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4-17-23

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GOT LOCKED IN THE ROOM!?? I COULDN'T ESCAPE!?? GONE WRONG! ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, I AM BACK. STILL LIVING AND STILL BREATHING. I have been pretty bad at emailing recently, I am going to try to fix that and be a little more consistent on that. That week was a solid week. We found a lot of people to teach and made great progress with our friends.  Since I got to start dodging the crazy people here now, I decided I need to adapt and change my game. First of all, I can not out run people with a bag on my back. So, I decided to go to Brazil and buy myself a fanny pack. Oh yeah baby, we adapting. Now I wear this fanny pack around my waist and I will be the first to tell you that I look like a stud out here my boys. White shirt, tie, pants and a fanny pack. I am changing the game of the mission. My Spanish is really good now and slowly I am learning new words in Guardni. One thing we struggle here in Pedro Juan is our visits not going through. One day Elder Risenmay and I we...

4-3-23

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I GOT ROBBED?!? NOT CLICKBAIT??? GONE WRONG!?! So, I will start of by saying this isn't click bait. I WAS ALMOST ROBBED. However, these people didn't know that they were dealing with a 5 star athlete. Let's get into it. It started of normal. I did my 1000 push-ups and sit-ups. Dried scooped some protein and went with my day. Since the seasons are opposites, the sun is starting to set at like 5:30. We started walking in a place where we always walk, very familiar. We started walking down this hill and a member of the church dropped some tree branches and I went to help him. We were trying to find this one family and asked if he could help us. He told us they lived down the hill. Perfect, started making our way down the hill and out of nowhere these two 20 year old kids stopped us. The guy on the bike tried talking to me, but I didn't hear him. The guy on the back of the bike got off and had a 7 inch kitchen knife with him. At this moment in time I am about 4 inches away ...