8/21/2017

Life is good folks! I hope everyone is enjoying life in your own cool

way. August in AZ sucks! Endure to the end (of summer) hahaha. I don't

know if y'all have heard but there's this Eclipse thing happening

today throughout the whole country and it just so happens that middle

Tennessee is the best place in the entire world to be to view it!!! So

I'm stoked not going to lie! Not a crazy amount of things happened so

I'll keep this one brief:) shout out to my cousin Elijah Wade for

finishing his mission from El Salvador! All our investigators are

Salvadoreños so I'll keep it going! Cool things:

Zone Conference: So good. So many spiritual punches to the face, and

also things that edified me and others. The main focus/objective was

for us to become a "White Handbook mission". In other words, raising

our level of obedience. President Pickett created A conference layout

that totally changed the game. The Cookeville Zone (mine) and also the

Chattanooga Zone (my first Zone) all met together in Rockwood,

Tennessee. Woke up at 4:50 AM and drove 2 hours to the chapel. Super

beautiful and elevated. Not going to lie I was exhausted and Red Bull

saved my life! Another amazing focus was upon loving your companion

and having unified districts! I loved this a lot because it gave me

many ideas. Not going to lie President Pickett threw down on the

mission. He said we were an average mission and we always refer to the

mission as the "Great TKM". That was a solid punch to the face but

also definitely needed. It is very easy for a mission culture to leak

in disobedience. He talked about how distractions in life may not

always appear to be bad. For example back home, smart phones are not

necessarily bad themselves but you can allow them to distract you from

more important things in this life. How miracles will we miss if we

let ourselves get distracted or  by being disobedient? Don't miss

those miracles. They are around every corner! I also was given the

random opportunity to bear my testimony in front of two zones for some

reason. Wow, it was hard fighting back tears. I hadn't felt that way

in awhile. I testified of how I know Christ lives and how I've seen

his Atonement change others and me.

Speaking of miracles! We finally got Ivey Villanueva to church! She is

an inactive member that we found (who was not in the records) and she

brought her whole family to church! It became apparent that the

husband didn't really want to stay and Ivey was getting a little

bored.....but.....their KIDS🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🙏🏼 absolutely loved church!!

They didn't want to leave. So they all stayed all 3 hours and it was

legit!

This past week was a little muerto pero lo qu pienso es que this week

is going to be unreal! We are going to be diligent and obedient and

all the above (not that we haven't been) but there are always things

we can improve on. From the last Zone Conference, my greenie fire got

a nice ignition. Grateful for that. Being in 1 area for this long can

take a toll but I'm loving the Hispanics and we are having success!!:)

we are making big goals for church Attendance next week! Miriam didn't

get to come because she doesn't like being late. Elder Ney and I are

doing are best to work in unity being Spanish and English Elders and

only teaching Spanish. I've been taking him to English areas as well!

That's all I go for this week! Love yunz Les amo Ciao Pescao

Elder Mac

1-4: Peachy's Birthday

5: Buzz Lightyear

6: Guapo

7: Parley Pratt

8-12: Eclipse Party (more pics coming) Texas Brisket!!