The Bros

Hey Everyone!

This week was awesome! There were tons of crazy miracles, and lots of people to meet with! General Conference was awesome, and we were super busy all week. We're going to Singapore later today, so I'm emailing early! I told you about Monday last week, but I didn't get to tell you about the rest of the week. The problem is, I've already forgotten all of that week. Luckily, it's in my journal, but that's at the house. SO. Maybe after my mission you'll be able to ask about the one week that I wasn't able to email.

Tuesday was a pretty calm day. We got on the bus to go to a place called Kepayan Ridge (we do a lot of work over there), and while we were waiting for the bus to fill up, a girl walked onto the bus, and David Chong leans over to me and says, "Isn't that the girl we talked to last Friday?" I didn't see her, so I wasn't sure if it was her or not. She was sitting right next to Elder Johnson, so I told him to ask her if we had met before, but he was too nervous. Later he said he just didn't know what I was saying, but he definitely knew what I was saying. ANYWAY. I whip out the phone, and we had her number, so I called her. She answers the phone, and says that she had just gotten back from kampung, and that we could meet in a few days.  We hung up, then she looked over to Elder Johnson, then Elder Johnson started laughing, and it was pretty awkward, but he fixed it. I think. Anyway, we left and ended up visiting a bunch of people. One of those people was Ivy, a less active that we're working with. When we got there, I felt like I should ask if her daughter (a non-member) was home, and she was, so I asked Ivy if she could go get her. Ivy kept doing the, "oh she's been taught by a lot of elders before, she's not interested" type thing, but I said to just TRY. She finally went and got her daughter and asked if she wanted to come out and say hi.  Ivy came out, and said, "Yeah, I don't know if she'll come. I just told her you asked if she wanted to come out and say hi."  I thought that was kind of a bummer that Ivy didn't try very hard, but then about 3 minutes later, her daughter came out of the house, and said hi!  I asked if she wanted to listen in on our lesson, and she said can, but then we just ended up teaching her the restoration.  It was really good! She was actually super interested, and wants to learn more! SO. HAH. People deserve second chances.  Always invite people, even if they weren't interested before, they might be interested now!

Wednesday, the AP's came over for exchanges. I went with Elder McCusker, and we had a fire day. Super awesome. We got 20 potential investigators, cast out a demon, David Chong got asked on a date, had a miracle meeting with a potential investigator, and met some people I'm really excited to meet! SO. First off. Casting out a demon. At night time, we were walking by a hospital on our way to the church, and this random guy that looked pretty Muslim started following us.  I made sure he knew I was watching him, then he asked if we were going to a church. I said we were, and he said something about he was going to follow because he needed to worship. I made sure he wasn't Muslim, then told him we don't have a worship meeting, but we could teach him if he wanted.  He said ok, and kept following. I had a super weird feeling about him, and finally I asked him if everything was ok. He said he wasn't ok, because Satan was with him. I was like, "oooooooook. We're going give you a blessing or something." but then he figured out the church was like a 30-minute walk, and said it was too far. So Elder McCusker did the whole arm to the square thing, and it was pretty epic, and I think the guy was ok after! So. Yeah. Other than that, remember that girl we called on the bus on Tuesday? Well, same thing happened, but only instead of calling her, we went up to her and asked if she had 30 minutes to learn, and she did.  We taught her, and she ate it up!  After that, she went home and shared with her family, and they all antied her. SO. We dropped her a few days later. But. Still a miracle. Oh yeah, so another super cool thing. We met this group of guys that are best friends, and there are 7 of them. They all live in the same house on top of this hill. All of them are way cool, and they're all Christian, so we could teach them!  That was awesome! We met with them later in the week. We also met this house of girls, and it was mega awkward.  A week ago, we got this new investigator named Nelly. She's 14, and super funny.  She was a referral from a member, her niece.  We walked up to this random house, because the little kids in front of the house were super funny, and it turned out, Nelly is over there hanging out with all of her friends. Nelly introduced us to 6 of her friends, all ages 14 - 17, and I'm just going to say, it was mega awkward. I don't think they had ever talked to a white person in their whole lives, especially two white 19-year-old boys that spoke Malay. Well. I spoke Malay. Elder McCusker spoke Chinese. Super awkward. AND. David had a girl from KL ask him out on a date, and he's way pumped for it. He's hilarious. I can't wait to see what happens with that.

Thursday, we met with all those bros. We call them the bros. 6 of them were there, and we gave them all Book of Mormons, as well as taught the restoration, and they really liked it. They came to their own conclusions about the apostasy and stuff that led right into the restoration, so it worked out really well. They all work the night shift, so we'll have to build their faith to get them to come to church, but I think we can do it.  Other than that, we just visited less actives the rest of the day. It was fun though!

Friday, we were booked. We met with the girl on the bus that got antied, and dropped her, met with Ivy's daughter again, and met with brother Lo. Brother Lo was telling us about how he was sick and stuff, but then when he came to the church, he was better until the next day, and that's how it always is. So that was pretty cool. He really likes the church. He was baptized about 6 months ago.

Saturday, we had General Conference. I really enjoyed all the talks. Elder Mickelson and I were trying to plan our training for Zone Conference.  We were just kind of at a dead end, and didn't know what to talk about.  After General Conference, we had a ton of ideas, and we threw it all this morning since we're giving the training tonight. Haha! One of my favorite things said in the Saturday sessions was by President Utchdorf.  He said that blessings don't come from abilities, they come from choices. I've learned that a lot on my mission. Blessings are 100% based on if we do something or not. Not on our ability to do it. As long as we do our best, we get the blessing. Pretty awesome. I also liked the comment Elder Christofferson made about how service is the very fiber of what life is in the Celestial Kingdom. That's a super interesting outlook.

Sunday, we went to church, and Andrew had said that he would be able to make it to church.  We called him in the morning, and he said he was still going to be able to make it.  When we sat down in the first session, we were just waiting for a call from him saying he made it to the church. 5 minutes in, he sends us a text saying he's got something super important and can't make it.  I told him that God is super important and should be at the top of his list, but he just said sorry, and then the entire session, I was like, "I thought Andrew was more solid than that... How could he not come to church?"  The session ended, and we walked outside, and Andrew is standing right there in the church with a huge smile on his face.  I said something along the lines of, "I thought you said you couldn't make it!" Then he told me that he was just joking and he had actually been to the entire first session. He just went to the one in Malay, and I was in the English one. What a guy. He should be getting baptized on the 28th!  His little sister came up to KK because she has a kidney problem, and he was a little concerned about it. We tried visiting her yesterday, but we didn't know the room number, and Andrew wasn't answering.  We'll visit her once we get back from Singapore!  Conference on Sunday was MEGA good. Elder Hallstrom's talk on miracles was super good, Elder Bednar's was super good, Elder Eyring's was good, Elder Callister's was wayyy good for investigators, and the rest were all super good too. Those were just some favorites. I really enjoyed the conference. I can't believe that that's my second to last conference in my mission. One more, and I'll be home. UNBELIEVABLE.

This week was just a crazy week in general. I had a ton of fun. Lots of stuff is happening in KK, and I love it here! My pictures aren't uploading, so maybe I'll find a way to fix it, because I have a ton of pictures to send this week. Two weeks-worth to be exact! But that's ok. I might have to send them next week... The internet in KK is terrible, but everything else is super cool! I really love it here! It's a ton of fun! I hope you all have an awesome!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins