Dear family and friends,
This week was a pretty great week! We had all sorts of
things happening all week long. Monday
evening was really exciting because Patricia was able to have her baptismal
interview with President Jenkins. She'll most likely be getting baptized in the
next three weeks!
We taught Rowie this week again. It's been about three
weeks since we last taught her. We
taught her about the Plan of Salvation which was really great. She enjoyed it a
lot. She has baptism as an end goal, but she says she has a few things that she
is working through before she is willing to commit. Hopefully she can get
through those things. We assured her that it is definitely okay to do that. We
aren't worried at all about her not getting baptized ever. She will no doubt be baptized one day. I hope
that I can be here to see it, but you never know what might happen. She is
super solid and reads from the Book of Mormon almost every single day.
We usually go down to Mesa the night before we have
anything going on there, and we had our temple trip the next day. We headed home a little bit early so that we
could get over to the Assistant’s apartment before 10:30. As we were driving up the hill to our house there
was a frog jumping around in front of us. So we did what any good missionary would
do: we stopped the car, got out, picked
him up, took him to our apartment, and held him captive for about 20 minutes
before we let him go! His name was Johnny. He was a good toad, even though he
peed all over me. We went down to the
valley and the temple was really good! I really enjoyed it a lot. I learned a
ton. After the temple we took care of a few other errands we had to run while
we were in Mesa since we don't plan on being there again until transfers, which
is in a few weeks. We also went to lunch at Chipotle because last time we went
one of the girls working there was super nice and gave us all free entree
tickets. So yah! Free Chipotle! It was really good!
A few days ago it was pretty cloudy up in the mountains.
We saw that the clouds were actually touching the mountain. It had been a long
time since either Elder Jencks or I had been in a cloud, so we decided we should
head up there and get a picture. So instead
of doing our weekly planning at the church, we did it while heading up the
mountain. We got a few pictures up there and it was all fine and good. Then we
decided to go down the other side of the mountain, for whatever reason, while
we finished weekly planning. When we
got to the other side I felt like I was in the Hobbit. There were literally
hundreds of spider webs in the trees and lining the road. We're talking GIANT
spider webs! Like, I've never seen anything like it. I threw a rock at one and the rock got caught
in it. I mean, they were some nasty, nasty webs! It was insane! I have no clue
what spun them, but I know that there were a lot of them. Elder Jencks and I
got a few pictures of them. Some of them
were three or four feet wide and probably a foot thick all the way around! I
would guess that a bird could get caught in those things. It was insane. Then
later on our way down the mountain we almost ran over a tarantula. We stopped,
I got out, and with my empty drink cup I scooped it up and we took him home.
His name is Fluffy. Don't worry, he's not a pet because he isn't tame, and we
don't keep him for comfort or pleasure. He's only a captive. But anyway, we
caught him and brought him home and put him in the biggest jar we had. We'll
probably end up releasing him today or tomorrow. We want to show the rest of our zone and
they're probably coming over to our apartment today. We fed him a cockroach and
that was pretty sweet!
Yesterday on our way home from our area we were taking
the back way since we were pretty much at the mouth of the canyon. As we were heading down I saw a snake in the
middle of the road; so of course, I stopped. I got out with my iPad, looked at
it and it was a rattle snake! It wasn't too big, but it was still a rattler. I
got a couple of pictures with it and then caught it, put it in a Walmart bag,
and brought it home! We fought Randall the snake with Fluffy and now Fluffy is
dead and we have a pet snake! Or I mean a captive snake... Just kidding! I
didn't even go near the snake cuz I'm not stupid and didn't feel like getting
bit. But that would have been a pretty cool story!
We taught Patricia and three of her granddaughters
earlier in the week. They are pretty sweet girls. We talked about doing random
acts of service and the importance of serving others. The girls really enjoyed
it and they told us about times they've done acts of service and when they've
seen others do them. It was a pretty good lesson. At the end Patricia was
trying to get one of them to pray but we got something even better! We got all
three of them AND Patricia to pray! It was pretty sweet! Haha! The girls were
pretty uncomfortable with praying, so we taught them how to pray. I started and we went around in a circle and
everyone said a little prayer. It was pretty sweet!
This week was really, really good! I had a good time and
got to interact with all sorts of Globe’s wild life! And we taught some pretty
great lessons too! Hopefully we can get a few more new investigators to start
teaching. We've been focusing a ton of our efforts on finding people to teach
but haven't been having a lot of success. We'll get some success eventually
though! I love the scripture Alma 26:27 Now when our hearts were depressed, and
we were about to turn back, behold the Lord comforted us and said, Go amongst
thine brethren the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I
will give unto you success. It's definitely a very true scripture. As we go
forward with patience the Lord gives us success. Have a great week everyone!
Love,
Elder Mullins
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| Johnny Toad! |
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| Ultimate high five with some of the zone |
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| Fluffy Taran Tula |
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| A pretty flower we saw on our drive in the mountains |
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| Pomegranate harvest |
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| Randall Snake |
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| Nastiest Web Ever...and it's a small one! |
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| One of the biggest webs 3 1/2 ft. across and 2 ft tall and thick |
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