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I Did Not Want To Sympathislze With Paul In This Way

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Hey hey hey everyone! Coming live from the fringe zone of southern hospitality, it's Elder McMullin! As always, feel free to send me any ban notices or free skincare products, and I would love to deal with them. Anyways, without further ado, here we go! This week has been pretty bad. There are a multitude of stories to tell, best broken up by the mildly offensive nicknames I have graciously given our newfound enemies. First up is.... Cracker Barrel: me and my comp were prossing a sketchy Lil strip mall called JANAF when a guy comes out of the vape shop we just passed. He takes one look at us and yells "Hey crackers!" Confused, we turn back around to see this guy. He then called us "saltine class" and walks away. The best part is he had the skin disease Michael Jackson had, so he was halfway white already. Bootycheeks basher: I was at a local grocery store (Harris teeter), when I met this really cool lady named Anna. I was halfway through finding her when some tw...

Give Me Back My Training Wheels, Please

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Hello hello again everyone! Coming live from the brackish meet-up of the James and Elizabeth river, it's Elder  McMullin ! As always, feel free to send me any pipe bombs or love letters in the mail, and I will get to them eventually! So, without further ado, here we go! This week has been legendary in terms of work. We have had a bunch of lessons (some with members participating) that have all gone really well. My favorite was finally teaching the Plan of Salvation! Thank you previous Elder  McMullin  for the great visual, and it was a real hit with the respective 9 and 11 year olds. In addition, something we do down here on Saturday nights are "church calls", where we blast through our area book and call anyone interested to get them to church. I was in charge of them this week, and boy oh boy was that fun. I got one guy before he got in the shower, another lady about to "whoop her child" and a classic "don't call me ever again". But, I did find 2...

Iidn't Mean To Get Cheeky With It...

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Well hello again everyone! Coming live from the sad fringes of whatever hurricane just happened, it's Elder  McMullin ! As always, feel free to send me any memes or spite-filled complaints, and I will get back to you when I'm back on church Wifi. So, without further ado, here we go! As mentioned above, it's hurricane season on the eastern seaboard! While others got thwacked by gale force winds and untold horror, we got... rain. Not even a lot of rain, like it stormed for 20 minutes and that was it. And yet, we still got 2 flood warnings, 1 flood alert, and a tornado warning for some reason. It's probably for the best though, as southerners don't like to talk in weather that is too wet, humid, hot, cold, or formed by nature.  As far as the work goes, we unfortunately had to drop a couple of people on date this week, as they are but mere ghosts in our area book who refuse to show up for anything. But, harnessing the power of the Book of Mormon and questionable area bo...

The Spirit Of God Like Our Apartment Is Burning

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Hello again everyone! Coming live from the derelict home of NATO, it's Elder  McMullin ! As always, feel free to send me any insults, compliments, or general apathy, and I will get back to you as soon as I feel like it. So, without further ado, here we go! The last week has certainly been adventurous, with actual success happening in our area! We managed to have a few good lessons, including putting someone on date, which makes the KIs happy (and I guess gives someone eternal salvation, but you know.... numbers). Some lessons were a bit less good though, as we had a long winded discussion with a dude about how Kamala Harris is our lord and savior. But, all in all we got a whopping 3 PEOPLE TO CHURCH! For those paying attention, that is more than all of last transfer combined. Oof. Nevertheless, I got to spend sacrament with someone I will call Frizzle and her 2 year old hyperactive son, meaning the most chaotic sacrament meeting of my life. She said it was good though, and she woul...

They Call Me The Cart Cowboy

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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...

Falling From Heaven Fetching Sucks

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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...

I'm On The News. And A Government List.

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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...