~Jolene
Well to start things off... WHAT THE HECK DALTON AND YOU TOO SAVANNAH! I know i said specifically to both of you that you had to wait til i get home. And i'm not gonna be home then! I expect a heartfelt letter from both of you expressing the sincerest of apologies. Its like you have forgotten all the wonderful nights at betos over the years....
Also i totally spaced that i wont be back in time for cyrus's baptism either. dang. you guys need to all find proxy haydens to take my place while i'm out here serving the lord. Make sure he is as fun as me.
Another good week of work here. We had the opportunity to do our first divisions or splits or whatever you want to call it. I went out with elder chevalier. He is from pocatello and he reminds me a lot of alex. So i had a real good time with that and it was interesting teaching with someone else but we had quite a few good lessons that day and so did elder sampson and elder zuniga. i think it was all of our busiest day this week but like i said it was a lot of fun. Going along with it this week was a week of a lot of firsts.
I actually gave the first blessing i have ever given and it was to elder chevalier a few days later because he got pretty sick. That was a really cool opportunity especially because i got to do it in english. He is doing mostly better now so that is another plus side.
Also we had a baptism planned but then it was canceled due to some things not falling through but then it got re scheduled the night before at like 9. so the next morning we had a lot of things to do. so we found him and took care of that and then we asked who he wanted to baptize him and he picked me. so that was the first time i have ever baptized someone. we did it in the ocean like usual and it was a really good time. His name is alecio
and he is actually the little brother of keven who is the guy that we baptized the first week i was here. We are also working with their older brother who shows a lot of interest if everything can work out and then we have talked to their mom who is one of the coolest ladies i have met here yet but unfortunately due to her schedule she never makes it to church which makes it pretty much impossible for her to progress but we will keep working at it. I know their family would be a huge help with the ward as well as with each other. Going along with dads question i think there is two branches on sal but im not totally positive but i think there is one in espargus only. and i know there is one here. so i think there is 2. its too hard to explain where its located but when i get home i could probably find it.
Its good to hear the boys are all doing good. And tell them i say to go to all of your church meetings not just the sunday ones. being out here its soooo much easier to see the difference that those can make in peoples lives. So keep up the work in scouts and young women (for jordyn) because they help a lot with church even if you dont see it now.
Also last week was my first fast sunday being in cabo verde. and good thing too because otherwise my first talk in sacrament meeting would have been yesterday. instead that is this coming sunday. so that's something to look forward to.
Dad also asked about food. Well the only thing that i eat or drink that is the same from something i've had in america is guarana which is a drink from brazil but they have it imported here and it is delicious. And that is like the only thing that is exactly the same as i had in america. You eat a lot of bread from bakerys here. especially for breakfast.
Its hard to believe i have already been here for a month. but at the same time sometimes i feel like i cant believe i have only been here for a month. haha. but that's how it goes. I'm almost done with my first transfer in cabo verde and then i will only have 15 so my time is quite limited. i'm sure ill feel even more like that later on. But i'm trying to enjoy all of my time here. I've been told that each transfer goes by quicker than the last. so pretty much before i know it i will be back in america.
Oh yeah the other elders had a baptism that the lady couldn't make it due to health problems but they were able to schedule for sunday morning and because elder chevalier was sick i got to be a witness so i got to get in the freezing cold water along with them. But she is a super awesome lady that we actually taught the day i was on divisions with him so it was cool seeing her be baptized and she is already getting in with the members very well so she seems like she will be a super strong member.
Well i think that's it for this week. if i can remember anything else ill try to include it in next weeks letter. Oh yeah i had physical letters with me in the mtc for everyone but i forgot they were in my pocket when i boarded the bus super early in the morning. so i still have them. so you all probably wont see them for a very long time..... but its the thought that counts right? sorry.... Well i love you all. have a great week!
Love Elder McMullin
His companion, Elder Zuniga, is great at taking pictures. Most of the pictures posted on this blog come from him. Here are two that he took this last week. And this is what he said about them.
I do make sure something happens every day to Elder McMullin, just to keep him happy and his mission interesting. I don't pick on him, I just make his life interesting. He seems like he's a lot more at home now, and the more stuff that happens, the less he things of home. That's something I SUCKED at when I was a greenie. I would think of home ever spare second I had.
Two days ago we were wrestling in the house with Chevy (Elder Chevalier) and we broke his bed haha. The frame fell apart but we put it back together, we didn't take a picture of it but it looked hilarious. I also volunteered him to give a talk next Sunday, he's excited (not really) but it'll be good practice for him.
And we bought a huge tub of ice cream! It's totally worth eating just beans and rice at the end of the month for this, haha. It's "Ceu" flavored, which means heaven. The name fits cuz it really tastes heavenly. The white stuff are bits of white chocolate
Also, have I mentioned that people here just pee and poop everywhere in the middle of the day, especially kids. McMullin isn't a fan of that, so he made a goal to not see any naked people during the day. Naturally, I now always point out when a kid is peeing or something. So far, he hasn't made it past lunchtime without breaking his goal, haha it's hilarious.
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