Theodore Roosevelt Would Approve Of My Sleeping Habits

    Well Hola again everyone! Coming live from the state with the only native population of Venus fly traps, it's Elder McMullin! As always, feel free to send me any umbrellas or tulip bulbs, and I will happily receive them. But, without further ado, here we go!
     This week was far better for work than last. We still had an absolutely stupid amount of time in parking lots, but we found two new people and ticked the box on almost every other KI. We (obviously) didn't baptize anyone, but we got one one date, one LMP, two sacrament attendance, and the very beginning of the Currituck Squad Bomb! The wards have also been incredibly helpful (especially Currituck) as things are finally happening out there.
   Speaking if all of these on-dates and Currituck work, there is an absolute miracle going in in Carolina. Fast-backward to Newtown with Elder Mills, and he found this super elect guy they put on date. He was doing real well, until Elder Mills gets a call late at night that he's relapsed on some WoW problems and doesn't want any association with the church. Elder Mills is obviously dissapointed, but drops him anyway and moves on. A week passes. Then, this friend puts in another request to meet. He regrets what he said, and wants to keep progressing- but one problem. He's moved to CURRITUCK COUNTY NC! Elder Mills hightails the record over to me, he's back on date, and the ward is fellowshipping the living daylights out of him. He got his hand shook by the EQ president, the stake president, the branch president, and more as they're all so excited to see someone new. Let it be written with an iron pen that God is omnipotent and omnipresent- He knows everyone at everytime. My previous connection to Elder Mills got us in the door, and the Currituck members are just what he needed to get excited for church. One of our members even graduated from the same high school and grew up in the same town miles away. Ladies and gents, small and simple things are just amazing to watch as God puts the pieces together to bring someone closer to Him.
    In other news- transfers! I'll keep it brief this time around, but I'm staying in E city (of course) and Elder Griffiths is off to VB- Oceana to be specific. Elder Miller is barely shifting across the border to Nanesmond River, and Elder Walker has miraculously stayed a fourth in Albermarle. I am also receiving Elder Juncker, an elder who came out with me and promises to be an exciting ride. Little sad about losing the Stalwart of the South, but I'm sure Elder Griffiths will do great in VA.
    To explain the title line, Magic the Gathering is a big deal down in North Carolina -so much so that several odd regional traditions have been borne from it. One of these is The Bear. You see, since we're such a small district we do exchanges with each other almost every week, and the crown of each of them is the Bear Game. All of us who dare to play whip out our strongest commander decks, shuffle and deal the table, and let the blood feud begin. For those unfamiliar with it, the goal of the game is to use your own creatures, enchantments, and sorceries to defeat every other deck using THEIR best creatures, enchantments, and sorceries. Whomever dies first then has to sleep with The Bear, a massive 50 lb teddy bear that lives here in E city. I have come in second every. Single. Game. We've played in, securing me from that furry fate. But this week was to be my undoing. Through virtue of a cracked space whale being copied a whole bunch, Elder Walker eliminated me and I had to do the sleep of shame. But! Whether do to my small size or my slightly better mattress, I actually slept great and would repeat in a heartbeat. The real sucky part is that I lost using my best deck assembled by professionals, but my cobbled-together Raccoon deck desecrated both of them afterwards. Dang nab it.
    Anyways, hope yall are having an amazing week, and excited to talk to you then!

From your favorite Ursine upkeeper,

Elder McMuffin

Photos!

1: The Boards!!!!

2: Lady is nit being very ladylike at our member meal

3: They absolutely seasoned these roads for absolutely no purpose

4: Manti!

5: Facsimile #2, done off of a dare. I think it looks pretty dang Abrahamic, don't you?

6: A truly sucky schedule we has this week- but one example of many.





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