THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE!!!

Hey Everyone!

This week was GREAT! I really loved this week a lot. Tons of stuff happened, and lots of miracles happened too. Let's see if I can remember them all... Oh, and the place we're emailing from today doesn't let us upload pictures... SOOOOO no pictures this week. Sorry.

Monday night, we went over to Brother Jopius' house. He's really funny. He was flipping through pictures of all of the missionaries that had been in KK, and he would tell us about each one. He is a pretty cool guy. Both of his sons are on missions, so it's just him and his daughter at home. His wife lives over at their kampung, so I haven't gotten to meet her yet. It dumped rain the entire night, and there was a ton of traffic.

Tuesday, we met with an inactive member named Paredick, and he came to church yesterday, so that was way good! Then we met with Joel, a recent convert. He's 10 years old. He told us we have to teach his 7-year-old brother so that he can get baptized too.  We're going to teach his little brother as we teach Joel the recent convert lessons. Pretty funny. They're pretty set on having us teach all the lessons, so we'll just have to get him to follow all of Joel's lessons! 

One thing about Elder Johnson is: he bakes. He’s way good at baking.  He made these muffins that are WAYYYY GOOD.  He calls them shower muffins.  He makes them in the morning, sticks them in the oven, takes a shower, and right when he finishes showering, the muffins are cooked! So. Shower muffins. Mega good.

The AP's came over for exchanges, so they flew in at night time. It was good to get back with Elder McCusker and Allred. I'm really good friends with both of them, so it was tons of fun to catch up on everything over the last few months.

Wednesday, I got to be companions with Elder Allred all day! It was tons of fun. Elder Allred is super fun to be companions with.  He couldn't speak Malay, so I pretty much did all the talking.  It was still tons of fun! We had 1 appointment set up, but we ended up meeting with 5 people, so it was a great day! We met with Binus! It's been a long time since we got in with him.  We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and he liked it.  He had just moved, so we had a hard time finding his house, but he came out, and found us, then drove us to his house.  Later, we were walking to an inactive's house, and we saw a guy that was about 20 shoveling a dirt wall that had just collapsed.  We talked with him, and he was way cool. His name was Juan.  The J doesn't make the h sound, it makes the j sound.  He was a super nice guy. We set up an appointment for Friday.

Thursday, I fixed my tire, because it was broken from the night I rode into the pothole.  For weekly planning, we talked about really checking to see where Andrew was on his testimony of the Book of Mormon, because I felt like we really needed to hit the importance of the Book of Mormon this week. We had already been answering all of his questions with the Book of Mormon, but we had a lesson with him that night. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and then at the end, we asked him if he had been reading and praying to receive an answer.  He thought about the question for a while (like he always does), then he said, "yeah." Then there was about 10 seconds of silence while we were waiting for him to expound, but that was all he was going to say.  Then I asked if he had received an answer, and after thinking a bit, he said, "yeah.", then we had another 10 seconds of silence. Then I asked what the answer was. There was a realllllly long pause while he thought.  He started to grin, then he just had this HUGE smile on his face, and he said, "I know the Book of Mormon is true." So. Elder Johnson and I on the inside are FREAKING OUT, because we've been working with him for about a month, and he just got his answer to the Book of Mormon.  On the outside, we just smiled and said that it was super good, then asked if he knew what it meant.  He listed off that it meant the church was true, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and all that good stuff. So. We are MEGA pumped. We were super excited, and ever since then, he's read all of first and second Nephi in about a week. He wants to finish the Book of Mormon before he's baptized. CRAZY.  We're mega excited for that. I don't think I'll ever forget the smile he had on his face when he said he knew the Book of Mormon was true. After him, we met with a member referral named Martin. He’s a pretty cool guy, but he interprets the scriptures really weird. He got hung up on a scripture in Amos 8 that was in the pamphlet, and just kept saying it was talking about when Jesus came to earth and stuff.  We just kept telling him he's got to read the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it's true, so we'll see what happens there.

Friday! We met with Juan, and he brought his Muslim friend. It was pretty awkward telling his friend that he had to leave our lesson, but he ended up being ok with it! I think... BUT. FLASH BACK REALLY QUICK. We met with Binus earlier, and figured out he's a 3-minute walk away from a member's house.  We taught Binus the Word of Wisdom.  He said getting rid of drinking and smoking will be super easy, but TEA AND COFFEE, he couldn't even imagine giving those up. I could hardly believe it. It is literally harder for him to give up tea and coffee than alcohol and smoking... So that'll be interesting.  He said one way he can start giving up alcohol and smoking is by getting a new job.  He said to ask around and see if we can find a job at a hotel for him. That was the job he wanted. Ok, now fast forward again to our lesson with Juan. We taught him, got a firm church-pray-read commitment, and then he said that he wanted to show us where he worked since it was super close to the place we met.  He brought us to his work at a hotel. We asked him if there were any openings. He said they're looking for people to hire. It's a hotel and Binus wanted a job at a hotel. WHAT IN THE WORLD!!! I could hardly believe it! WE FOUND A JOB FOR BINUS LIKE AN HOUR AFTER HE ASKED US TO. So. #miracles We'll see if it works out though. Oh yeah, we met with Lodelin and Inday too. They're solid. Lodelin is loving life as a baptized member of the church, so that's awesome. Inday wants to take her time learning, so we're going to slow down the pace a bit.  She'll get baptized within the next two transfers I think.

Saturday, not a ton happened, BUT we did meet with a new guy named Virus. It's pronounced veeroos, but I always just say virus. He’s a super cool guy, but his wife is mega NOT interested.  They live across the hall from the branch president, so I think we'll be able to fellowship them into the church.  They are a super cool family, Virus is super interested. I'm excited to see where that goes!

Sunday... Let's see. We met with Andrew after church.  He had a bunch of questions on priesthood keys and why they are important (because we learned about them in priesthood), and then we taught the Word of Wisdom. Last week at church, he learned about the Word of Wisdom, so he said he had already stopped drinking coffee and tea, and he's good to go! WOOHOOO. Solid investigator. He's seriously way cool. I need to get a picture with him so I can send it to all of you! We had a few appointments reschedule from Sunday, so we pretty much tried visiting members. It was pretty good.

This week was super crazy. We met with lots of new people, and I'm really excited to see how they progress. I've been working a lot on teaching out of the Book of Mormon this transfer, and it's super exciting to see the fruits that come from it! I'm excited for this next week too! Next Monday, we get transfer news!  I'll probably stay here with Elder Johnson, so not too much news! Next Monday, I might email a little later than normal, because we have a zone activity too.  I hope all of you have an awesome week! Thanks for the emails.  I'll send a bunch of pictures next week to make up for this week!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins