Itemized Rejections and Various Pictures

Hello everybody!

        This week was good - the work is a little slow right now and we don't have a lot of people to teach, so we are spending all of our time trying to find people. It's hard and the days are long, but I always feel like days spent out finding are the most productive and I'm happiest during days when we're out working hard talking to people. 

        So we counted the rejections that we got, offering to show people a video about Jesus Christ, and here are the top three rejections this week... Leading the list at number one is "I've already been saved", which we heard 11 times. Closely following is "I already know Jesus", at 9 instances. Then the basic "I'm busy" coming in at 8. I think that it's funny that people who love Jesus don't want to watch a video about Him. Funny! Maybe that's just bad, and I'm weird. But everybody already knows that. 

And now for pictures from this week:

        Here is a picture of me one night last week. We'd been out working all day and may/may not have just drank about 75 ounces of water within one minute. Maybe I am smiling, but the only thing going through my mind was "why did I just do that?" 

   Here are all of us with Brother Hernandez.  He's in the navy and he comes out teaching with us a bunch. He's really great and he's leaving this week. All the missionaries will miss him!!!

   Here's us on p-day!   (Preparation Day, where we take a break, have fun, go shopping, etc.)   We usually meet up with a bunch of other missionaries at the church to play basketball while we type our letters home.   I'm slowly growing a love for basketball.. hahaha.

Love you all! Have a great week!!!

         Elder McMullin

Easter Weekend Pictures

Hello everybody!

    I don't have much time this week so I'll just share an experience I had at church. The program was musical numbers and then scriptures mingled together. I played a solo piece at the beginning and it went well, then there were powerful musical numbers after. I felt the Spirit so strongly.  It really hit me.   "He is not here, for he is risen."    (Some of my favorite words in scripture, when they come and try to see Christ in the tomb.)

Here are some pictures:

Easter Party at the church

Here's us at the members' who fed us at night. We had super tasty food and they gave us TONS of food.

As close as we can get to the beach! It's so pretty... I love the ocean. The breeze is so refreshing and it's just awe inspiring to watch the waves. This was on Preparation Day and my vote was to stay there and just stare for 8 hours, but nobody else wanted to....

New Companion / Baptismal Service

Hello Everybody!

So yeah, I was transferred! Surprise! I'm now in the same ward but in a different area - since our "wards" (basically congregations) are geographic, so you go to a certain church building if you live in a certain area, my old area was the west half and now my area is the east half. So I packed everything up and moved a stunning 2.6 miles to be with Elder Wilson!

Bio of Elder Wilson, my new companion. He is from Ririe, Idaho, a stunning town of about 650 people, or so I hear from him. At home, he spent a lot of time doing video editing and splicing and went to a number of national competitions with a high school team for developing and editing video. He's a really good teacher, confident speaker, and likes bubbles. See below picture. 

We had a baptism on Saturday and it was amazing!!! It was for a girl named Danielle, who has extended family who are church members but no immediate family. She had been exploring Mormon.org for a few weeks and finally got the courage to call us and see if we could come teach her. She has such a burning desire to learn about the gospel - Danielle works teaching dance at a studio and has a crazy busy schedule, but we would go by at 9 in the morning or 3 in the afternoon at her 30 minute breaks to teach her. 

Elder Wilson, Danielle, Brother Gordon, and myself

Her baptismal service was powerful, the Spirit was strong there and everybody there knew that what Danielle was doing was right. And I got to play viola there! So it was even better! (Well, I thought it was fun, I was probably the only person who enjoyed that part.) She was baptized by an amazing member, Brother Gordon. 

Love you all lots! Spring is here (well, in Florida, at least) so enjoy it!

Elder McMullin