Week 58- Missionary Broadcast

well another week was gone.... my week probably wasnt as eventful as yours seeing as ravyn was born! But it was a pretty awesome week. We had some interesting things happen such as the missionary broadcast that was worldwide that we were able to watch. That was pretty awesome. Also we managed to make some shwarma and tacos at home and i made some tres leches cake. i love being able to make delicous food when i cant buy it.

We had divisions with the zone leaders in assomada which is the big city in our zone it was really weird serving in a biggish city seeing as ive been in the small towns for the past year. But it was a lot of fun seeing another different area because the area where you are at changes a lot of things from the work to what you eat and all that. Its a lot easier finding people to contact there haha.

its wierd.... im gonna finish my last january on the mission here in a week... thats crazy! The more im here the more i think itll be super wierd going back to america after living in africa for so long. Oh well still got awhile til i have to worry about that!

Love you guys!

Love Elder McMullin

ps mom if you could put another j dawg sauce when you send that package out... everyone loves it. thanks love you!

Week 57- Interviews with President Mathews

Well we had interviews with president mathews this week and had the opportunity to speak with sister mathews during the other missionarys interviews. It was a really good time.

Its cool with the split areas. we are able to get a lot of work done here and there are plenty of people ready to be taught so its awesome seeing the difference that this will make. 

The members here are helping us a lot with the work and they are a lot of fun to be around and the branch has activities about every day of the week that we can take people to, to help them be integrated with the ward members.

The other elders are looking for a place to live that is in their area so they dont have to walk so much everyday but until them we will live together. 

My new comp is a cool guy. Hes really into playing and watching sports. He already knows the language very well even though he only has 4 transfers here in the mission.We made tacos together yesterday for lunch. They were pretty amazing. I am thinking about getting myself a birthday present and buying a blender for about 40 bucks and taking it with me from house to house til i leave the mission. im still not sure if i will do it yet. but with it i can make salsa and guacamole and horchata. It would be marvelous.

I think thats about it for this weeks update! Love you all! Good luck sissa!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 56- New missionaries added to his area!! First there were 2, Now there are 4

Well transfers happened! actually both me and my comp are staying... BUT we are both getting new comps. the area is being divided and we are going to have a 4 elder house! my new comp is elder deshler hes on his 4th transfer and guess where he is from.... Louisville KY!!! but he doesnt know jaxton unfortunately. That would have been soooo cool. especially because he goes home next month.

The plus side of the division is we dont have to cover as much ground but trust me we still have plenty. But this could be really good for our branch.

This area has a lot of branch activities that help a lot with the work and help us to work with members so its a lot of fun. I think we are starting an english class up pretty soon because a ton of people here have asked about one and said they would love to go to one. We will see how well i teach english haha.

Well i love you! have a good week!

Love Elder McMullin

Ps sissa happy birthday and good luck with everything!

Week 55

Well it was new years and i hope you guys had a good time! We ate some delicious carne asada fries with the jalapenos and what not so i enjoyed mine. 

Lots of drunk people here for new years! in fact me and and my comp got chased out of a house by an old drunk guy with a knife. haha dont worry he was really old and really drunk. Unfortanely we found a lot of people drinking that shouldnt have been!

Well transfers shouldve been this week but because of somethings they are happening next week! We are probably both staying here together though. Ill tell you for sure next week!

Today we went to this giant tree in our area for p day. it was pretty fun and it wasnt too bad of a hike. 

This week we recieved two people that live realllllly far but still in our area so we might head on a little field trip this week to go find them. Itll be super hard to teach them and for them to go to church though.... We will give it a try though.

Im almost out of sriracha already! its made many people happy though. but im gonna need another one in the next package! Oh yeah and if you can find salsa habanero pringles and some habanero hot sauce that would be awesome!

Sorry this is a bit scattered but its just me trying to remember the things that have gone on this week haha!

Happy late birthday pops! hope you had a good day!

And congrats cy! Wish i couldve been there to see the special day!

I love you all! Until next week

Love Elder McMullin

Week 54- Skyping for Christmas

Well we already talked this week but ill try to give you a couple of other cool little things that happened this week!

We were able to visit some members that had to stay in the hospital around christmas and take them a message and some suckers. it was really fun.

After talking with you guys we found a chinese restaurant...... I had chinese food!!!! it was pretty awesome and now we go there on p day.

Haha our branch is like a soap opera. People dating and breaking up and getting back together and everything. its pretty funny to watch at activities and church.

Sorry i dont have much else!

Love you guys!

Love 

Elder McMullin

Week 53-

Well this week was awesome but not much out of the ordinary happened. There was a baptism at the church but when we went it was dirty and flooded so we had to clean the chapel but we were able to get everything ready. 

Ive been trying to make delicous mexican food but i lack many ingredients. But that new diablo sauce from taco bell is super good. too bad i already used both of them. 

I can give you a better update when we talk. we are going to try and skype at 12 with mom and them on christmas eve. so ill probably call dad at 1 if that works for him. i believe thats about 8 there. send me an email if it doesnt work out. 

Also no one told me about cys birthday. tim gave me an update on his ( because he probably keeps me up to date better than anyone else. maybe mom does better but she has to cover for everyone else too so she has more priestly duties. or sisterly duties i guess.) fist bump tim.

Love you guys! Cant wait to talk to you!

Love 

Elder McMullin