Mission Update 9/30/09

Well, Elder M's been out for 14 months today! It was good to hear from him. I love Wednesdays! Ed is in Chicago on business and is going to drop off a package for Brad at the mission office this afternoon. Last night Ed went to a Cubs game with Matt and Mimi Snow (now living in Chicago while Matt goes to Univ. of Chicago) and they volunteered to give him a ride to the mission office today, so no need to rent a car. Yeah!!

Here's Elder M's email for the week:

Hello Family,

I'm glad you're doing well! That's fun Dad's in Chicago too! It's a beautiful day here in the Chi (and Aurora...)! Good job on your ACT Caitlin. Be good Taylor! I'm glad you had a good time in Pioche, G & G! I hope you got the stuff I sent you Mom! I've got something else I'm going to send you today... Some VIDEOS! And all my pictures. Hope you like them.

We've had a pretty good week. Kim's got a baptismal date now. Elder Denter got ill, but is getting better. Things are going pretty well. Here's what happened:

Wednesday was pretty good. After I emailed we spent a little bit of time with the Prestbury Elders, but soon got ready to go to teach Kim. The lesson felt a little funny. She was kind of out of it, so we didn't quite know what was up. We invited her to be baptized, and she let us know that she wants to be baptized. She had told her friends before, and said she wanted a short lesson and everyone there, because she was going to accept the baptismal commitment! Sweet. October 11th. After that, we went over to the Adams family home for dinner. They cooked us some Prime Rib, which was really good. They're a nice family. We would have gone to the temple with Brother Adams, but he's kind of ill now... So we're going to go with Brother Giese from Frankfort. We got permission, and called him. So we'll go on October 10th. That should be fun.

Thursday was pretty good. We went to go visit Diggory the squirrel in the morning. They put him on a website. Here it is - http://threedollarsquirrel.com/chatter/ [I checked the website out. Everyone seems to love this little squirrel who survived such a scary fall. Pretty cool!] It's kind of neat, but doesn't even mention the missionaries. We should tell them to put us in there, and put a link to Mormon.org! Anyways, after visiting him, and doing a little bit of service for Sister Glaviano, we went home to eat and do some planning. We did planning for Zone Conference, which was good. After doing that, we went out to teach. We taught Jose first. They're doing alright. After that, we went to Sister Apodacas home. After that, we tracted and found a couple of investigators. After that, we went over to the Zacas, and had a good lesson there. They're doing really well. That was pretty much it for the day. It was 8 or so, so we just went home and had dinner then.

Friday was pretty crazy! We had Zone Conference! It went well. I'll send you the commitment sheet we gave out for it. Neither of us were nervous at all. It's not bad doing these. We did have some people go super out of order when I was conducting, so I had to improv a little and fix it. I don't think many people could even tell though, so that was good. After Zone Conference, we went to teach Krista and Jessica. We taught Jessica, and she's doing well. We should hopefully have them set for baptism soon. They're great. After that, we went to teach Solomon. After that, we went over to teach Tania. She's doing great. We had her read out of the Book of Mormon, and she felt the Spirit extremely strongly. She should progress well! That was it for the day.

Saturday was pretty lame. Elder Denter was pretty sick. We had most of our appointments fall through. We did have a good MCM in the morning though. That was nice. We also had a pretty good dinner in the evening. Other than that, nothing really happened.

Sunday was better than Saturday. Elder Denter still wasn't feeling great though. We had some good things happen at church though... The Zacas came, and the Ward did an incredible job of fellowshipping them! We should set Kayla at least for baptism this week. After church, we had a couple of fallen through appointments, then had some good ones. We went to teach the Gamboas, which went pretty well. After that, we went to visit and teach Nancy and her family. Afer that, we had another lesson with Kim at the Nielsens. That went well. After that, we went over to the Stavrons for an incredible dinner of homemade super cordon bleu.

Monday was pretty crappy actually. We had District Meeting at the Bishop of the Prestbury Ward's home. They also cooked lunch for us. Both the meeting and the lunch were great. After that, we tried to find by tracting and other means for quite a while, but it was slow. We got a couple of referrals for the Spanish Elders though. We've given them a couple people that are progressing now, which is great... But we wish we could teach them! We had dinner at the Whipples in the evening, which went well. They were asking how much money we get, and if their son on a mission really needs money. I said yep, he does! He's in your mission, G&G! He's in Henderson right now. Anyways, that was pretty much all that happened.

Tuesday was much better. We had the Hesed House in the morning. That went well. My job was to find job listings for their job board, which was pretty neat. We had the best lunch of all time there too. After the Hesed House, we went to visit Mike. He's now reading the Book of Mormon since he finished the Old Testament. After that, we did stop bys and ended up teaching Jose. We had a good discussion and gave him and his wife blessings. After that, we went to teach Jeremy. He's doing well, and is ready for conference. After that, we taught Solomon. After that, we went to dinner at the Mitchells home, and had a lesson there. We also got a sweet media referral from the Mesa Arizona Temple! A part member family from our ward that is less active apparently went there, felt the Spirit, and really wants us to come over to teach them! They get back in town tonight, so we should hopefully see some good things happen there.

We're probably going to play tennis today. Should be fun. We've got a dinner in the evening, and not much else planned.

Well, I hope you all are doing well! Have a great week. Go to BYU Caitlin! I love the Lord, and am grateful to be out here serving him. I love you all too!

Love,

Elder McMullin