W74: My Painted Book of Mormon

https://photos.app.goo.gl/MeSu7s9Vg6jNCaap9 I updated google fotos. Join and I'll try to be better about uploading stuff. Yeah so my bad for last week. I actually wrote up an email I just forgot to send it. We've just been out here grinding. You didn't miss much because I feel like my emails have just been super repetitive for the last 5 months being in the same sector and everything. I've averaged 4.5 months in every sector I've served in. Big changes are coming to Coyhaique which is great. Our Zone is seeing miracles. We had pday today (tuesday) because we had interviews with President Mackay yesterday. He's a pretty cool guy. Even though it was rough not having pday on Monday because we were super tired from the week. It didn't help we had to wake up at 4AM in order to go and fill up the baptismal font because it takes 8 hours to fill but it's worth it! I had an intercambio with Elder Daniels who is a brand new missionary that is just trying to learn spanish. About halfway through our intercambio I just gave him some Jesus cards and said that he needs to find a way to get rid of these cards on his own. So he started running all over just handing these cards out without really speaking any Spanish. It was pretty awesome. We had a Sister in our branch that paints book of mormons. she painted mine and it looks awesome. I mean she really put a ton of time into it. Ill send a photo of the book. She's leaving for her mission to Buenas Aires next week. Also an update for the guitar is that im learning "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton. Its a good song. I didnt realize how sad it was until my mom explained how Clapton wrote it. I leave you with my testimony that Jesus makes it possible for us to see our families after this life. We will recognize each other and it is all possible through His love. Hope you all are doing well!! Love - Elder McMillan

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