The first day, for example, we trained the new missionaries and their trainers, dropped off a set of keys to missionaries who had left them, helped some sisters with a bike that was falling off their car, cleaned up the church building, proselyted for an hour then filled out a report for the stake presidents.
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| AP's Elder Masino and Elder McMullin |
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| Elder Masino training new missionaries |
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| Elder McMullin and Elder Masino role-playing during new missionary training. |
Thursday we went to campus all afternoon with the YSA missionaries to show them how to find people to teach on a college campus. That night we had three hours to proselyte.
Friday we went on an exchange - I went with zone leader Whittle to their area and we had a good day.
Saturday was a pretty normal day. We met with President and changed all the contacts in his phone because transfers happened. He has been in Orlando at a conference, and he told us all about it. He made us lunch after, then we went out for the day.
It’s super weird to spend so much time at the mission home with President in “casual” situations. Just having lunch together, etc. He’s a very real person! But he acts the same conducting zone conference as he does in the little mission office where we meet with us. He’s really funny! We played racquetball with him Saturday and then again this morning - there is an indoor court at our apartment complex.
On Sunday night, we had a meeting with him from 8-9 where we basically presented what we think would be good train on in mission leadership conference this Wednesday - chapter 9 of Preach My Gospel on Finding. I think that a lot of being an assistant is counseling - especially with president. Helping him to see things from the missionary’s eyes and helping to demonstrate how to effectively carry out his plans for the mission.
I enjoy it! I feel a little spoiled. We eat with President several times a week, he is really kind and casual, but also 100% himself and dignified, while he’s around us, our schedule isn’t as strict because we have to prepare trainings and things, and we spend a lot of time helping missionaries out with basically anything they need.
The hardest thing has been figuring out how I can serve the missionaries in the mission. I’ve never had such a strong desire to minister to others and build them up- I want it SO BADLY. It’s hard, though, when given a new assignment - it’s like being moved from being a nursery teacher to an elders quorum president. How do you build up the people in your elders quorum? But hey it’s literally been 5 days, so I’m still figuring it out. Time is flying by - it’s insane. Here’s a picture of our monthly schedule - what our transfer looks like.
So... busy busy busy! Elder Masino and I don’t have another full day proselyting together until May 17th because of interviews, MLC (Mission Leadership Conference), zone conferences, and tradeoffs. We are blessed in the short amount of time we do have to work, though. Yesterday, for example, we had church, studies, preparing our training for MLC, dinner with a member, and our meeting with president.
We had 20 minutes to go out and find new people to teach. We go to an apartment complex, see a girl walking her dog, and Elder Masino and I just look at each other and say, “She’s the one.” We talk to her, have a lesson there on the spot, and will be teaching her again on Wednesday. God certainly magnifies the time that we have to use, even though it’s not much!
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| Here's a picture of Elder Masino and I this morning. |
Yes, we cook our own food - we really don’t spent any time at the mission office. We go there to use the computer to prepare trainings, we pick things up that need dropped off, we help with things once in a while, but we don’t go there much. The senior couples handle finances, apartments, vehicles, technology, etc. from there. We don’t interact with them too much, but we do stop by the mission office every other day because of things we need to pick up or drop off something.
I love you mom! I’m really happy. I’m really excited and eager. My mind is 100% focused on the work and focused on others. I’ve been dreaming about PMG (the manual "Preach My Gospel") for the last 4 nights haha. I will get home and I think my mind will explode because I won’t know what to think about. I feel like I’m understanding now what it means to have power and authority as a missionary.
Love,
Elder McMullin
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