Blacker, Chandler

Hello everyone!  I have officially left the office.  :( I already miss being in the office.  It kinda felt like saying goodbye to my family all over again.  I left all my favorite comps there and I had been there long enough where everything just felt like home.  I also have made a lot of friends by being in the office and now there is no guarantee that I will see any of them before we all go home. On the upside, I love being a missionary.  I am now devoting all of my time to teaching people about Christ and it is so much fun.  I was sent out to probably the smallest branch in the mission.  We had 9 people come to church and only 7 were actually members.  That means that I play the piano, bless and pass the sacrament, give the talks, and soon, preside in the meeting.  That´s right, I am being called as the first councilor in the branch presidency.  And, any time the branch president cant make it I will be completely in charge. It is...

Well hello everybody!  I made it out alive! It has been wayyy too long since I last wrote an email.  Last time I warned yall that maybe it would be a couple weeks because I would be just too darn busy.  Well... it's been almost a full month (my bad).  I don't know if you want to read a month's worth of office elder rants but too bad.  But, for those of you who easily get second-hand stress, I promise it will be more chill today.   I have been somewhat busy, just not train-wreck busy.  Three pday ago we had to take the missionaries that were going home that transfer to the temple.  I was gone the whole day and just didn't have time to do much except call my family.  That week wasn't too busy.  We did have a few zone conferencias that we pushed back until almost the end of the transfer though, leaving everything a little rushed but not completely out of control.  The next week we did the gira.  We went to encarnacion an...