A little tennis, a lot of work.

Hello everybody!

        This week has been one of the most diverse and enjoyable of my mission. Here are pictures to describe the week. 

A sub-par phone selfie post tennis. We play with the other elders in our ward and the sisters in another ward. One of the Sisters, Sister Sosa, played all through high school and she’s super good! It’s fun to see people use their talents, that’s one of my favorite parts of missionary work. 

Tradeoff with Elder Houskeeper! He had to go home for surgery but is now back out. He is so loving and caring - really personable and Christlike to everybody who we saw that day. And he’s from Oregon! Somebody who’s not from Utah, Arizona, or Idaho!

Tradeoff with Elder Burt in the Gainesville YSA. Where I was trained! Ahhhh this was such a fun day to be there in Gainesville. I LOVE Gainesville. 

We taught Maurya that day - when I was in the YSA we taught her for 6 months. She plays viola at UF and is really good. It was good to see her again and we had a great lesson on connecting to God through faith, and how that seeks the Spirit. 

I send so many pictures from tradeoffs that I decided to send one pre-picture. Fixing the tie before the picture is always a major key. This is from Price Creek, my last area, with Elder McBride, an old companion. It was so good to be back - a little piece of my heart will always be in Lake City. In church we were studying about the word “sacrifice” and from the word roots, it means “to make sacred.” We sacrificed a lot in Price Creek, and from the bottom of my heart I can say that that place is sacred to me. 

  Elder Forsyth as we drive back from church. Sunday afternoons after a focused day at church can be tiring, especially for a missionary who’s been out for two weeks. It made me look back and remember how exhausting missionary work is at first before we get used to it. He’s absolutely amazing though, such a dedicated missionary. I trained Elder Birch, so he’s my “son”, and Elder Birch is training Elder Forsyth, so he’s my “grandson”. 

Here’s the transfer board with our schedule for the next 6 weeks.

Love you all! We hope you have a great week and a good Father’s Day this Sunday!

Elder McMullin