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What Kind Of Schedule Is This?

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Hello again! I know what you are all thinking. He goes almost a whole month without writing a word, finally writes us something, and now here he is four days later with another email. What? Either way, here I am. I wanted to tell a couple more stories of what has been happening this last month. Especially the opportunity I had to go to Pirayu (the name of my area, two areas ago). Back in Pirayu (about 5 months ago) I had the opportunity to find, teach, and baptize three kids. They were the best. The were so excited to see us everytime we went and were so excited to go to church that they started to cry the one week that they couldnt go. I watched these kids grow in the testimony of their Savior and it was amazing. We were trying to help the parents get baptized as well. Although they loved learning about Christ, things came up and it never happened. A few weeks ago, the new missionaries in that area told me that some things had cleared up and the mom asked to get baptized! Being in the...

It Has Been Sooo Long

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Heyyyyy.  He lives!  Elder Blacker is surviving the office!  Sorry for the lack of communication, but I do honestly love talking to y'all!  If anyone wants to message me directly, here is my email. chandler.blacker@missionary.org I'm sorry if you have ever sent me a message and I never responded.  My pdays have been surprisingly busy lately with general conference and house fires, just the usual.  I promise that I'll get better at that.  My pday is changing just for today.  I'll be going back to saturdays.  We just wanted to have a zone pday with everyone. Alright, now I can dive into what has been happening over the last 3 weeks.  Yeesh, I don't think I'll remember anything.  A big part of what I have been doing is helping with the zone conferences.  We had 5 in the last 3 weeks.  Every time we have a zone conference I have to set up the church with chairs and tables for lunch after, set up the audio system in the church,...