Liutai was serving in Argentina Resistencia, and Evelyn was serving in Chile Santiago East mission. they found each other's emails and just... kept talking Somehow, through the specific miracle that is missionary google photos and email threads, they found each other. Shared love of Latino culture. Shared love of mate. Shared understanding of what it means to leave a place and carry it with you. The friendship was real before anything else was. his own dad set them up. unknowingly. After they both came home, Bishop Kinikini, Liutai's father, felt inspired to suggest that Evelyn invite Liutai to the Spanish YSA ward. He had no idea about the emails. No idea a friendship already existed. He thought he was making a simple introduction. He was actually just confirming what was already written. They went out. They talked drank some mate, talked about the mysteries Chile and Argentina, and talked of the people they'd become. It felt easy in the way that things do when they're supposed to. By October 2024, it was official ,which, honestly, felt less like a decision and more like an acknowledgment of something that had already been true for a while. it's giving jane austen but make it lds