Week 49- TRANSFERED!

Transfered! well i am now on the island of Santiago. in the zone of Assomada in the area of Cabeca Carreira. My compation is elder duarte and i am finishing his training. His family is from Cape Verde but he has grown up in portugal so he is portuguese technically. I only have like an hour with him but he seems like a really cool guy.

I found out i was being transferred saturday so i could be in sao felipe so i could make it to the boat in time monday, because no haices on sunday. SO the boat was fun. its 4ish hours of people just puking and puking. but they happened to be playing avengers 2 on the tv for everyone, so i was too busy with that to puke. but i still havent seen it with volume. or of my own choice so we still need to watch it together when i get home. I think i might have been the only missionary not to puke haha. or at least dry heave. If i ever go again though im definetely going to use some vomadrin.

Well i dont have much time but ill explain my area a bit. its like rolling mountains and corn fields. its actually suuuuper pretty. i like it a ton. and its nice and cool. There is one problem though. i can not see the ocean anymore. im gonna miss that. its my area most like home so far haha. it feels like fall at home here with corn fields and dirt paths. i like it.

We are sneaking up on christmas here and i will be calling you from this area! im pretty excited. as for thanksgiving we dont do anything. they had their most similar day awhile back and it just had a ton of corn. its pretty good.

Also i sent pics last week but i just looked and they never sent so ill have to resend them next week. sorry. dont have much time because of all the travel today but i love you all!

Love 

Elder McMullin

Week 48- November 16, 2015

Heeeeyyyyy so i decided to write the big email a bit earlier even though you are sleeping so i would have time to do it today. ill come back later to finish my internet time and to write you lovely people that i havent responded to yet. And i will bring and send photos at that time.

As for this week nothing too out of the ordinary. Our zone leaders came down and did divisions with us. The elder i was with was the first elder that was a native that i did a division with here six months ago..... haha ive been in this area for so long. This sunday is transfer day! but i should be staying to finish training elder schlichte. Also seeing as the other elders in my district are training i think we are all staying the same. But one cool thing is my mini that i served with is leaving for his mission this upcoming week. But he didnt get his visa yet so he will be serving here in cape verde until he gets his visa. I hope i will see him again before he heads out to brazil. 

As for exciting news my creole is getting pretty good.... Thats one upside to staying in the same area. you dont have to switch dialects so you just can learn it. But we cant teach in it and also i have to teach my companion portuguese so i dont speak it. But it makes me pretty happy.

Also i played soccer for the first time in like 6 months today with the other elders here. it was just 3 on 3 but it was a good time.

Sorry the longer i stay in one area the less i have to tell you about the area.... but we had some corn. that was cool. but their corn is not sweet corn. still a good time. and some papaya and some squash and some soy beans. good times.

Welll until next week!

Love you all!

Love 

Elder McMullin

Week 47- Zone Conference

Sorry.... same thing as usual we didnt have time to write yesterday so we are writing now. 

Well this past week was  abit crazy. our schedule got all whacked out because we had a zone meeting on tuesday so we didnt mark any appointments that day but then it was changed to a different day on which we already had dates marked.... so it turned out really confusing and a week where we didnt have as many lessons as we should be having. 

On the plus side we started working with a family that we used to be working with in the past and we talked to them about marriage and we marked a baptismal date for december that means they have to plan and have the wedding before then. it will be a lot of fun working with them so that all these things can happen.

Your weeks all sounded super awesome. Good job ori! way to win! and i hear that cy was a beast in football this year. Im sad i have to wait another two years to watch you guys play football because i will get home in winter but you guys should totally start basketball so i can watch you wreck in that too! and lacrosse boys. Best sport ever. just sayin!

Thanksgiving is creepin up here pretty fast do you all already have plans? Sorry i dont have much about my week but i love you guys!

~Love Elder McMullin

Week 46- new companion meeting members and investigators

Sorry once again things came up on p day. this time the internet place was closed. Dont know why but oh well!

Well this week was a pretty good one. Introducing a lot of members and investigators and a lot of other people to my son, because it turns out i know pretty much everyone in my area and the majority of people in the group as well. it was funny i was contacting with my mini a bit back and he was trying to contact and he was like what about them? and i would tell them the name and what happened and stuff like that. after awhile he was like you have already contacted the whole town! i dont think i already mentioned that but it was a good time. its true. thats what happens when you have 6 months in a small town. so that means i start contacting them again! its a really awesome town though but i am a bit ansy for when i will get a new area. still working hard here though i promise!

Its wierd training because i honestly feel like i was just barely being trained. i remember going through all of the exact same things (i know. cliche right?) but cliches are cliches for a reason. because soooo many times its so true. Elder schlichte is a cool guy though. i feel like we are getting along well. i just hope im helping him because he doesnt have a four elder house like i did. he has a lot less people speaking portuguese and a lot more speaking criole and he doesnt have schwarma.  So i hope im making it not feel as lonely. its tough being the only one that cant communicate with other people on this whole side of the island. but hes learning well and the members and investigators really like him. haha probably more than they like me lots of times!

I realized today that we are going to be talking for real here in a month! thats so crazy! We only have one more call after this one..... mind blown right? i hope i can find a good place to make the calls here. not like last time. that internet was horrible. 

Thanks for the halloween pics from those that sent them... and those that didnt..... you have some splainin to do. and some pictures to send.... do as i say and not as i do! haha. 

Love you all !

Elder McMullin

Week 45- Posting late .. written 10/27/2015

Okay first off siblings im only on week 45. you guys cant stop writing me already. we still have another year to go. 

Okay well once again i wasnt able to write yesterday im writing a bit late. a few things happened yesterday so we werent able to write. One was we had interviews with president mathews and a meeting with trainers and verdinhos (greenies). It was a good chance to talk to him and to his wife. they are both really good people. Sister Mathews mentioned how i was getting to be one of the old guys. it was suuuuuuupppper weird. Also the power was out alll day yesterday and just barely came on today. so it was impossible either way.

As for the rest of the week i went to another elders area to do some baptismal interviews. It was all raining and i was rocking my sandals and it was all raining and muddy. good ol times. it was my first time ever doing a baptismal interview and they were eventful to say the least haha. id explain it all but it would be long and confusing. needless to say some things happened so we werent sure if it would be allowed to baptize so i told the guy that he might have to wait then i got another call from president and he said we had the good to go. And then some interviews with some younger family members. But it all turned out well in the end.

Another day we went up to our group and it literally rained alllll day. so we had quite a few days this week where we were soaked all day.

As for all the other stuff ill send it to you next week i hope thats okay but i dont really have time today. just this short amount of time to write you. Love you all!

Love 

Elder McMullin