Well, it seems that my mission has come to an end a little earlier than I expected. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the church has sent all missionaries home. If they don't have a ton of time left, they are released, and I was put into that category. Oh well. At the least, I was able to enjoy my time serving the Lord and doing his will; I am eternally grateful for what I have experienced in that part of the world. I know that he lives and that he has guided my personal growth as a missionary and servant of the Lord. This has been an experience that I will never forget.

The Uchtdorf's visit was amazing, man. HE gave a seminar about how to teach from the heart but in a very consecrated way. I am 100% sure that that is what the mission needed at the moment. He mentioned his April 2016 talk "Fourth floor, last door." I read it again and it just screams the dude's personality. So, overall it was all worth it.

Sounds good that you are finally heading into spring. March is right around the corner, after all. Enjoy it while I go through my last chilean winter. :)

Elder MacGregor

I really don't have a lot to say this week either, mainly focusing on getting out fo the office when I can, and we found a couple of Bolivians and a Colombian to teach. It'll be a little difficult this week though since I have to deal with a lot of paperwork this week. Turns out that our visa tracking system has been acting up lately, and I was the poor soul who had to fix it all by myself without any real coaching from my predecessors. But, I got it done. At the very least President was proud of me, so that makes it all worth it. I think that maybe because I will need experiences like this to teach my successor as well as I can.

I'm expecting around 9 weeks to teach her and to guide her through a change and whatnot, and then I'm outta here.

I had completely forgotten about MLK day until I couldn't do some of my duties because the church offices were closed. But, I guess it was nice.

Anyway, it's been a while since I really wrote about me, so I'm gonna do that now.

I never fully explained what I do here in the mission office, and that is to help in all of the legal paperwork in immigration for the missionaries. You need to be legal to leave the country, so I allow people to get home. Also, I do the flights and all the periphery things needing to be done with the start and end of a mission. So, the majority of Secretary stress comes from that, more than anything else I do.

This last week though, we received a pair of elder missionaries, the Vests, who will eventually replace me in the work, and I will go somewhere else to finish the mission. So, that'll be a lot of fun, I think. They are great people from Payson Utah, and they are pretty funny people. A little nervous with the start of their new callings, but I'm sure it will all work itself out.