Week 44- New companion finally arrived

Elder McMullin's new companion was supposed to picked up at the Mission Home in Praia on Friday, but Elder McMullin's flight was canceled to the island where Praia is. So then the new Elders were going to fly to Fogo, but they missed their flight. Probably because they were waiting for their luggage to arrive. It didn't arrive with them Thursday night. Poor Elders. So since they missed the flight they had to take a boat over to the island of Fogo. Here is his email he was finally able to send this week.

Hey sorry this will probably still be pretty small but what happened was pretty much what you guys already know. My plane there was cancelled they missed their plane here so they took the boat here.

My son is Elder Schlichte. He is from morgan utah he is really tall and im pretty sure i played him in lacrosse a few years ago. We pretty only have one day together at this point.

As far as work i havent been able to go up to our group for like a week and a half now and im dying to go back up their because we have quite a few people up their that we need to teach. We finally get to go up their tomorrow that is if nothing happens this time.

Wanna know something really wierd? I have the most time on the mission out of everone in my district. And im pretty far up there in comparison to the whole zone too. its super wierd for me. Sorry i dont have much more to talk about this time.... i was jumping areas soooo much this last week.

Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 43- New companion on Friday

Sooooo for right now i have a cape verdian mini missionary named elder da graca. I've known him pretty much ever since i've been in this area because he was a mini for a different missionary in my district then. Hes just staying with me until i go pick up my son here in a bit. I fly to praia to get him on friday. I was told he is from utah and i was told his name but i don't know how to spell it so i guess you will have to wait til monday to know what his name is. I was told he is from morgan utah.

Last week was a pretty good with elder cruz before he went home. We got  a lot of good work done and we were able to teach one of our really cool investigators a ton and he was able to be baptized on saturday. The only thing was elder cruz had to leave saturday morning so he wasn't able to see it. So i stayed the rest of the week with some other elders that work close to us. We both work in the same ward but we both also have groups. After the baptismal service of the people baptized the ward had an activity where they grilled a ton of chicken so we had some investigators go to that right after and we ate some chicken and had a really good time. The only thing is one of the missionaries that i was with was pretty sick. He got sick the day before and it lasted til at least monday or tuesday. But then he was transfered to another island. I've actually been in the same zone as him my whole mission until now. But now all of the island of fogo is training except our zone leaders and sister training leaders. 

That's my quick update and ill try to get a better one on monday. Love you all!

Elder McMullin

42- Party for Elder Cruz

Hey loved ones. Sorry i wasnt able to write yesterday. The internet places were all closed for some strange reason so we didnt have access to interwebs or computers. Ill try to give a good email with details this week. 

So this week was conference and we were able to watch parts of it. but not all of it. we saw both the morning sessions and the priesthood session and due to some random stuff we werent able to watch the other sessions but ill probably download them in english or something along with the other sessions because we listen to the talks in portuguese and they use big words. also its brazilian portuguese so its harder for me to understand. It was cool that we got an investigator to go, and he was waiting the whole time for president monson to talk. 

Oh yeah also a couple of you asked about transfers.... thats next week. this sunday so ill tell you next monday.

Well the party was a success, Me and elder toledo made a ton of things with some help from the other elders. We made tacos with beef and onions and homemade flour tortillas. Homemade chili. Horchata. Rice pudding. Tres leches cake. It took quite a long time to cook but it all turned out really well. One of the cape verdians was asking me why the only things i know how to cook are mexican recipes haha. I didnt really realize it til he pointed it out to me. We were also going to make the mexican corn but all the corn on the cob here isnt quite ready yet but it will be here in a little bit. There are sooooooo many corn fields here right now. Im sure ill find some goat cheese here and make a ton of delicious corn. Cheese is a bit tricky though. 

Well as far as other cool things happening here it rained again and wrecked the roads in our group again so we have to do some more walking again. but at least they should have some good crops and no one was injured or anything. 

Well i think thats about it for today. Thanks all i love you!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 41- first sunburn in Cape Verde

Sorry ive been tryin to get pictures to work for a bit but they still dont want to work so maybe next week... keep your fingers crossed! Hey before i get started on my weekly update for you , we are doing a go away party next p day for my comp and its all mexican themed because hes mexican and is going home. If you could send me any ideas in the next hour four mexican recipes that i could make for it id love the ideas. thanks!

Well this week was fun. i dont remember if i mentioned last week but we finally helped someone in their fields. it was a ton of fun and i got sunburned for the first time i think since ive been here. 

Its hard to think of different things that have happened in the last week. it was a fairly uneventful week. We are teaching in both of our areas. now we go up to our little mountain area three times a week and we are working with the family of our recent convert. The main thing is trying to get people to church. Whenever it rains they pretty much see it as a get out of church free card haha.

Well the other elders had a baptism this week and it was running super late so it kinda messed up our day but we still had to head up to our area so we got a taxi but it couldnt go up all the way because the rain was making water river things in the road so we had to run up and had the taxi wait for us. That was a fun experience. unfortunately even after we taught day of the lord they didnt make it to church on sunday. But we will teach them some more this upcoming week.

Besides that just working like usual. There is only two weeks left in the transfer so im getting super curious who my next comp will be seeing as elder cruz is going  home. But thats about it!

Love you all!

Elder McMullin