Transfers!

Dear Family, 

      Sooooo..... Transfers came yesterday and there are some big changes in Swift Creek.  Before I tell you what happened, I have to explain something about how transfers used to be with President Perry (may he rest in peace) and how transfers work now with President Wilson.  So before with President Perry (may he rest in peace) when you got a transfer call you would be told if you were leaving, where you would be going, and who your new companion would be who was senior companion and all that good stuff and you would go to transfer meeting the following Thursday.  President Wilson is doing it a little differently.  You get a transfer call and are told if you are leaving.  Then the next Thursday you show up to transfer meeting with your bags packed and President announces where you will be going, and who your companion will be.  So right now all I can tell you guys right now is that I'm leaving Colonial Heights.  I'll let you know where I'm at, my address, and all of that great stuff.  

   Honestly, It's going to be really hard to leave Colonial Heights and the Swift Creek ward.  I have come to love the ward and have come to love the three other Elders I've been living with. They are my family away from home and have helped me through the darkest times and my toughest trials.  They have helped me look at my mission in a new light.  I don't think they will ever understand how much that has meant to me.  So it's going to be very hard to leave.  I know that the Lord put me with these outstanding missionaries for a reason, but I also know that I am leaving now because the Lord needs me somewhere else. 

    It's also going to be very hard to leave because of the miracles Elder Kay and I have seen here the last couple of days.  Every Wednesday we have open gym to try and find brothas who are interested in hearing the gospel.  This Wednesday me and Elder Kay decided to take some time off our dinner and go a little early.  We got there and started to warm up and the telephone rang.  Elder Kay answered it and talked to a man (we'll call him Brother Mckay) who needed help he told us he had been to the church before and was looking for help.  So we got his address and went to his house the next day.  We knocked on the door and no one was there so we left a little note on a mormon.org card and left it in the door and decided to go back the next day.  Well we went to the house and our card was still there.  We were pretty confused and decided to see if they would answer their back door.  We knocked, nothing.  We decided to just leave and hope they got our card.  While we were leaving we saw a suburban?  pull into the house across the street and heard a bunch of kids fighting.  We thought "Hey big car, bunch of kids, why not?"  We went over and said, "Hey can we give you a card?" and they said, "Sure!"  We walked up and gave them the card and when they looked at the card they said, "Oh! We love the mormons!!" (Something I haven't heard in about 4 months and 17 days) we said, "Really?" and then they said, "We are the Mckay family" me and Elder Kay were both in shock!! We had the wrong address all along!!  We talked to them and found out that they have 5 kids 2 sets of twins all over the age of 8.  We also found out that they were Christians just looking for a church and they had been wanting to come to ours!!  We asked them if they would be baptized  if they came to know that the church is true.  They just looked at each other and said, "Well yeah"..... Can you say family of 7 just itching to be baptized!?!?!?!  It was incredible to see the Lord's hand in that.  Guys the church is sooo true!!  I know that with ALL the sincerity of my heart!!! and I hope that I can help people gain that same knowledge for themselves!! because that's what this is all about!!! I love you all soo very much and hope you have a fantastic week!! 

Love, Elder Sahagun