What a Week!

This week was great! I had a lot of fun and got some work done. I've been sick now for two and a half months, and I'm getting so tired of it. Other than that things are fine. Not much progress with the headaches has happened, although my meds are beginning to kick in. The pills are working, but they keep me up at night. I don't know why, they just do. But oh well, I just get some extra studying in. Anyway, on with the week!

Tuesday I went on an exchange with Elder Renel. He's my roommate and is from France. He's a pretty cool guy. We went and did service in the morning, so that was fun. We cleaned books for children. It's a really cool program where people will donate lightly used books to this program and then they clean them and store them.  When the end of the school year comes every student at school whose parents don't make much money get to take home 6 books of their own. A lot of those kids don't have things like television and Internet to keep them entertained, so they give them books. The kids that take them home, read them, and enjoy them have higher reading levels and their abilities to read don't atrophy over the summer like most other kids. It's a really neat program. I probably cleaned around

80 books in that time. It was a good time.

I've found that I know a lot of jokes as I've been on my mission. Like, a lot. I have 160 of them written down, because I want to make a 202 jokes book and get it published. That's how many I know! It's kind of hilarious when I just keep going and going.  There's an Elder in our zone that loves hearing jokes, so I basically told him every joke I know. Some of the people thought I was pretty annoying, but Elder Campbell thought they were awesome and even told me a few that I hadn't heard. My repertoire is quite impressive. One that Elder Campbell taught me was, “What do you call a pile of cats? A meowntain.”   Another one was, what do you call a lazy kangaroo? A pouch potato.  Oh man, you gotta love good jokes!

Wednesday I went on another exchange! This time it was with Elder Loyola from Micronesia, which is in the western pacific. He's a pretty cool guy! I felt bad because I had a bad night the night before and just slept the entire day because of it. We went to have interviews with President Jenkins at 10 and at 11 when we got back I fixed a quick lunch and then slept for about 5 hours. He said he didn't mind and that he needed to prepare for a talk he was giving soon and enjoyed the extra study time. I'm not sure how true it was, but I was glad that he said it anyway. I seriously felt sooooo bad for sleeping so long. I seriously only meant to sleep for no more than an hour or so. I guess my body just really needed it.

Thursday I got Elder Edwards back. It was good! I missed him. He's been a great companion so far. I really enjoy him and we get along great. He even pretends to laugh at my jokes sometimes! (My jokes are hilarious to some, but I guess I'm not quite up to snuff with the British humor, or should I say humour?) anyway, that was a good day and we got a lot done. We went and visited some people and had an awesome dinner!

So I don't know if this bad or weird or what, but on my mission I've acquired a taste for awkward. I really enjoy sitting in awkwardness!  We went over to this family’s house and they're super quiet. They weren't really sure what to say. Don't worry, I never leave the house with it being awkward, so just a disclaimer there.  We sat down to eat, said a prayer, and then silence. Everyone was eating and looking at each other and not saying a word because they didn't know what to say. Elder Edwards is very aware of my taste for awkward moments, and man! This was like a five-minute silence. I almost started laughing.  It was so weird to be there.  Finally, Elder Edwards was able to break the ice a little bit and we had some good conversation, but that initial ten minutes were so weird!  It was incredible.

It was pretty funny last night. We went over to the Sol's house to fill out their daughter’s baptismal record because we lost the first one.  Elder Edwards showed them that he could make a paper bird and a paper bunny. Their son Angel came up to me and asked if I could make an airplane and I said the best thing I think I could have. "Abbra kadabr! You're an airplane!" Sister Sol about died and Angel had no clue what I was talking about. It was so funny though! I eventually did make an airplane for him, so that was good, but it was a great night!   I hope you all have a great week! I love you all!

Love,

Elder Mullins

My Zone

Super Bowl Selfie

               (We didn't watch the Super Bowl, we just took a selfie with it at a member's home)

One of the Sol's daughter's insisted on wearing my name tag