It was pretty sad leaving the stone oak area. To be totally honest I kinda hoped to leave every transfer before that last one because I wanted to get somewhere crazier and more exciting, but by the end of that last one I loved the people so much and had gotten to know everything so well and saw all the incredible potential in every individual that I really was sad to leave... it was kind of weird. We didn't really go around to say goodbye to anyone because that would've been an irresponsible use of missionary time, so I just made sure to remember and tell people the last time I would be seeing them over the last couple of weeks. Lizbeth Flores (Louis' wife) did make me tres leches for our last lesson, though, so that was cool. Hopefully he'll be baptized soon and I'll be able to come to the temple here for their wedding.
So I'm in San Antonio 10th ward now. It's big enough that there are six missionaries that cover different parts of it. The cool thing, though, is that each of those companionships also covers a spanish ward that is the same area as the part of 10th that they cover. :) So we also cover 5th ward. It's funny because the english ward speaks just as much spanish as the spanish ward... We are down on the south side of San Antonio. President Jones told me that I'd worked hard enough on my spanish that he thought I deserved to be in a spanish area (since that is kind of a coveted thing in this mission), so that's what he did. It's been super cool and I've been excited to see that my spanish really isn't too bad. Elder Robinson (my new companion) and I can pretty much communicate whatever we want with anyone we want. It's also way easier to talk to more people here, though it is harder to have as serious of a conversation with them. There are a lot of people that would like to just talk, but it's hard to get them to understand that we're asking them to do things.
Elder Robinson is really cool. He's kind of a gearhead from Utah (park city, I think), and we like a lot of the same stuff, though he knows a lot more about cars and guns than I do. That's okay tough because we mostly just focus on the gospel haha. It's kind of weird because we both teach very differently. He's very good at simplifying everything so anyone can understand, whereas I'm used to presenting it in such a way that someone who has read all of the bible and knows a lot of history can find it logically feasible enough to let their heart open and feel the spirit when we testify. It's interesting how different that is and how hard to transition it is.
Anyways, yesterday we had planned to knock a specific street, but took a wrong turn and ended up somewhere way different somehow. There we saw this apartment complex sorta looking thingy that was so incredibly scary looking that we couldn't help pulling over to knock it. Turns out nobody lived there, but we felt like we should just keep walking down the street. This street was kind of a bigger one that mostly gets used for transportation and you don't realize that there are a few houses spread out kinda hidden on the side until you're walking on it, so I don't think it had been worked by missionaries for a very long time... anyways, most of the people weren't very nice, but we found this family that was having kind of a hard time, and was willing to listen. The spirit was so strong, and we commited thm to be baptized on the thirty first of this month and they accepted! It was amazing.
I'll tell you more about them next week, and other things too, I'm just out of time now... I've seen so many miracles here already, I'm very excited for this time.
Love you
Elder Katzakian
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