Week 16

First conference on the mission! It was super awesome but due to a lot of things we didnt get to see every single talk and seeing as it was in portuguese i didnt understand a ton of it. But it was aweomse seeing all the leaders of the church again. Its wierd seeing the church here and there. its easy to forget that the church is a world wide thing if we didnt have general conferences every 6 months. One thing i did understand though is that they talked a ton about marriage. Looking at you brothers! You guys all need a date set by the time i get back! We wont be able to bachelor it up as much anymore but thats okay. i believe in you guys!

Another thing that happened is that a few times in our apartment i have been woken up by people yelling at like 3 in the morning. and some problems with water and some other things too. Anyways because we dont socialize much with the people in our building and we havent found the landlord the complain it turns out the whole complex has blamed the misisonaries for everything. We are quite awestruck because we are always asleep around 10 30 and dont wake up til 6 30. but the people arent believing us so they complained to the mission presidnet. not sure how that is going to go but we didnt do it so i guess there isnt much to be angry or worried about.

The work this week was quite well. We got a good amount of lessons in especially with members. We are teaching a couple that i think might get married soonish so they can join the church and that is super exciting. They are looking to be the most promising at the moment. There is another man that we are teaching that is my first person that seems to like to bible bash. well he is willing to talk to us but it seems like he is reaching for reasons to prove it wrong even after we support it with both the bible and the book of mormon. and the worst part of it is that he is not willing to pray for an answer or do much of the invites. And if you dont do those things then you will never really know for yourself that the church is true. its a church of action. But we have only met with him a few times and i hope his heart will be softened. If he does decide to pray and when he gets his answer i bet he will be a super strong member and a really good help to any ward. This ward right now could really use two things in my opinion. A good whole family that can help all ages of people. and also more worthy priesthood holders. When the ward gets those things it will start making some really big steps. And that is what we are trying to help happen.

We have another investigator that is the younger brother of one of the members of the ward and we had a couple of really good lessons with him but during one of them his mom walked in and said dont tell them you are getting baptized because you do not have my permission. And we need it because he is only 16. We have tried to sit down with the mom a few times but so far she has not agreed but we will keep trying.

Well those are a few of the interesting things going on in my life right now. I love you guys and thanks for all the support you give me.

Love 

Elder McMullin

What Elder Zuniga said about April Fools: April Fools was fun! McMullin and I seran-wrapped the toilet for the other Elders lol. Like 95% of all pranks happened in the bathroom or while someone was showering