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CONFERENCE!

 I'm playing catch-up getting Ricky's mission emails on the blog. It looks like I didn't even send this one out to his email list, so this particular email from April 3 is a Mergenthaler Blog Exclusive. I'm not even going to edit it for clarity which I would do if it were to go out to his friends who might not know what he's talking about with green points and yellow points. I actually am not even sure what that's about, but I think it has to do with how responsive a person or family is to their message.

April 3, 2023

Hey you guys elder Mergenthaler coming back again for another banger email! 

Ok so this week was kind of slow except for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday because these are the days that I didn't have responsibility hahaha but anyways I'll get to that later.. so Tuesday well we weren't really having any luck on the streets because it's becoming cold here and that means that Argentina shuts down so it's kind of difficult to find but we have this idea to hit one of our green points who missed a lesson so we go to his house and knock he doesn't show up but his mom or someone does I can't remember but she's interested so then we share our beliefs and we set up a day to come back!! Which is insane! After that we had a call with one of our yellow friends named Belen and it turns out she also had lots of interest so we set up a day to come back! She's been progressing so well so we will see where she goes but ya 

Wednesday was crazy too because I got sick so I'm like half dead at this time but the work goes on no so we go out and start talking to our flat earther well we sit there for about an hora so I kick my comps shoe he does nothing just keeps talking so I eventually grab the situation and am like Hey we have lunch we need to get to so thank you for your time but bye and the guy was like ohh he thinks I'm crazy well on the inside yes but on the outside your one of our friends were teaching but anyways after that we go back home chill out I chugg medicine and then we go to working again in the afternoon and this is when we find jordan he's dope he found out from the church from a crime podcast haha but anways we gave him a book of Mormon and told him we would talk and he was like bet hahaha! But then we came home and went to bed haha Thursday and Friday were really boring just because no one was outside so we couldn't contact that well but I guess Thursday I got the controls for district leader so now I'm officially the district leader! Which doesn't mean anything but ahah its something that happend the only really other cool thing that happened was that conference was soo good if you haven't seen it go watch it!! It's soo good! 

But anyways I have to go but I love you all and miss you lots!

Elder 

Mergenthaler 

Out 






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