Week 77...Chile Wins!

CHILE WINS, PRESIDENTE SAYS BYE, HERMANAS FROM MY GROUP GO HOME, AND SPECIAL CHANGES

Mi Gente,

This week was absolutely insane, I'm telling ya... with Presidente going home and being a zone leader time just seems to fly by. I hate it. I love the mission and I love all the experiences that I've had so far, I look forward to having a lot more in my last 6 months here en el mi querido país de Chile! With Presidente Barrieros and Hermana Barreiros going home, plus Elder Pomar having to do all his go homer stuff this week it was hard to avoid the nostalgic feelings. Especially when I went to Maipú to drop Elder Pomar off in his depedida and saw a ton of people from my old sectors! Even the members from my first sector in Peñaflor remember me and they were so excited to see me, oh man... it's going to be hard to say bye to everyone when my time runs to an end in December. Luckily, I've still got a ton of time and I'm going to be going full gas vomit up until I'm going up the steps in the DIA airport. 

The farewell meeting we had with Presidente on Monday was super intense and super sad, but I loved what he said when he said "the love that you all have for me will be felt immediately for Presidente Woodward and his wife when they get here because they'll have the keys and you will all immediately know that he was called by God to be your mission Presidente." I'll probably be seeing Presidente and his wife this Saturday in a Leadership meeting we'll be having. The other crazy thing that happened in the meeting was special changes! Elder Pomar is no longer my comp and I'm now with one of the dopest missionaries in the mission. His names is Elder Suarez and he's from Uruguay, he's a super funny guy and everyone loves him! He goes home in November so it'll be cool to be with someone who still has time to get things moving in this stake that needs a ton of help! I already know I'll be getting along great with him because as we were logging into our internet accounts he types "facebook" in the web browser and nudges me and says "this is the right page right?" I love being around people that are willing to kid around. I already know we'll be having a lot of fun together while we work our brains out. 

The other BIG NEWS is that CHILE WON LA COPA AMÉRICA!!!! I cannot even begin to describe how cool it is to be here when Chile is playing, the atmosphere is crazy and there is so much intensity. It's also a good thing they won because people were way nicer to us the next day! I was running around that night all over the place because Elder Pomar had his despedida that night. I went on divisions for an hour and a half in my sector with Elder Nalesso and Elder Young and we actually found a new investigator before the partido started! Pretty sick, it just goes to show that if you have faith you can get into houses at any time even 1 hour before the big game. We went back to Maipú to pick up our comps and there was NO ONE IN THE STREETS AND NO MICROS. Presidente ended up passing by and he actually drove us back home, it was pretty cool to have him drive us home in his car... Then when we were trying to sleep we just heard screaming and shouting as Chile was in penales. Then they won and the whole world blew up. The screams started to die off at like 2 in the morning. Needless to say, mis chilenos love their fútbol. WE BACK TO BACK CHAMPS! I sent home a jersey of Alexis Sanchez to Preston with Hermana McNevin! Enjoy!