Exchanges, Devotionals, and Engagements

Monday, June 18, 2018

School play from June 6th
A family's daughter was in it.
It was a great experience!
Elder V., Elder Muller and Sister Riser

Watching an elementary school play
June 6, 2018

Hey, guys! It's been a good week in Limassol.

TUESDAY: There was no district meeting, but I had an exchange in Kato Paphos with Elder M. It was weird to be back in my home town, and I forgot how much walking they do there and how awful it is on your feet, lol. The exchange was good. We walked from the harbor to Coral Bay, which is insane. In the photos, if you look at the white lighthouse, we were past that and were on the way back when we took the photos, lol. We saw lots of little miracles. 

Elder Muller and Elder M.
Walking in Paphos!
(See at the bottom for more pictures of his day in Paphos!)

WEDNESDAY: Elder M. and I did service at the horse farm and had a lesson with our friend there about family history. Then, we went to the bus, and I was back in blessed Limassol! I love this city so much! It is by far my favorite area and city. I just love everything here. We went and saw our friend and his friend who is from Russia. She lost her mom recently and has a daughter who is now alone in Russia. Her daughter is 18 and just graduated. I have now been very humorously offered her daughter as my fiancé. So, I have a lot of thinking to do, and I will let you know how it goes next week, hahahaha. We got to see our Cypriot Parents, and that is always a favorite moment in the week! We attended Bible Study with our pastor friends, and that was interesting. We have a pastor of a certain faith, and he claims to speak in tongues. But, his tongues are yelling random gibberish at the ceiling.....so that was interesting. Meanwhile, we have Elder V. over here speaking fluent Greek after less than two years in the country, lol.

THURSDAY: I taught Elder V. how to make my tuna salad. He loves it, lol. For our one hour for lunch, I ate leftovers from the day before and finally did it—I took a 25-minute nap with the rest of our allotted meal time. It was HEAVEN. We had a lesson with the part-member family about temples and the Plan of Salvation and why we do baptisms for the dead. It was good. They surprised us by also having dinner made in the other room, so we stayed, haha. Filipino food is sooooo good. We were able to do the dishes before we left, which is always our favorite. 

FRIDAY: We went running. We prepped for our devotional with President and Sister Kearon. The devotional was great. Sister Kearon talked about how through the Atonement, we can take away all spiritual hurts, wrongs, and scars.  President Kearon spoke about being a good missionary and speaking with people using normal language instead of canned gospel lingo. He put me on the spot a lot, lol. We (Elder Muller and Elder V.) performed “Come unto Christ,” and it went very, very well. Sister Kearon was crying a lot, hehe. 

Elder Muller and Elder V. on their morning run

SATURDAY: We helped some members with moving stuff out of a restaurant and into a moving van to put into storage. We had a quick lesson with a Chinese investigator. We talk about the Book of Mormon Stories picture book because her English is very limited. She's great. We had a lot of administrative meetings that took most of the morning. We had football finding, and it went pretty well, but our Russian friend from last week didn't show up, which was too bad. We received a referral from a Visitors’ Center in England, which was really cool. We get a call from the sister missionaries there asking why we hadn’t contacted our referral yet. I was like, "I'm sorry we are not a technology enabled mission; we don't see our referral manager until Monday when we do emails." LOL! Welcome back to the 2nd world, Sister. Not everyone has smartphones. 

That's about all for me this week. 

Have a good week, guys!

- Elder Müller

Limassol at night
From a member's balcony

Tuesday, June 5th
A mountain adventure to do service at a member's home
(Editor's note: I think this is the pool cleaning service they did!)

Elder V. on the mountain adventure

View from the back seat

Beautiful countryside

Mountain adventure

View from the backs seat

Mountain adventure

Elder V.

Mountain adaventure

Mountain adventure

Mountain adventure

Arriving at the member's home
Elder V.

Beauty of Cyprus

Mountain adventure - Elder V.

Mountain adventure - all smiles!
Elder Muller and Elder V.

Mountain adventure
Servants of the Lord
Friends for life
Elder Muller and Elder V.

Elder V. and Elder Muller

Elder V. and Elder Muller

June 6, 2018
Elementary School Play
Limassol, Cyprus

June 6, 2018
Elementary School Play
Limassol, Cyprus

June 6, 2018
Elementary School Play
Limassol, Cyprus
Elder V. and Elder Muller

June 6, 2018
Elementary School, Limassol, Cyprus
Student's Artwork

Getting our drink before our friend arrived

Getting our drink before our friend arrived.
Sitting in the heat!

Elder V. during language study - dreaming in Greek.
Dreaming in Greek counts as language study!

 Back in my home town of Paphos:

The beauty of Paphos, Cyprus

Elder Muller and Elder M.
Walking in Paphos

Walking in Paphos

In the distance is the white light house mentioned above

Keep your eye on the white light house!

Still walking back to the apartment

Beautiful Paphos

Paphos

Elder Muller and Elder M.

Elder Muller

Elder Muller

Elder Muller

Elder Muller

Paphos Apartment

Elder V. on morning run
June 18, 2018

Elder Muller on morning run
June 18, 2018

Elder V. - Ice Skating
June 18, 2018

Elder Muller in ice skates!
First time in his life!
June 18, 2018

"Look Mama!" Ice Skates!

Elder V. killing it on the ice!

Elder Muller resting from skating!

Look at Elder V. go!

          We laughed at their proud fact...fourth best!

Elder Muller and Elder V.
June 18, 2018

Elder Muller and Elder V.
June 18, 2018

Elder V. and Elder Muller
Enjoying a cold drink before emailing
June 18, 2018

The amazing Elder V!
This shot is for you, Mum!
Love, Elder Muller