People come, and people go, and we still keep working.

     Hello everybody! This week had been a good one.  We've learned lots of things about how to be optimistic all the time. We've really been cultivating our attitudes and gaining a better eternal perspective.

      This past week we had a lot of struggle moments... At the start of week, we had a lot of coals in the fire, so to speak. Several investigators on date for baptism, lots of investigators to go and visit at night with members, many investigators that we were going to set baptismal dates with, etc. Lots of things to do and lots of possibilities.

      BUT since last week we've 1) Lost contact with them 2) Had them text us and tell us that they're not interested in learning anymore 3) Had many of them move. So hence, not many people for us to teach right now!  This week is going to be a lot of time knocking and talking to church members trying to find people to teach... which is one of my favorite things to do in missionary work, so I can't complain!

    Here are some fun pictures - love y'all!

On Saturday morning, we volunteered downtown at a "Color Me Rad 5k run". We threw paint at everybody running and it was crazy fun!  Some people got mad at us, haha. They signed up for it! But we had some great opportunities to share he gospel with some people there.

We went to a showing that another ward out in of "Meet the Mormons" on Friday night! It was super fun! Brother Dodge, a great member is on the left, and our investigator Darrell is on the right. It is an amazing movie! Watch it! (click here)

Meeting new people left and right...

Hello Everybody!

        This week has been great! The members here are so great. They're so kind and willing to help in the work, whether it's inviting our investigators to sit by them in church, or inviting us over for dinner on the fly, or coming to lessons that come up on the fly. They do so much and it's so great to be in a ward where the church members have such a desire to be involved with missionary work.

        We've been sharing "miracles" with members a lot recently, For example, we had an experience on Tuesday where Elder Willets and I had 30 minutes in between dinner and several lessons that night and wanted to know where to go to find somebody who was ready to hear the gospel. We both prayed to know where to go and the same apartment complex came to mind, so we went there.

Then we prayed to know where to go in the complex, and biked around until we found a building that we both wanted to knock. So we go there and after 20 minutes, we knock into somebody who moved in recently and doesn't have a church to go to. We teach her (her name is Brianna and she has two adorable young kids) and set a baptismal date.

It's been fun to talk with members and get them excited about doing missionary work.

        Love you all! Here are some pictures from the week.

We did service helping with a fence for this lady, Sister Cheng. She was a movie star back in China and has some amazing stories. She also makes really good friend rice and egg rolls. AKA it's actually Chinese food, not Panda Express.

Left to right, a great member of our ward, Johnny, then our investigator Daniel, then us. This is usually what a lesson setting looks like, except here we got dinner together which isn't normal. 

Yeah ok, kind of random picture, but in church, there was a member's ADORABLE son who's just learning to walk and he was playing with the camera on my iPad and took a picture of himself and you've got to admit that he's pretty cute. Right? Right? Ok maybe I just miss my little brother.

Good Church Members in Florida

Hello everybody!

This week has been just a really good one. It's shown me the power that church members have in being a "light to the world" as Jesus Christ so well puts it. There are just so many amazing members here in Fort Caroline! They're incredible at sharing the gospel with their friends by example. 

It's amazing to see the many walks of life that the members here come from. One of them is in underwater construction and electrical work (scuba diving and working on bridges and such.) Another works developing prosthetic limbs and travels across the world to different countries for marketing every week. One amazing lady works as a cafeteria worker and house cleaner at her son's school. I love hearing about their lives and hearing how the gospel of Christ has blessed their lives. 

     The relief society president here is one of the most Christlike people I've ever met . You can just see Christlike love all over her face. She's always talking with members of the relief society. Whether it's a young mother who needs help with her kids or she's sitting down and holding the hand of a 95 year old lady, she's always ministering to the one. 

       

     This is us at the Garfield's home! They're an amazing family here and Brother Garfield loves coming out with us to lessons. They're really great people and their kids are adorable. And it was just super fun to have a bonfire!

 I missed s'mores. They were really good...

     This area is very different from my last, as far as meals provided by members go.  We get fed so much! Every single night this week and six nights next week. This week is amazing. We do eat some seafood here! I've had oyster, clam, lots of crab, and some squid. It's good! I don't really like oysters but everything else is good. Cold seafood is gross though. Not good leftovers 

Our investigators are doing really well! It's hard to watch them make decisions against what what we're teaching them, especially when they know that what we've taught them is true. But it's so amazing when investigators are living the Gospel of Christ, and studying the scriptures and praying, and just tell us that they feel such a difference in their lives.

I might start closing all of my emails with the words of Elder Holland because they mean so much to me. "Keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow, and forever." 

Love you all! 

Elder McMullin