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My sense is you kind of got turbocharged on your mission. Is that true?

So I decided to serve a mission. I still had read the Book of Mormon all the way through.

I decided that's something that I need to do. So I read the Book of Mormon all the way through.

I actually finished it in the MTC and it was called to serve in the Chilean Tufagasta mission.

So into the MTC I had studied Spanish in high school, living in Southern California,

had ample opportunities working in restaurants all throughout high school and college to interact

with Spanish speakers. So I had some experience with Spanish so I spent a little bit less time in the

MTC. But yeah, my mission for me was absolutely transformative. It was the time when the fire was

lit within my heart with respect to my testimony, the church, my desire to live the gospel,

to the best of my ability. Talk about your mission present a little bit.

Oh, I love my mission present. Oh, you had two. I had two. Okay.

When I write the second one, was it, which was the intense one? Were they both intense or?

The second one. Yeah, yeah. So about halfway through my mission, we were asked to run.

We were asked to run from house to house, from door to door to go as fast as we could, to meet as

many people as we could, to talk to as many people as we could about the gospel and the church.

And that's what I did. We ran for about the last year of my mission. We ran from door to door

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