Week 102

Sorry yesterday when i wrote the email to send to everyone the computer crashed so ill send a quick one. Everything is going great here. Dad asked when i will be leaving this island. I actually leave a few hours before i have to get on a plane in praia to go home! so Pray there is no problems with travel. Because there often is on this island. And if I miss it i will miss all flights.... haha!!

Love you all!!!! SEE YOU ALL IN A WEEK.... hopefully!


Love Elder McMullin

Week 101..interesting time

So for this week we had an interesting time! We had someone from our stake call us and say that the patriarch would be here saturday for a meeting and we had to get things found out for the group. This was i think thursday at night! so we didnt have a lot of time to figure it out. And we had it set up but they changed it so our group went to the other elders group for church and we all listened to him at church. It was stressful trying to get it all figured out. But in the end it was soooo awesome. 

At the end a member invited everyone over for lunch and we all ate lunch before the hiace came back to take us all back to tarrafal. It was stressful at first but it was fun for everyone and everyone was happy even the kids that were throwing up in the hiace rides... haha! Got a lot of pictures so ill show them to you when i get home!

 It was super awesome because we also were able to get 4 investigators to go. All family members of the members here. And they seemed like they all had a lot of fun.

Well...... 2 more weeks..... and pretty much one more email because i will leave at night that day.... Its a super strange feeling.


Love Elder McMullin

Week 100... Another good week!

Another good week! Getting near the end..... 

Questions for the week...

Any lizards here?
Yep i see them like daily if i pay attention.

Spiders?
Just the same ones in fogo. Big black and yellow. but supposedly harmless.

More people at church?
Sadly no! we passed EVERYONE the day before and everyone was so sure they would be there but sadly not everyone came.

Is it true that there are no mosquitos here?
No. just no. Multiple mosquito diseases have gone around since ive been here.

Did i hear about the elections?
yeah.....

Ever seen turtles?
Nope! but they are a protected species here.

Common names here?
joao.... maria.... antonia.... lots of bible names too. jesus....

Any pirates?
I have never seen any.....

Oranges?
As far as i can tell they taste the same as in America!

Love you all!
Love Elder McMullin

Week 99.....

Well this week was very simliar to last week! Still just working away on Sao Nicolau! We found out that we are not going to another island for zone conference so i wont be going to my last zone conference... or last zone meeting... so i didnt give a testimony my first one because they forgot and they didnt know that my last one was months ago so i didnt give it there! haha pretty funny huh??

No one left me questions so i dont have much to talk about...
We got a few more people to church this week so that was good.
We have a member that is gonna catch a shark so i can try it! I told her i wanted to try it before i left and her cousin is a fisher so she said she would get one from him and cook it and invite me!

Haha the members ask me just about daily if i know when im leaving yet but ive had the same answer for like 2 weeks. I dont know when im leaving this island but i leave Cape Verde 6th in the morning. 

We couldnt find a haice so we took a truck back to our area this week and i got a lot of awesome pictures... And saw a ton of drunk people because it was a holiday haha.

Well thats it! Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 98- October 31st , 2016- Last transfer! I stay!

So transfers! I stayed and my companion left. My new companion is Elder Podzikowski. He is from orem and i met him awhile back. He stayed at my house one night in praia. Since he came we were making sure he knows all the members and investigators. Due to the last few weeks being strange we need to find a lot more investigators this week.

Story with visiting teaching... Well I have two things that have to do with it. One is that helping people understand the importance of home teaching and visiting teaching is one thing that is emphasized a ton by our mission president to help the people here. The other was we had a less active that we passed multiple times a week for two transfers and taught her very often and she never came to church. but finally a member passed once! just once! when they had this activity of passing other people. And that week she showed up. Along with many other less actives. That week was one of our highest frequency thanks to that activity. unfortanetly people went back to their normal lives and started struggling on passing less actives again and they fell away. But I saw there that retention works so much better when its loving friends and family members that are helping rather than just the missionaries.

AMi going to bring souvenirs?
i guess you dont remember when i asked for ideas on what to bring people because i have no idea!!!

Halloween celebrations here?
They had like a party and i saw some people playing games together. Nothing like super halloweeny like home though.

Weirdest thing i ate this week?
Nothing weird. but we did eat calzones for lunch yesterday and it was awesome. First time in a loooonnng time. 

Whats the first thing i want to eat at home?
I dont know! There are a lot of things i want to eat!

Who will i hug first?
haha who knows?

How is my companion? does he think im weird? do i think he is weird?
Hes a lot of fun. And everyone is weird in their own way right? I know I am. I get told it often by many people.

Love you all!
Love Elder McMullin

October 24, 2016 Week 97- feeling better and a baptism

Hey loved ones. First off yeah I am doing better! It isnt completely cleared up but it isnt stopping anything anymore! Second off important business to take care off... my best friend on the mission Elder Toledo had a similiar sickness but it lasted for 6 weeks and they didnt know what it was. Well they found it last week but dont know what it is. Long story short he went home this last week. The reason why I am telling you this is I was planning on being at the airport when he was originally going to get home in 6 months. But now instead he is suppose to be with you guys at the airport and staying the night at our house the first night , that is if he is healthy enough. And still has the desire and no other plans here in 6 weeks. So that is the heads up on this... I hope that doesnt make anyone upset. But in advance if it does, feel free to talk it over with me and tell me why my best friend while i was out here cant be there... haha! Also I hope everyone has seen the flight plans by now! I will forward them just in case...

This week one of our recent converts was able to baptize his son and also prepare and pass the sacrament for the first time! So it was super exciting and he was awesome. This man is a living example of what the atonement can do when applied properly. He has changed so much and is doing so many great things. I can tell you a bit more about his story when i get home. 

One downside at church was we only had 14 people. That is what happens when you can only work for a few hours a day though. We will get everyone back this week though! 

Also I had my last interview besides the final interview with my mission president! It was good.

And today is the first day of my last transfer! But transfers wont happen until the middle of this week so i will tell you what happens here in a week!

Questions for the week!

Were we able to visit investigators this week?
Just our one that was baptized this week. Besides that we just passed members with our small amount of time.

More copies of the Book of Mormon?

Yes!

Any baptisms?
Just the one that i mentioned!

Who blesses the sacrament?
One will bless and usually we have a member to pass. One day we had to do both.

Fruits and veggies that i eat?
veggies are scarce... peas and carrots from cans. onions. green peppers... those are the usuals. fruits, apples, bananas, papayas, mangos, i found pears and plums one week and was in heaven but havent found any for awhile....

Trees and surroundings.... Palm trees... and these other kinds... kinda like african safari like trees i guess? Beach on one side and big mountains on the other that are brown but thanks to the rain lately are scattered with green patches.... 

I hope thats good enough!
Love you all!

Week 96- sick week

This week was .... boring. To be honest I am still sick and had to spend most of the week inside the house. Now i am telling you this but you cant call the mission and you cant worry. I am fine and it will probably pass this week. The biggest problem is just the boredom of being inside! 

To answer your questions....
When i go shopping is it a store or an outside market?
Depends where! and what i am buying! Fish and fruits and veggies are outside a lot of times. But like rice, drinks, packaged things, those are inside stores. There are a lot more outside markets in praia than here.

Last time i had a good Horchata?
The last time i made it! Which was in fogo about a year ago!

Are there cats here?
Yes. They roam the streets with dogs.

Did we get copies of The Book of Mormon?
Some. The others should get here on a boat tomorrow morning!

Have I been on any boats besides Ferry boats?

Nope!

How many people were at church this week?
20! Pretty good for not being able to pass a lot of people this week.

Any new baptisms?
Still just helping our recent convert baptize his son! We gave him the priesthood this week and saturday he will baptize his son!

Favorite food of the week?
I do not have one. Because im not allowed to eat just about anything because my stomach is not the healthiest place at the moment!

I love you all!
Love Elder McMullin