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 this thing weighed 9lbs. So we ate Cheesecake for like 4 days. It was awesome. On the same note, I'm also trying to eat more healthy. For dinner instead of eating cereal when I get home because I am too tired to make anything, I bought some salmon today in these little individual wrappers and I think I'm going to try and eat more rice. Anyways I hope you all have a great week. I probably will have a good week. But who knows. Love you all!! - Elder McMillan

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