Hey hey hey!
well this week didn't go by as fast as last week but it did go by ha ha. Well to answer your big question I didn't get transferred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was very excited about that!!! We still have one baptism lined up for the 22 and the other one we had fell through because the girl needed to get married before we can baptize her (because she and her boyfriend are going to have a baby). So we have to wait until next year sometime for them to get married. I did get you package and Grandma Anderson's letter and a letter from Grandma Mulliner too, its good to get actual mail and the package was perfect! mmmmmmm! It had all the food I miss and will miss for two years haha. I ate the mac and cheese, the nibs, and most of the nuts I just couldn't help myself. The M&M's, I am trying to have some self control on because those are really really expensive here and if I eat them all in one day I don't know what I'm going to do for the rest of my life (or mission).
So the language I am learning little by little everyday, its really frustrating and I feel like punching Tagalog in the face sometimes but I cant because its not tangible so I cant..... It will just takes time (that is what I hear all the time). Some good news is that the zone leaders moved out of our house! We cleaned it a little this morning but had to stop because some random people came in and started painting... it was weird. Its so nice with just me and Elder Hanks in our house. Its got 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms so its pretty big, plus its the 2nd nicest place in the mission and its even better when its clean haha. The bugs don't really come in very much we have a few lizards and a ton of dang ants but there is nothing we can really do about that. We found a store that has American imports in it and they had this stuff called goober. Its jam and peanut butter mixed in strips and of course I bought some. Then they had real butter so we got some for the mac and cheese and they had salsa!!! But no chips, so we didn't get any!(dang) We did get some really good pork and had spaghetti yesterday and lots of coke! I love coke!!
We had to fire the clothes washing lady because I guess we just cant have one, but we have a laundry mat here so we take our clothes (except our garments) and the people there put our clothes in the washer and dryer. The better news is that its cheaper for the washer to do it then the lady so that's good. Oh yeah- I forgot to mention this last week but I guess they don't have boxes or those bubble packages here. So before I can send a CD home with my pictures on it I need a bubble thing. I am sorry its going to be a while before you guys get some pictures, sorry! I heard that Peyton is growing up pretty fast, will you email me some pictures of all of you guys so I can see how you've grown haha.
Well I gotta get going I love you all so much! I miss you tons!
Love Elder Mulliner
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
11/01/2009
Family!
well this week has gone by so so fast its weird that's its November already and its snowing! My companions family emailed some pics of the snow and I'm going to miss that sight (but not really). So we had our baptism on Saturday it went great. There wasn't a lot of people there but that's normal (I guess) here in the Philippines. We have transfers coming up and I hope I don't get transferred!!!! I really like this area and our ward is pretty sweet. Last week we had almost 200 people in our ward show up! It was nuts and everyone came up to us and was thanking us for our great work and for being really diligent. We really didn't do all of it - there are so many inactive members here its really bad. So we went and visited a few of the families and invited them to come to church but we didn't see any of them. Oh well, we will just have to keep trying to get them to come back I guess. Well lets see, the week went by so fast i cant think of anything to say haha. Yesterday went buy really slow and they don't celebrate Halloween at all here (so no trick or treating). November 1st is called all Saints Day and then today is called the Day of the Dead or something like that. All saints day is pretty much a big day for people to go and pay their respects to the dead family members or something of the sorts. We didn't get to teach anyone after church got out, really no one wanted us to come around. Not even the members because of this holiday so we walked around for a while trying to get in a lesson and we couldn't. Then my companions stomach started hurting so we went home about 7 and played monopoly for a while then went to bed. So here is some good news- the zone leaders are moving out this next week and we will be able to have the apartment to ourselves. It will be able to be clean for longer then a day! They are really messy and lazy so we clean up after them a lot (kinda exactly like a mom) haha. We made some no bake cookies this week and boy were they good!!!! They don't taste like the ones back at home because everything is different here but they were still good!!! So it sounds like you guys had a great Halloween with Dad scaring people and Peyton having fun on the Halloween train and trick or treating. This year has gone by so fast and so has my mission! Man its weird! I hope I get your package on Thursday, that would be one good thing about getting transferred. Plus there are three McDonald's here so if I get transferred to a city with one of those bad boys I would be in heaven haha! I got elder hemenways email last week, it seems like he is doing great! I need to get his email somehow could you help me out on that one? That would be great! Well its been great to read all of your emails and see what your all up to. I gotta get going and I miss you all and love you all!
Love Elder Mulliner (Elder Mullyonier) haha that's how the Filipinos say my name its kinda like millionaire
well this week has gone by so so fast its weird that's its November already and its snowing! My companions family emailed some pics of the snow and I'm going to miss that sight (but not really). So we had our baptism on Saturday it went great. There wasn't a lot of people there but that's normal (I guess) here in the Philippines. We have transfers coming up and I hope I don't get transferred!!!! I really like this area and our ward is pretty sweet. Last week we had almost 200 people in our ward show up! It was nuts and everyone came up to us and was thanking us for our great work and for being really diligent. We really didn't do all of it - there are so many inactive members here its really bad. So we went and visited a few of the families and invited them to come to church but we didn't see any of them. Oh well, we will just have to keep trying to get them to come back I guess. Well lets see, the week went by so fast i cant think of anything to say haha. Yesterday went buy really slow and they don't celebrate Halloween at all here (so no trick or treating). November 1st is called all Saints Day and then today is called the Day of the Dead or something like that. All saints day is pretty much a big day for people to go and pay their respects to the dead family members or something of the sorts. We didn't get to teach anyone after church got out, really no one wanted us to come around. Not even the members because of this holiday so we walked around for a while trying to get in a lesson and we couldn't. Then my companions stomach started hurting so we went home about 7 and played monopoly for a while then went to bed. So here is some good news- the zone leaders are moving out this next week and we will be able to have the apartment to ourselves. It will be able to be clean for longer then a day! They are really messy and lazy so we clean up after them a lot (kinda exactly like a mom) haha. We made some no bake cookies this week and boy were they good!!!! They don't taste like the ones back at home because everything is different here but they were still good!!! So it sounds like you guys had a great Halloween with Dad scaring people and Peyton having fun on the Halloween train and trick or treating. This year has gone by so fast and so has my mission! Man its weird! I hope I get your package on Thursday, that would be one good thing about getting transferred. Plus there are three McDonald's here so if I get transferred to a city with one of those bad boys I would be in heaven haha! I got elder hemenways email last week, it seems like he is doing great! I need to get his email somehow could you help me out on that one? That would be great! Well its been great to read all of your emails and see what your all up to. I gotta get going and I miss you all and love you all!
Love Elder Mulliner (Elder Mullyonier) haha that's how the Filipinos say my name its kinda like millionaire
10/25/2009
Dear family!
So this week was a lot more calm than last week, no one almost got shot, I was cured from stomach problems, our teaching was great and we cleaned the apartment really really well! The apartment is all white tile so its really hard to keep clean and I have to say that I am glad that I have a mom who loves me and made me clean a few times because our house is nasty!! I cleaned the bathroom and stuff so now the once brown tiles are now white like they should be. Me and my companion are really the only ones who clean, the other companionship is moving out on Saturday so we will have the whole place to ourselves for a little while and that will be nice. Our transfers are coming up so I may not have to much longer here, which is really sad because this area is really nice(even with a nasty apartment). Plus we are going to be having a few more baptisms coming up so I hope that I don’t get transferred.
One of the elders support money got stolen last week at their baptism. I gave him 1,000 pisos that I had from my support so he could have food for a little while longer. So if I run out of support I will have to draw from my personal account, just a heads up. Lets see we have a baptism on the 31st of October - yep Halloween! It should be a good baptism and I hope it goes well. We received a referral last week from one of the members in the ward. So on Sunday we went on splits along with one of the members that likes to come work with us and went over to her house. We taught her a little bit about the gospel and we left her a little pamphlet to read. She said that she had to ask her husband if it was okay that we teach her and she did ask him and now we are able to teach her. She seems really receptive to our emails and she gives good answers to the questions that we ask her. We even got her to come to church and I was shocked when she actually showed up, but very happy to see her! We will be going over to her house on Tuesday so we’ll see how she liked attending church. We also gave another one of our investigators a baptismal date on Sunday as well but it isn’t until late November because he can only be taught on Sundays after church. He is in the army and that keeps him busy during the week. He has come to church every week for like 2 months which is really good! It's raining outside right now… big surprise haha -its always raining! Yes I do have an umbrella so I stay somewhat dry. I found out that I'm staying in the same room that Blair Frei (Sherees nieces boyfriend) did. His name is written on a couple of things in our room. It's cool to know someone that I know was here before I was so tell Sheree that and she can tell him that(got that). So lets see, I'm starting to eat a lot of the fruit here, its so much better then in America and most of it doesn’t make my throat swell up, so that’s good news. There are these little bananas that are really good but the only problem is that I can eat like a billion of them in one day. The food here is really good and everything is just chicken and rice. Whenever we are hungry my companion always says; “well, I'm sick of chicken, what can we eat?”. Its pretty funny, because well…. there is only chicken and fish but we don’t buy any because it will stink up the house. One day we found pancakes in a store and well to be honest I'm obsessed with pancakes right now!!! So there is a little bit of useless info about me but something that I thought I would share with all of you. haha! I cant believe that 3 months have already gone buy its very crazy and its going by so fast! Oh yeah I heard that Kenny and Jerah are engaged! So congrats to them!!!! That’s awesome! Well I cant think of anything else to say so I'm off to the palangke to buy some food once again.
I love you all so much! Love elder Mulliner
So this week was a lot more calm than last week, no one almost got shot, I was cured from stomach problems, our teaching was great and we cleaned the apartment really really well! The apartment is all white tile so its really hard to keep clean and I have to say that I am glad that I have a mom who loves me and made me clean a few times because our house is nasty!! I cleaned the bathroom and stuff so now the once brown tiles are now white like they should be. Me and my companion are really the only ones who clean, the other companionship is moving out on Saturday so we will have the whole place to ourselves for a little while and that will be nice. Our transfers are coming up so I may not have to much longer here, which is really sad because this area is really nice(even with a nasty apartment). Plus we are going to be having a few more baptisms coming up so I hope that I don’t get transferred.
One of the elders support money got stolen last week at their baptism. I gave him 1,000 pisos that I had from my support so he could have food for a little while longer. So if I run out of support I will have to draw from my personal account, just a heads up. Lets see we have a baptism on the 31st of October - yep Halloween! It should be a good baptism and I hope it goes well. We received a referral last week from one of the members in the ward. So on Sunday we went on splits along with one of the members that likes to come work with us and went over to her house. We taught her a little bit about the gospel and we left her a little pamphlet to read. She said that she had to ask her husband if it was okay that we teach her and she did ask him and now we are able to teach her. She seems really receptive to our emails and she gives good answers to the questions that we ask her. We even got her to come to church and I was shocked when she actually showed up, but very happy to see her! We will be going over to her house on Tuesday so we’ll see how she liked attending church. We also gave another one of our investigators a baptismal date on Sunday as well but it isn’t until late November because he can only be taught on Sundays after church. He is in the army and that keeps him busy during the week. He has come to church every week for like 2 months which is really good! It's raining outside right now… big surprise haha -its always raining! Yes I do have an umbrella so I stay somewhat dry. I found out that I'm staying in the same room that Blair Frei (Sherees nieces boyfriend) did. His name is written on a couple of things in our room. It's cool to know someone that I know was here before I was so tell Sheree that and she can tell him that(got that). So lets see, I'm starting to eat a lot of the fruit here, its so much better then in America and most of it doesn’t make my throat swell up, so that’s good news. There are these little bananas that are really good but the only problem is that I can eat like a billion of them in one day. The food here is really good and everything is just chicken and rice. Whenever we are hungry my companion always says; “well, I'm sick of chicken, what can we eat?”. Its pretty funny, because well…. there is only chicken and fish but we don’t buy any because it will stink up the house. One day we found pancakes in a store and well to be honest I'm obsessed with pancakes right now!!! So there is a little bit of useless info about me but something that I thought I would share with all of you. haha! I cant believe that 3 months have already gone buy its very crazy and its going by so fast! Oh yeah I heard that Kenny and Jerah are engaged! So congrats to them!!!! That’s awesome! Well I cant think of anything else to say so I'm off to the palangke to buy some food once again.
I love you all so much! Love elder Mulliner
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
10/18/2009
Hello family!
So this week went by so fast! It started out with a rain storm and I now understand the meaning of “when it rains it pours”! It just dumps here it's so ridiculous haha. We play basketball with whoever is there and I don’t ask who is a member and who is not, but I think everyone is. We didn’t go play golf today because they don’t carry lefty clubs so we didn't want to go and play with short right handed clubs.
Our baptism went great it was so awesome and I was so excited for the sisters that getting baptized. On Halloween day we have set a date to baptize a kid named jay-ar. We told him that it was on Halloween and he just looked at us so puzzled so I don’t think they celebrate that holiday here. So I guess no trick or treating for me! So I got a pretty bad stomach problem this past week (it was awful). We think that I drank some bad water from the members and I got sick from it. So for about 3 days I was living in the bathroom and I won't get to graphic but I think you know what I mean. I was given some pills to take that the presidents wife gave me and she said to take them for my stomach pain and after a few days it went away and all is well. As far as Christmas goes I really have no idea what you could send me right now. There is really nothing that you could send me that I need that I couldn’t buy here. The only difference is that here everything is fake and cheap and depending on what it is, it’s a whole lot cheaper here. Well except for American candy that’s really only thing you could send me. There is some candy here that I could buy for you all here and send it home to you and that could be my gift to you all for Christmas. I don’t know if you guys would care if I did that or what.
So I hear Jeremy is starting his own business or something? That’s so sick! What’s the name of it? Give me some details about that It would be great to hear how things like that are going. How are the snap on decals going? Are they sticking on any better? Send some pictures of what it looks like when you get it all done.
Lets see what can I tell you? My companions name is Nathan Hanks. We get along so that’s good! Its so sad to hear that Alex Lew has cancer! I about died when I read that! Tell them that they are in my prayers. Man that’s not a good deal, I hope that the doctors can get rid of it and let me know how Chris is doing? I hope he is well. I got a letter from Aunt Tracy and Uncle Brad. They wrote me and told me a little about Christian and what he is doing in boot camp. They said that he cant write letters yet but he can get their letters and that’s good that there is at least some communication. I would die if I couldn’t hear from anyone or write anyone! That would make me go nuts.
So Morgan thinks she is a big shot because she is graduating in a little bit huh?? Haha jk morg! That’s so cool! I hope that you can get a job somewhere! I think that Paige would be a great school teacher if she is interested in that. I think that a school teacher would fit her. Keep me updated on the school stuff Paige! And also get out of my room lol! Fatty! How’s Peyton and her school? How’s teaching going? What’s everyone been up to?
So there was a pretty bad accident this week down the street from our house it was a tricycle and a truck. The tricycle was pretty thrashed! It got thrown into a shop and the gates that they put around the shops so that no one breaks the windows. It was bent away and the glass was all busted and shattered - not good! Then on another day we were driving in a jeep and there was a guy riding a motorcycle that was behind us and like all drivers, the jeep signaled for a turn and began to turn right. Well the guy on the motorcycle decided that he was going to pass us but we were already turning right. So he slams on his back brake and his tire start to fish tail all over the place and he almost went face first into the road- but he didn’t. So he comes to a stop and gets off and our driver stops, he comes over and start yelling at the driver and they have a conversation about who did and who didn’t signal. Well the dude got even more mad and says “gusto mo patay kita” which means you want me to kill you! In the mean time Elder Hanks was thinking what does this guy have a gun? Well guess what happens next? The dude pulls out a gun and points it at the jeep driver and his wife and child who were in the front seats next to him. Then he realized that there was a jeep full of people and was right next to the capital building. So he calmed down and we drove off without anyone getting shot. So that’s what happened this week and as you can see it's been a pretty crazy week! Well that’s pretty much all that happened but there is a typhoon down in Manila and today or sometime soon we thought is was going to be up here but it didn’t hit. I hope it doesn't come up here at all because its suppose to be stronger than the last one that came through. All is well as of today so that’s good.
Well I hope that your all doing well and that you have a great week! Thanks for all the love and support! I love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
So this week went by so fast! It started out with a rain storm and I now understand the meaning of “when it rains it pours”! It just dumps here it's so ridiculous haha. We play basketball with whoever is there and I don’t ask who is a member and who is not, but I think everyone is. We didn’t go play golf today because they don’t carry lefty clubs so we didn't want to go and play with short right handed clubs.
Our baptism went great it was so awesome and I was so excited for the sisters that getting baptized. On Halloween day we have set a date to baptize a kid named jay-ar. We told him that it was on Halloween and he just looked at us so puzzled so I don’t think they celebrate that holiday here. So I guess no trick or treating for me! So I got a pretty bad stomach problem this past week (it was awful). We think that I drank some bad water from the members and I got sick from it. So for about 3 days I was living in the bathroom and I won't get to graphic but I think you know what I mean. I was given some pills to take that the presidents wife gave me and she said to take them for my stomach pain and after a few days it went away and all is well. As far as Christmas goes I really have no idea what you could send me right now. There is really nothing that you could send me that I need that I couldn’t buy here. The only difference is that here everything is fake and cheap and depending on what it is, it’s a whole lot cheaper here. Well except for American candy that’s really only thing you could send me. There is some candy here that I could buy for you all here and send it home to you and that could be my gift to you all for Christmas. I don’t know if you guys would care if I did that or what.
So I hear Jeremy is starting his own business or something? That’s so sick! What’s the name of it? Give me some details about that It would be great to hear how things like that are going. How are the snap on decals going? Are they sticking on any better? Send some pictures of what it looks like when you get it all done.
Lets see what can I tell you? My companions name is Nathan Hanks. We get along so that’s good! Its so sad to hear that Alex Lew has cancer! I about died when I read that! Tell them that they are in my prayers. Man that’s not a good deal, I hope that the doctors can get rid of it and let me know how Chris is doing? I hope he is well. I got a letter from Aunt Tracy and Uncle Brad. They wrote me and told me a little about Christian and what he is doing in boot camp. They said that he cant write letters yet but he can get their letters and that’s good that there is at least some communication. I would die if I couldn’t hear from anyone or write anyone! That would make me go nuts.
So Morgan thinks she is a big shot because she is graduating in a little bit huh?? Haha jk morg! That’s so cool! I hope that you can get a job somewhere! I think that Paige would be a great school teacher if she is interested in that. I think that a school teacher would fit her. Keep me updated on the school stuff Paige! And also get out of my room lol! Fatty! How’s Peyton and her school? How’s teaching going? What’s everyone been up to?
So there was a pretty bad accident this week down the street from our house it was a tricycle and a truck. The tricycle was pretty thrashed! It got thrown into a shop and the gates that they put around the shops so that no one breaks the windows. It was bent away and the glass was all busted and shattered - not good! Then on another day we were driving in a jeep and there was a guy riding a motorcycle that was behind us and like all drivers, the jeep signaled for a turn and began to turn right. Well the guy on the motorcycle decided that he was going to pass us but we were already turning right. So he slams on his back brake and his tire start to fish tail all over the place and he almost went face first into the road- but he didn’t. So he comes to a stop and gets off and our driver stops, he comes over and start yelling at the driver and they have a conversation about who did and who didn’t signal. Well the dude got even more mad and says “gusto mo patay kita” which means you want me to kill you! In the mean time Elder Hanks was thinking what does this guy have a gun? Well guess what happens next? The dude pulls out a gun and points it at the jeep driver and his wife and child who were in the front seats next to him. Then he realized that there was a jeep full of people and was right next to the capital building. So he calmed down and we drove off without anyone getting shot. So that’s what happened this week and as you can see it's been a pretty crazy week! Well that’s pretty much all that happened but there is a typhoon down in Manila and today or sometime soon we thought is was going to be up here but it didn’t hit. I hope it doesn't come up here at all because its suppose to be stronger than the last one that came through. All is well as of today so that’s good.
Well I hope that your all doing well and that you have a great week! Thanks for all the love and support! I love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Mulliner
10/11/2009
Dear Mama/family and friends!
Hello everyone! This week has been great! This letter is going to be really random because I'm going through your emails and answering all the questions. Well the typhoon came back and brought so much more rain, but less wind, we sat inside all day and didn’t do much. The pants I bought aren’t ugly but well... they aren’t American. I'll just put it that way but they are nice, my companion is from Murray Utah. We went to the golf course today but didn’t play because they didn’t have any left handed clubs, but, next Sunday when we teach this investigator who is in the army, we are going to ask him if he wants to go because he can get us in for free and it would be worth the rent of right handed clubs. The course is just a short walk from our house, its really weird to see this nice cut grass and a putting green over all the ugly grass and the trash that’s everywhere. We did some service last week at the church we cleaned up all the leaves that were EVERYWHERE! You would die at the sight of all the leaves that come off all the trees its crazy! Yes we do get up at 5:30 to go play basketball (paglaro tayo ng Basketball) but its really not that early for us, it gets light really, really early and get dark at like 6:00 its very annoying, everyone is up and running by 6 so its usually really loud so I just lay there wishing I could go to sleep. My companion usually does the cooking and we both wash the dishes ( I know its shocking)! He was complaining about not having a dish washer and I just started laughing it was so funny. We hired someone to come do our laundry. She is a member and we pay her with our own personal money and not the “sacred funds”. It's really nice because its kind of hard to wash clothes with a scrubbing bar and a bucket of water but I don’t really mind it, its just time consuming. So those pics that Kens sent are so sweet! That’s so cool that Jeremy got to do that! I have been taking some pictures too but I don’t have enough to make it worth it to send home a CD yet, but I will in a little while. Transfer day is on November 5th so if your going to send me something get it out about 3 weeks prior to that date and I'll be able to get it then. I'm trying to think on what you could send, candy and beef jerky and some Mac and cheese! They have American candy here but its so expensive! Oh yeah maybe a fun card game too (not phase ten though lol) the teaching is going well our investigators seem really receptive and the two people we are baptizing on Saturday (17th) have really strong testimonies. The older one of the two is a mom of 3 two girls that live in Manila and her boy is 7 his name is Justin and he gets so excited when we come over to teach! He grabs our hands and pulls us in as fast a he can! It's so funny. The other one is a younger girl (15) and she is an awesome investigator! I'm so excited for them! Saturday and Sunday are going to be such great days. Now the language…. Well I learn words here and there, the sentence structure is just to weird to me, I'm not really going anywhere with it but I just have to keep trying. Its really about half and half in the English to Tagalog in the city tons of people talk English but its so terrible I would rather just have them speak Tagalog and not understand what they are saying and nod my head then not understand their English haha and yes we really don’t tract for a couple of reasons, the people find it offensive if we are going door to door. And during the day its really hard to get to someone just randomly walking up so we set up appointments to return and they are usually there. We got a ton of referrals from the members last night because we went on splits with a couple of the ward members because we had so many appointments to fill so we got a ton of referrals. It's hard to work here a little because the last missionaries were really disobedient and stopped teaching some of the progressing investigators so some of them are mad at us but we are fixing it. Usually we decide beforehand who teaches what and stuff so I have a little time to figure out what I'm going to say. So yesterday was conference it was in English and it was great! It went by so fast! A couple of our investigators came and said they liked it so that’s good. I had a hard time going to priesthood session without dad, it made me really sad! I miss the little big things like that. The meetings are split up into two days like they are there...Saturday and Sunday. So I think I answered all your questions you had a lot haha. So when I was reading about Thomas, it made me really sad the he had died, its really weird when someone passes away that you were friends with but thanks for sending me that! Well I hope your guys week goes by great! I hope it doesn’t get to cold their I wish you could send me some of that cold here, that would be nice! :) I miss you all and I love you all!!!! Go hit up the slopes for me at least once this year!:) Tell all my friends I say hi! Have them drop me an email or something sometime.
Love,
Elder Mulliner
Hello everyone! This week has been great! This letter is going to be really random because I'm going through your emails and answering all the questions. Well the typhoon came back and brought so much more rain, but less wind, we sat inside all day and didn’t do much. The pants I bought aren’t ugly but well... they aren’t American. I'll just put it that way but they are nice, my companion is from Murray Utah. We went to the golf course today but didn’t play because they didn’t have any left handed clubs, but, next Sunday when we teach this investigator who is in the army, we are going to ask him if he wants to go because he can get us in for free and it would be worth the rent of right handed clubs. The course is just a short walk from our house, its really weird to see this nice cut grass and a putting green over all the ugly grass and the trash that’s everywhere. We did some service last week at the church we cleaned up all the leaves that were EVERYWHERE! You would die at the sight of all the leaves that come off all the trees its crazy! Yes we do get up at 5:30 to go play basketball (paglaro tayo ng Basketball) but its really not that early for us, it gets light really, really early and get dark at like 6:00 its very annoying, everyone is up and running by 6 so its usually really loud so I just lay there wishing I could go to sleep. My companion usually does the cooking and we both wash the dishes ( I know its shocking)! He was complaining about not having a dish washer and I just started laughing it was so funny. We hired someone to come do our laundry. She is a member and we pay her with our own personal money and not the “sacred funds”. It's really nice because its kind of hard to wash clothes with a scrubbing bar and a bucket of water but I don’t really mind it, its just time consuming. So those pics that Kens sent are so sweet! That’s so cool that Jeremy got to do that! I have been taking some pictures too but I don’t have enough to make it worth it to send home a CD yet, but I will in a little while. Transfer day is on November 5th so if your going to send me something get it out about 3 weeks prior to that date and I'll be able to get it then. I'm trying to think on what you could send, candy and beef jerky and some Mac and cheese! They have American candy here but its so expensive! Oh yeah maybe a fun card game too (not phase ten though lol) the teaching is going well our investigators seem really receptive and the two people we are baptizing on Saturday (17th) have really strong testimonies. The older one of the two is a mom of 3 two girls that live in Manila and her boy is 7 his name is Justin and he gets so excited when we come over to teach! He grabs our hands and pulls us in as fast a he can! It's so funny. The other one is a younger girl (15) and she is an awesome investigator! I'm so excited for them! Saturday and Sunday are going to be such great days. Now the language…. Well I learn words here and there, the sentence structure is just to weird to me, I'm not really going anywhere with it but I just have to keep trying. Its really about half and half in the English to Tagalog in the city tons of people talk English but its so terrible I would rather just have them speak Tagalog and not understand what they are saying and nod my head then not understand their English haha and yes we really don’t tract for a couple of reasons, the people find it offensive if we are going door to door. And during the day its really hard to get to someone just randomly walking up so we set up appointments to return and they are usually there. We got a ton of referrals from the members last night because we went on splits with a couple of the ward members because we had so many appointments to fill so we got a ton of referrals. It's hard to work here a little because the last missionaries were really disobedient and stopped teaching some of the progressing investigators so some of them are mad at us but we are fixing it. Usually we decide beforehand who teaches what and stuff so I have a little time to figure out what I'm going to say. So yesterday was conference it was in English and it was great! It went by so fast! A couple of our investigators came and said they liked it so that’s good. I had a hard time going to priesthood session without dad, it made me really sad! I miss the little big things like that. The meetings are split up into two days like they are there...Saturday and Sunday. So I think I answered all your questions you had a lot haha. So when I was reading about Thomas, it made me really sad the he had died, its really weird when someone passes away that you were friends with but thanks for sending me that! Well I hope your guys week goes by great! I hope it doesn’t get to cold their I wish you could send me some of that cold here, that would be nice! :) I miss you all and I love you all!!!! Go hit up the slopes for me at least once this year!:) Tell all my friends I say hi! Have them drop me an email or something sometime.
Love,
Elder Mulliner
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