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Well mother with your wonderful letter about college and rooms I am now totally ahksdhfksdhafishdfjha. If you can understand that. But we will see how the cards fall and well the consequences will come.

But other than the tragic blow to my concentration you have given me I am perfectly fine!!!! This week was a pretty good week and I have had a good time. I am learning a lot and progressing little by little. The letter that dad sent me helped me out a ton today and I am now super excited to go to work and ACT. I am just praying that the Lord gives me strength and power to move forward and achieve many things. Things are moving along just fine here in Tahua and I am just hoping that in February we can have a super successful month.

But really mom with this news that you sent me about the whole BYU thing has really made me think and freak out a little bit!!! That's why my letter is going to be super short this week because well, my mind is going crazy. I just hope everything is going to be alright!!!!!

I hope you guys have a great week and have many stories for me next week!!!!

I love you all!!!!

Elder McIff

Dingo, diligente, y valiente

Well this week was a pretty good week! The only thing is that my breakfast this morning gave me diarrhea so I am not up to writing, like at all. So this letter will be short because I was writing reports the whole morning.

But this week was a good one for my companion and I. We taught a lot and well we help the Zone a ton. We did a bunch of work visits and we trained a lot about the diligence and we helped them get excited and work hard. We are super excited with the Zone now. Everyone worked really hard this week and we are really proud of them.

This week we had interviews with the president and it was cool!!! He talked a lot about the stake and how we can help out the leaders and then we talked about the missionaries and then he gave me some awesome advice. I asked him what I can do as Zone Leader and what I can do to be better and he just shared two Scriptures with me about revelation. He told me that I need to look for my own revelation to help the missionaries and to help myself. So I studied that this week and I have learned that the revelation comes from being worthy, working diligently, and being valiant to follow the impressions of the spirit. I need to e better with all of those things and I need to look for my own revelation.

I love you so much mom!!! I know that this letter is short I just have no energy and I just want to sleep. haha. But don't worry! Everything will be fine!!!

I love you guys!!!!

Elder McIff

Bien, buen siervo y fiel, sobre poco has sido fiel, sobre mucho te pondre, entra en el gozo de tu Señor

Well this week I don't have much to say. It was a pretty slow week. Haha. I don't have much to share. I am a man of little word this week. We found a few more people to teach and we committed a few more people to baptism but other than that everything is tranquilo. Not much happening here in Barrio Deseret.

New Years I slept. Monday I got my package. On Wednesday we had a Leadership council of the Mission. That was pretty cool. Every first Wednesday of every month all the Zone leaders and the Sister leaders get together to talk about what happened in the last month. We talk about how many baptisms we had, we set baptism goals for the next month, (this time we did it for the whole year of 2015!!!). And then President Erickson trains us on what we can do better. This guy knows so so sos so sos so sos sos sos os so sos os so much. It is ridiculous. But this week he talked about diligence and how we need to be more diligent in our work and how only trough work we can be happy in the mission and have success. He said ALL PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED WITH WORK! It was really cool and I really enjoyed the meeting.

It really motivated me to work harder and find the people are waiting for me.

I hope that I can work hard enough so that at the judgement seat the Lord says to me, "His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." Matthew 25:23. The President taught us some super cool things about the parable of the talents and shared with us a quote from Joseph Smith that really motivated me to work hard and do the work of the Lord.

I know that this church is true and I am so happy that I am able to preach the gospel here in Peru and serve the Lord. I just hope that I can be faithful enough and worthy enough to receive the great blessings that God has promised us.

I hope you all have this same desire to work and serve the Lord. I know that God will bless you more than you can believe when you put your trust in him and serve him with all your heart and might.

I hope you all have a great week and you can all come a little bit closer to Christ!!!

I love you guys a lot!!!!

Cuidense!!!

Elder McIff

Bueno, fue navidad esta semana. FUE NAVIDAD!!!!!

Hey there familiation!!!!

I am so so so grateful that I got to talk to you guys on Thursday!!! It was so awesome to see you all and talk with you guys!!!! You look great and it sounds like you had a great Christmas!!!! I hope you are all enjoying your gifts!!!! I am still waiting for Santa to come to Peru. Air traffic control called him down. Haha.

But it was so awesome to see you guys. It gave me a bunch of motivation to work and use all the time I have left to serve the Lord to the fullest! Even though talking about BYU and jobs and vacations and everything made me a little trunky but hey now I have something to work to!!!! But seriously, I don't want to this whole mission thing to end and go back to the real world. But hey there is still time left before that day!!!

So this week was a little difficult because all the people were partying with their families and they didn't want to accept us. But we kept looking and we found some new investigators so we will what happens with them. But other than that it was a cool week. It was amazing learning about and celebrating Christ.

These last weeks I have learned a bunch of Christ from learning the Book of Mormon and the New Testament. I know that Christ is our savior and I know that only through him we can return to our father and receive forgiveness for our sins.

But the only thing I can say in this letter is that I am Happy. I am just happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. I can't say why because I don't know. But I am just happy. :)

I hope you guys are happy and enjoying St. George!!! I love you guys so much!!!! Have an amazing week!!!!!!

I Love you!!!!!!

Elder McIff

NAVIDAD NAVIDAD NAVIDAD!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!! (almost)

How are you guys!!! I haven't received a letter from you guys yet but I figure that's because were just gonna talk on Thursday but I wanna know how you guys are!!! I hope everything is fine and that you are preparing for Christmas!!! I know I am!!! Well, there isn't much to prepare for. Haha. I'm not going to do anything haha. Other than talk with you guys and walk around my area for some lonely person to teach. Haha. Christmas is crazy here. No one is in their houses or don't want to receive us because they are with their families we keep working!!! Happily working!!!

My new companion is Elder Rivera from Ecuador. He has 18 months in the mission and we are the Zone Leaders of Zona Tahuantisuyo. He's a cool guy and we work well together. This week we have worked a bunch. When Elder Vidal left I still didn't know the area really well and we didn't have any investigators. So when Elder Rivera got here we just went to work and we ended up finding a bunch of less actives and investigators and at the end of the week one sister that we found this week can to church and committed to baptism! Woooo!!!! We definitely received a lot of blessings this week.

But we are working really hard in out area. But this week I have been thinking a lot about Christ and his birth. On Christmas we celebrate the birth of the Lord and he remember His coming into the World and we remember that he is our savior and redeemer and with out him we would be lost forever. And on Sunday as the bishopric gave their messages of Christmas I was thinking about the birth of Christ and his life and a great impression came over me. On Christmas we celebrate his birth, but on Sunday morning I received the overwhelming impression that he was born and he still lives. 2000 years he was born and today, this very moment He Lives. I know that Christ lives and I cannot express my feelings I have this Christmas season. I can only say that I am so so thankful and grateful for the birth of that little child in Bethlehem on Christmas day.

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Lucas 2:10-14

I hope you remember this year that Christ was born and because he was born we may all live again. I know that Christ is our redeemer, savior, and king. And I know that Our Heavenly Father sent his son to complete his plan of salvation Moses 1:39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
I am so thankful to our Heavenly Father and I know that He lives and that His son lives as well. I pray that the Christmas we remember what the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes did every single one of us.
Merry Christmas and may God be with you the season!!!
I love you guys!!!!
FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!!
Poco a Poco,
Elder McIff

Bday fun day.... ish

Baptism on my birthday!!!

How is everybody!!! I am good if you were wondering. Haha. Well this week it was my birthday and turned 20. Someone please punch me and tell me that it's a dream. I DON'T WANNA BE OLD!!!!! I don't wanna grow up! Haha. But yeah, it happened, I turned 20. My birthday was really low key, or in better words nothing happened. haha. Here in the ward no one knew and so I wasn't expecting anything. I was pretty prepared for the disappointment that was gonna come and it wasn't that bad! haha. I played soccer in the morning with the elders, had a really big lunch with a member, and then we had a baptism!!! haha that's pretty much it! really Low key and really not exciting at all. haha. But it's all good! I have a bunch of birthdays left in my life. I'm not too worried. Haha. 

But I am happy to hear all the fun time that you  guys had this week!!! I saw that Jenni sang in the south towne center, THAT IS SO COOL!!! WAY TO GO JENNI!!! How did she do? I am sure she did awesome. Finally someone from the McIff family is gonna be famous!! We're depending on you Jenni!!!! 

My week was pretty crazy. So this week was the last week with my companion Elder Vidal. Today is transfers and he has a change. So I spent the whole getting to know the zone. So I went and did visits with five different missionaries. It was super fun. I got to work in their area, sleep at their house and just hang out with them! I got to make so good friends this week! It was awesome!!! I am really excited for the zone and I really like all the Missionaries. I am really excited to have a new companion and learn more!!! It will be a great month and new year!!! 

I had a bunch of experiences super spiritual and super powerful that have helped increase my testimony so much. I am so so happy that I can be in the mission and have these experiences and feel the spirit so strongly. I Love the feeling of the spirit and try to always, always, have it with me. Because when I don't I'm not as happy! So, its just better to have the spirit always. Haha. I hope that you guys fell the spirit in the house and if not, as Elder Uctdorf said, "then you have things to improve" Haha. I know you guys are obedient and always radiate light and spirit. I am just so happy that I can have the gift of the Holy Ghost and have his companionship with me always. I love it!!!

Well I hope that this week you have a great week and I hope I do too!!! But I know I will. :) I love you guys so so much and have an amazing week!!!!!

LES AMOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

ELDER MCIFF