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
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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
Monday, July 26, 2010
1/3/2010
Dear Family,
So the new years was a pretty sleepless night. We had to be in at 7:00 pm and we just sat in the house all night. Here in the Philippines it is way different than how we celebrate the New Year. People actually throw fireworks and each other and they have fireworks going off ALL night HaHa!! I guess its really not funny but now that I look back on it, it kinda was.
So around 1 am our neighbors came up and pounded on our door and yelled at us to come down and eat with them. Well I wasn't in any objection to doing that so we went down and ate and then finally came home got some rest.
We have been having a ton of dinner appointments lately and I have been eating a ton because so far I have liked all that has been served to me.(I know I am as shocked as you are).
So this morning I woke up face to face with a giant spider, bigger than the one that you saw in the pictures I sent home. Well all I can say is that he was the first thing I saw and the last thing he saw was a stream of alcohol and a flaming match coming at his face!! Yes one more pyro act on my part and yes I have to say that I did enjoy it Heehee!
So this week we may have had some great food but our work was the worst! We only had like 11 lessons, it was terrible and we got punted from so many appointments it wasn't good. Then me and my companion got in a fight, we are not getting along very well and i know that its affecting our work. I am trying my best to seek inspiration and to find things that we have in common but its pretty tough. Patience is playing a big role in my life right now and I am glad to say that today it has been good so far and I hope it continues to get better with each day.
I hope that you all have a great week, Happy Birthday to me!! Haha Just Kidding Happy Birthday to Paige and Morgan!!!!!! 20!!!!!. I love you all so much and I hope that your week is great. I will try to attach a picture of the spider that i killed. Please send pictures this week some of Christmas and the snow please:)Love Elder Mulliner
So the new years was a pretty sleepless night. We had to be in at 7:00 pm and we just sat in the house all night. Here in the Philippines it is way different than how we celebrate the New Year. People actually throw fireworks and each other and they have fireworks going off ALL night HaHa!! I guess its really not funny but now that I look back on it, it kinda was.
So around 1 am our neighbors came up and pounded on our door and yelled at us to come down and eat with them. Well I wasn't in any objection to doing that so we went down and ate and then finally came home got some rest.
We have been having a ton of dinner appointments lately and I have been eating a ton because so far I have liked all that has been served to me.(I know I am as shocked as you are).
So this morning I woke up face to face with a giant spider, bigger than the one that you saw in the pictures I sent home. Well all I can say is that he was the first thing I saw and the last thing he saw was a stream of alcohol and a flaming match coming at his face!! Yes one more pyro act on my part and yes I have to say that I did enjoy it Heehee!
So this week we may have had some great food but our work was the worst! We only had like 11 lessons, it was terrible and we got punted from so many appointments it wasn't good. Then me and my companion got in a fight, we are not getting along very well and i know that its affecting our work. I am trying my best to seek inspiration and to find things that we have in common but its pretty tough. Patience is playing a big role in my life right now and I am glad to say that today it has been good so far and I hope it continues to get better with each day.
I hope that you all have a great week, Happy Birthday to me!! Haha Just Kidding Happy Birthday to Paige and Morgan!!!!!! 20!!!!!. I love you all so much and I hope that your week is great. I will try to attach a picture of the spider that i killed. Please send pictures this week some of Christmas and the snow please:)Love Elder Mulliner
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
12/27/2009
Dear Family,
Well it was great to get to talk to all of you finally and to talk to you about my mission and what has been happening to me and what has been going on at home. I can’t believe that this year has pretty much just come and gone especially the last 5 months! I can’t put it into words what its like to be teaching the gospel, to people I don’t know, in a language that I don’t quite understand. It's simply amazing. Some lessons I worry about what I will say and if I'm even saying it right. Then there are lessons where I have no idea what I even said and my companion tells me that I don’t teach what I know about the gospel, I let the spirit do it. Well if that’s true I don’t know, but I do know now, and will never forget how important the spirit is in our lives. We have a guide, a compass, a friend, and most of all something that we are always conscious about. As a missionary it’s a lot easier to feel when the spirit is in the lesson or if its not, and if its not there is no point in teaching. That’s something that our mission president really stresses to us, is that we have the spirit. So I'm always on the look out for if I have it or not. It's very easy to lose that spirit here. There are so many distractions and things that can take away from the work, but I do my best to stay focused, and the lord makes up for the rest. So this morning I washed a ton of clothes that my finger's actually started to bleed. But soon it will turn into a caulis… I hope lol. So then we went up to our church and the ward was having a sports fest with the youth so I played some basketball, and some table tennis, and then we went and ate at a calinderia which is just a place where you go and choose a ulam for your rice( a topping like chicken) and then you go sit down and eat. I had the chicken curry which is really good! Then we came back to our area and I got a haircut, and now I'm emailing, later we are going to go teach an investigator and then contact a referral, so hopefully we will get a new investigator tonight. Speaking of new investigators there is a few Americans that live here and we ran into one that lives in our area and I started talking to him and he and his wife are from Boston. He told us to come over to his house around Christmas time so we went over last night and got talking about the Philippines and the states. His wife is a Filipino, but is from Boston, I told him that I have a friend serving there and he said that he lives about 40 miles away. I cant remember the name of the city but its close to Boston. Then we talked about his life in the military! He was a general for the Air Force and is about to retire form some school board. He comes and goes but he is planning on moving here for good. So then I asked what his religious background was and what he believed about god. He believes that our heavenly father, Jesus Christ, and the holy ghost are three separate beings and that he is a Lutheran. I shared a little bit about the first lesson and asked if we could come back. He said that would be great and that he wanted a book of Mormon for here. He mentioned that he had one in the states and that he reads it from time to time, so we will go back to him sometime and see if we can get him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, I hope that he will. I feel like he has some potential so we will see. So it wasn’t me trying to call on Christmas, it might have been our land lord who was trying to call, I don’t know what he would want to call for but who knows. So that’s my week and it was great. We had some fun this week and it was a lot better this week then last so I hope that it will get better and better. So it sounds like you all had a great Christmas and that it was fun for Peyton! What did everyone get?? I hope that your not getting to cold over there and your all being safe! I love you all!!! I can’t wait till mothers day! (When is that by the way ha ha) I love you again. Send some pics of Christmas in the next email if you could! :)
Love,
Elder Mulliner
Well it was great to get to talk to all of you finally and to talk to you about my mission and what has been happening to me and what has been going on at home. I can’t believe that this year has pretty much just come and gone especially the last 5 months! I can’t put it into words what its like to be teaching the gospel, to people I don’t know, in a language that I don’t quite understand. It's simply amazing. Some lessons I worry about what I will say and if I'm even saying it right. Then there are lessons where I have no idea what I even said and my companion tells me that I don’t teach what I know about the gospel, I let the spirit do it. Well if that’s true I don’t know, but I do know now, and will never forget how important the spirit is in our lives. We have a guide, a compass, a friend, and most of all something that we are always conscious about. As a missionary it’s a lot easier to feel when the spirit is in the lesson or if its not, and if its not there is no point in teaching. That’s something that our mission president really stresses to us, is that we have the spirit. So I'm always on the look out for if I have it or not. It's very easy to lose that spirit here. There are so many distractions and things that can take away from the work, but I do my best to stay focused, and the lord makes up for the rest. So this morning I washed a ton of clothes that my finger's actually started to bleed. But soon it will turn into a caulis… I hope lol. So then we went up to our church and the ward was having a sports fest with the youth so I played some basketball, and some table tennis, and then we went and ate at a calinderia which is just a place where you go and choose a ulam for your rice( a topping like chicken) and then you go sit down and eat. I had the chicken curry which is really good! Then we came back to our area and I got a haircut, and now I'm emailing, later we are going to go teach an investigator and then contact a referral, so hopefully we will get a new investigator tonight. Speaking of new investigators there is a few Americans that live here and we ran into one that lives in our area and I started talking to him and he and his wife are from Boston. He told us to come over to his house around Christmas time so we went over last night and got talking about the Philippines and the states. His wife is a Filipino, but is from Boston, I told him that I have a friend serving there and he said that he lives about 40 miles away. I cant remember the name of the city but its close to Boston. Then we talked about his life in the military! He was a general for the Air Force and is about to retire form some school board. He comes and goes but he is planning on moving here for good. So then I asked what his religious background was and what he believed about god. He believes that our heavenly father, Jesus Christ, and the holy ghost are three separate beings and that he is a Lutheran. I shared a little bit about the first lesson and asked if we could come back. He said that would be great and that he wanted a book of Mormon for here. He mentioned that he had one in the states and that he reads it from time to time, so we will go back to him sometime and see if we can get him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, I hope that he will. I feel like he has some potential so we will see. So it wasn’t me trying to call on Christmas, it might have been our land lord who was trying to call, I don’t know what he would want to call for but who knows. So that’s my week and it was great. We had some fun this week and it was a lot better this week then last so I hope that it will get better and better. So it sounds like you all had a great Christmas and that it was fun for Peyton! What did everyone get?? I hope that your not getting to cold over there and your all being safe! I love you all!!! I can’t wait till mothers day! (When is that by the way ha ha) I love you again. Send some pics of Christmas in the next email if you could! :)
Love,
Elder Mulliner
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