Who's counting....but Elder M only has 9 weeks left!!! I'm getting pretty excited, if you can't tell. His mission president sent the plane reservation info. by mail this past week (we had already been sent it by email) with a letter telling us to keep our letters focused on missionary work. (Don't talk about parties, vacations, etc. that will be happening when the missionary gets home, etc.) Good advice and a good reminder!! I'm being good and not talking to him about it, but believe me, I'm thinking about it! Anyway, here's the weekly email:
Hello family!
This week has been great. It sounds like you've had a good week as well. Good job at your swim meet, Tay! That's so cool you got to swim against Olympians and record holders! Did you swim in the same heat as anyone famous? [haha, no!] Grandpa & Dad, I have Father's Day cards I'm going to send you probably today or tomorrow! I also have to send something for Baby Cait and Granny for your B-Days! Are you feeling 100%, Mom?
So, we've been doing really well. We had a pretty fun week. It has rained a lot! We have got soaked as we go out in the rain. It was raining so hard last night when we were tracting. We had a 91 year old man in a house that tried to take our umbrellas! We told him we could come back later & teach him too, but he told us to get out of there (before the boogie man got us)! We had a pretty great week for appointments falling through. I think we may have set a record... 30 (no exaggeration at all) appointments that we didn't get to teach a lesson at! Incredible. We still had a lot of wonderful things happen, and only fell 2 lessons short of the standard (20), which was a blessing. Anyways, here's a bit of what happened:
Wednesday was fun. We had a great time having a Nerf war with the district at the church. After that, Elder Robinson came with me to serve in Evergreen. He's a Spanish Elder, and this was his first exchange in an English area. Our first appointment got upset when we gave him a pass a long card with a picture of the Savior, because He doesn't have black skin. We got that mostly cleared up. We then tried some finding, and met interesting (pretty much everyone on the south side) people. We had our night appointment with Melbria. It was fun talking with Elder Robinson that night too. He has read a lot of the same books I've read (by the way Mom, I think the rule you had of bed time at 8:30 unless you are reading, was a great rule).
Thursday was a good day. We met 2 more people with the same issue as the man from the previous evening. We tracted into some nuts people as well. We had an appointment with the Carlsons, which was great. They also made us some raw men for lunch (ramen with a bunch of vegetables added in). Pretty much all of our appointments fell through, so we did a lot of finding. It was nice because we got to knock off a ton of the potentials we had found. We switched back right before dinner (which canceled). We had a member invite us over for desert, which was nice. We then went out to do stop bys for the evening. We did a lot of work this day, but not too much happened.
Friday was good. We only had 2 appointments fall through before our first good one. We had Brother Cunningham come with us to teach Van. It went really well. He's on the right path, and is just working to get past smoking. Brother Cunningham will be good to help him get past that. We then had a member that was going to come out with us to a couple appointments fall through, so we had to scramble to find someone else. We ended up getting Brother Tony Burton. He came out with us, and got to meet some of Vera's family (they rescheduled their appointment to Saturday). We had a great appointment with the Motts, and also a great one with Melbria. We went through the baptismal interview questions with her, and she is good to go!
We had basketball Saturday morning. We finally got to teach them all. It went pretty well. We taught about the Savior, the Atonement, the Book of Mormon, and the Restoration. It was also fun playing basketball. We took Brother Moore out with us to teach Vera, which was perfect. She has a hurt leg, so doesn't move around much now, but will come to church when she heals. We're going to bring Errol and Mercedes for her son to meet! We also went by LeBron's, which was perfect. We ate dinner at a fried chicken place, and got to meet a Muslim man. We taught and talked with him for a long time. He was a really neat guy, and was excited to read the Book of Mormon, and pamphlets we gave him. He would get excited and high five us when we told him certain things like, "we do not believe in the trinity." After that, we went over to Melbria's, but she had fallen asleep already, so we went by the Motts. It was good to be over there again.
Sunday was a good day. Melbria was very excited at church. All went well. We went to the Jenkins' home for dinner. They are such an awesome family! We did finding until our appointment with Melbria in the evening. Brother Ennis and Sister Porter helped us teach, which went well. All of them are talkers. We could have been there all night, but we left them with a prayer after a while. We love how Melbria is getting along so well with members!
Monday was pretty good. We had a lot of fall throughs again, but had a lot of good things. We did some finding, and did find 3 new investigators. We had left a pass a long card at their house a couple of days ago when tracting and they called the number. We got to teach them, and it went great! We're going to continue teaching this family and their friend. We had a lot of finding that day too, which I believe was really warm.
Tuesday we got to teach Van again. He is doing well. He's finishing up the book of Alma now for his Book of Mormon reading. We also went by the Mitchells home for a lesson. We had an appointment set with a former to give her husband a blessing at the hospital, but he was asleep when we got there. We did some great tracting in a downpour. To us it felt like our testimony had a lot more weight when we were waterlogged. We did service in the morning, which was really good. We helped a family from the Spanish Ward move some things out of their garage. They cooked us some awesome breakfast! They also served tamarindo juice, which you have to try...
Today should be fun! We have Zone Activity really soon up near the Stockyards apartment. We're going to play Chicagoball (softball with a larger and softer ball than normal softball), which is one of the most fun P-Day activities ever invented! Tonight we'll probably go visit the Prewitts and Melbria.
Well, there you go. I'm loving my mission! The Gospel is true, and I'm grateful it has blessed me so much. It's blessing the lives of those I'm teaching, and I hope to help others receive the blessings from it soon.
Take care!
Love,
Elder Bradley E McMullin
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