Pretty Good Week

Dear family and friends,

This week was phenomenal! We did a lot of great things and had a pretty good time! Monday was super crazy because we had to take Elder Clark down to the valley to be dropped off. We were running around like crazy down there and then got in traffic and didn't even get into Globe until 7:30. So if I normally send you an email and didn't, I apologize... It was pretty crazy.

Tuesday was a pretty average day. We went around and tried finding people to teach. We didn't have much success, but we did teach a really good lesson! We went and taught Chelcee. Unfortunately, Patrick had quite the toothache, but he still participated in the lesson. He just wasn't feeling too great. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ with her. At the end of the lesson she said that the biggest word that stood out to her was 'improve.' I didn't even realize we had said that, so she was definitely learning by the Spirit and we were teaching by the Spirit. It was pretty awesome! Chelcee is progressing really well and keeping her commitments. It's always amazing to teach someone who actually progresses and does what you ask them to.  It's kind of surprising how few people actually keep commitments.

Wednesday we had transfer meeting! Elder Jencks and I stayed together, but we still had to go to the meeting because the entire mission was invited. There were a lot of missionaries. It was crazy. We learned some pretty cool things there. If you want to know what we learned about, study what Rosh Hashana is and what it has to do with the Restoration. It only took me about an hour to figure it all out, so I'm sure all of you can do it no problem! We also learned that the entire mission is really fat. So, as a result we are running a mission 5K in November!  Woooh!!! We did that last year and it was fun. We'll see if I do a little bit better this year. Last year I finished in 25:25, so I'm hoping to improve! We got back to Globe and made a few visits and then met our roommates that evening. The Miami Elders are now in a trio.  Elder Riding killed Elder Clark (I think that means Elder Clark finished his mission and went home), so he got Elders West and Flake.  Elder West has been out for 21 months and Elder Flake just got out of the MTC. He's a visa waiter to Brazil. He's a pretty cool guy.

Honestly, not a lot of exciting things happened this week. We released all of our captives, so now there aren't any animals in our apartment. I guess I did kill a black widow this week. I wanted to catch it and fight it with a scorpion, but I decided against it. So I just squashed it. It was living right outside our apartment, so I didn't want that thing crawling in bed with me.

We taught Dawn a few times. She's really opening up to us. When Elder Jencks told her that he will finish his mission in a bit over a month she almost cried. She told us that in the past 10 years nobody has been able to really influence her for good; not even her own family. I guess as we have been meeting with her, her entire attitude has been changing. She used to hate God for a lot of things that have happened to her, but recently she said she's been praying at least ten times a day. That's almost as much as me! She's so awesome! She talks about getting baptized occasionally. The only problem is that she is always with Sister Sanders, her patient, and so she can't make it to church. Dawn's a hospice nurse just to let you all know.

It was a great week and Elder Jencks and I had a good time. We did a lot of good things! We taught a few lessons and spent a lot of time finding. We did find a few new investigators for Globe 1st ward which hasn't happened in at least 6 months, so that's exciting! Anyway, I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Mullins