My Name is Mud

A Lesson in Patience, Persistence, and Going the Extra Mile

✈️ It begins with a lost airplane.

​Thirteen missionaries arrive at LAX… only to learn their plane has gone missing. What follows is a week of delays, confusion, and mounting disbelief before they finally reach Argentina.

But that is only the beginning...

🚲 In a town whose name literally means “Little Hole.”​

Assigned to the tiny village of Pocito, Elder Wylson quickly learns that missionary life involves:
- Forty-mile bicycle rides under jacaranda trees
- Teaching families in adobe homes in the middle of onion fields
- Eating cabbage soup with devotional regularity
- Renting a room from a stern German landlady with a surprisingly tender heart
- Surviving a companion who believes karate is a viable missionary strategy
And then there is Juan Barros.
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When Juan begins listening to the message of the Restoration, something unexpected happens. The chaos settles. The Spirit comes near. And in a humble home far from chapels and programs, the gospel begins to grow.

😂 Equal Parts Laughter and Reverence

Written with warmth, wit, and humor, My Name Is Mud blends laugh-out-loud missionary misadventures with deeply spiritual moments that linger long after the last page.

You will laugh.
You may wince.

​And you will recognize something of your own journey in these pages.

🌱 Who This Book Is For


  • Returned missionaries who want to remember what it felt like to begin
  • Parents of missionaries
  • Anyone who has ever felt unqualified for the work they were given
  • Readers who love faith-filled stories told with honesty and humor

Because sometimes God chooses the most unlikely servants--in onion fields and small-town chapels, amid lost airplanes and stubborn companions, heaven’s miracles draw near.

And occasionally—astonishingly—it lets us lend a hand.

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