KK is Slayin'

Hey Everyone!

This week flew by... It's already Monday again. We had a lot of appointments fall through this week, so that was pretty lame sauce.  We still had a lot of fun, and found a ton of people that we're really excited to meet with! So that's cool! One of the people we found that lived in the other area is going to get baptized in not much longer! So that's super great! Too bad we weren't the ones that got to teach them! That's ok though, same team!

Monday... I can't remember. P Day... Hmmm. We cleaned. OH! We went to the church and played card games. It was a lot of fun actually.   That night, we visited some people that were referrals, but none of them were super interested, so that was a bummer.  We came home, and decided to call people and tell them to invite people to church for Christmas Eve and to the Christmas party the day before, and the first person we called said that he was actually going to invite his friend to church this week! He did, but they ended up not coming.  He said he's going to pick his friend up this next week and bring him to church himself. So that was awesome. We got another member to bring a friend as well! Brother Lo was the friend! He's the dad of an inactive member. We didn't get to teach him after church, but we'll get him next week for sure!

Tuesday, we tried to change things up a bit, and go to a different part of KK and try to find some inactives. We found the houses, but they all moved. We didn't pass many people along the way all day, so that was kind of a bummer.  We did get to meet with Marianah! She's got something on her mind that she's not telling us, so I hope that we can get it out of her next time we meet. We got home at night there were no clean dishes, and the sink was overflowing.  Plates were on the counters all over. That's what happened after we cooked dinner two nights before and never cleaned up.  Then the other elders cooked two dinners and didn't clean up. SO. I spent the next forever washing dishes, but we got it clean. So that was good! Too bad my least favorite chore is everyone's least favorite.

Wednesday, we taught Andrew. We had a great lesson on the 10 commandments and keeping the Sabbath day holy. We also got an epic picture by the ocean after the lesson. He's looking pretty fierce in it. After that, we went over to Beverly Hills, and there were tons of people out and about!  We talked with tons of people, and found some really cool people! We also visited a bunch of inactive people there, and we found a person that we're excited to meet with. Her brother is inactive, but he moved somewhere else.  We gave her a Book of Mormon, and should be meeting with her soon!

Thursday, we went over to Kepayan Ridge, and visited with some less actives and their families, former investigators, and part member families! It was actually a pretty good day for how little we traveled around. We found a few people that we might end up meeting with!

Friday, we met with Lodelin and Johnny, and had some MEGA good Filipino food. It was uper good. After that, we advertised for English Class, and tons of people took a million pictures of us.  Then we taught English, visited some people, and weekly planned.   It was a pretty quick day.

Saturday, we went over to Mamak's house and invited her to church, knocked some doors, visited members, found some members that aren't even on the branch list (moved here from another branch a long time ago), and had a baptism! One of the members in the other branch referred his girlfriend a while back, and she got baptized, and it was way good. She invited her family, and roasted all of them for being anti against the church, and gave a mega good testimony.  She's way pumped to serve a mission. Her boyfriend should be leaving on his mission in May or so.  I think she'll leave next December or January! That'll be cool! They're super awesome.

OH! I ALMOST FORGOT! Saturday, Elder Johnson and I were walking, and we saw a guy.  II went over to him, and said hi, but he ignored me.    I said it again, then he realized I was saying hi to him, so he said hi back.  Then we stopped him and talked to him, and asked him his name. He said his name was Alexis.  I said, "Wow. I really like that name a lot!" Then Elder Johnson looked at me, then back to him, and said, "Yeah, he really does like that name a lot." Hahaha! Then he ended up being MEGA interested.  We met with him on the spot, figured out his name is actually Alexius, not Alexis, and we shared an EPIC Restoration lesson. We asked money questions (the Spirit lead us a ton), and he ended up telling us that he has a Muslim girlfriend, and he really wanted to marry her.  He didn't see a problem with that (he has to convert to Islam to do that), until we shared with him, then he said he didn't know if Christianity was true or if Islam was true.  He was super torn, because his parents were Christian, and raised him Christian, but he really wanted to marry this girl.  We gave him a FIRE invitation to read the Book of Mormon and ask God if it was true, and as well to come to church. He came to church on Sunday, but he didn't fully understand that we meant OUR church. So. Wrong church. Next week though! Turns out, he's here for university, and he TOTALLY lives a stone throw away from Sister Satam's house in Miri! I've totally ridden my bike past his house a billion times! I'm way excited for him though.

Sunday, Linda didn't come to church, and I was super disappointed about that.  Elder Johnson and I talked a bit, and decided we might drop her.  We called her, she answered, and we asked why she didn't come to church.  She said that our call woke her up, and she had slept through church.  SO.  I was understandably a little disappointed, and let her know that she promised God she would come when she promised us she would come.  After a lot of sorrys and us telling her she needs to tell God sorry, not us, we naturally did a little following up on the Book of Mormon reading. Guess where she is? She's had the Book of Mormon for a week. Already read well over 200 pages. CRAZY! She's BLAZING through the Book of Mormon, and just eating it up! So. We didn't drop her. We'll give her another chance. Haha!  I'm super excited for that! She said she has a million questions she wants us to answer. So that's great! After church, we visited some people that didn't come to church and followed up.  There was lots of sleeping in this week... No idea why. 3-day weekend I guess. Mohammad's birthday destroyed church attendance.

ALSO. Sunday night, I called a potential investigator to see if we could set an appointment with them. I called, and said hi and asked how she was.  Then asked when we could meet this next week. She said she didn't think we could meet this week.  I asked why, expecting all the typical excuses like, "I'm busy" or "I have to finish my assignment" or something lame like that, but then she said, "I actually got hit by a car earlier this week, so I can't really move that much right now." Soooo after a split second of shock and silence, I asked her if she was ok and all the stuff.  Apparently she had just gotten released from the hospital earlier that day. SO. Legit excuse. I’m not gonna lie, I think that was one of the first times I've actually been satisfied with an excuse of someone not meeting with us. One of the very few. Hopefully she gets better quick so we can teach and baptize her!

Anyway, this week was awesome! We met some super awesome people, and we should be meeting with lots of new people next week too! Sorry I made the mega abridged version of the week! I don't have tons of time to type this week. Maybe next week I'll have more! Thanks for everything you all do for me though! Thanks for the emails too! Have an awesome week!

Love,

Elder Ben Mullins

Me, Elder Johnson, and cute kids

Elders Johnson, Mickelsen and me with Sister Olga