Insanity!

Dear family and friends! 

This week, as usual, was great!   I don't remember a lot of what we did since I don't have my journal with me, but the things I remember were great! We did a ton of service on Tuesday. We went over to the Salvation Army down the road a ways from us and helped organize some toys for them. They have tons and tons of toys that have been donated for Sub for Santa. All of them were mixed together, so we spent  3 or 4 hours organizing it first into boy, girl, and Frozen stuff, then from there we organized the toys by category like Barbies, or trucks, or matchbox cars, or Legos.  After that service we went to lunch at a place called Haven Burger which is really, really good! Unfortunately, I forgot my jacket there and someone had claimed it at the lost and found by the time I got back.   I'm going to have to buy another jacket now. After lunch we went to my ward mission leader's house and helped his wife with some service they needed. Once a year or maybe twice the city will put out great big dumpsters down certain streets so that people can throw anything away they need to. We got there and helped throw away a giant pile of wooden furniture that had been ruined in the flood back in September and a big pile of bricks.

Wednesday I don't remember anything about other than the family night we had at Silvercrest old folk's home. An 11 year old boy came and played Christmas songs on his violin. He was pretty good for his age! He definitely has a lot of potential if he keeps up the good work. His dad is a music arranger/composer of a lot of church music, so he gets a lot of help with his own arrangements. The Beehives also came and sang some Christmas carols. I really enjoyed that family night!

Thursday through Saturday are a bit of a blur for me right now. I think we might have taught a couple of lessons, but other than, that not a ton of significance. 

Sunday we woke up and went to Church at 9:00 for Centennial ward since next transfer our Cornerstone and Centennial wards are going to be combined. The two Elders covering Centennial are going home at the end of this transfer, so that's the reason behind that. We've been doing some exchanges so that it's not a total whitewash, so that's nice. It was the Christmas program on Sunday.  It was a very enjoyable sacrament meeting. I loved the primary kids singing!

Right now I'm actually sitting on top of a mountain typing this up! It's insane because this is the same hike we did last Monday that was crazy difficult and exhausting, but the only difference is this time we biked over to the trail head. It's a 21 mile bike ride one way and three and a half miles up one way. It's super steep and is awful anyway, but with the bike ride on top of it is just terrible. It'll be great to say we did 50 miles in a day though!

Anyway, I love you all and will talk to you next week! Have a jovial Christmas! 

Love,

Elder Mullins