Elder Ben Mullins: Kool-Aid and Kolob

Hey Everyone!

This week was awesome! We had a lot of success, and we had a lot of fun while having success! I've been enjoying Puchong. The members are awesome, the work is moving forward, and we have a lot of stuff to do!

Monday, we went to Stephanie's with a bunch of investigators to play badminton! It was a ton of fun! I'm getting pretty good at it. I could beat pretty much any American in badminton now. When I get home, I'm going to have to bring a few of you over to Stephanie's (she's moving to SLC soon) and show you how it's done! After that, we taught Keke. She's doing great, and she came to church this Sunday, so that was great! After the lesson, we met a new girl named Rennie! She seemed solid at first, but hasn't been answering our calls for the last couple days... so we'll probably drop her.

Tuesday was good! We met with a new guy named Awi! He's Chinese Indonesian. He ate up the restoration and was super excited to read the Book of Mormon! We're meeting with him tomorrow again. We put him on date, and he's excited to learn more! After we taught him, we visited my main man ARRIZ. He's doing great. He did his hair really funny, so we laughed at it for a bit (he did it funny to be funny.) and then he made us some super good pomegranate apple juice. We stopped by sister Saffron's work and said hi too.

Wednesday, Stephanie made us a super good lunch of cheesy curry. It was a little different tasting, but it was really good! Not normal curry. Later in the day, we taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Shena. We had her draw a bunch of pictures and stuff for it. We went to the YSA (Young Single Adult) FHE (Family Home Evening) and tried getting a new investigator, but they weren't interested in learning. SO. NEXT TIME.

Thursday... We had interviews with President Simmons. He told me I'd be leaving Puchong next transfer, and asked me how I would like Singapore. I might go to Singapore, or I might go to Subang! We'll see if either of those are right in 2 weeks! After, we did our weekly planning, we rushed over to Caryn's house. We taught her the restoration. She finished her mission papers, and just has to figure out financial stuff, then she'll be able to leave! Her and her little brother really like Elder Marsh and I, so they invited us to go play badminton with them! We'll do that this week hopefully! She was inactive for a year or so, and she's finally coming back! Her little brother isn't a member, so he might be baptized too! Oh, we taught Kok Cin too. It was a good lesson, and he's got a solid testimony.

Friday was awesome. Thursday night, I took some yellow Koolaide, unscrewed the shower head, and dumped the powder in the shower head. Elder Marsh got in the shower, and nothing happened, so I decided it didn't work. He got out and didn't say a word. I turned on the tap in the bathroom, and then yelled, "The water was yellow for a second!" He came running in and said, "NO WAY! The water was yellow in the shower too! I turned it on, and then yellow water started coming out! It kinda smelled like... lemons." I almost started to laugh really hard, but held it in. He was really surprised that it was yellow. After that, we went to Livia's place and taught her! She's excited to be baptized, and she wants ME to baptize her, so that's exciting! The problem is that I'm leaving Puchong the week before her baptism. Sooooo I don't know what will happen. Elder Marsh might have to do it!

Saturday was great! We went to the church early to help set up an activity for the primary, then we did our studies after. After a lot of contacting, we went over to a member’s house, Brother Orji. He's from Nigeria, and he's WAY good at soccer. The reason he moved to Malaysia was so he could play professionally for Malaysia. He played for a while, then decided that it wasn't his thing, and he started his own business. He's awesome though. He gave us a ton of fruit juice and stuff. His wife made dinner, and it was rice with liver... Gross. But I got it down! Liver isn't too bad. After we left his house, Saffron took us out to dinner. We had some crazy stuff called Hot Pot. I ate it in Penang once, but we didn't put much crazy stuff in it. This time, I ate a BABY SQUID. The entire thing. They chopped off the head, but I ate everything else. Pretty epic. And pretty spicy too.

Sunday, we got a call in the middle of church. A Nigerian member wanted to come to church, and he brought his two brothers with him, so we had 3 Nigerians more than normal, PLUS Brother Orji brought his cousin. Chinese people are terrified of Africans. Super racist. Anyway, it was hilarious to see all of them shrinking away from the Nigerians. Honestly, they're the exact same as the Chinese, just with better English, and they're all Christian. and non-committal. Other than that, they're really fun people to talk with. After church, we called a PI (Potential Investigator), and set up an appointment 30 minutes away. His name is Joseph. He’s Chinese, maybe 28 years old, and his English is not so great. We talked about God and Jesus Christ, and then talked about prayer and Joseph Smith. We told him he could ask God if Joseph really did see Him. He was pumped. In fact, he was so pumped, that he asked us if he could join when God told him it was true. We put him on date! That was great! The rest of the night, we went contacting.

We woke up this morning, and Kok Cin asked us what Kolob was. Out of nowhere. That'll be an AWESOME lesson to teach. I've never taught anyone about Kolob yet.

This week was a ton of fun, and it flew by! Puchong is awesome! Definitely the coolest area in the mission! The transfer is wrapping, up. I opened my call April 1st last year! It's almost been a year! That's insane! Time flies! Soon I'll be hitting my year mark! Just a couple more transfers! I love you all! Have an awesome week!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins