Don't Worry, I am not Dead. Sort of.

So I am sure that most of you heard about the tornado's that we have had out here. Luckily Independence did not get hit but we had a few towns surrounding the area get hit a bit by lots of hail and wind. While the tornado warnings were going off, we were watching the news at the Weaver's house tracking the tornadoes sitting 5 feet from a tornado shelter made to withstand an F5 "tornada." So we were pretty safe. But all those "Moore"mans got hit pretty hard down in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, it is out of our mission so we missionaries will not be able to go and help clean up but our ward is going down there soon to help out.

This week has been kind of hectic getting the sister missionaries all set up to start working in Coffeyville. We spent a lot of our time getting them all the old teaching records from Coffeyville and making them a color coded ward directory with all the info they would need. Densley and I each have a GPS so we made sure mine was all up to date and gave it to them. So we have sister Cook and Sister Fuller. Sister fuller is from St Louis of all places. But she is just waiting for her visa to get in to she can go to South America. They are doing a great work down in Coffeyville and it helps us out so much so we don't have to spend so much time traveling.

The best thing that has been going on this week is that we have been spending a lot of time teaching the Shaffers. they have come to two Sundays in a row and have just loved it. They have so many questions it just makes teaching them so much fun. Most nights they call us up and ask a bunch of questions they have found from their readings and studying the church. We are rapidly approaching the point where we will have covered all the missionary lessons in much depth. I think we will probably have like 2 more lessons before they will just demand baptism. They are just so inquisitive it makes it so much fun. Scottie and Theresa are doing great too, they got calling this Sunday and are exited to keep coming. Duk on the other hand is having a rough time. He just cant quit smoking. We visited him last night and he just was felt so defeated by the smoking thing. When we showed up and sat down the first thing he said is that he doesn't want to get baptized. He freaked out a bit but after talking to him for a bit he calmed down and said he is just mad about how hard it is to quit smoking. We will keep working with him and keep encouraging him. Well that is about all that has gone on this week. Thanks for all the love and prayers that come my way.--
Love Elder Rasband