My 1st Baptism

So Dad I talked to the Mission President and he said at the end of my mission like the last week you could come here and go on splits with me! Dude that would be so sick! So dude you should learn some Portuguese and we could go teach people and possibly baptize someone! Brazil is super poor my house is made of concrete floors walls and ceilings.

 

The best thing about my mission is at the end of the day when all of the six of the Missionaries in my house come  together and make dinner and talk about or day there is one other missionary in our house that knows jujitsu we end up wrestling for fun on the concrete and I always win by choking him out, haha, its fun. We get up at 6:30am every day. I exercises and study for about 2 hours then me and my companion get together and work on my language then we get ready and go eat with a member then we start to talk to people on the

 side walk every person here always stops because of me I'm super white and they know I'm American and they automatically think I'm rich. Every person stares at me its a very uncomfortable feeling. But I always use it to my advantage to talk to people.

 

 I'm doing so great! this week was tough but totally worth it because... I GOT MY FIRST BAPTISM! I was so excited it was amazing! We have been teaching this 10 year old boy for 2 weeks and finally his mom excepted that her son wanted to be baptized. I was deeply touched because he came up to me and asked why I was here and I gave him the Book of Mormon and didn't think much of it but the next Sunday he came to church and he told us he prayed about it and knows its true so the hole last 2 weeks be have been teaching him and trying to convince his mom that he should be baptized and she finally accepted!

 

I hope you all have a good week!

 

Elder Christopher Mullenaux

PICTURES!

Out into the field, "So Bring It On Brazil, I'm Ready"

  

   

     Hey everyone! I’m finally here in Recife! and I’m so excited, well I was at first after I got here we had lunch with the president of the mission he’s super nice, after that we went to the mission office and meet our companions my comp was Brazilian and hardly spoke any English and it felt like it went all downhill from there we took a bus to our house that took 45 minutes standing up with all my luggage with at least 50 people on it. Everyone was staring at me because of how different I look, (American) in the middle of the bus ride it started to rain hard! and I thought to myself o crap this is going to get crazy we proceeded to our stop and started running with my luggage o struggled to get my handle open i couldn’t so I put it on my back and started running me and my companion ran for about 10 minutes in the rain we finally got to the house with all my stuff soaked GREAT! So I hung everything on a clothes line to dry out. Later that night I remember my dad saying that he wanted me to struggle a little bit on my mission I smiled and laughed thinking to myself this is how it’s going to be for two years. the next day I was struggling, it was hot and I really missed my family and we walked all day to talk to people with no success and I really wanted to go back to our apartment we had one last appointment so we went to the man’s house and my companion started to teach and after the lesson he asked me to testify about baptism and the blessing that it bring. I don’t remember what I said in Portuguese but all I know is that the man wanted to be baptized the spirit was very strong there and I know without a doubt that the sprit converts. the area that were in is one of the hardest in the mission and the ward hasn’t had any baptisms in 8 months I know without a doubt that the spirit converts and I love this work it’s awesome! SO BRING IT ON BRAZIL! IM READY!

Elder Mullenaux

The send off from the Brazil MTC, out into the field

  This Is the send off picture from the Brazil MTC. I'm not sure Chris is feeling to well in this picture. Maybe he was still feeling the effect of pneumonia that he had a couple of weeks ago.
  So they are all off into the field now. So exciting, I can't wait to here about his expiriwnces!