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| Elders Muller, J, A, and M at Zone Conference |
What
is good, friends and family? Or, should I just say family? ‘Cause you know, we
are all children of God. I'm going to channel my inner Chris for this email
because his are the only group emails I actually read ‘cause they are so entertaining
(no offense to any other missionaries who may read this).
SOOOOOOOOOOOO! This
week. What happened, you ask? Well, "Let's get down to business" and
talk about the bomb week we had here in Paphos and Limassol. On Monday, we
watched Μούλαν (ΠΟΥ ΕΙΣΑΙ ΜΟΥΛΑΝ!) and some other movies; it was an okay
preparation day.
Tuesday, we were all ready for a bomb district meeting,
but it got canceled a few hours before because our district leader was sick.
ΛΕΙΠΟΝ, and so, we went down to a far part of our area to try and contact a
semi-active family and explore our area a little bit more. We helped a guy with
his fire wood and got some good photos. Then, we had movie
night with our branch and our friends. Well, not many people showed up, but it
was still good. We watched The Testaments
and had snacks after.
Wednesday, we had
district meeting in Limassol and had language classes that night. We had our
Syrian friend in English class and no one else. Very unusual, and then our
OTHER Syrian friend in Greek class. He pointed out that all of our students
were probably celebrating. So yeah.
Thursday, we went
to Limassol AGAIN for interviews with President and Sister Heder. We also did
Return and Report, which is pretty much just a role play with President where
he asks a question, and we need to reply and teach a principle in five minutes, all in Greek, plus use a pamphlet and a scripture. Pretty nerve
wracking, but it went okay. We then had an exchange for the evening with Elder
H. and Elder F. I was with Elder F., and we had two appointments for the
evening (Unheard of in this mission, by the way! OK, stop judging me, Utah missionaries,
AKA everyone from Viera and the Cocoa Stake in general 😉 serving in Utah!),
and both of the appointments actually worked out, despite us being late!
We had a great gospel
discussion at McDonald's with a friend of Elder F. I love confounding people
with true doctrine. The guy is super nice but kept contradicting himself trying
to say we were wrong. Eventually, he gave up (‘cause everybody who knows me
knows I don't lose an argument) and accepted the homework we gave him to read
in Corinthians and the Book of Mormon about baptisms for the dead and the spirit
world. I CALL THAT DROPPIN’ SOME DOCTRINE, BABY. We had gyros for dinner and
went to bed. Elder J. and Elder H. took the beds, and Elder F. took the couch,
outside, on the balcony, in the freezing weather. So, I took the extra mattress
on the floor by the door to the balcony in the kitchen. For your information, missionaries
must sleep in the same room as another missionary. They cannot sleep alone.
Friday, we got up
and got ready for Zone Conference. We had a great time all day learning more
about why we are here, how we can improve, and why we keep going despite the
hard times. Elder M. said it best: "Every time before Zone Conference I am
tired and discouraged; after President Heder talks, I feel like, ‘Okay, I'm
good now, I can take on a whole city.’" We seriously have the best mission
president in the world.
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| Zone Conference |
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| Paphos Elders |
Saturday, I reaffirmed my diet. I have sticky notes up everywhere in the apartment reminding myself to stop snacking all the time. I even have one in the cereal box. One of my favorites is, "Stop looking for food and start looking for investigators.” The one in my wallet says, "Are you really wasting the LORD'S money on something to make you fat?!" I also do 10 push-ups every time I am tempted to snack. So, your boy is actually getting jacked right now. My whole body is sore every night from doing like 100 push-ups throughout the day. And now, you see how much I was snacking and eating junk. Oh, also on this day, the living waters came alive again. I have a note in the bathroom that says “DRINK MORE WATER.” So, every time I pee, I have to drink twice as much water. Let's just say that I drank 1.5 liters in a short while and used the bathroom 4 times in 20 minutes. Elder Z. would be proud I think. We also accidentally left our bikes locked up outside church overnight. We joked about how we couldn't even pay somebody to steal those heaps of junk (You'll laugh later).
Sunday was a very
slow day with only eight people in Sacrament Meeting (that includes the four missionaries). The Sampsons were in Limassol, so we didn't have Sunday lunch
with them either. This day was also incredibly hot. We walked up the huge hill
to a member's home who missed church and put up language class flyers the whole
way. We were soaked through with sweat, and it isn't even summer yet.
Monday was a
great preparation day. We didn't have emails or shopping because of Carnival
here. We cleaned and then actually got to wear normal people clothes and ride
our bikes to the Sampsons. We watched Peter
Pan and Wreck-It Ralph and then
went to play volleyball with the other elders and the Sampsons. It was a lot of
fun, and I had some incredible saves. Elder A. made crepes for lunch. I helped
on the last few, and they were amazing.
We watched Robin Hood, and then Elder Sampson came
up from taking out the trash and said that there was only one bike outside. We
all thought that he was joking, but we went and checked. Sure enough, my bike was
gone, and Elder J.'s (the better of the two) is still there with the lock
relocked and the helmets hanging there. So yeah. The funniest part is when we
walked home. We turned the corner and found a really nice bike, not locked,
just on the kickstand sitting on the sidewalk with nobody around. I was like,
"Is this a sign God? Am I supposed to have this nice bike?" But, I
didn't take it. Never forget that He has a sense of humor folks. So yeah.
Today, we had District
Meeting in Limassol again and shopping and emails. That has pretty much been
it.
Love you all very
much! Oh yeah, one more thing. In the first chapter of Matthew, it gives the
lineage of Christ. One of the names is Jesophat. We were reading the Bible in
Greek, and as we were reading, we see Ιοσοφατ. Yo so fat. The poor guy's name
is yo so fat. Greek folks, it's a party. Oh, another funny story, on the way
home from the Sampson's on Monday, we met this guy walking his two
dogs. I walked past and meant to say, "Hi dog" (yes it sounds weird
in English, but that's what they say here, but the thing is, the word for dog
and the word for "female dog" are identical in every way except the
last letter. And, I will let you guess which word I said to this guy's dog...He
didn't say anything, I hope he didn't hear.
Well, I am sitting
here in an internet cafe with a bunch of Cypriot guys smoking and playing Tambli.
It really is amazing to be here. Cyprus is so green right now from all the rain
that we have had. In the summer, it will all be brown.
My personal study this
week has been really, really good, and I've started using all those
highlighters my mother packed for me. 😉 Lachoneus is pretty bomb in 3 Nephi, by the
way.
Anyways, I can't do
pictures today because these computers' USB ports are busted, but I have plenty
for next week.
Love you all, and hope
you have a great week where ever you are!
- Πρεσβύτερος Μούλερ
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