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Dear Sister McKinlay

- March 17, 2021

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Oh Hi!

- April 13, 2020

Queridos Amigos y Familiares, Holy heck. Maybe I should just leave the email at that because it perfectly describes these last 2 weeks. I arrived home safely last week after about 40-ish hours of traveling. The Church chartered a flight from Buenos Aires for about 570 missionaries. Because my mission is one of the northernmost (is that a word?) missions AND all of Argentina was on some sort of lockdown quarantine with all the province borders shut down...we had to stop for about an hour at every province border we passed through. What should have been a 20ish hour bus ride ended up being about 27 hours so that was awesome. Not to mention, the bus was 13 hours late to pick us up in Jujuy. Once we got to Buenos Aires, they dropped us off at the MTC right next to the temple. That's where the rest of the 500 or so missionaries were waiting. There were missionaries from Santa Fe, Rosario, etc. and I actually got to run into some missionaries from my MTC district who were in Sant...

THINGS! ARE! GOING! TO! GET! BETTER! OK?!

- August 17, 2020

¡Hola Familia y Amigos! Transfers happen next week and Hermana Skinner and I are not here for it. This transfer was long but to think it's almost over...what?!?! This last week was also really long. But sweet Elder Pappa from la mision Salta Argentina sent me some scriptures of animo so we are about to tackle this week!!! Shoutout to Elder Pappa! Extraño la MAS! Basically Hermana Skinner and I taught a lot of English classes. We also had interviews with President Christensen, Zone Council, a hike, and 2 sacrament meetings! It was good to go back to church, even if we have to wait another 3 weeks until our ward meets again. This week I decided to study "Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders among You" by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. It's based off of Joshua 3:5 and is sooo good. Exactly what I needed this week. Here are some of the things I love from his talk: the great thing about the gospel is we get credit for trying, even if we don’t always suc...

Well Well Well, If It Isn't Hermana McKinlay in Flippin Argentina

- November 18, 2019

¡Hola amigos y amigas! Not quite sure how much time I have left here in the internet cafe because my companion speaks no English and I can't remember how much time she said we'd have here. Hahahahaha sos. The past 12 days have been absolutely insane. Here's the rundown. It took me 32 hours to get from Mexico City to Salta. My travel group had a 4 hour layover in Panama City (STUNNING descent. Coolest view from a plane ever). We chilled and ate at the airport. In the food court I noticed a tv that was playing ESPN football highlights so I suggested we sit at a table where I may or may not have just so happened to have perfect sight of the tv. Can't really remember, it's all a blur ;) Layover in Buenos Aires was a complete JOKE! My dad would have given up the ghost. I don't really know what was going on, mostly because I know 2% of Castellano (Argentina spanish), but apparently a lot of pilots were going on strike because the government is lousy or so...