Week 102

Sorry yesterday when i wrote the email to send to everyone the computer crashed so ill send a quick one. Everything is going great here. Dad asked when i will be leaving this island. I actually leave a few hours before i have to get on a plane in praia to go home! so Pray there is no problems with travel. Because there often is on this island. And if I miss it i will miss all flights.... haha!!

Love you all!!!! SEE YOU ALL IN A WEEK.... hopefully!


Love Elder McMullin

Week 101..interesting time

So for this week we had an interesting time! We had someone from our stake call us and say that the patriarch would be here saturday for a meeting and we had to get things found out for the group. This was i think thursday at night! so we didnt have a lot of time to figure it out. And we had it set up but they changed it so our group went to the other elders group for church and we all listened to him at church. It was stressful trying to get it all figured out. But in the end it was soooo awesome. 

At the end a member invited everyone over for lunch and we all ate lunch before the hiace came back to take us all back to tarrafal. It was stressful at first but it was fun for everyone and everyone was happy even the kids that were throwing up in the hiace rides... haha! Got a lot of pictures so ill show them to you when i get home!

 It was super awesome because we also were able to get 4 investigators to go. All family members of the members here. And they seemed like they all had a lot of fun.

Well...... 2 more weeks..... and pretty much one more email because i will leave at night that day.... Its a super strange feeling.


Love Elder McMullin

Week 100... Another good week!

Another good week! Getting near the end..... 

Questions for the week...

Any lizards here?
Yep i see them like daily if i pay attention.

Spiders?
Just the same ones in fogo. Big black and yellow. but supposedly harmless.

More people at church?
Sadly no! we passed EVERYONE the day before and everyone was so sure they would be there but sadly not everyone came.

Is it true that there are no mosquitos here?
No. just no. Multiple mosquito diseases have gone around since ive been here.

Did i hear about the elections?
yeah.....

Ever seen turtles?
Nope! but they are a protected species here.

Common names here?
joao.... maria.... antonia.... lots of bible names too. jesus....

Any pirates?
I have never seen any.....

Oranges?
As far as i can tell they taste the same as in America!

Love you all!
Love Elder McMullin

Week 99.....

Well this week was very simliar to last week! Still just working away on Sao Nicolau! We found out that we are not going to another island for zone conference so i wont be going to my last zone conference... or last zone meeting... so i didnt give a testimony my first one because they forgot and they didnt know that my last one was months ago so i didnt give it there! haha pretty funny huh??

No one left me questions so i dont have much to talk about...
We got a few more people to church this week so that was good.
We have a member that is gonna catch a shark so i can try it! I told her i wanted to try it before i left and her cousin is a fisher so she said she would get one from him and cook it and invite me!

Haha the members ask me just about daily if i know when im leaving yet but ive had the same answer for like 2 weeks. I dont know when im leaving this island but i leave Cape Verde 6th in the morning. 

We couldnt find a haice so we took a truck back to our area this week and i got a lot of awesome pictures... And saw a ton of drunk people because it was a holiday haha.

Well thats it! Love you all!

Love Elder McMullin

Week 98- October 31st , 2016- Last transfer! I stay!

So transfers! I stayed and my companion left. My new companion is Elder Podzikowski. He is from orem and i met him awhile back. He stayed at my house one night in praia. Since he came we were making sure he knows all the members and investigators. Due to the last few weeks being strange we need to find a lot more investigators this week.

Story with visiting teaching... Well I have two things that have to do with it. One is that helping people understand the importance of home teaching and visiting teaching is one thing that is emphasized a ton by our mission president to help the people here. The other was we had a less active that we passed multiple times a week for two transfers and taught her very often and she never came to church. but finally a member passed once! just once! when they had this activity of passing other people. And that week she showed up. Along with many other less actives. That week was one of our highest frequency thanks to that activity. unfortanetly people went back to their normal lives and started struggling on passing less actives again and they fell away. But I saw there that retention works so much better when its loving friends and family members that are helping rather than just the missionaries.

AMi going to bring souvenirs?
i guess you dont remember when i asked for ideas on what to bring people because i have no idea!!!

Halloween celebrations here?
They had like a party and i saw some people playing games together. Nothing like super halloweeny like home though.

Weirdest thing i ate this week?
Nothing weird. but we did eat calzones for lunch yesterday and it was awesome. First time in a loooonnng time. 

Whats the first thing i want to eat at home?
I dont know! There are a lot of things i want to eat!

Who will i hug first?
haha who knows?

How is my companion? does he think im weird? do i think he is weird?
Hes a lot of fun. And everyone is weird in their own way right? I know I am. I get told it often by many people.

Love you all!
Love Elder McMullin