tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76660167841017400782024-03-04T23:39:50.841-08:00Elder Conner McLeod Quetzaltenango, Guatemala!!ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-89608299957618026682016-10-06T12:24:00.000-07:002016-10-06T12:29:51.476-07:0010.03.16 Last Week Going Strong!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>This week Brenda came to general conference and she loved it. Her daughter is super cute, pics attached! </b></span><b style="color: #404040; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week I had my final interview, then my comp got called to train so he had to go to the new trainers meeting. This week we had a ton of meetings so our days weren't amazing, but we did work hard when we could. We contacted like animals and we taught as much as we could, I'm happy with how it went. </b><br />
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<b style="color: #404040; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">So Today we will just finish saying goodbye to people and take care of some bank stuff. Yesterday I said goodbye to a ton of families, and today will probably be the same. </b><br />
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-49612604760099805742016-10-06T12:20:00.002-07:002016-10-06T12:20:09.009-07:009.26.16 Well today is day number 726...... my comp told me<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-61309789979344210812016-10-06T11:20:00.000-07:002016-10-06T12:05:52.503-07:009.12.16 Emergency Changes/New Comp to Kill Me<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Ya so I have my new last comp, his name is Elder Foster, he is from Salt Lake City and is super cool. He is a big football/ baseball player and he also loves hunting! He is one of my past comps kids, so i've heard some pretty good things about him. He has got 15 months in the mish, so he's got some experience and is a good teacher. The guy is super fun, I know that we are gonna get along real well and that we are gonna kill it together these last 3 weeks. </b></span></div>
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<b style="color: #404040; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week we contacted an older lady who did not want to talk to us, but after a little bit of casaquiando, she actually let us come back last night. We talked a bunch with her and she admitted that she is catholic but does not go, nor does she want to go. She told us that when she was little she was close to being baptized, and she showed us her book of mormon.......</b><b style="color: #404040; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">her 1st book of mormon.........</b><b style="color: #404040; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the 60s......... its blue bro!!</b><br />
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-91048901084300271992016-10-06T11:16:00.001-07:002016-10-06T11:50:49.498-07:008.29.16 Week Of Good Food!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 11pt; margin-top: 4pt;">
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ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-49112320132935715512016-10-06T11:15:00.001-07:002016-10-06T11:41:19.675-07:008.15.16 Quick Update<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey everyone hope you are having a good first couple </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">weeks back to school!! Can't believe that summer is gone and now we are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">rolling into fall, but that's good cuz that means that football is starting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">up!!!! Not to mention that the olympics are currently taking place, means </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">i'm gonna miss a ton of sports action, but that's ok. i heard that the USA is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">dominating, but thats all ive heard and i don't really know what's going on.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had stake conference and had 4 investigators in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">church which wasn't so bad. Elder Alonso came to speak and did an awesome </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">job. During the whole conference there was crazy lightning and thundering </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">going on outside, and it was cool cuz it was hot so all of the doors and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">windows were opened so we could feel the strong winds and see the lightning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">and thundering during the conference.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So this week i got super sick...... it was weird </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">cuz it happened so fast, one moment we were eating lunch at a members</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> house, and the next i was throwin up and in bed. I got a random 102 degree </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">fever, everything just happened super super fast. Don't know what happened,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but it did. I was asleep until 7 pm, we then went out and got an important</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lesson in, then went home to sleep again. This was friday, by saturday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">night i was 100% ok, but today they still want to test me to see what i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had. Hopefully everything comes out clean and we are good to go. I feel</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> perfectly fine right now, but who knows what happened, and hopefully it</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> doesn't happen again.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week we continued with our list of less</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> active families, so far we have found more that 10 less active families,and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we are working trying to reactivate them. We are also asking for references</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> always, less actives usually have the best references, so we are working</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shoulder to shoulder with the less actives.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">We went to the temple this week!!!! IT was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">great, technically it was my last trip to the temple until i go through on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">my last day. I received a couple of answers that I needed to some questions </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had. It was cool, I learned some cool things. The spirit is always super </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">strong there, it's always a good experience</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">We found some new people this week, none of them came to church, but they could be pretty positive, we will see what happens this week.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got the flu, it's hitting hard here so we are drinking tons of water and wearing sweaters etc. We are working hard still.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Hey everyone! I think that these past 2 weeks have really helped me with my english grammer, it was bad before, hopefully my letters have been understandable. This week was a good week for my comp and I, it went by super fast though, and our dats werent super high, but we feel like we did a ton even though it doesnt all show up on paper.</b></span></div>
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-32212770687096096942016-10-06T10:46:00.001-07:002016-10-06T10:46:13.666-07:007.11.16ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-66782426778061815982016-10-06T10:45:00.000-07:002016-10-06T11:00:37.129-07:007.4.16 Quick Email, Interview Week<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-83765054200602418252016-10-06T10:11:00.002-07:002016-10-06T10:59:48.182-07:006.27.17 A Week With Awesome News<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-23775711502193107952016-10-06T09:36:00.003-07:002016-10-06T09:36:44.763-07:006.20.16ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-15379013737583448972016-10-06T09:36:00.001-07:002016-10-06T09:36:25.172-07:006.13.16ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-31833023832071888972016-06-06T20:48:00.000-07:002016-06-06T20:48:02.939-07:006.6.16 Best Changes Of My Life, And Probably My Last ChangesJune 6, 2016<br />
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So, as the title says, I just had the best changes of my life! I am now in the middle of Xela, we are in zone xela centro, so we are right in the heart of xela. my area is called Calvario, and it is the best area in Xela! This is the assistants old area, the only reason they arent here now is cuz president thought it was a little too small for them to maximize their potential, so they got changed out, but this area has always been the assistants area for years and years! And with good reason, heres why,</div>
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So obviously im in paradise. I realize that this is probably my last area considering that ive only got 3 changes left including this one, so my comp now is probs my 2nd to last comp. My comp is Elder Backer, he is from Nicaragua and is awesome. He was in my zone in Calvario Huehue about 8 months ago, so I know how he is, he is great. </div>
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This week we found a ton of new people just by contacting, its amazing how many people are prepared here, literally I feel so blessed to be able to be here. My health has improved a ton, i am almost back to normal. </div>
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Hey I love all of you guys! This gospel is true, If you arent sure if the commandmants are were the struggle, just test them out! Many times christ has commanded us to try him on his word, just try it out! I know you will be blessed and will never want to go back. Have an awesome week, know that i always pray for you all. We actually have to go right now, but ill email you next week with more info on our area and whats going on here in calvario xela. Peace!!</div>
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ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-67268679472877946682016-05-31T16:20:00.001-07:002016-05-31T16:23:42.055-07:005.30.16 CHANGES!!!<b>May 30, 2016</b><br />
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<br />ellemac42@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111058026461955822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666016784101740078.post-75773601943611743662016-05-16T10:24:00.000-07:002016-05-25T12:53:42.466-07:005.16.16 Skype Week!May 16, 2016<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So this sunday we only had 22 people in church, the lowest it's been in 3 months! we don't know what happened, so my comp and I have come up with a plan, how we are going to reactivate all these people. so we made individual callings for every active member in our branch, printed callings, and we assigned each active member to a less active/non active family to reactivate. We are stoked because after handing out a bunch of these callings we have realized that the members here want to help, they just don't know what to do or how to do it, so my comp and I are going to keep thinking of ideas on how to guide these members to participate in the work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This week was pretty normal, we contacted a million people, found a couple of new people, and worked hard. Its tough, but that doesn't matter, we are having fun doing what we are doing! I am definitely going to miss being a missionary when i am no longer here in Guatemala, the mission is probably one of the best decisions that I have made in my whole life. I've learned so much stuff that I can't wait to be able to use when I get home, honestly I feel like the Lord has blessed me so much and I can't wait to share this joy with people I know who need it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This week we are going to xela to get some tests done, my comp is super sick, so we are going down friday to get him tested. Hope everything turns out ok!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> So we are actually running like crazy cuz we have some stuff we still need to do, but just know that I love you guys a ton and that I hope you are doing awesome. I'll write some more next week, don't worry the time goes by really fast! Thanks for all your love and support, love you guys a ton, please give food to the missionaries!!!!!=)</span></div>
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