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The way she goes ---life has ups and downs

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This week sucked and was really cool and frustrating,  First off my grandpa died. He was super cool guy and taught me some of the things I value most today.  He taught me to: fly fish, that God lives, to be a good person, to not judge and to be honest. I was able to call him Wednesday and when I said I'll be rippin lips fishing with you in 80 years, he lifted up his hand and my mom started crying. He was super cute.  That night I prayed with all my heart that my grandpa would just let go and stop fighting. At 7 am the next morning I got a call from my mission president that my grandpa had died. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't happy, but I know that he is happier now and in a better place probably helping people learn more about the gospel and chilling.  So that sucked, but we saw some fat miracles this week. For example, as you guys know they closed the church this last Friday and we couldn't hold any meetings. The problem was that we had planned a bapti...

Elder Uchtdorf visits Chile - Why Church?

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A lot has happened since my last email. my bad lol First of all, I got a new comp from Spain.  He is super dope and has a really weird accent!  He's a bro and loves working hard with me!  We are killing the game here. I'm in the same Ward I have been in now for four months! We taught a rlly cute family about the Plan of Salvation and they loved it! We watched the Plan of Salvation video and then gave the three kids pictures of the different places and had them put them in order from pre-mortal life to the kingdoms of glory! The kids loved it and it made it really easy for the parents to understand. It was fun as well because the parents went to see Elder Uchtdorf with us and didn't understand some of the words he said and had a lot of questions about his talk.  We spent time talking about it and they they understood the words better.  It is so much better to keep the vocabulary simple while teaching so everyone understands it!   E...