Praia West Zone

New area of Tarrafal, Sao Nicolau

This is right near Elder McMullin's home. He lives right on the beach!!

Week 93

Well this week i have some pretty excited news! The group got up to a record high frequency of 31! Fun fact about our group we only have 2 male members that are active that are old enough to have the priesthood and one was just baptized so he still doesnt have it. So that means me and my companion is 2 more. and 1 investigator that is a male adult. that is 31 minus 5. 26. That means 26 women and children were at our group this week. We are basically the same calling Mom! 

Working in this group involves a lot of passing recent converts seeing as every member is one almost! Mom asked how many members live in our area. Answer is 18 baptized members.
Other questions. Food is more or less the same between islands. There are some slight differences but mostly its rice fish chicken beans katxupa. I have been eating a ton of fruit since i have arrived in this area.

Am i going to be able to watch conference.... Doubt it! Seeing as we are in charge and we arent allowed to have laptops and such.... Honestly i have no idea though. I guess i will find out for sure this week.

How far do i walk? Less than most of my other areas. We only take haices when we need to go to the other elders area which we only do like every other week for district meeting and divisions. And it is like an hour ride. super pretty though through all the mountains and green areas.

The weather is super hot! But not as humid as praia. But i have heard this is one of the hottest areas on the mission. I think i have been to all the hottest now.

The other missionaries were able to get off last week! Finally everyone is where they are supposed to be.

No we have not recieved our call with our returning information. Maybe i will be extended and not make it home for christmas! haha just kidding!

I think that is it for this week! I love you and miss you all! That includes you too Bridger!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 92- Transferred to Sao Nicolau ...Tarrafal

(sacrament meeting in their house)

Welllllllllllllll I was transferred! My new area is Tarrafal! but not the one on the main island that i have already been to. This Tarrafal is on the island of Sao Nicolau. There are only 4 missionaries on the island and they are in 2 different towns. Both areas just have groups which means they arent even big enough to be a branch yet. The area that I am in has only been open for around a year. Which means everyone is a recent convert. So i guess the things that you guys will be most interested in hearing is that I am district leader of the island, group leader of our church group because we have no male priesthood holder to do it so i get to preside and conduct meetings, visit all the members to make sure everything is going well, and such, and also church is in our house. So this area is quite interesting. And seeing as i only have one transfer left after this one I will probably finish my mission here!

Some stories from this week. My first plane that was suppose to bring me here was cancelled due to rain but i was able to get here the next day. good thing too because if i didnt i wouldnt have gotten here for awhile! There are two elders that are suppose to leave this island but cant until this week due to planes and boats off the island are limited. My new companion is Elder Delgado. He is from Cape verde the island of Santo Antao. I have never been there but i know him because i was his district leader in fogo when he started the mission. He actually stayed with me a few days while he waited for his companion. Now he has a year on the mission! Time flies. The elder that i took the place of is Elder Bisk who i also knew on fogo when he started his mission. He is from Kaysville and i think used to live pretty close to where dad and christine and jordyn lived. He also played lacrosse but is 2 years younger than me, but he is still with us waiting for his boat tomorrow so he can finally go to his new area.

We had 2 baptisms this saturday and the area that i left had 2 baptisms on saturday as well! Once again i have an area baptizes in the ocean! That makes 4 out of my 6 areas on the mission that have had to do baptisms in the ocean.

I think that is it for this week!

Love Elder McMullin

week 91

So this week was pretty awesome! I have two cool things to tell you about and then i will answer moms questions. So first story was we had a group of investigators walking with us to church and this guy that claims to be a prophet (i have talked to him a few times before) comes up and starts yelling things about false churches and how joseph smith isnt our redeemer and things of the sort. telling the people they had a year and a half to repent or burn in hell.... Well i have enough experience to know that all you can do is hurry on the people and say have a good day until he left. Luckily everyone realized he was just crazy. 

Second story much more awesome... We had 15 investigators in church this week!!!!!! that is crazy. Like CRAZY high. It was so much fun but a little hectic trying to help them have members and stuff to take care of them but most of them had member friends so it was super awesome. now we just need to help them all out throught the week and help them realize the blessings so they will continue!

1. transfers.
yeah they are this week but for some reasons they will be in the middle of this week so i will tell you about them next week!

2. will i be transferred?
I have no idea.... haha i hope i will stay. i really like this area.

3. if i could go to another island that i have been to? not sure if you asked that the way you wanted...

but if i could return to any island. Well i only have the choice of fogo or sal... right now i would go back to fogo i think? i have some friends over there right now.

4. Will i tell you my weight?
yeah i guess so. I was 160 when i weighed myself a couple weeks ago.so im down 55 lbs from when i left the mtc. I am trying to eat super healthy and work out daily. really want a good habit so i can continue it when i get home....

So that is it for this week! i love you all! Have an awesome week!

Love Elder McMullin

Weight guessing during week 90

Elder McMullin let us know he finally was able to find a scale to weigh himself and now everyone was able to take a guess.

Gary (Hayden's dad) guessed 182
Chandler guessed 177
I (Mom) guessed 170
John guessed 175
Ryland guessed 160
Bridger guessed 127

Week 90

So this week was awesome again. But you all didnt ask questions this week so i dont know what to tell you about! We are still working with quite a few families. We had a few show up this week. The members went and passed a family and worked out all the things with some parents that didnt want to give permission in just one short visit and now they even bring the kids to church so we are getting some awesome help from the members!

Oh yeah highlight of the week. I was able to weigh myself. Everyone should guess what it was and i will think about telling you all!

I love you all! you really need to give me some specific questions because it is getting REALLY hard thinking of what to tell you all. The missionary lifestyle especially here in cape verde seems more normal than thinking of life at home at this point so it just all seems so normal to me! haha but still enjoying it and working with a ton of people.

Love you all!


Love Elder McMullin