Hey,

Im doing ok it has been a really long week.  We flew in monday we got to spend some time at the mission home in farmington!  We met Pres. and Sis. Batt. really really nice people im in good hands!  We stayed that night at a members house!  we got up early and met at the stake center and there we got assigned our new companion and our new area!  My new companion is Elder Fonnesbeck and he is from rigby idaho he has been out for six months he is only 18 also haha kinda weird two 18 year olds roaming the mission feild together.

I was assigned to the Lukachukai, Arizona part it also takes in the towns of tsaile and wheatfields haha i mean it is dead center middle of the reservation.  I am living in an RV camp trailer how lucky am i? haha its rough it has been really hard!  Its so sad here a lot of the people are so poor!  There houses are no bigger then my bedroom.  I really am in another country!  There are stray dogs EVERYWHERE  they are all so skinny!  Its so sad you will see the dogs eating roadkill on the side of the road because they have nothing else to eat!  Its been a huge culture shock! Like i said its been really tough but im still having fun! I have already had some pretty crazy experiences haha We were out knocking doors a lot this week and we came up to this one house started walking up there and all of the sudden two big black dogs start taking off towards us i mean im already halfway back to the truck haha (just like the bear incident mom and dad) but my companion like was inches away from getting bit! Another crazy experience we had is we were out in the middle of no where only house for miles but we decided to knock on it! So we meet this guy and we begin to tell him how we have this message about Jesus Christ and he said he was willing to listen! haha on one condition we had to get naked with him crawl in the sweat lodge and smoke some peyotte I mean come on haha  we meet every sunday in the schools auditorium for sacrament we dont have a building we just have one ward here and a whopping 15 people showed up to sacrament yesterday lets just say we have some work to do!  Im just trying to make the most of it! 

Love Elder Rushton