Hahahaha funniest thing. Elder Hunt walked passed a classroom that had a
chair in the middle of the room where the sunlight was hitting it
perfectly. Stopped dead in his tracks, that one.
Elder V: Are you available...?
Brother Shipley: Yes
Elder V: Ok... How are you?
haha so funny.
I am in love. With this bear.
Sister and I on a windy Sunday!!!
said goodbye to our elders as they left for temple walk. it was SO windy on Sunday, so we've gotsta be modest, you know.
Wow 48 orders! That's amazing!
One of my teachers just got back from Thailand and she is dying because
the food was so good! Seriously our teachers are so good and I have
loved the MTC. Love Thailand and will love my mission, but right now I
am just so happy to be here and am trying to live in the moment. Because
all of these people are my best friends! I really will miss everyone. I
have just loved the atmosphere of us all studying and working SO hard
and then learning all that we are about the gospel of jesus christ and
how it applies to everyone. Ahh, this is the best place. Seriously, I
could give my homecoming talk right now, that's how spiritually amazing
this place is. We are singing an original song tonight in choir. Wonder
who is coming! Our choir director said it's not the prophet so...
but seriously. I am not leaving the mtc until I see Elder Holland.
on
sunday after the devotional we went to go watch a devotional that was
taped from thanksgiving given by elder holland. he asked his
granddaughter who had just received her mission call to milan italy to
come up and bear her testimony in the taping. she was TOTALLY in the
room that we were watching the devotional in! She came in February 6th!
President Eyring's granddaughter is also here!!!!! I see her sometimes! I
saw Sister Lethco on Sunday! and I've seen Sister Hogge!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE it! I finally know someone! haha
Anyways,
my song went well this week. Totally cried, but that's expected. I have
been asked to be the music coordinator here in our last few weeks!
pretty cool. Sister Sahagun and I are striving to right down tender
mercies of the Lord everday in our journal. Sunday: I found a cheese
bagel! seriously. all they have on sundays is
cereal and I was blessed to have a cheese bagel! I've been drinking 64
oz of water everyday! Going to the bathroom like mad! But it's good!
Everyone makes fun of me trying to finish the whole thing during daily
planning session at the end of the day. Sometimes I don't even finish it
then. I will take it back to our residence and even after lights are
out, after my personal prayer, I will just be sitting up gulping the
last of my water! hahahaha.
Sister
and I were preparing for a lesson on revelation through church
attendance and I'm talking about something Idont know. And she's like
smiling at me and looking at me all wierd. I'm like, "What?!" She says,
"You just have like a light about you." (Ugh! I probably rolled my eyes
haha. but seriously love her SO MUCH!) Love the whole district. We've
got our own table we claim now pretty much. It's SO wonderful! Ok,
awesome time four square. Elder Hunt totally got out my khuu!
(companion)
So
once I got in, Elder Cutler served it to me and I did the scariest but
most awesome hit towards Elder Hunt. Didn't even see it coming. Ok
though mommy and daddy... Elder Hossman just left yesterday. So you HAVE
to find him and feed him! You have 2 years! He's just so awesome!
OH
MY GOODNESS! Last week, Sister Madsen TOTALLY swung her LUFA at me!!!!
It's so funny. she just tries to make me upset. its all good though.
Quote of the day: Elder Hunt- "Sometimes I like to wear my yellow shirt and my bright orange hoodie and I look like sunshine!"
Yesterday in class,
we were going to practice teaching with our companion. We watch videos
about people in the world and then pick a topic in chapter 3 and then
teach it to meet their needs. Yesterday it was repentance. Sister Roper
wanted us to do demonstrate teaching first, so she asked me to. Just me,
teaching her and all the other missionaries and the investigator. And
the person we watched the video about was the same one that we watched a
few weeks ago with Brother Shipley. I don't know if I told you about
it, but Sister and I taught him about the gospel of Christ and I froze
up. That was my wall. And it literally was the first time in my whole
MTC stay that I cried myself to sleep. So you can imagine when Sister
Roper asked me to do demonstrate teaching. usually the teachers do it!
But
I felt so calm and ready. I felt the comfort of the spirit, Seriously.
There's NO way I could have done it on my own. And that's why I LOVE
being a missionary. We are entitled to these blessings. We have a
beautiful mantle that people can learn from. But it's all through
Heavenly Father. I have been focused on and been pondering about the
love God has for us. And just having faith in his timing. We as
missionaries don't have to fear. We are called by revelation to the
places we are going.
We
have had so many speakers who work with the quorum of the 12 when they
assign missionaries to their locations and the testify of the revelation
that takes place. There was a story of an Elder who had been called to
Croatia. But by the time he left the MTC he could barely say, My name
is... And then after 6 or so months in the field he still could barely
say his testimony. they reassigned him to the states. One day they
knocked on the door of a man's house who could not speak any English.
The language he was speaking was familiar to the Elder and he realized
it was Croatian. Long story short, the man was baptized.
Missionaries
are only 2nd to the prophet, in being prayed for. We are the 2nd most
prayed for people in the whole church! All we need to do is exercise our
faith. And ALL of this is because He LOVES us! Missionary work is the
most amazing thing we can do to show our love for Heavenly Father. Being
engaged in the saving of a human soul is the most important thing in
the universe and God is trusting me with that work. We are destined to
win.
Everything God does is devoted to the saving of His children.
All
of that love, and I can put away 18 months. 100% focus on the work.
Submit our will to God's and he will mold us to be what he wants us to
become.
Everything I am doing right now, and for the rest of my life, will be for the Son of God.
Love, Sister Mullen
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