Transfers. . .

This was a crazy week! Welp, I guess we'll start with the craziest. I'm training 😓 I don't know who my new companion is yet but she will be fresh out of the MTC! I'm so nervous to train! We totally thought that we were safe because usually you get a call Saturday or early Sunday afternoon if you are assigned a leadership role. So we thought we were safe and then we got out of dinner and we had 2 missed calls from President. So Sister Gali answered when he called again and he asked for me. That was possibly the most terrifying moment of my life. So he asked me to train and I'm staying in this area for another 7 weeks with my greenie! Sister Gali is being transferred to Spring Creek! It's crazy that she's going to the same ward that I served in! It'll definitely be a change for her since she's stayed in Reno for the whole 9 months she's been on her mission. But anyways it was a little hard to fall asleep last night 😬 

In other news I gave a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday!..And I volunteered to give it..yup, you're probably a little shocked :) I just got really excited because in Ward Council a couple weeks ago, Bishop asked us to organize a sacrament meeting on missionary work. So Sister Gali spoke on the missionary's call to teach and I spoke on the members' covenant to do be member missionaries. It was pretty great. And I got to talk about the importance of home and visiting teaching and somewhat unintentionally guilt everyone in the room to remember their covenants. And it was crazy because I wasn't even that nervous! :)

Another crazy thing happened. I ate Red Lobster. That means that in the last 3 weeks I've eaten at a restaurant that primarily serves pasta and one that primarily serves fish. Y'all should be proud that I found something that was not pasta and not fish at each restaurant. I'm pretty much a pro at avoiding gross food.

In other news, one of our investigators is still amazing. He's getting baptized the first weekend in March (and I'm still going to be here for it!! :) ) and he's just awesome. He was telling us about how he had a birthday party to go to on Sunday at 3 and we were sad because church is at 1. We told him that sometimes things come up so it's ok if you can only come to the first hour. He then told us that he would just skip it and come to all 3 hours. Best 12 year old ever! He's also been studying Preach My Gospel and reading and praying daily, so he's pretty much the perfect person to teach! He and Mateo are pretty much tied for the best investigators.

Anyways this next week is going to be even crazier! The entire zone is changing. Out of 10 companionships, only 1 will be the same next transfer. Sister Hingano is going home tomorrow :( it's going to be crazy because she's pretty much been my STL since I came out on my mission. But it'll be crazy teaching someone how to be a missionary..I'll send some pictures next week :)

Love and miss you all!

Sister Ashley Gootee