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W56: Patagonia or Puerto Montt?

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Finished another week in the coolest mission sector in the world. Only problem is sadly I had very little time to actually work in my sector. This week we went to Pto. Montt in order to go to consejo de Lideres. Normally its not that big of a deal and you take a bus and only lose a day. But in Coyhaique it is a big deal. It involves taking a flight, some taxis and then staying the night with some Elders, going to the meeting, staying another night in Puerto Montt before catching a plane back to the sector. So really you end up losing like 48 hours. But consejo de lideres was lit as always. We talked about ways to increase morale. Sometimes we think it is going and doing fun things together, which helps, but I think the real thing that lifts morale is working with purpose. When you are all working together with a common goal, morale will increase and a desire to work hard will increase. I think this is true in a lot of aspects of our lives. I actually decided to break out the trus...
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W55: Coyhaique

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Yeah so im in my new sector but today I'm actually going back to Pto. Montt for consejo de líderes tomorrow. Because we are so far away we have to fly. So I'm going to be flying 6 times in the span of 3 weeks. I was lowley thinking about how stressful it used to be to fly but now it's just easy dubs. Plus I can do it in Spanish so new skill unlocked which before would have been extreme difficult mode. But God totally looks out for missionarys on flights. Especially missionarys that have to fly on P-day which is usually our day of rest and relaxation. I am sitting here writing from the emergency isle seats. I have so much leg room right now. Defintely the best seat in the whole plane with extra opportunity to serve if we have a crash landing. It's pretty great. You wonder what Coyhaique is like and the airport gives you a good look into my town. The little airport is interesting. It's like a mix of tourists and randos from the town. Like everybody is decked out in...
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W54: Vamos A Las Montanas

Yeah so i got thanos snapped. I got transferred to Coihayque. So I'm going to have to take a nice plane ride to the cold mountains. My Zone is super small with only 5 companionships and no Hermanas. It'll be super lit. Sad to leave friends in Holtzapfel.  Story of the week, a drunk dude almost stole my water bottle yesterday. I maybe should have just let him take it but it was my nice red Hydroflask. So we walked after him a little bit then some random people pulled up that knew him and secured my waterbottle.   Hope I can get my suitcases under weight for the plane.  Might have to leave my protein powder for Elder Malu.   We gave a little talk in the mission devotional on urgency. I think it went well. Love you all and I'll send a longer email next time and let you know about Coihayque!!!  - Elder McMillan 
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W53: Holtzapfel

I'm entering what is probably going to be the last week in my small but mighty sector. I've been here for 4.5 months and it's pretty much time to go. We worked hard and saw the Lord's hand in some milagros. Tried to get things going a bit and learned a lot. The grandson of our recent convert wants to get baptized but his mom ended up saying no sp that kind of sucked but we understand and going to figure it out. This week we are just going to do random acts of kindness for the Zone. I'm trying to be a kinder person so hopefully I can learn to be a nicer person. We also had the birthday of our recent convert. He just turned 16. Hes from the Dominican Republic. His family is pretty cool. They are the ones who own the bakery and are always giving us bread and cakes and stuff. Im convinced I've gained at least a couple of pounds just from their bakery. I did buy a speaker today. I realized I'm really losing out on listening to stuff when I'm in the sh...
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W52: YOOOOO

Yeah so this week was a little crazy. I made a new friend from Columbia when I went to cut my hair. He was listening to English Rap when I was there. I even heard some Blue Face and NLE Choppa. But this week was lowkey wild. We ended up having to go to Osorno which is like 1.5 away for Zone Conference. We went with the 2 zones of Valdivia and Calle-Calle that are right next to each other. We woke up at like 4:30AM that day and travelled with about 40 other missionaries to Osorno. Friday we had to coordinate some emergency transfers. They ended up shutting down a sector in my Zone so we had to house some missionaries for a little bit. It was just dealing with a whole bunch of stuff like that this week that has nothing to do with the actual missionary work. We did get a giant cheesecake from the mom of our recent convert. She is a baker and she always makes really good desserts. Elder Malu said his favorite dessert was cheesecake so then she went and got a huge cheesecake. Like t...
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W51: HALF

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Tomorrow I hit a year on the mission. Lowkey passed by fast but also pretty slow. I've only been in 3 areas, but the work has been pretty good in each one. Mission stats so far... - 3 areas, 3 zones, and 3 houses - 1 language learned - 7 companions - 0 movies watched - 3 countries visited (mexico, chile, and Argentina) Overall it's been a pretty crazy experience. I don't really have to worry about Spanish anymore which is pretty nice. The 4.5 months with Latinos as my comps was great. I'm comfortable taking the bus system, and I dont have the fear of ordering pizza over the phone now. All part of the growing pains of the mission. Speaking of growing pains...Sadly, I do not think i have gotten any taller on the mission. So I might just have to stick to the whole 6 foot 2 for the rest of my life. But still I've only met maybe like 3 Chilenos that are taller than me. I have yet to get robbed because I'm serving in like the most chill mission in all of Lat...
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W50: Eddy

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Our 3 month break from rain has come to an end this week and I was reunited with my trusty rain jacket. Overall the weather hasn't been too bad. Its just been drizzling a little bit which probably signifies summer is ending. Our friend Eddy got baptized this week!! He is super cool. Moved here 6 months ago from the Dominican Republic. Hes been coming to church alone and brings his family sometimes. He's a Goat. We're going to baptize his sister this Saturday too so that is going to be awesome. We are excited for them and their desire they have to follow the Savior. Eddys stepdad owns a Bakery and always giving us bread, cakes and other stuff. So now we pretty much get free donuts everyday. And they are super good desserts. I've probably gained a couple pounds but its ok because we are lowkey on the morning workout grind. We've been doing a lot of pull ups, dips, and a lot of jump rope. This week we might have to go to Pto. Montt but still not certain. Its goin...
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