Zach's Mission

Hey everybody!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO EMAILS ME AND GIVES ME RANDOM LIFE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK I LIVE FOR IT. I love the pictures, stories, all of it, so thank you thank you thank you and keep em coming!! OK this week honestly kind of flew by! The title of the email comes from a conversation we had with a lady this week. It was our second time meeting with her and I was having a hard time juggling the conversation between my comp, the one lady, and the other lady, but I was picking up something about her asking us about the US, how we got here, and that was kind of all I got. I also picked up that they kept on saying "Miami, Miami" but I didn't know why. Well after we were done talking to them Elder Tripp filled me in that the woman was planning on leaving the country to try and get to Miami where she has some kids who live there, but she was trying to figure out if she could take a plane or had to drive. So yeah, we haven't gone back yet so she could be in...

Hello everyone!! Hope everyone is doing well!!  Before I start the email, I just want to say thank you to everyone who sent me a message this past week. Wow wow wow I received TONS of support and each and every one of your messages means so much to me and helped me this week so so much. It was literally the answer to my prayers, so thank you🥰 OK, this week was definitely better! I have done a lot of talking and shifting my mindset over the past week to not think about how much time I have left, but instead focus on serving the people day by day and just trying to help others one day at a time. That is helping me a LOT. My prayers are definitely being answered as I continue to keep serving and not focus on the things I miss or my own wants, or really myself in general. It's hard to shift that mindset but it is helping me a lot. Member meals here are so fun! We have lots of dinners and lunches with the members and they are all so nice! It's really fun to try and talk to the kids...

Hey everybody!! Before reading this, my phone is bugging so I am having my mom send this email this week until I get it figured out, so if you want to respond to my email make sure to email me at  zachary.bacon@missionary.org  and not my mom, THANKS!! Wow it's been a minute since my last email with leaving the Mexico Training Center and all, and now as you may have inferred my day for sending my email will be Mondays, but there is a lot from the last 10 days so let's get into it: Leaving the CCM was actually quite a bit harder than I thought it would be. Didn't really realize how much I liked it until I left. We had a nice couple days while we were still there. I'll so some quick bullet points about the last couple of days there: -met a guy going to Albuquerque on his mission, so basically he will be in high school musical #jealous #gowildcats #iloveandmisshighschoolmusicaltoomuch -Spanish slowly kept improving, making tiny baby steps of progress -more good times hangin...

Hey peeps, Things here are starting to get a little more repetitive, but it's ok because my next email that will be sent will be from EL SALVADOR!!! I have about 5 days here left and then I'm off to the actual mission field!! I'm nervous but so so so excited to get going! To close out the Hunger Games at the CCM, we had determined that whoever in our district got picked to speak in church this past week would become Peeta, but sadly no one from our district got picked🤧 or so we THOUGHT. SURPRISE SECOND ROUND REAPING ELDER HALL IS OUR PEETA🦅 There are some Elders here who are going to serve in this rural place in Guatemala and they have to learn this language called xiatchi or something? I don't even know how to spell it, but one of the three bore their testimony in the language and the other said a closing prayer!! Super super cool stuff! Makes me glad I'm just learning spanish😅 We started doing only Spanish classes this week instead of a spiritual class in the m...