Mission Update -- 10/22/08

Another update from Elder M. Sounds like he's doing well, but please keep him in your prayers!


Hey, how's everyone doing?
It's been good to hear from you today via email, and throughout the week via mail! I got G&G's package yesterday from Elder Na'a! Thanks for sending it!!! I really appreciate everything enclosed! :)
My week has been good. We had a missionary come home, so the work should pick up. We have another coming home next week, so our work should get another ridiculous boost then too! Artie's home, and is very hospitible... Things are looking good all around.
My planner is chilling in my one pair of cat hair free suit pants, so I don't know if I can give a day by day, but I'll give something of one.
Thursday was great... Well, at least it was good enough that I really don't remember it or what we did. BUT, we may have gone over to see Grandma Willow. She's an awesome lady, and is very spiritual, but is what we call an "eternigator." She always has missionaries over, but won't ever join the church. She probably never will until her grandson Phil comes home from his mission... Next week! She's very excited, as are Elder Adair and I.
Friday was probably pretty good. Watseka lost it's football game, which is unforunate... They probably won't make it to the playoffs now. Marcell, another football player, is going to star as a wise man in the ward Nativity Pagent, which will be good. The Clutteurs are spearheading the nativity, and it should be good.
Saturday was good. We did some service for Tonya, a less active member that lives in Ashkum. Actually, we did a lot of service. We took a bunch of old furniture out of her house, then went down the road and picked up a dresser, a couple armoirs, desks, chairs, beds and a mirror. She pretty much refurnished her house. It was fun.
Sunday really was good. We had a few investigators come, and all got to listen to Derrin give his homecoming talk! It was really good. After the block, we had a linger longer. It was good, and fortunately, I did not get sick this time! Hoorah. Andy came to church on Sunday, and brought a friend! He was decked out in a nice suit too. Nice.
Monday was good, we were up in Bourbonnais, and went to Appleby's with Elders Na'a and Bradsher. April is the manager, and gave us all over 50% off! I got steak, shrimp and a soda... and paid like 6 dollars! That was pretty much the highlight of the day! We also saw Elder Bradsher's ankle - he fell down the stairs last week, and messed it up bad. To everyone's dismay, he decided to 'tough it out' for a few days. It looked like he had leprocy or something, and finally the mission doctor came down and checked it out. He just got a cast put on it this morning.
Tuesday was good. We're putting together another list of people to stop by in some of the far out towns we haven't been to yet, and will do the rule of 9 out there. The rule of 9 is when you tract out 9 doors every time you get stiffed, which is pretty much every time you go to someone's house you don't visit regularly. We still have a couple of less actives to visit too, so they'll be good to see.
Today was good. We slept for a while, and are now at the library. I was writing letters earlier. Oh yeah, after I showered the curtain rod fell down! It was a pain to put it all back together since it's like 150 years old. Hehehe. Actually, the houses around here really are that old. Artie's been doing a lot of work on his house, and has found a bunch of hand cut 2.2 by 4.3's and stuff like that. The old nails in the house are pretty neat looking - they're like railroad spikes, and are not sharp at all.
We're at the Gilman library now, and the librarians are friendly, as usual. Haha. I'm wearing my crocs, jeans, t shirt and hoodie. It's perfect out now, but it's starting to get chilly at night. The bugs are dying, so that's good. The bugs aren't all that's dying in Iriquois County - we hit a possum last night while driving home. The animal walked into the road, looked at us, then got smashed. Goodbye possum.
I've been dying lately since I don't have that many ties. There's seriously no such thing as enough. I bought 2 of them when we were at Wal Mart the other day. They're my favorite ties of all time, besides the blue one I stole from Dad. I really want a gold colored Donald Trump brand tie, but they only sell those at stores like Dillards at malls... (Wink Wink).

Oh yeah, we've got Zone Conference tomorrow. It's in Naperville, which would be fun... if we didn't have to wake up at 4 am to make it on time. We'll be tired, but it'll be fun to see everyone and to hear from the President. We were going to carpool fom Bourbonnais, but we just got called by Elder Jenks, the senior Elder in charge of the car fleet; he told us we have to drive our car the whole way. Hopefully we'll be able to write off the miles!
I've been doing well, and am excited to share the Gospel with everyone in Iriquois County! I love it here, and am so grateful for my opportunity to serve the Lord. I'm excited to go to the Temple this transfer, and am so grateful we have a Temple to go to. I'm so grateful for you relativos, and love you a lot! Have a great week. Until then, adios!
Love
Elder Bradley Edward McMullin