W70: Presidente MacKay

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 scandal news has even made it to the bottom of the world. Hopefully that wasn't the Song they where preforming when the CEO got exposed. I hope everyone has a great week. We're heading to Aysen for District Council now and have to go to Puerto Montt for leadership conference this week so lots of traveling before returning to make the most of our last few days of our transfer. We are seeing lots of miracles. God is good. Love, Elder McMillan

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