AAIII VAAAMOS GRINGOOOS

Welp this week was kind of sad and kind of great and overall extremely eventful.  On Friday I had the opportunity to go to the temple and say goodbye to the group that I came here to Chile with, two years ago.  Elder Halter, Elder Allen, Elder Piippo, Elder Theobald, Elder Hillier, and Elder Harper are all back safe and sound in the United States now and it was impressionating to be back with them and enjoy the temple with some of my best friends in the world.  A few of us had a sleepover in Elder Hillier's house the night before, and it was very hectic because they were almost all zone leaders and they started calling all of them to give them the changes.  Everybody's phones were going off and it was wild and they called and told me that I was also going to have changes.  I'll admit that I was sad, I've come to really really love the people in the Pincoya and it really was one of the first times when I have not been ready to leave, but the Lord has called me to be in another part and I'll go where you want me to" (cliche but what can ya do).  Then on Friday we all went to the temple, and then went out to lunch with president, his wife and his kids.  Then we went home, and we went to visit some people and got pizza with my friend Maudi (crazy looking guy (see pictures.)) He's got some mental problems but he's just so fun and great and his mom gave us permission to take him out for pizza for his birthday.  Then bright and early Saturday morning we went to a MULTI MISSION CONFERENCE with the Santiago East Mission.  That was pretty rad.  We were some 300 off missionaries and there was a part where we all sang "love one another" that was really special. _Bishop Davies from the Presiding Bishopbric came and taught with his wife, and so did Elder Packer from the Quorum of the Seventy with his wife.  We went to a HUGE church in  REPUBLICA (west mission) to have the conference.  So naturally everyone in the mission got to see each other and we had a blast.  Then came the time to say goodbye, I shared the first part of the gospel of Juan in my goodbye testimony and then everyone wanted to take pictures, man am I gonna miss these people.  It was expecially hard to say goodbye to my tia yoli and some of our investigators.  Monday I was all packed up and went ALONE to my new sector, which is called LAMPA.  Lampa is in the zone colina, and my new companion is ELDER WHITBY my freaking boy who was with me in renca.  We're the zone leaders and it's been going really well.  We started off our companionship well today and found really reaaally cheap (1x per week) gym memberships, worked out two hours, and repaired my bike.  Colina is a zone like Los Andes, everyone has big sectors and bikes.  I'm doing great out here and would love to hear from you guys, take care and if you need anything give me a shout.
Elder Rhodric McCurdy
(check my blog to see E'Hillier and I's prom photos)