Mission Update 5/13/09

Here's Elder McMullin's update for the week!

Hello!
Hey, it was good talking to you on Mothers Day!!! I hope everyone's doing well still. Get feeling better Caitlin!
Guess what I just realized when I was talking on the phone on Sunday... Grandpa's voice sounds just like Boyd K. Packer's! Crazy.
Well, we've had a good week here in Frankfort. Things are going well here with Elder Hunt. It's pretty funny... He reminds me a lot of Tyler Wadsworth. I guess it's just a Nevada thing.
Well, here's the weekly update.
Last Wednesday, we had dinner over at the Vines' home. They invited a part member family, and we taught the nonmember the first lesson. It was Jean Young, who's usually pretty elusive at lesson time, so this was really great. We also had dinner with Tracy Vines, a Vines kid, and his girlfriend from Chebanse (a small town in Watseka's area). She's going to come again for her own Restoration lesson session. We'll probably try to go on exchanges with a Watseka Elder on that night so we can smoothly hand her over to them.
Thursday was pretty good. We went over to help Tony Cammarata do some more yardwork, then went to Giordanno's with him. We ate a LOT! After that, we met with a couple of less actives, had a canceled appointment, then tried to find something for the rest of the evening. We couldn't ever find anything, and eventually settled on going out to eat.
Friday was good too. We got taken out for breakfast by Brother Giese. He's the funniest guy ever, so it was pretty good. After that, we went and did stop bys, and got to teach a good lesson to a man we tracted into before. After doing some more stop bys that didn't turn out quite as well, we went to steak and shake with some missionaries that were passing through our area. They've got really good shakes at that place, so it was of course great. After that, we ended up teaching a less active family, an active family, and the Cravens.
Saturday was awesome! We went to frisbee in the morning, which was really fun. Then we ate lunch and went to the Portwood's, which was great. Then we went to Brother Giese's. He took us team teaching to a less active, where we had a great lesson and discussion. After that, we went back to the Giese's and had a roast. Then, they bought us tickets to the play, so we went to that! It was pretty funny, we went there and Brother Guymon gave us some tickets (he was working the ticket booth) that ended up being for the empty spaces made for wheel chairs. We were looking around for our seats, and finally had to get an usher to get us some new tickets. It was pretty funny. The play ended pretty late, so we had to run out of the building the second the curtains closed to go home!
Sunday was GREAT. We had an awesome time at church, and had 5 investigators there... Including a new one that has been investigating the church in Kentucky for a couple months, and is super solid. After church, we went over to the Stachura's for dinner, which was great. It was pretty funny... Ma cooked everyone dinner. Her son and daughter in law are slackers. After that, we came home and talked on the phone for the rest of the day!
Monday was pretty good. Our first real action of the day was at lunch with Sister Bagnara and Vicki. Sister Bagnara's less active son was also there. He just got home for summer from college, and is a really cool guy. The lesson was great, and now Vicki and Sister Bagnara are going to go to church in Orland Park. Vicki didn't want to learn from the missionaries up there, but I think this will be a good way to shift her up there. I think I'll ask President Roach to let me go on an exchange with Elder Gardner when they can set up an appointment at Vicki's home. Well, those appointments always go for a really really long time, so we didn't do much else for the rest of the day. We had some failed stop- by's, so we took a combined lunch and dinner break and went to play a round of frisbee golf. That was really fun, but we got our dress pants muddy. Elder Hunt and I both scored 4 or 5 over on 27 holes, so we did alright (just wait). After that, we had a brief visit with the Murphys, then headed over to the Guymons' home to have a lesson with JoAnne, the new investigator from Kentucky. JoAnne was having some troubles with buying a new car, so she came really late. We still had a pretty good discussion, but it was too late to do too much. We set up an appointment with her at the Guymons' for next Sunday. That should be pretty good. She knew John Guymon from school, so they're the perfect fellowshipping family.
Tuesday was kind of funny. The morning started off by 3 of 4 appointments calling us to cancel. Then some people that we thought we could get appointments with crapped out too. We tried to find some new investigators in the morning, but were pretty unsuccessful. We eventually decided to take a lunch / dinner break to eat McDonald's and play a round of frisbee golf. I got a -8 this time, so there's some significant improvement! After our round of golf, we went to visit the less active Sister Brown, and her non member granddaughter. Sister Brown never comes to church, but wants her Granddaughter to be baptized. They are super friendly, and have testimonies of the Restored Gospel, so I think we've got some serious potential there. We've got another appointment with them for next week. After that, we visited the Nordsells, a less active part member family. After that, we visited the Weichingers, another less active part member family. After that, we visited Lisa Young really briefly. After that, we visited the Witts, yet another less active part member family. After that, we visited the Greys. It was a really busy and productive evening!
Today should be good. We've got a dinner appointment that's been rescheduled like 5 times, and has taken up all the slots on our calendar, but should be good. It's really rainy outside today, so we probably won't be able to play frisbee golf. Bummer. We were going to get 54 holes in today. At least. We really like frisbee golf.
Well, I love you a lot and am grateful for all you do! Take care and have a great week! The Gospel is true and I love you.
Elder Bradley E McMullin