Week 37- Hurricane Fred is approaching

well it sounds like you guys all have heard about the cool hurricane on its way here. haha i found out about it yesterday in church. as of right now its just rain and a tiny bit of wind. but we are getting ready in case its bad with food and water and whatnot. im sure all will be well. 

as for transfers elder pettingill is leaving and im staying and im getting my old zone leader elder cruz. this is his last transfer so im killing him and will be in this area for at least 2 more. that means a total of 4 transfers in all which roughly is 6 months. thats a big chunk of time in one area but thats okay. its a really pretty area and its got some really cool people. haha i only get old people as my comps.

As for the work its moving along but its slow but we do have one 18 year old boy/man not sure what youd call it at that age but he is getting ready to be baptized next week and he is a boss so that should be really good and should go through quite well.

Well thats about it for this week sorry im in a bit of a hurry because we have to go to sao felipe to get my new comp and then come back. Love you all. you should hopefully hear from me in a week! 

Love elder mcmullin

Week 36- RAIN!

Wow we have been getting a crazy amount of rain here this week. There has been like 3 thunderstorms this week and they are super cool and loud. One of the times a flash was huuuuge and we heard it right after. It was pretty awesome. The only downside to the rain is its sooooo hot and humid before and after.

Well this week no one showed up to church due to some stuff with investigators children and things of the sort but we went and talked to them yesterday and we got it all sorted out.  

This is the last week of transfers and as of right now pretty much anything could happen. I could leave or stay and either stay with him and kill him or get another comp. I guess you guys will all find out in a week!

We had a zone conference in the main city on fogo earlier this week and it was a good time getting information from our leaders and they also sell schwarma there so i was quite excited about that. I have not been eating enough schwarma since i left sal. none in fact.

Sorry i dont have a ton of cool news this week... But it was great hearing from all of you especially the ones i dont normally hear from haha. Thanks for all the support!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 35- More investigators!

Well we had a couple investigators at church again! And we have been working with the family thats been going and they have a baptismal date for the 29th. Its a man a woman and a few children. All the children but the girl have already been baptised in the past so we marked with the girl and the mom and the dad. Haha but something wasnt clicking for them. We explained how you need the priesthood to be baptized and they are like of course! That makes sense! so can you be baptized. well me and the my daughter can but my husband was already baptised so he doesnt need it. oh yeah what church was he baptised in- well the catholic church. Well its because of the  restoration that we have the priesthood so the other churches dont have. Oh we understand elders but hes already been baptised so hes good. So we just kind of left it because we didnt have a member with us so we went and talked to the member who gave the family to us as referal. he kind of just face palmed and said he would take the bishop because the bishop is the ladyºs brother and they would explain it in creole so they can understand. So that was a fun time haha. I think we are gonna go check how that went tomorrow. 

There is another man that came to church last week but didnt show up this week for some reason. Hes great at reading and praying and listening to us and he says he already knows the book of mormon is true and everything is so we dont know why he doesnt show up to church every now and then. maybe he was working in the fields we will check that out when we go up to our group, which we do wednesdays and fridays. But besides that we have taught just about everything besides law of chastity because we can never get his woman to sit down with us. 

Also me and elder pettingill made some sweet wings this and week and some horchata and all sorts of things. I eat so much more when we cook at home haha. So thats all my sweet news of this week! Love you guys!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 34- Five Investigators at church!!! Hooray!!

Well to start off i have some good news. we finally had investigators make it to church! 5 of them! Its a good thing too because it was getting pretty hard. It was great to have them come though. You cant really progress if you arent willing to make it to church.i hope you will forgive this email for being short because i have to send pictures too.

One super sad thing was one the families that we are teaching seperated. Sad for a ton of reasons. They arent together they have children together, we dont know if we can even find them or talk to them anyways because we think they moved out of our area. its super sad. What makes it worse is that the problem has been having a ton of family issues. the mans parents both died within two weeks. one of the daughters fell and was in really bad condition. luckily the doctors did really well and she is fine now, but there has been lots of problems lately for them. but they are all really good people so whereever they go i hope they talk with missionaries.

But we also have gotten more cool families. we are teaching like 4 families nad they are all super cool. Another plus side is  i found dr pepper in a small village here. whoooooooooooooooo!

Week 33- rain!

Rain finally came this week! Which is very good because it is very needed here. And its rained for like the past 4 days. The only down side to that is when it rains everyone has to go out to fields and semiar. plant seeds so next year they can have food and what not. So its been tough to find people at home this week and not many people came to church.... But hopefully we will be able to do some good service this upcoming week with all the planting and caring for their crops. None of the members have let us go with them yet. Its kind of annoying they think that because we are americans we cant do anything. They literally told us we couldnt do it because we would get blisters and callouses as if we have never had them before. people are silly. They think america is full of pansies and tell us how awesome cape verde is but all of them are really trying to get visas to go live in america haha. But they are really fun and nice people.

Another good thing about this week is my comp is actually a really good cook so this week i have eaten chinese food, mexican food, some fried chicken sandwhiches, and some mashed potatoes and gravy. It was gladly welcomed haha.The food here is good but not much variety. I should probably try to learn from him seeing as i still will have many comps that probably dont know how to cook.

Thanks for sending a package i will tell you as soon as i get it. Im guessing it will be in 2 months or so. so probably around october ish. 

The area should be exploding in green pretty soon here so i will try to get you some pictures. Hopefully as the planting calms down the people will want to give us some time to thank god for all the things they have recieved. The members too. We fasted for rain this past week and we are getting it so hopefully we can get some members back to church this upcoming week! 

Thanks for all the support! love you guys!

Love Elder  McMullin