See ya soon!

Dear Family,
This has been the most incredible spiritual week, going to the Temple was Incredible I'll attach some pics and tell you about it soon

We also got to go to D.C. and see the Washington monument and the Lincoln memorial and a bunch of other cool stuff. I'll attach some more pics and tell you about it soon. 

It has basically snowed for the whole last week of my mission.. it has been intense I'll attach some pics and well ya know :)  

I love you all sooo much. I can't wait to see you!!!!!  

Family!!

This week was awesome, Ian got baptized and we walked around in the snow.. I mean can life get better?  Wait yeah it can,  I had my departing interview with President Wilson on Sunday (because he wasn't going to have time on the Tuesday night before I leave).  It was incredible, I freaking love President Wilson.  I feel so much better about life.  ALSO!!  I asked President Wilson if I could go back to VCU and proselyte one more time before I go home, and he was more than down!! So on the Tuesday right after transfers I will spend on VCU with the Chippenham Elders and then I'll go to the mission home and join everybody else after that.  I am so excited.  It really is the perfect way to end my mission. Good stuff, the Lord is so merciful and kind.  He knows each one of us personally.  I am so excited, this next week is going to be incredible.   

Ian Craddock's baptism                                                                            and yeah... it snowed a lot. 

Elder Sahagun Sings Joseph's First Prayer

Joseph's First Prayer

FAMILY!!!! 

Wow, there is so much going on.  This week was so quick.. every week is just super quick now.  I don't really even know where to start.. hmmmm SO!  I don't know if you remember me ever talking about the Shelton family, but they are a member family down In colonial heights, my first area.  They played such a crucial role in helping me overcome my homesickness, they were my first "family" away from home and I love them!!  I haven't seen them in like, well... about two years.  and this week on Saturday then drove all the way up from colonial heights to Woodbridge which is like 2 hours and they took me out to dinner.  It was so great to be able to see them again!!  I'll attach a pic of that for ya.

Thank you so much for praying for all of our investigators!!  Especially for Cristina and Raniah!!!  We had such a cool miracle with them.  They came to church yesterday, and the ward pulled in clutch,  5 star performance... it was truly incredible and because the ward did such an amazing job, Cristina and Raniah were able to have an incredible spiritual experience.  After church we were talking to them both about how they liked church. Raniah (who is 8) explained to us how she had made so many new friends and that she loved primary and she wants to come back every Sunday.  It was so great to see how excited she was about the gospel.  We asked Cristina how she liked it and she expressed the same excitement and told us about how she had received a confirmation from the spirit during relief society that this was God's true church on the earth!!!  It was incredible to hear!!  She is so prepared!!  They are going to be baptized on the 22nd of February,  What a great way to close out my mission. Again thank you for all of your prayers for them.  

I'm so excited for these next two weeks.  So many incredible things are going to happen.  I hope y'all have a great next two weeks as well..  I love you all so much!!! 

Elder Sahagun

sorry the picture won't work.. my computer is freaking out 

Family!! So good to hear from you all!!  This week was incredible, It wasn't super cold, we got fed every night (which is pretty normal but still awesome)  we found new investigators and people that need to be baptized on the 14th of Feb.and then at the end of the week we had 2 baptisms!!!  It was  sicckkk hahaha Mom I have always had that slang in my vocabulary, it just stands out more when I'm a missionary.

The things I'm most excited about:

We are teaching a kid named Ian Craddock, his entire family got baptized while he was studying abroad in London.  He's been back for about 3 months now and has basically come to church every Sunday.  He is seriously the most prepared investigator that I've eve taught, he'll be baptized before I leave on the 14th.

We are teaching this lady named Ana Lovo and her daughter Mikayla, when I first started teaching he like a month or two ago she was super hesitant.  We started to give her some homework assignments and got her to start reading the Book of Mormon and she has changed so much!!  It has been so cool to see the spirit change Ana's heart and now her daughter is really interested as well!! They are Progressing towards baptism probably sometime in late February/early March.

On the 19th all of the departing missionaries get to go to the D.C. Temple and do a session with President and Sister Wilson.  I haven't been to the temple in 2 years.. I'm SUPER PUMPED 

We are also teaching this lady name Cristina and her 8 year old daughter Rhania they are incredibly prepared and Rhania absolutley LOVES when we come over.  They will for sure get baptized hopefully that can happen while I'm still here 

There is so much to do. and now that it's February it's getting too easy to calculate how many days I have left, but if anything it just makes me work even harder knowing that this is it.  This is my last stand, my last chance to testify to anyone and everyone as a set apart representative of Jesus Christ, but my face is set and my pace is fast, because "The best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a great day to die."

Baptism pics of Isata Kamara and Amirah Iftoni

CRAZY WEEK

FAMILY!!  

Me and Elder Jones love being missionaries!!  Time is going way to fast!!  Isata and Amirah are getting baptized this Saturday!! They are super stoked!! So are we!!  We had a pretty rough week, but not emotionally or physically or spiritually or anything like that. Just with like super angry people.. and it's not like it got us down or discouraged because I mean one angry baptist isn't going to stop us from spreading the Lord's truth. but it just made it really hard to find people to talk to cause they were all really angry. 

So Elder Jones got a flat tire, so our mobility is pretty much shot, and our calves are pretty much jacked now.  we're walking everywhere. and it's great and it's a little cold but it really doesn't matter.  We get to talk to a lot of people from this minor setback so I'm pretty sure that it was inspired and foreordained to happen.  

Pray for Ana and Makayla Lovo, I really REALLY want them to get baptized before I leave.  They are set on date for the 14th of February, but I mean prayers can never hurt anything.  Also pray for The Ramirez-Salvador family...  a sick family of 7 that also needs to get baptized before I leave!! AHHHH there is so much freaking stuff to do it's unreal!! the Lord has been so kind to us.  I know this work is true!!  I have a lot of stories for you guys that I can't tell you yet or you'd worry about me to much!!  I'll try and take more pictures this week so I can have some cool ones to send you. Love you all so very much!! 

Love, Elder Sahagun

My address is:

5486 Rector Dr. Woodbridge VA, 22193 

My dearest family!! 

    It's been such a great week!!  So many random miracles and funny things happened and I wish I could tell you everything.. but that would take forever and our member ride would leave us stranded at the library.  

    Mom, I've been doing pretty good with my book of mormon reading, I just read Alma 15-18 this morning.  I LOVE chapter 17 when the sons of Mosiah are bout to leave and go teach the Lamanites.  I feel like I can relate to that chapter a lot, and the courage reminds me just how great of a work that I have undertaken.  

Elder Sahagun & Elder Jones

    So I didn't tell you who my companion was last week because I didn't have him yet and I didn't know who he was going to be.  That's just how transfers work here in the Virginia Richmond Mission, but I got him now and I'm super excited.  I was super worried that my last companion would be one of those missionaries who makes it hard to work.  I am so blessed to have a companion who is quite the opposite. His name is Elder Jones, he's from Queens Creek, Arizona.  He's been out for 6 months, he came out in the same MTC district as Elder White.  We have so much fun doing the Lords work.  We just go out and talk to everyone and testify boldly and defend the faith when necessary and I love it!!  We've only been together for like 5 days and I know that he is the missionary I needed to be companions with in order to do all that I want this last transfer of my mission!! 

    One of the funniest things that happened this week was the funniest little black 7 year old kid named Isaiah.We saw him standing next to some old guy on the side of the road, so naturally we stop to talk to him (the older guy), but it turned out that this little 7 year old had a lot more to say.  He asked us what we do, we told him that we go all around Woodbridge and talk to people about Jesus.  After like 2 minutes the guy he was standing close to walked away, we asked Isaiah later on and he told us he didn't know the guy at all haha. We kept on telling him about what we do and  He said, " Oh well I'm a preacher. hahaha Just kidding.  but really you guys need to talk to my mom.  She loves Jesus more than anyone I know.. she must pray like every 5 minutes.. you want her number? We were like "I mean.. sure" he gave us his moms phone number and started asking more and more questions which was funny because he's the most smooth talking, charismatic 7 year old you'll ever meet.  Somehow we got to the point where he wanted to come out and contact with us.. we told him we couldn't because we were heading home for dinner, but he was pretty determined to come out with us. He was like "Oh! I'll come with you and just wait outside then when you're done we can go out.  We tried to tell him no, and I still don't know how it happened but some how we ended up standing there waiting for Isaiah to come back from asking permission from his mom to come out with us. Me and Elder Jones came up with a way to get out of it and when he came back we told him that we couldn't and that we'd go out another time.  He was a little bummed but he said, " Could I just breakdance for you really quick?? we were like haha ummm sure.  the he was like" okay, actually I'm just gonna rap for you.  could you drop me a beat? I started laughing but I was like okay, so I started beatboxing and managed to get my camera out just in time to get the most amazing video of a 7 year old kid free-style flowing.. haha it was priceless, remind me to show you that video when I get home.  After he was done I asked him If I could get a pick with him and we started to leave and I was like you're a pretty cool kid Isaiah, and he was like.  You guy's a way cool we're going to be best friends now!!! and he hoped on his little bike and road away haha it was the greatest and now we're going to contact his mom and baptize them both!!! haha It was the greatest and this story really doesn't do it justice at all.

   We are finding so many unique people out here we found at least 3 this week that are pretty solid, plus a family of 7!!  The Salvadors!!!  They are awesome and prepared! Please pray for them!!! I don't have a lot of time but I love you all so very much and hope you have a great week!! 

                                                             This is Isaiah #foreverthesickestkid

Transfers and Trunk-e-mails

Dear Family,

"Did you think to pray?"

SOO transfers calls were this Saturday, Elder White is leaving and it's official, I will be dying here in Prince William. Which I am completely fine with, It's going to be great!!!  We have like 5 people that need to be baptized by February!!!!  Isata and Amirah are going to be baptized for sure on the 31st.  I'm super excited for that.  Isata is like in her 30's and she is Amirah's aunt, who is 11.  Amirah lives with Isata and her less active husband Hassan and he is the legal guardian.  They are both way solid!!  I'm so excited to see them continue to progress.  Cristina and her 8 year old daughter are going to be baptized too!!  She is a single mom and she just wants church and God to be a normal part of her life again.  I love teaching her, she is so sweet. We had some push back with Jerry Davis this week as well as Yolanda.  They both called us out of no where and told us that they don't want to be baptized anymore.  Yolanda has always been super flaky so that wasn't a surprise, but we're pretty worried about Jerry.  We think that he might of gotten some anti by his family.  But we'll talk to him and work things out and it will be great.  There are so many more people that need to be baptized, it's crazy!! These last 6 weeks are going to be pretty busy. 

My thinking cap!

That is awesome!!  James has been keeping me updated on how the video was doing and I was so surprised!!  I never expected the views to shoot up so fast, but I'm really grateful that he was able to do that for me, he is way tight and I would go record with him every P-Day for the rest of my mission, but he's going back to Utah :(  I think he's actually leaving today which is really sad cause he's helped us out a lot. 

So I finally got "The Email".   This is what it said :

This is to inform you of your release date from service in the Virginia Richmond Mission on 25 February 2015.

Mom!!!!! That is crazy!!!  I set a goal to finish the Book of Mormon by the end of my mission too!! It looks like we are about in the same spot!!  I have to do the same thing to be able to finish by February!!  7-8 pages a day!!  Which is really hard, cause I like to use my personal study time to study things for my investigators, but I've been finding time here and there.  As I've been reading through the Book of Mormon for the last time on my mission I've been highlighting any time God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost are mentioned.  It has been incredible.  I feel like it has truly helped me to keep the members of the Godhead at the focus of my study and I've been surprised just how much and how many various ways that these three being are addressed.  Such a testimony builder.

There are so many good things happening in our area right now!!  Isata Kamara and her niece Amirah who is 11 are getting baptized at the end of January!!  As well as our friend Jerry Davis!  They are awesome and we are teaching a lot of other people who need to be baptized like, Ana Lovo. So solid.  Yolanda Tilton, who just needs to have some faith.  Cristina, Who is a miracle waiting to happen.  and Chris Cuevas who is going to be baptized.  and so many more!! and I wish I could tell you about each and every one of them, but I have to much to say about each of them, and it would take forever.  We have been so blessed, the Lord has trusted us with so many of his elect sons and daughters!

I never did get those other letters from Christmas.. but it's all good.

It sounds like everyone is having a lot of fun!!! It sounds like a lot of fun stuff is coming up!!  I can definitely understand that you're excited for me to come home.  I am too, and I have realized that it's okay for me to be excited because I've also realized just how lucky I have been for the past 23ish months to be a full time representative of Jesus Christ.  I never really understood it before but I know with all of my heart that the time I've been given to serve the Lord with all of my heart, might, mind, and strength has been a privilege.  I haven't love every second of it, that's just honesty but I have loved every second from it, because from each and every second came the person I am today and the love I have for my Savior now and it's not done yet! I still have so much to learn!  There is more change through trial to be had in these last 50ish days.  More adversity to face and I'm so grateful for it, because of the person it has made me.. or rather the person He has made me.  I want you all to know how much I love my Savior and just how sure I am that God loves each and every one of his children.  There is no doubt of the pure love that God has for each and every one of us in my mind.  I love you all so very much, don't forget it. Have a great week!!! 

Dear Family,
It was no joke, the best Christmas present to be able to be with you guys for Christmas.   Even if it was only for a little bit over the computer haha it was seriously the best thing!  I love you guys!!   haha the work is continuing to pick up here!!  Just yesterday we went on an exchange and one of our zone leaders came and we now have 3 maybe 4 people set on date to be baptized here in January!!  It's so great!! The Lord is being so merciful and I'm just very grateful that he has trusted us to teach some of his most prepared children here at this time, especially towards the end of my mission. 

I don't have a lot of time!!!  Mom you wanted those song lyrics so I'm gonna use the rest of my time to type those up for you  I LOVE YOU ALL!! 

Sons & Daughters by Elder Sahagun Click to listen

Can I ask you a question about divine intervention?

and if I asked you right now would you shine some light down

and help me through this 

help me through this.

White shirt and slacks x5 a suitcase on either side 

Ignore the tear that's in my eye, do up my suit and swallow pride

Yeah this is what I've dreamed of, this is what I've lived for

This is what the pennies in my bank have all been saved for

A curbside goodbye my little sister starts to cry 

My family watch me walk away but no one thinks of asking "why?"

I can't believe my eyes so many people on this quest 

So many things that make us different, except for one name on our chest.

Sons and daughters of proud mothers and fathers 

You are chosen, you are called 

and you are not forsaken, He is with us all 

We are sons and daughters of God 

Now my breathings heavy, I'm pitted with survival

My pace is steady set for the extra mile

My heart is ready sights forward and focused

I'm dedicated and my foes all know this

My vision's clear, I know death is not the end for me 

I rep Christ the natural man is the enemy 

Yeah two years and I'm here to stand tall

Never trippin Never slippin, giving nothing but my all 

Chorus 

Now been gone a year is this where I'm suppose to be 

It's been awhile, I kinda miss my family 

Not sure it's worth it being away 

Try to talk to all the people they don't care what I say 

I got holes in my shoes and doubt in my heart 

I'm putting pieces back together just to watch 'em fall apart

Sit down and cry "Is there something I'm suppose to seee

I feel so lost and then I hear my Father speak to me 

"I know your run down and your soul feels broken 

but this is just a trial not a wrong path you've chosen 

It's rough, and I know you miss your family 

but your sacrifice helps others so they won't feel that for eternity 

Chorus 

Step off the plane so fast it could of been a dream 

The faces pass as I go through all the memories 

I'll never forget it that very first day 

I couldn't know it in the moment but know I wish I could've stayed 

I'll never be the same and I'll cherish every memory 

Those times I fell down never thought they'd mean the world to me

Got no shame became most of who I'm suppose to be

Forever changed with the bulk of life ahead of me 

Mom, look at me know can you tell me that you're proud?

Dad, can you tell this man is different than the boy that left your house?

Born of goodly parents and now I know my true identity 

These people all around are part of one eternal family 

Chorus

Lord, I just want to mention I think you answered my question

I wanna thank you right now for the love that I found

To help me through this, to help me through this 

You helped me through this

I love you all so very much, this gospel is soo true and I know it with all of my heart and I'm so very grateful to be a missionary right now, representing Jesus Christ and bringing His gospel to all of the sons and daughters of God.

I hope you all have a great week!!! 

Elder Sahagun

Dear Family, 

I'm so excited to be able to Skype you guys!!!  I feel like I have so much to tell you guys, but I'll probably end up forgetting by the time we get to Skype haha AHHHH it's crazy.. Dylan Lamb and Heather Jensen???  YEAH!! haha knew it.  that is crazy.  I can't believe Jared already got his release date.. .I guess I don't have one yet... maybe I'll extend?  I'll let you know when I find out.  SOO  for Skype, we'll be calling from our breakfast appointment at around 10 here so at around 8 your time be expecting a call :) we'll text to let you know when to be expecting it.  Can't wait to talk to you guys!!! See ya soon!! 

Dear Family,
Well it has been a great week of #sharing the gift with the people here in Virginia.  It is really really cold, but I bundle up and stay pretty comfortable so biking isn't too terribly awful!   Elder White and I are staying super busy with a pretty comfortable sized teaching pool of about 20 or so investigators!  It's really nice, but it can be stressful at times.  Weekly planning, which usually takes about 2 hours takes twice as long now which is really hard because no one wants to stay inside for 4 hours and plan when you could be sharing the gospel with people, but I do understand that it is a very important, if not the most important part of missionary work setting goals and planning is very crucial... but it's not always fun... and we all know that I do not do very good with things that are not fun.  but I've gotten a lot better since being on my mission at doing those un-fun really important things.  

The Ward is great!! We have been fed every single day this month and have meals planned though half of January as well,  It's a good thing that I'm on bike or it would really ruin my last 2 and a half months of my "6 months to sexy" hahaha mom, dad, and Heather.  Was that a thing in your missions as well? They are also really helping us a lot with exchanges, we have three nights a week where we have true splits (two people taking a missionary each) it really helps us to fellowship the people we are teaching!!  Currently we are looking at 4 or  people to be baptized here in the next two months!! 

If I had time I would tell you about each of them and how awesome they are but I really have like zero time..  so would you please pray for: Jerry Davis, Isata (ice-eh-tah) Kamara and Amarah Kamara, Darryl Chalmers, and Chis Cuevas..  Pray that they will be able to prepare for either the 27th of dec.  or the 10t of Jan for baptism!! 

I love you all so much and can't wait to see all of your faces!!! I hope that you have a great week!!! 

My Dearest Family, 

   This week has been crazy.. and by crazy I mean really hard and cold and rainy..  but the work must go forward!!  We have a lot of good things happening in our area!  We've set a goal to baptize 4 people this month!!  pray for us!!  We have the 4 people in mind and it's a totally achievable goal.. we just need the Lord's help haha.

I am so excited for Christmas!!  If you haven't seen the new He is the gift video yet, then stop what you are doing right now and watch it...then #ShareTheGift because it is incredible.  We've got these special He is the gift cards and we've been handing them out to everyone and watching the video just with anyone and everybody who will take 2 minutes out of their life!  It's great I love it.  One of the houses we tracted into was pretty sketch.. they had a bunch of signs up in their window that said they would shoot us if we knocked on their door and had a giant skull in their lawn from dead grass.. it was pretty interesting to say the least I'll attach a pic 

All I want for Christmas is a Taylor Swift tie.. if they even have those.. but really I'm just excited to see all of your faces and get to talk to you!!! I feel like it's been forever since our last Skype!! It's going to be super weird not doing our usual 3 way skype!! but I'm still just way excited to see all of you

Mom- I think... not sure yet, that my departue date will be the 25th of Feb.  that's just a guess because missionaries in our mission usually go home the wednesday after transfers which will be the 24th.. but I'll let you know for sure when I get me trunky papers :\ 

Dad- your class sounds... challenging to say the very least, but I mean could it really be more challenging than years 14-18 with me? haha you got this 

Heather!!!  It looks like you are just having so much fun!!!!  I'm super happy for you!!!  I can't believe you've been home for as long as you have!! I mean you're almost done with your first semester back!!  Life is crazy.. I miss you

Tyler Yooo Bruhhh, I got your letter!! man you are gettin fast.. and still growin, cut it out haha just jokes but man I miss you for real keep the letters coming 

JB!!  it was so good to get your email! It sounds like there is a lot of exciting stuff coming up for you here this next year!!  You sound so grown up even in your emails!!  It's crazy!! Keep giggling and laughing, I miss you're silliness :) 

I love you all so much!! I hope that you all have a great week!!! 

Elder Sahagun

Family!!!!  

Well happy thanksgiving one and all, It was so great to think about all of the things that I'm grateful for!!  

Heather!!  I set a goal to finish the 500 things that I was grateful for before the end of my personal study on November 27th, and I finished at about 8:58 hahaha I was cutting it pretty close, but it was A LOT harder than I thought it would be I had to get pretty creative... the 500 things included a lot including 22 individual reasons why I am thankful for Taylor Swift.  Two of my favorite things from that were. #13 "I am thankful for Taylor Swift because she's got a Indie record that's much cooler than mine." and #18 "I am thankful for Taylor Swift because she wears short skirts and I wear T-shirts" ... so yeah I got pretty creative and had a lot of fun with it, but it really did help me realized so many little things that I am truly grateful for.

We had two meals on thanksgiving, one was a lunch with ribs and all this incredibly tasting non-thanksgiving type of food... which was great!  and then we had dinner at our ward mission leaders house with his family!  They do a way cool tradition, every thanksgiving they go around the table and say something that they are grateful for, alphabetically, so starting with A, B, C.... I think you get it... but it was really cool!  

Soooo transfers calls were last Saturday, I'm not leaving but there are some big changes in our area.  We used to have 4 missionaries in our ward and the house that we are living in.  But now the other two Elders are leaving and their area is being shut down.. which basically means that we are going to be taking over their area.. so we're getting all of their investigators, recent converts, less actives and potentials and are covering their half of the ward now.. which is crazy because we aren't getting a car.. sooo we are going to be doing some pretty long hilly bike rides..... it's great.  I'm pretty excited!

TAMBA AND AIAH WERE BAPTIZED!! It was such a great thing!!  and even better, both of their non-member parents, (very supportive of their decision)  came to the baptism!!  It was incredible.  I love em to death.. I'll attach some pics 

It was so nice to hear about your thanksgiving!!  It sounds like it was just a blast!!  I definitely missed grandma's orange rolls!!  I look forward to getting to see you all in like 23 days!!!  I love you all so much!!  have a great week!! 

Elder Sahagun

Chippenham

FAMILY!!!

TRISTAN GOT BAPTIZED!!!  I got to go back down to Chippenham for it!!  Traffic is so ridiculous that I missed the actual ordinance but I still got to talk to Tristan and everyone else that I've been missing so much!!  So it was really great!!  I saw Taylor Conrad, I told you about her, she's the girl who biked to church.  Anyways I was talking to her and she's getting baptized on the 13th of December!!  Definitely going back for that!!  It as so good to go back to Richmond.. I miss it like crazy, but we are doing some good work here in this area!  The Twins are getting baptized this week, it's gonna be super crazy to get everything ready for that, but it's gonna be sweet. Right now we are looking to find a bunch more people.  We have found 2 pretty solid people so far that we are excited to teach and we're planning and have faith that there are so many more people out there.

We went to the National Marine Museum last P-Day, It is pretty sick.

                  Dad I feel like you would especially appreciate it.  Honestly I feel like you would appreciate a lot of Virginia, there is so much Historic crap here it's unreal!! but we got some pretty sweet pics there so I'll send you some of that!

It's great to be a missionary!!  I'm glad to be where I'm at!!  and I'm excited for the day when I'll get to see you all again!!  Christmas isn't to far around the corner!!  I love you all!! and hope that you have a great week. 

                                      This pic is my district..  Great missionaries, so blessed to be serving with them !

Hello Dear Family!!  

Sorry for such short e-mails, I feel like I was really good about giving you good updates when I was in Chippenham, and it was easy because there was a lot of exciting fun things happening that I could share and I had all the time in the world to share them. It's a lot different here.  There is a lot less exciting stuff going on but also I don't get a lot of time to read and write you back good responses and it's really frustrating.  So the 11 year Old twins Tamba & Aiah didn't get baptized this week, their original date was the 22nd, but we had to change it to the 29th so their parents could attend.  This week has been pretty average.  It is getting super cold, but my jackets and gloves are working out nicely.  We are just biking around to everyone that we know and teaching the people that will let us in.  We've taught a total of 14 lessons so far this transfer!!  That is so good for this area!!  things are really picking up!!  I'm excited to keep working diligently here.  It's been a lot harder, but that just means more growth, and I am never opposed to some good old growth through opposition.  Tyler is driving?  Holy freak that just gave me anxiety and I'm not even his mother.. good luck with that.  Sounds like Jessica is having some fun with dance and Talon fair stuff :) I can't wait to get all of the letters that are coming.  My new address is:  5486 Rector Dr. , Woodbridge, VA 22193.  That's a good Idea with the pants!  I'll see what I can do with them to make someones Christmas!  Can't believe it's coming up again! So crazy!  Sorry there are no pictures this week.  I'll make an effort to take some pictures, even if I have to take a picture with some random person that we know into! hahaha yeahh... the funny thing is that is the only kind of pictures I could take for you guys.  I love you all so much and miss you like crazy!  Being a missionary is the best.  I love the Gospel even when it's hard and that is something that I've learned to do on my mission for sure. To praise God and be thankful for all that he has given me even at times when those things aren't so apparent.   Church is true!!  Hope you all have a great week!!

Love, Elder Sahagun  

FAMILY!!! 

I have like no time at all!!! :\  BLEEHHH emailing is super stressful sometimes..  Those are some sweet pics!! You should definitely save those!!  My companion Elder White is the one with the yellow tie.  He is goofy dude I love him!  We're doing a lot of good work here!!  We have some baptisms coming up next saturday the 22nd, they are two little African kids named Tamba and Aiah Farmah they are 11 year old twins. They live in a big house with a lot of their extended family.  Two of their aunts are LDS semi active, but their parents are non members.  We started teaching them when I got here and now they want to be baptized!! Super Exciting I'll have to take a picture with them this week so you can see them, they are way tight.  

Yeah so it was suppose to be social media day, but no one in our ward volunteered to come out with us so we didn't get any of the blessing from that, which is really stressful.  It would of been a great opportunity for us!!  

I'll try my best to get them sent back..it's just super hard because we don't have any post office close by and the only way that we can get around to do anything on P-Day is with member rides which happen sometimes and if they do they are very limited to the amount of time that they can help us for!! 

AHHH I have to go!! I love you all so very much and hope that you have a great week!!

Love Elder Sahagun

FAMILY!!! I have like no time this week :\ super stressfull!!!!

This week was good!!!! A lot of biking around in the cold.. so it's great!! :) It's been really hard to talk to people lately, no one likes opening their door and having a freezing cold wind blow right in their face... it's weird.  We are still able to teach a few people but it's definitely been hard, but I'm doing good I'm not letting it get me down.  So no worries there!! Halloween was great, we weren't allowed to proselyte and we could only go to set appointments, so we set an appointment to be with a member who sets up a candy/hot cider/chili stand in her driveway with camping chairs and a fire to roast mallows on and talked to people as they came up and got food! fun stuff, then we went home and carved pumpkins and I carved one of the best pumpkins of my life.. pretty great!!  

here's my new address

5486 Rector Dr.

Woodbridge VA, 22193

I miss you all so much and hope that you have a great week 

Transfer to Woodbridge

Well transfers happened, and this first week has been really hard.  I have no regrets serving in Chippenham, It's just super sad to say goodbye to so many people I got close to!! No area ever will be, or ever could be like Chippenham I've accepted that and I'm over it.  Now I'm just trying to figure out why I am where I'm at and what I need to do for the Lord.  This will probably be my last area.. I'm up in Woodbridge again, this time I'm serving in the Prince William ward.  It's pretty good, it's such an adjustment coming back into a family ward.. but I feel like I'm getting back into the swing of it.  As far as the area goes..... well let me put is this way, this area hasn't had over 10 lessons total in one transfer for over 6 months.. VERY slow so much different from the fast pace  of VCU...teach 10 people a day type of lifestyle that I was a part of in Chippenham. That's one of the things I'm looking to change.   Probably a reason why I got moved.  Elder White is my new companion, he's from the Salt lake Valley, he's been out for like 3 months haha pretty fresh.. he's weird but funny and I love him to death!  I did get that package!!!  
Right before I left!!  I loved that quote in there about commitment, so much that I wrote it in red sharpie on my new planner haha :)  hahaha the clothes.. I love the windbreaker and it works out great!!  I liked them but the sizes were backwards, the sweaters were a little to small and the pants were way to big, but mom I'm very flattered that you think that I'm a 34 waist now haha :)  that's definitely what I needed!!  I'll just have to exchange them on a P-Day soon.  and YES I'm on a bike ... AGAIN!! if I stay in this area till i die then I will have been on bike for 20 out of the 24 months of my mission.. Also I haven't ridden my bike in a LONG time, even when I was biking in Massaponax I was borrowing a members cause my bike needs fixing, but I need money for that :( and I hate asking for money and I feel like I do it all the time blehhh  It's been great I hope that You all have a great week!! I miss you like crazy!!! 

Elder Sahagun 

Me and Elder Hathcock!!   

Best companion ever!! I'm gonna miss him like crazy!!!

Me and Elder Kay!!! Remember him? my TRAINER!!  I saw him at transfers!! this is his last one!! CRAZY!! 

Goodbye VCU

Well this week has been really interesting.  First of all, it was Fall Break for everyone on campus so everyone went home to be with family and friends.  Which made it near impossible to meet up with our investigators or find new ones, it was literally like a ghost town, but we still had Kristi's baptism!!

which was awesome!!! :)  She asked me to do a special musical number for her and that was fun.  But then transfer calls came... and I'm leaving..  and I'm REALLY REALLY bummed, borderline depressed.  I feel like I'm leaving home all over again!  This has by far been my favorite area.  I've felt like I could be an effective missionary in an area that fit my personality there are so many people here that I'm going to miss like crazy, Especially Elder Hathcock!!!!  Hands down my favorite missionary in the VRM!!  We had some of the most memorable experiences of my mission here and I'll never forget it!!  Soooo yeahhh,  I really hope that package gets here either Monday or Tuesday before I leave :(  This next area will probably be my last!!  Scary Stuff!! I love being a missionary, I'm going to miss being a YSA missionary but I know that I'm leaving for a reason... even thought I'm really curious to what that reason could be.  You all sound like you are doing so good!!  TYLER!!! HAPPY FREAKING BIRTHDAY!!!!!  I can't believe that you're turning 15!  I'll be missing you this week!  I miss you all!! I hope you all have a great week, and I'll let you know where I get transferred to when I'm there next week.

Love, Elder Sahagun