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W73: Zone Conference & Puerto Montt

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August 11, 2025 Scott didn't write a letter this week because Kira needed help with chem so he did that instead. A glimpse of mission life. You spend your time serving others. Here are some things he would have probably written about. 1. His Barber. He loves going to his barber. Maybe it was all the years of Danny cutting his hair or being able to listen to rap but the guy seems like a really cool guy and a highlight of his month is getting his haircut. 2. Puerto Montt. He traveled to Puerto Montt for Zone Conference which he loved since he is so far away from people in Coyhaique. He said conference was awesome. 3. Guitar Songs. He tried thinking about songs he wants to learn on the guitar and realized his brain can't recollect songs. 4. He loves his new President 5. He loves his new companion 6. The winter has been really mild which he is really grateful for. 7. The AP's called him Evangelical which he took as a compliment...lol Hopefully next week, you'l...

W72: Elder Margerger

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Mon, Aug 4, 12:34 PM We had cambios last week and now I'm with Elder Marberger. Hes from Salt Lake and he's a cool dude. He had a bunch of ear training for the piano. I'm going to try and have him teach me. But we'll see how far I can get. Yesterday we had the baptism of our friend Sebastian. He is a friend of one of our members and our member ended up baptizing him which was awesome. We almost flooded our house. I was doing a load of laundry and as the washer was draining the drain tube fell out. So instead of the water going down the drain it just went onto the floor. I was just doing some studys taking mate when all of the sudden I saw water on the floor. I thought I had spilled my thermos but then I saw that my thermos was upright and that the washer was leaking through the door. So we had to dry the house for like an hour. The Zone is flying to Pto. Montt right now for zone conference. It'll be fun to see some people because I haven't left Coyhaique in...

W71: Adeus Elder Parronchi

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So its currently snowing in Coyhaique. Luckily Elder Parronchi's plane was able to land so now he's on his way to Pto. Montt....sad day but pumped for my new comp. Grind time! Elder Parronchi's going to be heading back to Brazil this week. But it's ok because we'll reunite at BYU in the winter so I'll probably see him again in a few months. We got cambio news and I'm staying a 4th cambio in Coyhaique. That feels like a super long time but it's just been awesome here. It's been my favorite sector hands down. It was a little weird seeing Elder Parronchi pack up his bags because it kinda made me realize that pretty soon I'm going to be doing the same thing. I still have 7.5 months left but after I leave Coyhaique I'll just have the same time left as what I already had in my

W70: Presidente MacKay

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Last week President Mackay and his wife arrived in Coyhaique to be our new mission presidents. They came to our Zone last and it was fun to meet them. We talekd about college sports and NIL. Hermana MacKay ran track at BYU and President MacKay coaches soccer and is really into soccer. They brought the Assistants so it was like a huge party. We had a pretty good zone conference. Talked about some good stuff and made a nice little presentation. We had zone conference on Saturday and a Baptisimal service right after. One of the granddaughters of a member got baptized. It was cool because it was her grandpa who baptized her. We have cambios next week and that means my comp is finishing his mission and heading home to Brazil. I'm gonna be pretty sad to see him go. It's been the best 2 cambios of my mission! Have never worked so hard but the mission grind will continue. I learned a new Coldplay song on the guitar this week, "Green Eyes". And yes the Coldplay scan...

W69: Happiness

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Whats poppin? Todays pday and I got my hair cut at the trusty colombian barber. Its lowkey an experience going to get my hair cut. This Venezuelen dude came in halfway through my cut and just started giving everybody french fries. Plus the barber gave me an update on the music world. He let me know Sheck Wes released a new album last week, turned on some Juice Wrld and finished with Saint Pablo by Kayne in case all you in the States want an update from Chile. Brought me back to sophmore year tbh. We had a baptism yesterday and it was awesome. It was a mom and her son. The son was super excited but got really scared when he saw the water. So we just hung out with him there for a little bit. Some members helped us out and made him more comfortable with the water. In the end he got baptized and was so happy. Afterwards he just walked around giving everybody hugs. It was awesome! Nothing like seeing people so happy. Every week in church he just loves being with others. It is so cool to...

W68:

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Yup, hit 16 months on the mission. So that means I'm 2/3 of the way there but time is lowkey flying. I mean we are already half way through 2025 and it felt like 2025 started 2 weeks ago. We've just been cooking up here in Coyhaique. We baptized the brother of our recent convert. And this week we are going to baptize a mom and her son. It's pretty awesome to see how happy people are having Christ in their life. Plus we just got a super cool reference from a member so he is now on date for the end up the month. We received our new mission president. He's from Washington. He's going to come visit our zone next weekend. It'll be kinda weird tho because he's bringing his family and the assistants. So they'll be a party of 8 coming to visit our zone of 10. Pretty interesting ratio ngl. Honestly nothing interesting has really been happening. Everything is just very repetitive at this point. Like there's not much that's new. I mean I've been...

W67: AGUA

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Yeah so yesterday I went to church without showering because our water lines froze and our regulator exploded resulting in no water. Like nothing was working. The weather said it felt like -16°C which is something like 3°F. So it was pretty cold ngl. It wouldn't be too bad except our house doesn't have central heat so its really something when you wake up get out of bed and you can see your breath. At least it doesn't make it bad when you have to leave a heated home into the snow becuase we don't really have a warm home. Everyone else heats there home with a wood stove but we aren't allowed to do that as missionaries supposedly burnt down their home not that along. Probably gringos. Tried wrapping our pipes with some boiling towels and heard some crackling but didn't give us water until it warmed up. Other than it being literally freezing here everythings been going good. Today President Gervic and his wife left and now we have President Mackay. The mission...