McMullin, Luke

Whale hello again, everybody! Reporting live from the brackish water and random azalea trees of Norfolk, it's Elder  McMullin ! As always, feel free to contact me if yall have anything important to tell me, and I will gladly ignore your email until I have Wifi again. But, without further ado, let's get into it!    One of the highlights of the week was making some kolaches for breakfast. I had an old oil-stained recipe I finally found again from the depths of my suitcase, and decided to give it a whirl. They turned out... OK. I really enjoyed the filling, but the flour I had on hand was whole wheat for some reason, so everything tasted "healthier" than it should have. In other words, it tasted like licking a grain thresher. Luckily, that was the only bad food of the week, because we somehow managed to have a member meal every night this week. AND, for added measure, we managed to avoid our least favorite member meal (they usually serve us expired daycare food from thei...

Howdy hey, everyone! My P days are back on schedule, meaning it is now time for the weekly wildness of Elder McMullin! So, without any delay, here we go!     This Wednesday, we were able to go to the temple in Richmond for P day! It was super cute on the inside, as everything is done in colonial style (cast iron lights, blue rugs, incredible woodwork, raging malaria, etc). It is much smaller than good ol' Timp though, which was a bit of a shock. While that was fun, the 2 hour drive there and back again was not, and a burrito I had in Richmond gave me thunderous diarrhea about halfway back where we had to seek relief in a local burger King. Hey, at least I got the throne part right.       After that, I got to go on exchanges for the first time with Elder Smart. It was kind of a sucky transfer day, as we had a bunch of mandatory meetings until about 4:00 pm, so very little got done. He did try to fix his TIWI (driving manager), which was wildly entertaining a...

Hola again everyone! It's wonderful to talk to y'all again! Sorry the email is a bit later this week- they moved our Pday to Wednesday! Anyways, here's the week of Elder  McMullin !    To begin, it was the blessed day of 7/11 last Tuesday, so I was honored to receive a free slurpee! It wasn't quite as good as a Diet Coke, but hey- gotta be festive. After that, it started raining cats and dogs for the next three days. Gutters were flooding, cars were hydroplaning, houses on the sand were washing away, and everyone was soaked. Seriously though, for being a Navy base Norfolk sucks with water management.    In terms of the title, we were prossing around a Food Lion when we noticed a film crew in the parking lot. They were interviewing random people about the assassination attempt (yes I heard about it) and YOURS TRULY IS IN THE BACKGROUND. I'm basically Walter Cronkite at this point. The next day, though, a guy on a Kevlar vest with a shiny lil' badge walked up to m...

Hello hello hello again everyone! This is Elder McMullin coming in again to tell you about all the strange and horrible events of the week! So, without any delay, Here we go! On Monday, the district decided to go treasure hunting at our local goodwill to see what glorious things we could unearth. Little did I know that this goodwill had (rightfully) earnes the nickname *the bins*, as the whole store consisted of 10 blue laundry bins that you had to ruffle through, question life choices, and maybe pick up an STD before finding anything. It was completely worth it, though, as I am the proud owner of the official VeggieTales Bible. The best part? It's unedited from a regular international translation, so you can read Songs of Solomon with commentary from Bob the Tomato.  It was also the fourth of July this week (as you all hopefully know), which meant strange things down here. We spent our evening having the most American meal ever- beans and rice, listening to Pueto Rican covers of f...

Hello again everyone! This is Elder McMullin calling in again to share the wild, wacky, and downright wonderful parts of this week! So without further ado, here we go! We had zone conference this week, which was super exciting. It started out with a bunch of gym Games (think YM/YW but with a bunch of immature guys in full suits).  I am proud to say I got a ping pong ball into a cup during one of the games, meaning that my area won the tournament. Go us. Then, we got all of the speeches (some of which I was awake for) and then sang our Mission anthem, the Battle Hymn of the Republic. I know, I know, a bit weird, but a guy with a full ride to BYU for organ playing was our accompanist, so it was a blast. I truly felt like kicking a confederate in the face after it- spiritually, of course. In other news, there is a strange sect of Christianity out here that is fun to deal with- the Hebrew Israelites. Their whole doctorine hangs on the fact that Jesus is black based on one description. ...

Happy July, Sending our July Newsletter along with lots of good wishes from Virginia!