Bull Whip Mayhem!

Hey Everybody!!!

This week has been one of the greatest weeks of my mission! It's FLOWN

By.  On Monday we went over to the Assistant’s house and Elder Foulger

taught us how to make bull whips! Elder Sweeten and I are basically

done with ours now.  We just need to make handles for them, so it's

pretty exciting stuff! We've been cracking Elder Sweeten’s the past

couple of days and have been showing it off to a few people in the

ward.  We took it over to Stan's yesterday.  He thought it was so

cool that he paid us to make him one.  We only charged him the cost of

supplies, so don't worry;  we don't have a mini business going on.   Haha! I think we'll make a total of maybe $1.50. When

we took it over there we both cracked it a few times and the Stan

wanted to try. We gave him a basic demo on how to do it, but he didn't

follow it too well!   Hahaha!  You’ve  got to imagine this guy. He's 65, has a

mustache, and he goes out there with this 10' whip.  He's swinging

it around his head as fast as he can and then he flicks it slightly.

All the whip did was wrap all the way around his body a few times and

tangled him up!  Hahaha! It was seriously the funniest thing ever! He

looked like he had the coordination of a 4 year old. We thought it was

pretty funny.  All three of us were in stitches. Hahaha! He was kind of

worried about us cracking it because the mayor of Apache Junction is

his next door neighbor, but no one was home, so he wasn't even worried

about it! All of his neighbors’ dogs were going crazy though, so I'm

sure the neighborhood really appreciated it.

 We had a lesson with Alisha this Friday and taught her all

about the Word of Wisdom. We also talked to her about fasting and

priesthood blessings. She's a smoker, so she needs to quit. At the

beginning of our conversation with her, somehow, the topic of McDonald’s

came up.   I mentioned that I'm in love with the food there. She went off on this

twenty minute rant about how bad it is for you and how nobody should

ever eat it, and just basically called me Satan for eating it! (Not

really, but seriously...) She told us that she would quit smoking on

Monday.  At the end of the lesson she said the prayer and in it she

was like, "And please bless Mullins that he will stop eating

McDonalds!" It was pretty funny.  After the prayer I told her that

starting Monday if she never smoked another cigarette the rest of her

life, that I would never eat McDonald’s again another day of my life.

She took me up on that in a heartbeat!  So I guess it looks like

no more Mickey D's for me! Haha!

On Saturday the three Hodges got baptized! Jimmy has been

investigating the church for 15 years, which is insane to me! The

baptism was awesome! There were SO many people there. There were probably

more people at the baptism than usually show up to our sacrament

meeting.   Sister Hodges has 9 siblings and each sibling has

about 6 kids.  Then there were cousins, aunts, uncles,

grandparents, and other friends and relatives.  When we went into the relief

society room where the font is we totally filled the room up!

It was crazy!  To see Jimmy, Zane, and Talon get baptized was one of

the most amazing experiences I've had in my entire life. Alisha was

there and she thought it was pretty incredible too. President Jenkins

also came! He has been to every single one of my baptisms!   Not

many people can say that out here because he can't make it to all of

them.   The whole thing was incredible! Jimmy's

testimony at the end was awesome! That guy’s going to be a bishop in

about 5 years, I swear.  He has such a powerful testimony already.

It's miraculous that he's gained such a strong testimony in the past

month or two. I'm so proud of that family for choice to be baptized.

On Sunday I got to talk to my family! That was pretty fun! It was

crazy, we were talking and all of a sudden I got a text from Carl

saying,  "What do I need to do to be baptized and when can I get

baptized?" Boom!  My family thinks I'm an awesome missionary now!

Carl has been coming to church for about a month now and we

weren't sure whether he wanted to be baptized or not, but I guess he

does!   This week has been awesome! I hope you all have a

wonderful week!

Love

Elder Mullins