Dear Family,
Well it sounds like a ton of you guys are all gathering around some table's to eat some really good food at uncle Dave's and aunt Anita's house! Sounds like a party!! Wish I could be there but I'm where I need and should be. So this week was a great week! No I didn't eat anything weird or go anywhere. I didn't even get transferred!! Me and Elder Bayles were pretty excited that we didn't get transferred. So instead of taking a 5 hour drive to Cauayan we just stayed here and worked, which was good. So the Philippines don't really like the "rich people" in town and they never open their mouth when someone is "rich". So me and elder bayles decided that we should go and talk to all the rich people that we could find so we walked around to all the cement houses and talked to as many people who would let us in their house. That was my first time going house to house to people and trying to get into their house to teach them our message. We ll we ended up getting the door shut gently on our face and one lady was actually laying on her couch and sat up and looked at us and said "there is no one here". Haha! It was so funny. Me and Elder Bayles just looked at each other and said "well okay"... haha it was so funny. We got into a few peoples houses and got a few new investigators out of it. We were desperate for some new people to teach and we have been praying to figure out a way for some new people to teach. It seems like just singling out the "rich" people is a rude thing to do, but to be honest they make the best members. They pay the tithing, come to church every week and they are way nice to the other members. So we felt guided to tract that class of people. We got a few referrals yesterday and one of them was a family of four. The kids are ages one and three, two boys. The family lives in a run down restaurant and they run a small motor trade business out of it. We started teaching them and they seemed to be listening until they put their kids down and they went crazy! They were ridding bikes everywhere and being so noisy. Satan really didn't want us to teach them. One of the little kids even squatted down and went poop on the floor in front of us!! Yeah that was pretty nasty! But we just continued on teaching! At the end of the lesson the sister even prayed! It was such a good lesson. We both feel that they will be baptized in the future. I'm grateful for the member's that care enough about the gospel to give us referrals to their closest friends. Without referrals our work would be nothing. So I heard that elder hales had to speak in front of everyone in transfer meeting. It was in English so the natives didn't really understand, but they said that he asked if anyone knew me and they said that they did! And he was pretty excited to know that haha. I'm excited to see him. I don't know if that will be anytime soon but who knows. So the Philippines is in a huge drought. It's called a el ninyo. It means that there isn't going to be rain until June or July. The elders in one zone don't even have water at their house to wash clothes. They have to go to a river and wash. How they shower I have no idea,. I'm just glad that I'm in the mountains and we have what little run off there is. It has been overcast this week and it sprinkled a little bit but not enough to have an effect on the ground. We have zone conference this week on Wednesday so that means I'll be getting up at 2am Wednesday so I can get to Cauayan on time for the 9am meeting. It's going to be a long day but I'm looking forward to go listen to our president give us some advice on finding people and being better missionaries. I don't know if y have ant packages but its possible that i will have them on Wednesday, so ill let you know next week if i get it. I love you guys! Tell everyone I say hello!!!!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
3/7/2010
Wow, what a week! So Monday started the week off with a good pday. We had to go to Solano and get our support so we ate at this place called mang innasal and they give you an ulam(rice topping) and unlimited rice. I got excited when I saw the unlimited rice sign let alone the pork BBQ that they have :). And then on Wednesday night guess what I ate!!!!!!!!?????? Yes, your wrong! It was balut!! I totally ate a duck embryo haha! It was actually pretty good! The juice in the egg tastes like chicken broth and the egg part is just like a hard boiled egg and then the duck really had no taste. It's just the thought that is going through your head while eating it. Don't worry... I filmed it. So when I get a chance to make a CD I'll put that video of me and Elder Bayles eating it! You'll laugh! They are pretty funny. So Saturday was a bummer because we didn't get that chance to work all that much because Elder Bayles had a bunch of baptism interviews for the other missionary's around here. Sunday we fasted and it was a good fast. Then today we totally went down to sta. fae. It's a town in our area and it was like the prettiest place I have ever seen. We went to a place called imugan falls! It was sweet!!! Look it up on google and there should be some pictures there. I took like 60 so you'll see what I'm talking about when I get into a place that can transfer my pics to a CD. We were thinking on the way home that we are only allowed to work in the town Aritao and the other closer towns that we have I would say are about 3/4's of our area, we aren't allowed to tract in because its just so far. So we really have only been in the close places but on pday we go out to the other places and got see the area. Today was a great day to do so because it was so pretty. I got some great shots of the area! I'm excited for you all to see. The past 6 weeks have gone way too fast! We have transfers on Thursday and I hope that I don't get transferred, but i doubt i will. That's great that you guys went and saw Elder Bayles' mom. She sent him some candy from cabellas and its soooo good haha:) Well the work is going a bit slow because of the last elders that were here so we are fixing the area. It seems like sometimes we are opening the area but we are slowly getting things back together. I love the work and the people! This gospel is so wonderful and the joy that it brings to the life of the people of the Philippines. I love you all my family! Thanks for the pics and emails this week... I laughed at them. Keep sending them for us, elder Bayles likes to see our family and pictures because he says that his family doesn't send any haha. So every once and a while send some new ones (via email). I hope it warms up over there and cools down here (even though that wont happen for months). Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Elder Mulliner
Elder Mulliner
2/28/2010
Family!
So this week has been pretty good. We did go on the splits. The elder is still here but transfers is coming up and I don't know if he will get sent home. Then I went on splits with the zone leaders and it was great! I gave someone a baptism date and it was just a good feeling. The family that we are teaching came to district conference yesterday and it was great. I think that they will be great members. The elders in my old area told me that they are baptizing everyone that I taught and they are doing well, so that's some great news! Elder Bayles says that you (mom) should go over to the lehi roller mills in the office and talk with his mom (Linda) like next week. So you should do that lol. I'm going on splits with Elder Balaich this week!! I'm way excited to get to work with him. It will be just like the MTC again. haha plus I think that he is ready for a break from crappy companions. He has had kind of a hard time with his comps. they have all been way disobedient so I think that he is more excited then I am. Almost all of the people that I came in with from the MTC are in my zone. It's way cool! It's like a party whenever we see each other. We taught a guy from England and he has lived here for most of his life. The lesson went pretty well and we are going back to teach him this week. I don't know if he is that interested but well see. We have a few solid investigators but they just don't have the solid testimony that we would like them to have. We are working on them so we can give them a date and help them enter into the fold. Me and Elder Bayles were talking yesterday and we looked at the date and the cycle ends on the 11th of this month!! I hope that no one get transferred but I think that I will because he just got made district leader. I hope that we stay comps. for a while! That would be so sweet! Tell Kyle congrats for me! Thats sweet and I'm so happy for him! So the package, if your able to send the/an ipod send it full of church and Disney songs if possible. That would be really cool. Plus a charger so i can charge it. Also some shoe insoles for my shoes, a small role of duct tape if possible, a variety of oatmeal would be very pleasing to my stomach haha and if you see anything that would be cool to have i guess haha i dunno. Let me know what you send so I know what to look for. I love you all and I pray for you everyday. I'm getting way better in the language, not fluent, but I can communicate with everyone. I have a lot more confidence to talk and I'm feeling more comfortable with the language. But I'm still learning of course. Well that's all for now folks! I love you!!!
Elder Mulliner
So this week has been pretty good. We did go on the splits. The elder is still here but transfers is coming up and I don't know if he will get sent home. Then I went on splits with the zone leaders and it was great! I gave someone a baptism date and it was just a good feeling. The family that we are teaching came to district conference yesterday and it was great. I think that they will be great members. The elders in my old area told me that they are baptizing everyone that I taught and they are doing well, so that's some great news! Elder Bayles says that you (mom) should go over to the lehi roller mills in the office and talk with his mom (Linda) like next week. So you should do that lol. I'm going on splits with Elder Balaich this week!! I'm way excited to get to work with him. It will be just like the MTC again. haha plus I think that he is ready for a break from crappy companions. He has had kind of a hard time with his comps. they have all been way disobedient so I think that he is more excited then I am. Almost all of the people that I came in with from the MTC are in my zone. It's way cool! It's like a party whenever we see each other. We taught a guy from England and he has lived here for most of his life. The lesson went pretty well and we are going back to teach him this week. I don't know if he is that interested but well see. We have a few solid investigators but they just don't have the solid testimony that we would like them to have. We are working on them so we can give them a date and help them enter into the fold. Me and Elder Bayles were talking yesterday and we looked at the date and the cycle ends on the 11th of this month!! I hope that no one get transferred but I think that I will because he just got made district leader. I hope that we stay comps. for a while! That would be so sweet! Tell Kyle congrats for me! Thats sweet and I'm so happy for him! So the package, if your able to send the/an ipod send it full of church and Disney songs if possible. That would be really cool. Plus a charger so i can charge it. Also some shoe insoles for my shoes, a small role of duct tape if possible, a variety of oatmeal would be very pleasing to my stomach haha and if you see anything that would be cool to have i guess haha i dunno. Let me know what you send so I know what to look for. I love you all and I pray for you everyday. I'm getting way better in the language, not fluent, but I can communicate with everyone. I have a lot more confidence to talk and I'm feeling more comfortable with the language. But I'm still learning of course. Well that's all for now folks! I love you!!!
Elder Mulliner
2/21/2010
Well hello!
This week has been really great! We had interviews with the president, went to MacDonald's AND I got a 3 musketeers bar! It was pretty much the perfect day. We gave 4 of our investigators a baptismal date yesterday for the 27 of march. I hope that they will continue to come to church and continue to listen and keep our commitments we have give them. Uunfortunately we might end up dropping one of our investigators because her and her husband need to get married and they want to get married in our church, but they don't have a birth certificate. And they wont come to church because of her father. He cant be left alone for any time because he is paralyzed and her husband wont watch him while she goes to church. So we will probably drop them and try to teach them in another time. Maybe they aren't ready to receive the gospel yet, but they will in time. So I guess one of the elders in my district is having a way hard time with his companion and something bad happened with them last night but I don't know what yet. We got a call about 11:00 last night and it was our zone leaders and they said that I needed to pack my bags for 4-5 days and we will be going on splits for a while. The elder that's having problem will be coming to our area and I'll be going over there, which is fine because its way pretty over there its a place called dupax del sur. But I think that the American elder might be getting sent home or his choice. I'll find out about 4 this afternoon. So I tired to withdrawal some money last week at one of the ATM's and it said that my account was locked, but when i looked just barley it was fine so maybe the ATM was just retarded. Me and Elder Bayles have been working our bums off trying to find some good people to teach and to re-activate some branch members. We do the home teaching, the missionary work and we are the Secretary branch clerk(unofficially haha). So with the next package you send I have a request or two but no rushes on the package. I could use some good shoe insoles for my shoes. And you mentioned at Christmas if I would like you to send me an ipod, well if dad will let me use his little blue shuffle that would be perfect just load it with as much church songs and Disney music as you can and then the charger of course so i can charge it. And some treats as well. So how was Kenny's and Jerah's wedding?? Did you get any pics? If so send them my way. Well that's my report on this week! I love you all and I hope that your all doing well as always!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
This week has been really great! We had interviews with the president, went to MacDonald's AND I got a 3 musketeers bar! It was pretty much the perfect day. We gave 4 of our investigators a baptismal date yesterday for the 27 of march. I hope that they will continue to come to church and continue to listen and keep our commitments we have give them. Uunfortunately we might end up dropping one of our investigators because her and her husband need to get married and they want to get married in our church, but they don't have a birth certificate. And they wont come to church because of her father. He cant be left alone for any time because he is paralyzed and her husband wont watch him while she goes to church. So we will probably drop them and try to teach them in another time. Maybe they aren't ready to receive the gospel yet, but they will in time. So I guess one of the elders in my district is having a way hard time with his companion and something bad happened with them last night but I don't know what yet. We got a call about 11:00 last night and it was our zone leaders and they said that I needed to pack my bags for 4-5 days and we will be going on splits for a while. The elder that's having problem will be coming to our area and I'll be going over there, which is fine because its way pretty over there its a place called dupax del sur. But I think that the American elder might be getting sent home or his choice. I'll find out about 4 this afternoon. So I tired to withdrawal some money last week at one of the ATM's and it said that my account was locked, but when i looked just barley it was fine so maybe the ATM was just retarded. Me and Elder Bayles have been working our bums off trying to find some good people to teach and to re-activate some branch members. We do the home teaching, the missionary work and we are the Secretary branch clerk(unofficially haha). So with the next package you send I have a request or two but no rushes on the package. I could use some good shoe insoles for my shoes. And you mentioned at Christmas if I would like you to send me an ipod, well if dad will let me use his little blue shuffle that would be perfect just load it with as much church songs and Disney music as you can and then the charger of course so i can charge it. And some treats as well. So how was Kenny's and Jerah's wedding?? Did you get any pics? If so send them my way. Well that's my report on this week! I love you all and I hope that your all doing well as always!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
2/14/2010
Happy valentines to everyone back at home!
They have valentines day here but it's not really a celebrated day. It was also my comps b-day this weekend and we held a missionary fireside to help out the members with finding people for the gospel. It went really well. I was scared that we were going to do a terrible job but it went really well. I think that we will have a ton more referrals coming in, it should be great. So they announced the name of our new mission pres here! His name is pres. Carlos. He is from South Dakota! I'm excited to have an American president but I'm going to miss pres. Villanueva very much. He is such a nice person and one of the most loving people I have ever met along with his wife. She is just like a mom for all us missionaries and we are really lucky to have them here. So this week has been pretty normal as far as the work goes. It is definitely summer here! The sun is way hot during the day. The mornings here are cold though that I could see my breath this morning! It was awesome. I was way happy because it's so hot. I'm loving being a missionary. I cant tell you enough how awesome and joyful this really is. Even though at times I miss home and I miss the little things in life, I would have to say that I would put this first for sure. My testimony is growing and so is my love for other people. I love the language and the culture. The people here are so nice and giving and they have a love for the gospel. One ward member didn't have money to get a ride to the church yesterday so her and her family got up at 5am and walked 3.5 hours to get to church on time! That showed me her love for the gospel and her love to come to church and keep the commandments. She is a great example to the ward and to the lord and to all of us! My testimony has grown from that experience. I'm glad that the doctors have figured out whats going on with grandma. I know that she will continue to improve if we keep her in our prayers. Keep me posted on her. We had a dinner appointment last night at this one family that lives right up the street from us and every time we eat there I feel like I'm going to pop after eating. The food is sooooo good! haha me and elder bayles have been doing really well together and we are both happy. Its so much better when a companionship gets along. It shows in the work and in our message to the people. We have one family that we just found, the fontiveras family, and they seem to have accepted the message in our first visit. We are going back to them twice this week and I hope we can get them to church on Sunday so they can feel the spirit that you only feel by going to church. Well that's all for this week! I hope your week goes great and that you all are safe. I love and miss you all.
Elder Mulliner
They have valentines day here but it's not really a celebrated day. It was also my comps b-day this weekend and we held a missionary fireside to help out the members with finding people for the gospel. It went really well. I was scared that we were going to do a terrible job but it went really well. I think that we will have a ton more referrals coming in, it should be great. So they announced the name of our new mission pres here! His name is pres. Carlos. He is from South Dakota! I'm excited to have an American president but I'm going to miss pres. Villanueva very much. He is such a nice person and one of the most loving people I have ever met along with his wife. She is just like a mom for all us missionaries and we are really lucky to have them here. So this week has been pretty normal as far as the work goes. It is definitely summer here! The sun is way hot during the day. The mornings here are cold though that I could see my breath this morning! It was awesome. I was way happy because it's so hot. I'm loving being a missionary. I cant tell you enough how awesome and joyful this really is. Even though at times I miss home and I miss the little things in life, I would have to say that I would put this first for sure. My testimony is growing and so is my love for other people. I love the language and the culture. The people here are so nice and giving and they have a love for the gospel. One ward member didn't have money to get a ride to the church yesterday so her and her family got up at 5am and walked 3.5 hours to get to church on time! That showed me her love for the gospel and her love to come to church and keep the commandments. She is a great example to the ward and to the lord and to all of us! My testimony has grown from that experience. I'm glad that the doctors have figured out whats going on with grandma. I know that she will continue to improve if we keep her in our prayers. Keep me posted on her. We had a dinner appointment last night at this one family that lives right up the street from us and every time we eat there I feel like I'm going to pop after eating. The food is sooooo good! haha me and elder bayles have been doing really well together and we are both happy. Its so much better when a companionship gets along. It shows in the work and in our message to the people. We have one family that we just found, the fontiveras family, and they seem to have accepted the message in our first visit. We are going back to them twice this week and I hope we can get them to church on Sunday so they can feel the spirit that you only feel by going to church. Well that's all for this week! I hope your week goes great and that you all are safe. I love and miss you all.
Elder Mulliner
2/7/2010
Family,
Well its been a great first week here in Aritao and I'm loving the work, the area, the branch and the people. The sun is getting more and more intense because the summer is on the rise, its getting way too hot haha . Good thing I'm down here in the coldest part of the mission and not up in the hottest part of the whole country in the northern part of the mission. This week we ran into a guy that speaks way good English and worked in America for like 15 years or something. His name is Ezequiel like the prophet and he is really interested in the gospel. We have taught him twice now and he says he knows its true he just isn't ready to go to church. So well go back to him on Tuesday to teach him a little bit more. I have realized one thing this week in the fact of being obedient, 100% obedient and how important it really is. Even the little rules that we have as missionaries, and sad to say I have been breaking one rule that I think is effecting the way my language learning is going and that's the emailing rule. We are only supposed to reply to emails to our family and I have been replying to whoever emails me. Well president really stressed this in our zone conference last week so I decided that I need to start following the rules with exactness. So from now on the only people that I'll reply to will be you from the family (mom, dad, and the sisters). This is something that I have realized that I need to follow and I'm going to start doing it today. Your more that welcome to email me and let me know how you are doing but I cant reply. I know that I shouldn't have been doing it in the past but its the little rules that are important so I know I'll be blessed in this decision. It may be hard but I can do it. Me and my comp. are doing great and loving the work. We are working hard everyday! We get up early and, come home tired. The life of a missionary is wonderful and I'm loving it so much. So I'm way out of time and i'll get back to you next week. I love you all and I cant wait to talk to you next week.
Mahal ko po kayo! (I love you all!)
Elder Mulliner
Well its been a great first week here in Aritao and I'm loving the work, the area, the branch and the people. The sun is getting more and more intense because the summer is on the rise, its getting way too hot haha . Good thing I'm down here in the coldest part of the mission and not up in the hottest part of the whole country in the northern part of the mission. This week we ran into a guy that speaks way good English and worked in America for like 15 years or something. His name is Ezequiel like the prophet and he is really interested in the gospel. We have taught him twice now and he says he knows its true he just isn't ready to go to church. So well go back to him on Tuesday to teach him a little bit more. I have realized one thing this week in the fact of being obedient, 100% obedient and how important it really is. Even the little rules that we have as missionaries, and sad to say I have been breaking one rule that I think is effecting the way my language learning is going and that's the emailing rule. We are only supposed to reply to emails to our family and I have been replying to whoever emails me. Well president really stressed this in our zone conference last week so I decided that I need to start following the rules with exactness. So from now on the only people that I'll reply to will be you from the family (mom, dad, and the sisters). This is something that I have realized that I need to follow and I'm going to start doing it today. Your more that welcome to email me and let me know how you are doing but I cant reply. I know that I shouldn't have been doing it in the past but its the little rules that are important so I know I'll be blessed in this decision. It may be hard but I can do it. Me and my comp. are doing great and loving the work. We are working hard everyday! We get up early and, come home tired. The life of a missionary is wonderful and I'm loving it so much. So I'm way out of time and i'll get back to you next week. I love you all and I cant wait to talk to you next week.
Mahal ko po kayo! (I love you all!)
Elder Mulliner
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
1/31/2010
Hey family,
So I'm finally back into the mission and I'm doing sooo much better! I still have a little headache but that should go away soon they say. I left the MRC at 5:00pm and waited at the MTC for a little while, ate dinner there, then headed over to the bus station and got on a bus to head to Cauayan. I got no sleep which kinda stunk but it's okay. At 5:30am we got to the mission home and the new missionaries had orientation meeting. I then found out that I was being transferred and panicked because I needed all my stuff. Well come to find out the zone leaders did my "packing" for me so they say. I walked into the room and almost everything I own was in a giant plastic bag. That was quite the site. But after a few folding jobs and shoving everything into my suitcases I got it all in there. Then we had transfer meeting and I got a new comp. He is from lehi and is way funny and a hard worker. We are going to be a great companionship! My area is called Aritao. It's the most southern part of the mission, and the farthest away from the mission home. 4 to 4 and a half hours. So that day I was on a bus for 15:30! Long time haha. But it's all good. My area is so pretty! Imagine being at like strawberry lake and the temp is warmer and there is palm trees everywhere. There is no lake here but the surroundings are a ton like in Utah! We even have a McDonald's in our zone, so when we have district meeting we will eat there! The people here are way nice and very humble! I'm in a branch, but we have a church to meet in. Usually its just a meeting house. I'm so excited to serve here. So in manila while I wasn't at the hospital we were either inside or at the temple! I got to go through a session 3 times and it was great. The couple that's in charge let us watch a few of the church related movies and then for F.H.E we watched the fiddler on the roof, which is a hilarious show, and then we had a delicious chocolate cake. I went to burger king once while I was down there and one night they got us some pizza hut. So my companions name is Elder Bayles. He lives in lehi and he played soccer for the UVU team. He knows a ton of my friends from high school which is crazy. We are getting along really great. So some random facts about him... his mom is the receptionist at the lehi mills. He used to work there and packed flour, and now his little brother just got his old job. He is the oldest in his family and has a really deep voice. We got haircuts today so now we are the only two American people for hours and we look the same! It's pretty funny. So I got your package and yes was I happy to see it. We ate the oreos and goldfish already which is unfortunate but I'll live (maybe). I put grandmas name on the prayer list in the temple and of course she is in my prayers along with the whole family, but I hope that she will get better soon. Well that's all I have to say this week. I love you all and hope your doing great. I guess they are changing the way missionaries do emails so I will be getting a new email soon, but I'll let you know when that happens. Thanks again!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
So I'm finally back into the mission and I'm doing sooo much better! I still have a little headache but that should go away soon they say. I left the MRC at 5:00pm and waited at the MTC for a little while, ate dinner there, then headed over to the bus station and got on a bus to head to Cauayan. I got no sleep which kinda stunk but it's okay. At 5:30am we got to the mission home and the new missionaries had orientation meeting. I then found out that I was being transferred and panicked because I needed all my stuff. Well come to find out the zone leaders did my "packing" for me so they say. I walked into the room and almost everything I own was in a giant plastic bag. That was quite the site. But after a few folding jobs and shoving everything into my suitcases I got it all in there. Then we had transfer meeting and I got a new comp. He is from lehi and is way funny and a hard worker. We are going to be a great companionship! My area is called Aritao. It's the most southern part of the mission, and the farthest away from the mission home. 4 to 4 and a half hours. So that day I was on a bus for 15:30! Long time haha. But it's all good. My area is so pretty! Imagine being at like strawberry lake and the temp is warmer and there is palm trees everywhere. There is no lake here but the surroundings are a ton like in Utah! We even have a McDonald's in our zone, so when we have district meeting we will eat there! The people here are way nice and very humble! I'm in a branch, but we have a church to meet in. Usually its just a meeting house. I'm so excited to serve here. So in manila while I wasn't at the hospital we were either inside or at the temple! I got to go through a session 3 times and it was great. The couple that's in charge let us watch a few of the church related movies and then for F.H.E we watched the fiddler on the roof, which is a hilarious show, and then we had a delicious chocolate cake. I went to burger king once while I was down there and one night they got us some pizza hut. So my companions name is Elder Bayles. He lives in lehi and he played soccer for the UVU team. He knows a ton of my friends from high school which is crazy. We are getting along really great. So some random facts about him... his mom is the receptionist at the lehi mills. He used to work there and packed flour, and now his little brother just got his old job. He is the oldest in his family and has a really deep voice. We got haircuts today so now we are the only two American people for hours and we look the same! It's pretty funny. So I got your package and yes was I happy to see it. We ate the oreos and goldfish already which is unfortunate but I'll live (maybe). I put grandmas name on the prayer list in the temple and of course she is in my prayers along with the whole family, but I hope that she will get better soon. Well that's all I have to say this week. I love you all and hope your doing great. I guess they are changing the way missionaries do emails so I will be getting a new email soon, but I'll let you know when that happens. Thanks again!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
1/25/2010
Fam,
So I'm still I'm manila but I believe I will be leaving in the next couple of days. I went over to a doctor that had me get a CT scan to make sure nothing serious was going on in my head. And in the mean time she gave me some muscle relaxants and the lowest dosage of pain killer that she had. I have taken that for 5 days and the headache seems to be smaller so that's good, but I have really tight shoulder muscles so she switched my medication for the relaxant and I will take that for 5 days and if that doesn't work I'll have to do some kind of physical therapy. I should be out of here tomorrow or the next day. Being in Manila has defiantly been an experience. The hospital is in someways nicer then America and others its not. The main building is defiantly nicer, but the other two towers are not as nice, but still way better then anything in my mission. I have been feed like a king for the past few days as well, which has been nice to get some great food. There is a lady that cooks for us in the MRC and funny enough her name is divine and she can cook up some mean meals. I'm pretty sure I have gained some weight while i have been here. I also got to go to the biggest chapel in the Philippines on Sunday. It is HUGE! To give you an idea, it's like a mini hotel, multi story, and the chapel is like American sized. It's giant. I was also able to go to a fabric store and by some tela for pants. I got 4 pairs of very nice fabric that would have cost me the price of one in my area so I was very happy to that. We had a mini family home evening last night and we watched the Fiddler on the Roof. It's such a funny movie! I wasn't sure if it was okay to watch, but the couple missionaries approved it and said it was okay so we watched it and then ate a huge slice of chocolate cake:). Yes that was my favorite part. We do have transfers this week but I'm not sure who will get transferred. It could be either of us. Well I don't have much time to email being that the MRC doesn't have a p-day so I'll talk to you all next week. I love you!! Have a great week
Love,
Elder Mulliner
So I'm still I'm manila but I believe I will be leaving in the next couple of days. I went over to a doctor that had me get a CT scan to make sure nothing serious was going on in my head. And in the mean time she gave me some muscle relaxants and the lowest dosage of pain killer that she had. I have taken that for 5 days and the headache seems to be smaller so that's good, but I have really tight shoulder muscles so she switched my medication for the relaxant and I will take that for 5 days and if that doesn't work I'll have to do some kind of physical therapy. I should be out of here tomorrow or the next day. Being in Manila has defiantly been an experience. The hospital is in someways nicer then America and others its not. The main building is defiantly nicer, but the other two towers are not as nice, but still way better then anything in my mission. I have been feed like a king for the past few days as well, which has been nice to get some great food. There is a lady that cooks for us in the MRC and funny enough her name is divine and she can cook up some mean meals. I'm pretty sure I have gained some weight while i have been here. I also got to go to the biggest chapel in the Philippines on Sunday. It is HUGE! To give you an idea, it's like a mini hotel, multi story, and the chapel is like American sized. It's giant. I was also able to go to a fabric store and by some tela for pants. I got 4 pairs of very nice fabric that would have cost me the price of one in my area so I was very happy to that. We had a mini family home evening last night and we watched the Fiddler on the Roof. It's such a funny movie! I wasn't sure if it was okay to watch, but the couple missionaries approved it and said it was okay so we watched it and then ate a huge slice of chocolate cake:). Yes that was my favorite part. We do have transfers this week but I'm not sure who will get transferred. It could be either of us. Well I don't have much time to email being that the MRC doesn't have a p-day so I'll talk to you all next week. I love you!! Have a great week
Love,
Elder Mulliner
1/21/2010
Well the area medical advisor decided to have me come down to manila for a couple of days and I have been here for a little over a day. It really is a great place for a sick missionary to be. Well if your not contagious to anything. I have had the opportunity to go to the manila temple and do a session, which I was so grateful for. I have forgotten how great the temple really is and how wonderful I always feel when I go in. Today I went to St Luke's hospital and I had a couple of appointments, still no results or guesses. My first one was At a doctor who gives an overall view on you sickness, then he determines where you go. He thought that I might have an infection in my ear. So I went to the Ear Throat and Mouth doc. He shoved a little camera in my nose into my sinuses, yeah that didn't feel to great ha ha, then it went into my throat and then into my ear, I don't have an infection that he saw so I will be returning to the docs hopefully tomorrow to see a neurologist or however you spell it. I know I'm in good hands and I'm going to be fine in a few days. It will just take a few appointments to get the problem solved and then get me on a medication. So enough with the medical stuff. Being here in the MRC is great! I feel like I'm in America in manila. We went to a BURGER KING today and I ate a giant BBQ burger is was so good! Then I went and got a hymn book and now I'm back at the MRC and the missionary couple here are having me email you to let you know how I am. I still have a headache but well see whats happening tomorrow. I love you all!
Elder Mulliner
Elder Mulliner
1/17/2010
So this week has kinda been a bust as far as working goes. We had splits and there was a huge confusion on who was supposed to go where when the splits were over and we just ended up playing cat and mouse the whole day. We finally ended up in bnito soluvin at one of the members house and then the elders we were on splits with were mad at my comp. because he didn't tell them the right info. So they started fighting and yelling. So I was just sitting there waiting for the hissy fit to be over, and this old lady asked where we were going and told here to baligatan and she said well there goes the last jeepney for the night to baligatan. So I ran out in the street and whistled as loud as I could and the driver slammed on his brakes and baked up to where we where, so in the meantime my comp. and the other elders were still fighting, so i decided that somebody over 4 years old had to take charge. So I grabbed my comp. and made him get in the jeepney so we could go home for the night because its about a 1 hour drive so he was mad at me for stopping the yelling and didn't talk to me the whole ride home. When we got home I asked him what the problem was and he told me so I just said that fighting is no way to solve anything, especially in front of a member, so he was like well i don't even feel the spirit anymore so we didn't go work. He was still made and being a boob so I was like I'm sick of this were going to jollibees and I'll pay for you. So then he was all happy and glad, so that's one way I guess. Not the most common way but I guess it worked. Then the next day I went to the hospital and we didn't work that day because my body was just not its self so then the next day I got your package!:) And then we had weekly planning and then we went back to the hospital to get Xrays on my head. So now I'm just waiting to see what Dr chaffin/ elder chaffin has to say about my head. I don't know what it could be but I hope that something can be found because this is becoming a big stress on my body. I just have to keep pressing on. How was your guys week? I have been praying for g-ma and her health that it will get better. I hope that the doctors can help her. I love you all and I hope that you have an excellent week.
Love, elder Mulliner
Love, elder Mulliner
1/14/2010
So I went to the hospital and got my blood tested and my ears and throat, and it turns out that I have tonsillitis and I'm allergic to something in the air here. So the tonsillitis is the reason why I have had a bloody nose and ear so they gave me an antibiotic prescription and one for the allergic. I have to take the tonsil medicine for a week and then I'm supposed to take the allergic stuff until February but the problem is they don't have any right now so ill have to wait. So I'll start taking the tonsil medication tomorrow and then well see what happens. So I'll talk to you on Monday but that's just a quick email about what happened.
I Love You!
Elder Mulliner
P.s
I got my b day package, thanks for all the great treats and the cards!:") Peyton's was the best.
I Love You!
Elder Mulliner
P.s
I got my b day package, thanks for all the great treats and the cards!:") Peyton's was the best.
1/10/2010
Hey family,
So this week was a pretty good week. One of our investigators who was supposed to be baptised on the 16th is no longer going to be because of some of his past experiences with things and we have to wait for our mission president to interview him. After that, he will give him a date and that's that. I don't think that we will have any baptisms this cycle because we are doing a harvest which means we are teaching and finding people that want to become members but they just aren't ready for it. Well I haven't git the package that you sent to me yet but I might get it on Tuesday when we have our zone meeting, but I don't really know, so well see. I hope I do because I really miss chocolate cake lol. So when you send that package don't forget to throw some black socks in it, and maybe some deodorant not the old spice though because that gives my pits a rash for some reason and maybe a big bottle of ibuprofen. So anyway this week has been good over all. On the 8th we went over to this place called Annesephs and had a pizza. It was me and my comp., and bro Mata who works with us a ton and is a really good help to us, and then Hannah Faye, a recent convert of ours back when i first got here, we didn't sing but we had a good time so that's what i did. Tonight we are going over to the Dacuycuy family and having dinner over there. They usually have some great food so of course I'm excited. So speaking of food I have come to find out that I have eaten some pretty nasty food. It's called dinugoan, its pigs blood and pork and its baked and looks like a ball of dirt. Lucky for me I didn't understand what they were saying to my companion when I put it on my plate. All they asked me is if I liked that stuff and I said "I dunno but I'll find out". It was really good though! So after we ate and went home he told me and I was like that's nasty!!! And I couldn't believe that I had eaten that haha. So on Tuesday I'm going to talk to my mission pres. wife about my health. I have had a constant headache for about a month now. I thought it might be the heat but it was fairly cold here a little while ago and there was no change. Then I was cleaning out my ear and there was some blood coming from my right ear, not a ton but still some blood. Then Saturday my tonsils were swollen and it was pretty hard to swallow anything for a couple days. And then I saw some big red bumps on the back of my throat, and last night i had a bloody nose. So I might be going to the hospital to get a check up this week. Don't worry, I'm still going out everyday and working and I'm able to do everything a missionary does I'll let you know how it goes if I end up going. Well that's my report for this week. I hope your all doing great! Peyton is really getting so big! Dang.
I love you all!
Love, Elder Mulliner
So this week was a pretty good week. One of our investigators who was supposed to be baptised on the 16th is no longer going to be because of some of his past experiences with things and we have to wait for our mission president to interview him. After that, he will give him a date and that's that. I don't think that we will have any baptisms this cycle because we are doing a harvest which means we are teaching and finding people that want to become members but they just aren't ready for it. Well I haven't git the package that you sent to me yet but I might get it on Tuesday when we have our zone meeting, but I don't really know, so well see. I hope I do because I really miss chocolate cake lol. So when you send that package don't forget to throw some black socks in it, and maybe some deodorant not the old spice though because that gives my pits a rash for some reason and maybe a big bottle of ibuprofen. So anyway this week has been good over all. On the 8th we went over to this place called Annesephs and had a pizza. It was me and my comp., and bro Mata who works with us a ton and is a really good help to us, and then Hannah Faye, a recent convert of ours back when i first got here, we didn't sing but we had a good time so that's what i did. Tonight we are going over to the Dacuycuy family and having dinner over there. They usually have some great food so of course I'm excited. So speaking of food I have come to find out that I have eaten some pretty nasty food. It's called dinugoan, its pigs blood and pork and its baked and looks like a ball of dirt. Lucky for me I didn't understand what they were saying to my companion when I put it on my plate. All they asked me is if I liked that stuff and I said "I dunno but I'll find out". It was really good though! So after we ate and went home he told me and I was like that's nasty!!! And I couldn't believe that I had eaten that haha. So on Tuesday I'm going to talk to my mission pres. wife about my health. I have had a constant headache for about a month now. I thought it might be the heat but it was fairly cold here a little while ago and there was no change. Then I was cleaning out my ear and there was some blood coming from my right ear, not a ton but still some blood. Then Saturday my tonsils were swollen and it was pretty hard to swallow anything for a couple days. And then I saw some big red bumps on the back of my throat, and last night i had a bloody nose. So I might be going to the hospital to get a check up this week. Don't worry, I'm still going out everyday and working and I'm able to do everything a missionary does I'll let you know how it goes if I end up going. Well that's my report for this week. I hope your all doing great! Peyton is really getting so big! Dang.
I love you all!
Love, Elder Mulliner
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