W65: Meeting with Presidente

We went to Pto. Montt AGAIN this week. It's just like a normal thing at this point. Kinda sucked because they didn't feel like upgrading us to first class even though I'm a regular. Hit 15 months on the mission and I've had 18 flights. When we got to Pto. Montt I got to see the legend Elder Cresap. We arrived in the mission together and he was my comp for a grand total of 1 day in the online MTC. But we have hope that we're going to be comps. He asked the mission secretary when we're going to finish our missions and he said February 25, so Mark the calenders I guess. Zone conference was a little sad because it was presidents last zone conference. He stayed around and we all took some pictures. I ended up taking some nice ones with my camera. Because it was his last zone conference the mission was putting together a memory box for him. We were all going to put in a note or something, and it was going to be a surprise. Well me and Elder Parronchi wanted to print out the photos that we just took with President and Hermana Gervic. We weren't flying back to Coyhaique until the next day so we walked over to downtown Pto. Montt to try and find a place that could download the photos from my compact flash (keep in mind the camera is 20 years old) then print the photos out. We walked around to a couple places and we can't find anything that would work. We eventually asked a lady where we could go and she gives us a direction. So we walked over to the store she told us to go to and there's a random guy that's also in there printing photos. We're like ok cool maybe this place will work. We then see the guy and it's President Gervic... Like he was just sitting in his street clothes also printing out some photos. Turns out he needed to get his hair cut so he went to a place and now he was just running some errands. He asked us why we needed to print out photos and we were like "uhhhh why not??" Because we didn't want to ruin the surprise about all the notes and everything. So then I need to go select the photos from the card and he totally sees that it's the ones with him in it. He even points it out to the store owner that it's him in the photo. Me and Elder Parronchi are just trying to hold it together. So we printed the photos and left but it was just an insane coincidence. We came back to the sector and it was just grind time. We ended up having 2 baptisms on Saturday so that was awesome. It was the nieces of our recent converts. #workwithmembers Yup that's pretty much what happened this week. Join the Google photos if you want to see more of what I do... https://photos.app.goo.gl/MeSu7s9Vg6jNCaap9 Love, Elder McMillan

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