Week 32

Well i guess i will tell you more about my companion. His name is elder pettingill. his family lives in bountiful. So dad and christine might know them. i will send them the names of his parents to find out. He is really fun and we had some good work this week. He reminds me a bit of tim. He heads home in october.

One funny story of this week was we were in a store and started talking about how we needed rain to some people and some drunk dude was like 2 days. itll be here in two days. And two days later we went back up to that area and it didnt get a real rain storm but it was sprinkling. We were quite impressed with the knowledge of that drunk dude. But unfortunately it didnt get any real rain and the place is still really lacking. 

Another thing that was going on this week was a catholic holiday for some saint happened in our area. it was quite annoying. people were drunk and everything and it was just not a good time to get work done. the worst part was we had an investigator whose woman almost left him because he drinks but he quit. well we saw him in a trunk spraying beer all crazy. Then later that day we found him in handcuffs. so we have to go see what is up today. i hope it is all okay and his woman wont leave him because they have a child together.

Besides that we have had some pretty good lessons. We have some couples that need to get married and we really need people to get to church but we will have to keep working on that this week. Thanks for all the emails! love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 31- new companion

Picture from the 4th of July. They had their own little celebration.
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Well this email will probably be short. yesterday was transfers and elder lundeen left. My new comp will be elder pettingale. I am actually with him right now. I met him my first day in cape verde he trained my mtc comp. He is also on his 2nd to last transfer. Haha president likes to give me old elders i guess. But elder pettingale seems to be a really cool guy and we should get along well.

This week was another slow one for our area. im not sure what we need to do better but hopefully this change will help something and we can find out what we need to do to help the people and the ward and groups here.

Its crazy hearing how much things are changing at home even though ive only been gone for 7 ish months. Keep up the good updates. and get chum writing me. hes the worst at writing me. It sounds like you guys are having some fun family get togethers. dont be having too much fun without me. Ill try to get some more pics to you next week. hopefully by then the rain will start here. the lack of rain here is hurting the farmers which is pretty much everyone in my area. Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 30 Pictures of Fogo- Elder McMullin's area

 Elder Lundeen- Elder McMullin's companion

Week 30- Finally some pics of Fogo

Well you will be unhappy to hear i wasnt able to get a camera in sao felipe  but it was fun and we had a good zone meeting there. A couple of people that came here with me were there one of them being my mtc comp elder bannerman. it was cool seeing them again.  And i gotta say the highlight of the week was that they have soft serve ice cream place in sao felipe. it was amazing. Im quite excited to go again. 

Oh yeah a really funny story about the trip to sao felipe. I guess usually the elders on the other side of the island (us) get a hiase but for some reason our district leader decided to get a hilux. this is a truck. so we rode in the back of a truck for a few hours with a lot of like potatoes and other things that people needed to transport there. The six of us were in the back and guess what else was there. A goat. A little things about goats. they do not like to sit still. and the rule everything that can go wrong will go wrong... it did.. haha the goat moved so its back side was facing elder clegg. he pretty much jumped onto my lap and the goat did not want to move. Elder clegg didnt want to move it so he did a little things to try to lure him away but it didnt work and before long the goat was peeing on the bench where he was suppose to be sitting. then the truck driver realized and came back and man handled the goat to the front and tied him up better. it was quite the trip. it was like around an hour and a half to two hours to get there. Also it was super foggy. It was a fun day.

Downside was yet again no investigators at church. Well we got one more week of this transfer to try to get someone to come. But there is an inactive couple that are coming back and they are super fun to talk with.

I saved some good news for the end of this letter. i was kidding i was able to get a camera so im sending some pictures now.

 Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Ps happy late birthday p ori ryland cade and any one else with a birthday!

Week 29

well this week was pretty fun all in all. we had special training by the mission president and his wife and it was really cool. oh yeah and i forget to tell you last week we met the us embassador for cape verde. it was pretty random.

Well this upcoming week i will finally be going to sao felipe and be able to get a camera because the town i live in (mosteiros tras) does not really have any.

sao felipe is on the other side of the island so we have to take a haise to get there. 

We still werent able to get any investigators to church this sunday so its starting to get a little bit frustrating.  One reason is because there is always some sort of party or saint day going on here. people love their saint days here. apparantly one is happening the end of this month that is suppose to be bigger than carnival. not sure if they were serious when they said that because carnival is a pretty big deal here. 

we had an alright party of our own for 4th of july. and 5th of july because that is cape verdes independance day so the elders in our district had lunch together. we were able to make burgers fries and onion rings. it was pretty good. and i was able to find franks sauce. its awesome finding american stuff. So when me and my comp found rootbeer it was crazy and a tender mercy from the lord. My comp had it for the first time in almost 2 years. 

One cool story was we found this cool area between two of our mountain areas and it like hidden between two mountains and you have to climb down to find the house of the dude we were looking for so we taught him and his wife and his wife was super pregnant. like had already passed 9 months. i was afraid we would have to help deliver a baby, but we finished the lesson and came up a few days later and we heard that she had the baby a couple hours after we had left the house haha. So we dont think they remembered to read the book of mormon or pray about it. but they live very hidden away so she had to hike after her water broke to get to a taxi. 

Well thats a couple of cool things that you might be interested in. thanks for all the emails. love you guys!

Love elder mcmullin