Dear family and friends,
This week was good, but pretty uneventful. We didn't
teach many lessons. We really just
knocked on a ton of doors without people answering. One exciting thing that we
did was teach Patricia again!
We taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then
invited her to be baptized. She accepted the invitation and has an interview
set up for next Monday! Yay! It'll be so exciting to see her be baptized.
She's seriously so prepared I can hardly believe it. I
have never taught someone so prepared as her. She's definitely the most golden
person I've ever had the opportunity to teach. She is worried that she doesn't
know enough yet, but we assured her that she definitely does. We went over the baptismal interview
questions with her and she was able to answer most of them, so that just means
we need to go over a couple of things. We'll get everything taught to her by
Sunday evening so she can have her interview on Monday. It'll be awesome!
A little bit later in the week we had a lesson with
Trevor. We watched the movie “Joseph
Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” with him. He thought it was a great movie.
If you haven't seen it I would highly recommend it. I learned a lot about the life of Joseph Smith
when I watched it. It was pretty good! I only have seen it one other time at the very
beginning of my mission, so it was good to see again. Trevor learned a lot
about Joseph Smith. We talked about
living prophets and their importance to us today. He enjoyed the lesson and
received it well. It was funny, at the
end of the lesson he challenged us to a game of air hockey. We didn't have
time, so we set up a time to come play air hockey with him tomorrow. It'll be
exciting! Haha! He's such an awesome kid. I've never met such a polite 17 year old.
This week I taught the elders in my apartment how to make
bull whips. We all went out and bought paracord about three weeks ago, and we
finally got around to making them! It was pretty interesting trying to teach everyone
how to do it, but it's been fun. We almost
are done with them; probably just a few more hours to go! I'll include a few
pictures in this email. They're coming along great. Out here in Globe there's
really nothing to do, so P-days usually just consist of us and the San Carlos
Elders all just hanging out in our apartment after we go shopping and all that
jazz. It's pretty much boring… It's super relaxed though, so it's great to just
be able to get your mind off of things and visit with people. Making whips definitely gives us something to
do. It's great!
I talked a little bit about knocking on a whole bunch of
doors. We got a part member family
list. There are a TON of names on it. Right now, since we aren't really teaching
anyone, we have just been spending our afternoons going from name to name to
name, and knocking on doors. There was a point earlier in the week that I began
to feel pretty discouraged because, literally, not one door we had knocked on
answered for three days in a row. It was pretty frustrating. I was able to get
over it and have a better attitude about this list toward at end of the week
though. We did eventually get a couple
of people to answer and they told us that they weren't interested, so no
success quite yet, but hopefully next week!
Oh yah! I totally
forgot about this story! We were with
our ward mission leader, Brother Allen, on Tuesday night. We went to knock on a potential investigator’s
door, but there was a fence in front of it and it was pad locked. There was a gate to the side yard, pad
locked. There was a gate to the back
yard, pad locked. Then there was a fence,
inside the fence all the way around the house, double pad locked. Obviously
they didn't want people in there, but since we were invited to come over by him
through a media referral we got about three months ago, we decided to go talk
to his neighbor and see if they knew anything about him. It turns out the neighbor is a lady we tried
getting ahold of earlier in the month that bishop wanted us to talk to. The only problem was, there was no address...
Anyway, we knocked and it was Connie! Wow!
What a miracle! It turns out the neighbor over there died,
but his son had come up to take care of the house for a few months before it
could be sold. The son was the one that
was referred to us. She told us that
about a month ago a few cops showed up at her house asking her if she knew
where Eligio was. She said she hadn't
seen him in about two months even though his car was still in the car port and
that he could be laying there dead for all she knew. Well, guess what? He was
lying there dead... He was diabetic and he was feeling low, so he went to get
himself some orange juice before he passed out, went into a coma, and then
passed away. That was a pretty crazy story ! But yah... That's why the house is
all locked up. Connie is a member, but she isn't active. She said that she
would be more than happy to have us come over and teach her and visit with her.
I think she's pretty lonely, so having visitors would be great for her!
That's pretty much what my week consisted of. Not a lot of exciting things really. I hope
you all have a wonderful week! Keep being good. I've been enjoying it out here
and can't imagine a better place for me to be right now than in the service of
the Lord.
Love,
Elder Mullins
Making bullwhips on p-day.
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