Week 23- Teaching another family and pictures from last week

Pictures from the baptisms last week of the family

Each week it gets harder and harder to think of things that will interest you of what i do here. Have i told you about the other family we have? well its guy and a woman and their children and they have been together for quite a long time and as of right now we are working on getting them married and they are up for it now we just need to take care of the papers and things like that. I am just hoping that the wedding will be before i leave this area. but as of right now im not sure of the likelihood of that. It would be my comps first wedding too and he has been out for almost 2 years. Anyways the man usually works quite a bit but right now he has one month of holidays and he does a ton of fishing with his children and he is pretty much one of the nicest guys ive ever met in my life. he has given us fish multiple times to take home and make and its really good. this last time we went though he had caught a squid and he gave us some to eat. i was pretty excited about it. we actually had divisions ealrier this week and he offered eel but i wasnt there to accept it. i was pretty sad about that. But he always makes it to church when he doesnt have work but his work is starting back up soon so another thing we are working on is getting his day off switched to sunday.Ill keep you updated on that familys progress better. Most of our other families recently have been getting weaker with things pertaining to the church so its pretty sad but we will keep trying to work with them.

Another person that we havent worked with since elder zuniga left showed up to church yesterday with her boyfriend and they say they are ready to be married because he got his papers from his country of birth so we will start working with them again. last time it was very hard to find her and we never found the guy so i hope it will be different this time around.

My portuguese is decent enough now that i have started trying to learn the criole more than before. its pretty fun trying to speak it. its actually a pretty simple language and very straightforward. But its still trying to learn three languages at the same time because there is two major different crioles and on this islan people seem to speak both because  a lot of people come to this island to work from different islands. i think i like the criole from the northern islands more. its called sau pajew. not really spelled like that. but thats okay. i like it more than the southern island criole called bado. also spelled wrong. but as far as music i have learned that i like brazilian music the most usually. but i hear a ton of different music on the streets. cabo verde has a couple of main kinds and then portugal music and music from mozambique and also angola and also brazil. so there is quite a bit of different kinds here.well i think thats about it as far as things from this week. Love you all!

Elder McMullin

Week 22

This week was awesome. The baptism went off semi painlessly. Me and elder crooks just had to find a ton of clothes for baptism and one of the girls ended up using one of my shirts haha. But one downside was my camera i took out for pictures and it is now broken. dont know why but pictures will be dificult again seeing as i am cameraless. Tell me what you want me to do for that situation mother. But i will send you the pictures as soon as i get them. I baptized the mother and the youngest of the girls. And then on sunday i confirmed for the first time ever and had no idea how to do it so it wasnt the greateset but it was a cool experience. 

I got the package! thanks a ton for all the stuff. Its all great. Ive been putting sriracha on everything with mannaoise. Its like my own korean barbeque except the food is never korean. As far as the other sauces only a one exploded so the other ones are all good. The calanders are awesome. the one with the people playing lacrosse made me want to play super bad. and then hearing that logan took state. that is super awesome. I hope i have a way to play again someday but who knows. 

Happy late birthday vic. im pretty jealous that you got tres leches cake and ididnt. and happy early birthday alex. do something fun. like move to utah. yeah that sounds solid. All the news was really cool this week. Wish dalt and sav the best for me. but i will forever be mad at them. kind of. not really. but a little bit. 

Hey for all of you that askd i found a scale this week. and i am like 85kgs. and i left the mtc at 215lbs. 85kgs is about i 185 lbs. so i have lost 30lbs since ive been here in cabo verde. hopefully ill keep losing some weight. i still have quite the belly haha. but itsa good start and i feel quite a bit more healthy then i did at home most of the time. 

Its wierd the seasons barely change here. its hotter than when i first got here but still super close haha. the wind makes it very nice though. Still havent had any rain since the first couple of weeks i was here. 

Thats awesome that you got the job sissa! I guess you are no longer my personal nurse. thats too bad. im sure you will still have to be a few times before i find a wife to do it when i get home haha. Its super nice that idont get sick very much out here. it makes it very enjoyable. i dont like being sick especially out here. its boring. and lessons fall and its just an all around pain. well i think thats about it for this week. Love you all thanks for the support!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 21- May 11, 2015

We were so excited that we were able to skype with Elder McMullin on Sunday (Mother's Day). We were all on together skyping with Elder McMullin!!- Alex in AZ, Tim & Alyssa and Vic and family in Orem, and Chandler, Ryland, Bridger, Mom and John in Logan!!

So here is his email from Monday, May 11

Well it was great to be able to see and talk to everyone yesterday! except i dont vic said a single word to me....rude.

This letter will probably be super short because i told you most of what happened this week already. We had zone conference again and that was fun. Its cool to be able to see other missionaries and also the mission president and his wife. We received some nice trainings and had a nice lunch all together.

We are continuing to teach the family that has the baptism date for this saturday and it is all looking super well. Tonight we are doing a family night with them and that should be a blast. They are also getting their interviews for baptism so that is doubly so exciting. 

We also found another family. Actually we kind of have found them before but this is the first time we are really getting to teach them . the first time we found the guy he was pretty drunk but he is one of the nicest guys i have ever met and i htought it was just when he was drunk but we found him sober and he still is and so is his wife. They arent actually married but they have been togther for like 13 years or something like that and we taught them about marriage and we should be following up this week but their whole family went to church and that was super awesome. He also might catch us a tasty fish. we will see.

Well thats the quick run down. ill give a better email next week! Love you all and thanks for all the support.

Love Elder McMullin

Week 20- May 4, 2015

This is Elder McMullin's mom and I just realized I didn't post the last two weeks. Sorry we have no pictures to go with the posts. Since he has gotten a new companion, we haven't been able to copy pictures from his companion's blog. Hopefully, he will send some pictures soon!!

So i will start with explaining elder crooks. He is from Texas. Well there you go. Just kidding. Well he loves sports and he loves movies. Sometimes he gives scenes and one liners from movies. its quite entertaining. 

There isnt a ton of things to really talk about this week because we didnt really find any new investigators and most of the ones i have told you about already are very slowly progressing. well i guess one family is progressing much more quickly and that is the family i have told you about multiple times. 

We have taught them just about everything they need to know to be baptized now and they have accepted all the commandments and are living them and everything. It is so cool. They even read and pray as a family. They are the only people i have met here that i know that do it. And the difference it makes is sooo crazy. So keep doing it family. We taught them a couple of the big or i guess hard commandments to keep this week. One was law of chastity and they all agreed but one and it was super unexpected. but we continued talking and eventually she started crying but her mom is a super good mom and talked to her and she agreed now. The only downside is one of them still has a nose ring but we will talk a bit more about that this week. also we talked about the sabbath day. And they are super good with just doing the good things on sunday and everything. Their progress amazes me. Also we are going to talk to them all alone with the mother this week to clear anything up and im so excited for that but at this rate they will be baptized the 16th. 

Another one of our super good investigators might have fallen a bit this week because we talked to someone that said they saw him at a bar and he has struggled with the word of wisdom for awhile so we need to find him today and hopefully talk to him at least by tomorrow. There are a lot of good lessons that i am super excited for this week. 

Well i think thats about it for now and because zuniga isnt my comp you cant find info about us anymore on his blog. i guess that means i need to do better with pictures. ill work on it. Well i hope everything is going well for everyone. Love you all.

Elder McMullin