Week 28

Well this letter will probably be super short. We have to go and make sure our house is super clean and everything is well there because we  have house inspections sometime this week. 

This week we did some good work but yet again no one shows up to church. Its one of my big pet peeves because it happens to me all the time.

This morning we did a hike down and checked out some cool sights, we found a pretty cool cave when we did it. I will send you some pictures when i get them from the other elders. Dont worry i should be getting my camera next thursday so only a little more time before i can take a lot of pictures for you guys.

I went on my first division this week with someone that pretty much only speaks portuguese. it was a really fun time to try out my portuguese skills for a whole day. It was really fun and we had pretty much no problems communicating the whole day.

Sorry it was so short.... ill try to get more next week... Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 27

Well this one will be real short because i dont have much time. I cant get a camera except here in mostieros. sao felipe is the main city on fogo and i only go there once a month for zone meeting so in a few weeks i can buy one but i kind of need money in my acconunt for that. so there are two options, either mom can switch money from my savings into checking. or you guys can be generous and donate money for a camera haha. either way is cool with me but i need money in my checkings account either way so i can take it out with my debit card.

Well this week there were like 30 more people at church so that was pretty bomb. We still didnt have a ton of lessons but we are working on that. Remember how im not suppose to tell you health problems? well i still am. ive been having some in grown issues but im taking care of them and they are fine. remember the rule no one ever contacts my mission president asking about my health. you only ask me. but yeah so  i get to rock sandals again while preaching and what not. but its not too bad. my mission is quite the adventure haha. speaking of adventure have fun on trek mom. i know you love that kind of stuff haha. 

Thats cool that johns nephew and wife know my comp. hes really chill, hes a fun guy. i always tell him im going to marry his little sister.... i dont think he likes it haha.

Well my 6 month mark was last week. We had some nice pancakes for it. Theres some cool american things here if you search shops. they dont really know how to make pancakes but we do and they were quite tasty. One of the other missionaries here played lacrosse in high school and we talk about it sometimes and we got elder lundeen to want to play it. and ive decided i need to find a way to play it when i get back. not sure how but i need to!

Cool story, i think i mentioned how there was a girl that we gave a blessing to randomly one day because her mom told her to ask a missionary for one? well she is already getting baptised this week. Thats a huge miracle. Like crazy big. Thats a great example of easy missionary work. She didnt try to teach her everything she didnt say you have to join our church, she just said if you need help ask a missionary for a blessing. Kind of like Elder nelson, if you need help , ask a missionary. I thought that was a sweet story. The lady really turned her life around.

Well thats about it for this week. Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 26- island of Fogo

well you guys had a ton of questions this week and i have quite a few things to talk about. first off ill just tell you how the travel went down because that will answer quite a few of the questions you have. i left monday night on a plane headed from sal to praia. in praia the aps picked us up and we stayed the night at their house. we woke up at 4 in the morning so we could get back to the airport on hop on a plane to fogo. our plane left at like 6 30 or so and the flight was just like 30 minutes. all the flights in cape verde are super short. we got there but we were on the other side of the island where the zone leaders live so we stayed with them until like 11 then we took a haise that went around the island to get to our area. it took quite a while and there were a ton of people packed in one haise. mom or dad said they saw something about watching youtube videos and it looked like the areas were either green and lush or black volcanic rocks. this is super accurate. driving to our area i saw both of these things but my area is more of the green mountainous lush area.

 we have a ward and a group in our area so we have 5 hours of church on sundays. and the group we pretty much climb a mountain to get up to and the first time we did it was my second day here. i was used to sal which is flat and windy so its cool but here its temperature is close but with much less wind and much more hills to climb. and i  was sick most of this week so i was dying climbing the mountain. its all good now though but mom would love this area. but as we know hiking isnt my favorite thing in the world. but the area is still super cool.  one thing that was sad this week though was the frequency of church dropped a ton this week. not sure what happened though.

my new comp is elder lundeen. he is from hurricane utah and he has two transfers left. i will probably kill him but there is also a chance he will be transfered for his last transfer.(kill is when you are the last comp  to a missionary before he goes home) that has been happening quite often recently here. he is fun and a cool guy and really likes the work so we work pretty hard.

for p day what we have done so far is we played ping pong! it was super awesome. i missed ping pong quite a bit. they have this center for youth place where you can go play games for free and not many people use it so we went there and played. its a pretty cool place but it has some interesting art work. maybe ill send a picture of what i mean next time. i dont think we can leave to go see the volcano. i dont think president matthews really likes when missionary leave their areas to do tourristy things.

oh yeah another really cool thing about fogo is it has mountain dew so i have been enjoying that so i dont need that in my package anymore. and i think i will buy a camera here. 

ill tell you more about the people here next time when i know more about them but  i think thats about it for this email. thanks for all the emails ill try to respond to as many as i can right now. love you all.

Love Elder McMullin

Week 25- Transfer to Fogo

Well ive finally been transfered! i leave later tonight and my next area will be on the island of....... fogo! thats the island with the volcano. I will be serving with an elder lundeen. Ill tell you more about him next week. all i really know as of right now is that he came into the mission with elder crooks. so ill probably be the one to kill lundeen. (kill is when you are the last comp before you go home. he only has two more transfers left. One cool thing is i hear i can get mountain dew in fogo. one downside is they speak the criole that i definetely know less. 

Overall im pretty excited but i will miss the people here a lot. Elder chevalier is leaving too so yesterday we said goodbye to a ton of the members and investigators. its not fun! haha Gaelles family said that i couldnt leave. i had to stay so crooks and i can continue giving them classes. We also have a marriage or two coming up this next transfer that i was really hoping i would be here for but i guess i wont. thats also a bummer but i here the area im going into is a really good area. and im excited for it. Not much i can think of this week while im mainly thinking of what the next area will be like. Love all of you! hows summer going? i thought i might get some more letters with it being summer but i definetly got the least amount this week.... Enjoy your summers!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 24

Well this week was a pretty good week but one thing that sucked is like no one showed up to sacrament meeting. We only had a frequency of 38. recently weve had around 60 so thats a huge drop. Not totally sure what happened but we will make sure it doesnt happen again next week. Another super sad thing was one of the other elders recent converts here that had some mental and health problems passed away on sunday. It was super sad. I hope she will keep her faith and remmber what she has been taught about our plan for us! I also heard that elder l tom perry passed away. He was awesome but everytime an apostle passes away its hard to be sad because you always know they have lived a good life.

Speaking of mental problems i show the people that i teach pictures of all of us that we took at the church. And we have two right one with one group of parents and one with the other. well in one of them cy has a crazy face so when i showed one of the people that we are teaching the picture she asked if cy had down syndrome and she was totally serious not making a joke. it was pretty funny. i told her he is just a bit hyper there and a bit crazy too so he made a silly face. haha silly cy. 

This week we had some other interesting things happen. For one thing we ended up teaching 4 nigerians in english in the middle of a sandwich shop and we got all their numbers and info and we will try to get a hold of them this week. The first lesson with them was pretty good but they are all on super different levels with super different attitudes and its tough when they dont speak portuguese because then we have to translate at meetings and things like that which is fine but the problem is we arent at every single meeting and then when things like that happen we get blamed for not doing everything. haha. but its a good time all in all. 

I dont remember if i told you but we found an american that lives here. he has lived here for 8 years and he owns a burger place that now we go to eat every once in awhile. its the best burger ive had in cape verde and its cool to meet someone from america here. so thats a cool little interesting thing. 

Well i think thats a lot of cool things we have done this week! oh yeah we ate one of the cheesecakes yesterday and it was quite delicious. oh yeah and the camera thing im not sure what to do yet i will look at some prices here and then get back to you.

Love you all! 

Love Elder McMullin

ps is rylands hair crazy?