I Did Not Know Drunkards Were So MOBILE!

Well hello again everybody! Coming live from where country music and bad rap can be heard in the same store, it's Elder McMullin! As always, if there is anything funny you have to share or a depressing tale about world hunger, feel free to send them to me and I will happily read them. Now, without further ado, here's my week!

I gotta spoil it- we finally had a baptism! It was for a 9-year-old girl named Noemi, who lived in a part-member household. She has been super attentive to our lessons, and seeing her baptized was super cool. My comp did the confirmation, which was sweet, and it was just a great experience all around. It's actually shocking how well it came out, seeing as we forgot the font keys and didn't plan for a jumpsuit. But, let it be written and let it be known that the Lord provides for his people in their time of need, specifically having a random tote full of suits in the corner of the church.

We also had some fun last P-day by finally getting on the USS Wisconsin, our local weapon of mass destruction, and going for a tour inside of it. It was humorous how many changes the poor girl has gone through, as we walked past mounted railing guns from Desert Storm, nuclear launch terminals from Korea, and the Computer Room that could get absolutely obliterated by a Walmart calculator. Inside the hodgepodge was a bunch of fun details, and I want to meet the prop guys who set up games of battleship and hid a "get out of jail free" card in the brig.

Now, for the title line. We were cruising around the Downtown Norfolk shoreline when we ran into a homeless guy. We didn't disturb him at all, but with whiskey-laden breath he towered over me (not hard to do) and breathed out "You Jesus People". This soon escalated into a verbal catfight between my comp and Mr. Stoned. Eventually we just started walking away, at which point he stuttered out a "You can walk? I'll walk with ya- JESUS PEOPLE!" He then starts following us at a worrying distance, so we duck into a country music concert going on to avoid him. For being drunk as a skunk he was surprisingly mobile, and he came out the other side still giving chase. So, we broke into a dead run and floored the man, covering about a quarter of a mile in about 2 minutes- in full pros with 70% humidity. It was at this moment that Elder Rinquest realized hw dropped his nice pen, so we had to divert back and pick it up. There, we met a security guard (not my favorite demographic right now) who told us Mr. Stoned had been picked up by the police.

Anyways, hope yall have less homeless men gunning you down than I did, and I wish you all the best!

Love your favorite "catch me if you can" impersonator,

Elder McMullin.

Photos!

1: Wet n wild on Saturday afternoon!

2: I'm sorry, WHATS a new adventure?!

3: Haven't seen one of these bad boys in a minute

4: So kronk is canonically a child of Nephi

5: the temptation is so strong, but so are the consequences

6: Saratoga Springs temple!

7: you did not, in fact, sink my battleship.






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