunday after we had 7 investigators in church. AWESOME. Overall awesome week. 

Scripture of the week : Matthew 5:6 léala. Meditarla. Ora sobre ella. Actúa sobre que descubre.

Ve y Conquista

Elder Runs

The Crazy deadly caterpillars that are all over the place here

The staricase that leads across the river into Guatemala...

Fastest of the fastest

Well theis week flew by. Mostly consisted of rain. Like rivers and rivers of rain. It flooded a bunch of houses and washed a couple of them down the river and killed a few people and took out one of the bridges that we used to wealk across to get to the other side of our area. Now we have to walk around.... Then we had to treach all of our lessons soaking wet. Also we had to buy sandbags and put them at our backdoor because our house started flooding. We still have to squeegee the water out. We also had a multi zone conference with the prez and that was cool. I got to see a whole bunch of the guys from the mish. Including Elder Ibarra, Salinas, Palmer, Birk, and a bunch of others. We got to hear a nice little story about El Patito feo. Que lindo. Anyway. We might be canging areas because this drunk guy keeps trying to fight us that lives across the street and he thew a bunch of beer bottles at the house last night. We also found two kids who are really stellar. They are totally gonna progress a ton. They are the chosen people that we have been looking for! Javier manuel and Ronaldo jose. They are awesome. Thats pretty much all that happened today. I love you all Thanks for all of your prayers and wishes!

Scripture of the week : 2 Nefi 31:19 Léala. Meditarla. Orar sobre ella. Actuar en que ha descubierto.

Fastweek

So fast that i dont have time to put spaces.

Well things that happened this week.Lots of work and we recieved a whole crud ton of references. 35.The work is gonna start moving along.I still have to teach every lesson solo, but oh well. Such is life. He is learning. Also i had to do surgery on my toe for a crazy hangnail. Lots of blood and a nice big bandage. We found some investigators that life quite a long way away so getting out there is fun and its super greeen out there. Like legit jungle. We got yelled at by a handful of drunk guys and had to dodge a punch, we found a deadly poisinous lizard in our watertank, and we found a guy on tuesday, have him a book of mormon, and when we visited him on thursday, he had read all the way to alma 17....  Also it rained a ton and flooded the basement of our house and its still full of water. Both pairs of my shoes are soaking wet and i really want to go get a shoe drier but nobody here has even heard of that... Anyway. Thats really all ive got. Oh also we found this guy who has been investigating the church by himself for 4 years and he came up to us in an alley and scared the crap out of us. 

Thats what ive got for ya this week!!!

Pic 1 is us when it was raining for days super duper hard

Pic 2 is The sunrise with the active volcano Tacaná

Pic 3 is the area furthest from where we live. Los Pelasquez

  So Tapachula

Wow. Land of the lost.

I feel like i could be right in elder AndyMacSmarts backyard. It is crazy here. 

Anyway. My new area is Tapachula Izapa Indeco. It is anicesliver that goes all the way down to touch the border of guatemala. We got to the house the first night i was here and i asked my comp if he had been down there andhe said no so we went down there on wednesday and it literally is just like houses and then it ends into pure jungle. We walked through it for a few mins and didnt find any houses. Anyway. Its exactly like hawaii climate here. Its super hot in the sun and then nice and cool when it rains. It has everything from slums to decently wealthy parts. Anyway. My comp is Elder Burgess. He is from utah. He is a good guy. He has a real desire to work his butoff. I likethat. He is also really new. I get the opportunity to finish his training so i guess you could say i am his step dad. Lol. His spanish is exactly what  youd expect so i have to teach my part and a good chunk of his part when we teach lessons. Its alright though. Anyway. THis area is huge, the house is huge. The climate here is awesome and we have to sleep in our hammocks because the beds have bugs... We do have a walmart that we can go to on our p day so that makes me really happy. Like really really happy. Like real food. and this house has a kitchen. Well. Anyway. Thats about it. Love you all!

Scripture of the week : 1st John 4:19 Read it. Ponder it. Pray about it. Act upon what you discover.

Ve y Conquista,

Elder Runyan

Elder Runyan se va a Tapachula Izapa!!!

This week was fast and sad.

Mostly just consisted of first, i got the last intercambio with Elder Ramos. He is our ZL and is going home today. It was a good one and he gave me some very good counsel. God gave you every gift that you have and every gift that you have can be used to help the work of the lord so use them and dont be like the servsnt who hid his talent. Im going to start doing that. I am going to do self evealuations more often. Then we had intercambios with elder Rusell and that was quite the headache. He is a good guy and all but whoo... Then we taught a bunch of lessons and then on sunday Lleymi and Luis and Brandon and Brenda came to churcha dn they tod us they really want to get baptised. They are a family taht we have been working with for quite a while. The little girl brenda is adorable and i want to come steal her after my mission and keep her as my daughter.

Then monday. We got the call. I am the only one in the entire district that is getting changed. I am going to Tapachula Izapa. It is the area where the rock that has lehis dream is. So tahts super cool. Anyway, we had a good hour to say goodbye to everyone and little brenda was crying her eyes out., She said she wont get baptized by anyone but me... The whole family was crying and even a couple of the motos taht took us around cried. I have been there for so long and with it being such a small town, i just know everyone, and everyone knows me. It was super sad. But now i am in chauhites with the zone leaders waiting or my new companion to head out to Tapachula. Ready for wherever the Lord wants me to go. Ill never forget the times I had and i will be sure to keep in touch and yes I am going back in 17 months.

Scripture of the week : Alma 34:32 Read it, Ponder it, Pray about it, Act upon what you discover.

Thats all. Much love and as always,

Ve y Conquistar,

Elder Runyan

Fast week and sickness...

Well heres the rundown.

Monday: Good but a pipe broke and our house flooded so we spent all night cleaning it up...

Tuesday: Woke up to a nice bout with the double dragon . Not fun. We headed out to the doctor as soon as i could and i got a shot in my butt and a bunch of pills and diagnosed with dengue. Suck... Spent the rest of the day with my head in the porcelain.

Wed: Equally crappy but we were able to leave the house at intervals to go to interviews with the president. It was like a scene out of "the RM" He was eating and barely talking to me during the interview but he gave me a paper with a talk about a really pressing question that i had.

Thurs: Zone conference and hitting the bathroom hard all day. This is taking a toll on me. I did get to teach a couple of lessons but it is super hard when you feel like this...

Friday: Got up and felt like it was gonna be a day taht i could finally work. We studied and went out to find out that there was literally nobody in the entire town of ixhuatan. We walked around all day and our lunch person wasnt even there. 23 contacts and 3 lessons all day...

Saturday: We couldnt watch conference because the internet was too slow at the church and there is still nobody here.. They are all at Aguachil beach partying it up. Its crazy apparently. We visited who we could and roasted all day long as we walked the empty streets.

Sunday: Someone downloaded the first session of conference overnight and so we were able to watch that and it was awesome. The translator for Eyrines talk was from spain and speaking stupid lisp spanish so it was super annoying to listen to but it was good! We also had 8 of our investigators in church. What a success!!!!!!

Scripture of the week: Alma 34:10 Read it. Ponder it. Pray about it. Act upon waht you discover.

Thats all! Love you all so much and hope you had a wonderful week!

Ve y Conquistar 

Elder Runyan