First Transfer!

I don't what in the world happened when I left but apparently the worlds been going nuts since I've been gone. Apparently the Cubs won the World Series, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton are going to be President, and the worlds on fire. I miss a lot of stuff from home, but man I'm glad I don't have to worry about that kinda stuff right now.

Things have been actually fairly successful this week. We had set up a ton of lessons this week like 3 or 4 everyday. And a few of them actually came through! I'm so excited for the investigators we do have that actually seem excited, which right now is like 3 but we think it'll work! Our new #1 is Andres and his family who are from Venezuela. We found Andres by a miracle actually. We were talking to this member lady in Woodgate and asking for referrals when suddenly this man walks out of his apartment and just stands there not really doing anything, so we immediately stop talking to the lady and hurried over to talk to him. He's never had missionaries over and accepted a lesson. Then he just walked back into his apartment, as if the only reason he came out was to talk to us. He lives with his wife María (different María) and has two young sons. 

So fast forward a few days we come with this newly wed couple to there house and nobody answers, so at first we were really sad and we took the walk of shame back with the members. After we left them and everything Elder Bottari told me we had to go back to leave a note or something. So we go back to their door and as we are writing a note Andres walks up with María and they let us in! It was an amazing lesson and Andres was super understanding of everything and even though he didn't accept baptism right away he told us that he wants to be able to say he is ready for baptism eventually. 

We had an awesome FHE with the Shade family last night from Mexico. We invited our 15yo recent convert Denise who is really close with their daughter. And the Shades invited a friend named Julio. So it was both a RC lesson and a new investigator lesson, with members present! It was such an awesome and fun experience.

Elder Bottari for the past few days has been telling everyone that that he's leaving, so we've been preparing to say goodbye and everything and he stayed goodbye to everyone else already. And we had a "farewell" breakfast at the Gunns, our MLS couple, just in case.

We found out today that both Elder Bottari and I are leaving the area! I'm going to River 9th! And we are getting replaced by sisters! So we are being "pinkwashed". We are so stressed because we still have so much to do and this is only my second transfer and I'm already leaving. I really don't want to leave this area, everything about it was amazing.