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Week 6: ELDER NORD MADE IT TO CHILE!!!!!

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Hey! So I have officially been in Chile for a week now. I have one word. FREEZING. I have so much to say wow becauseit has been 2 weeks. So rewind. Elder Smith ended up going home in the MTC for his concussion, but he should be coming to Concepcion soon. I was put into a trio with his comp. We had to move into the dorms, which was fun. We took the spanish assessment at the end of the MTC and everyone in my district failed lol, but the average is between 30 and 40 percent so its chill. Already said this but I was praying for 2 things like the whole MTC. That I could call myfamily at the airport and that my trainer would be from the USA to help me with english to spanish translations and to tell me when I did stuff wrong. We got ot the airport and itwas so funny it is is this little airport and everyone was waiting for us. We had a welcome party type thing with a traditional chilean meal: dominos pizza. We had a testimony meeting and then they did the revealing our our companions. The li...

THE MTC- Week #5

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Hey peeps! This week was so insane. So first off, next time I email I will be in Chile! I leave Monday afternoon and take a Red Eye there. Also, i am officially the oldest in the MTC, which means that people see my little green sticker on my nametag and think we are so cool. It is actually kind of funny because I never felt that way about people with stickers before. We also got a new district in our zone, so me and comp had to go meet them and do a question and answer as the zone leaders. I feel like it was JUST me yesterday, so it felt super weird. My district sang in sacrament on sunday a mashup of "come, come ye saints and lead kimdñy light" and let me tell you it was bomb. We also had to plan the sacrament meeting as the ZLs and we had to choose 6 speakers and every time their name was called in sacrament they would give us a death glare like UH WHY DID YOU PICK ME. We also had to teach priesthood for the branch, so to say the least this week was busy. Something kind...