Spotsylvania

Dear Family,

Such a crazy fast week!!  I can't believe I already get to email you guys again!!! 

 Mom that's way cool story!!  That lady is going to get baptized!!!!  Hahaha that is really cool how that all worked out so that she could hear about the gospel.  AHHHH I can't believe that Heather is going home soon!!  I can't believe it's already been almost 18 months!!!!  Time goes by way to fast to just be complacent!!!! 

It's been a good busy week!!  We've been teaching a lot more than usual this week!! We set a goal as a district to teach 20 Member Present lessons and we were able to get that plus 12 other lessons!!  That is really good for our district!!  I love serving with these incredible missionaries and helping them in anyway I can!!! Transfers are coming up pretty soon, We do them every six weeks.  I find out if i'm leaving on the 26th and then Transfer day is the 29th.  I'm guessing I will probably be leaving Spotsylvania. I've been here ever since the 1st of January!!!  It sounds like forever but it's felt way faster!  I'm just super excited to be serving with these missionaries!!  I have made so many lifelong friends on my mission.  I love the Elders that I'm serving around right now!! Missionary work is the best!! I love you all so very much and hope that you all have a great week!!  Make sure to tell everyone at the family reunion that I miss them!! but people would miss their families for eternity more, so it's totally worth it!! Love you alll!!!  The Book is blue and the Church is true!! 

Love, Elder Sahagun

Role playing with Elder Gambles

 

This is Elder Thomas and Elder Hansen, my fearless Zone Leaders.  They live right upstairs from us!!! They tear it up, they are my favorite (only) elders in my district!

Happy Fourth of July

Family!!!

You went to Lupitas!!!!!! AHHHHHH  well I'm officially kinda jealous.  Can you send me some? is that possible?

Anyways, 

This week was really hot, super tiring, and pretty slow... but it was a blast!! I love doing missionary work and talking to people about the gospel even when they don't really want to hear it!! It's great and we are about to find a bunch of miracle people who are prepared and elect!! This next week we will have interviews with President Wilson!! I'm super excited!! I love having interviews!!  I always feel super edified after talking to President Wilson! He is probably going to be an Apostle one day.  

For the 4th of July we went and had a ward Cup match!!  It was way fun!! and we even got Peter (a non-member) to come with his sister!! It was super fun!! also that night we went and ate at the Mechams, and they invited some other families in the ward and we watched some fireworks and had some fun!!! It was pretty sweet.

It sounds like the your 4th was pretty crazy,  I hope Grandpa doesn't get any worse. He looked pretty good in his pics! I will be praying that he will be able to recover and get back to normal!! You guys have been super busy lately!! I hope that you guys keep having a great summer!!  I miss you tons

Elder Sahagun 

Missionary Life

MY FAMILY!!!! 

It's been a pretty good week, we had some pretty good success having member present lessons this week, and we got 3 new investigators!! Sadly 2 of those 3 told us that they were no longer interested when we went back for our return appointment, but hey that's missionary life.  We're just sifting out the wheat from the tares!!  Finding and teaching those who are ready!!  The ward has really been stepping it up lately as well!! We've had 4 dinners this week with 3 more planned for next week as of right now!!! Elders and High Priests are coming out on exchanges with us and it's super exciting!! Two of the dinners we had this week were with families who have their own missionaries out right now, it's super weird to see the other side of the mission!!  It made me think of how blessed our family is to have two missionaries out serving!! It's awesome to hear your stories of how you are being everyday missionaries!!  It just goes to show that we've had wonderful examples growing up that have inspired us to be where we are at!!!  I love that pic of Heather and I wearing dad's old missionary stuff.  I'm so blessed to have been born as Nephi of old.  Tyler and Jessica!! I love you and can't wait for the day when you can have this incredible experience prepare now!!! It'll come so much quicker than you anticipate!! I love you all so very much and hope you have an incredible week!!

Love, Elder Sahagun 

Went on a split with Brother Palimino 

Keepin' On

Family!!! 

It has been a pretty normal week.  I am pretty ridiculously tired right now!!! I don't think I have ever been as exhausted in my whole life as I have been on my mission!  It has been SUPER hot and humid this week!! we get pretty wet riding around on bikes all day.  It looks like everyone is doing good and is having fun. This week has been really slow and we've been going around to everyone we can think of to see and no one wants to hear it, but that's okay because that means we are weeding it out!  Some people eventually have to say yes at some point.  I'm glad to be in this area right now to hasten the work and help the people here come closer to their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!! I miss you all and hope you have a great week!! I love you all!! 

Elder Sahagun 

Still in Massoponax

Family!!

Having some fun!

What a week it has been! HAPPY FATHERS DAY PAPA!!!  I missed you like crazy yesterday!! It's never easy to be away on holidays like Father's day.  We were contacting yesterday in this super rich neighborhood yesterday, and we walked up to these people who were outside barbecuing and playing some corn hole (best game ever) and they started yelling at us and telling us to get lost. We started to walk away and some lady yelled out at us, "Yeah don't you two have fathers to be with !?" I told her that my father was in Utah and said have a nice day in the nicest way I possibly could (which was very hard). I love the people here, I really do.  It's really hard to see past the people they are and see the people they can become sometimes though. 

Transfer calls came and I will be staying in Massaponax with Elder Gambles, by the end of this transfer I will have been in Massaponax for 7 and 1/2 months! I'm excited to have 6 more weeks to learn to love the area, my ward, and my companion.  

Massaponax District

We eat a lot of rice!

I miss you all so very much, It's crazy that Heather and I have been out here for 16 months!!  This work is so true!! I have learned to have the faith to fail!!  How to take hardship and trials and rely on the Savior.  I'm so grateful to be a missionary. Have a great week!

Elder Sahagun

I slammed my finger in a sliding glass door!

The Herzog Family!! they are some LA's that I have worked with for a long time, but they are moving :(

FBI Academy

Dear Family,

AHHHH no time!!!! I have like 10 minutes to write this email!! so there might be some grammatical errors but just bear with me I'm going to try to write as much as I can!!  Yesterday was probably the best P-Day of my life!! I had so much fun!! 
We went up to 
Quantico ( an army base) with our zone leaders and one of their members. It was like an hour and a half away, so we left at around 7 and got a tour of the FBI training academy.



The zone leader's member has been an instructor there for 13 years. We were there all day doing the trainings that they do and he ran us through a workout in their gym and it was just the most fun P-Day thing ever!! , It was way cool, I don't have my camera on me because I am on exchanges with the ZL's right now, but I will send them to ya next week!! and I will also be able to tell you what is going on with transfers.  Yup transfer calls are this Saturday so I will be able to find out if I'm leaving or not.  I am good either way.  I will definitely miss some of the members here, but I don't even know if I'm leaving. I could be here forever :) who knows, it's all up to the Lord!!  I love you all so much!!! I promise I will get a better email with some good pics next week!! Have a fantastic week!! 

Elder Sahagun   

I Love Missionary Work

Dear Family!!

I love you all so much and miss you!!!!  It sounds like you all are going to have a blast this summer!! Beach parties, time with family, soccer games, dance, and dad taking pictures of it all with his brand new nifty newcam6000!!! You think I might be a little bit jealous.. ( I might be) but you all* should be jealous of me and Heather right now!! I mean we get to spend our entire summer finding teaching and baptizing some of Heavenly Father's prepared and elect children!!!  Heather!!! this is such an awesome thing we're doing, That Mom and Dad have done, and that Tyler and Jessica will one day have the opportunity to do!!!  Dad I hope your not joking about the 3 month trip to Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand and Virginia.... because I AM SO DOWN!!! just sayin... 

Mother you asked me some questions: Will you get to go to the temple in your missions before you go home? I will at least get to go once, at the end of my mission, but I will also get to go with my recent converts that I baptized in September!! they are coming up on their year mark and I get to go through the temple with them!! What is the closest temple to your mission? The Closest temple that is around here is the D.C. Temple.. it's actually in Maryland, but it is one of the most beautiful temples in my opinion (from what I can tell from pics). 

What is the best thing that happened this week? The best thing that happened this week was finding a lady who had been taught by missionaries 10 years ago and wants to be baptized, at Burger King.  We were with Sister Sanders if you remember her, she is a sweet old lady whose husband passed away, we meet her at restaurants because members won't come with us to her house and be a third male, so we have to meet with her at public places.  We were talking to her about missionary work and we said, "Do you know what else we do as missionaries? we talk to everyone!!" we asked her what she thought that meant and she said, "well, guess it means you talk to everyone you see.  right then some people walking in the doors of BK I got up right away and me and Elder Gambles started talking to Brittany!!!  She is going to be baptized!!! AWESOME!!  Super cool miracle!! 

 Did you have a chance to perform service for anyone?  Definitely!! we helped move a new family into our ward!! they are way cool and live in the same apartment and said they would feed us every day if they had to!!! they are legit!!! 

 Are there less actives or no members that you can give service too?  There are some less active members that are moving out sometime this month.  We are helping them :) 

This has been a hard week, we set up 11 lessons and all of them either cancelled or rescheduled!! but it was all for a purpose!! I love being a missionary!! I love and miss you all so much!!!!!!  THIS GOSPEL IS SO TRUE!!!

Love, Elder Sahagun  

This is Mark Brown, aka my favorite member in the world!! you should friend him on facebook and thank him for changing your son's life!!! He was the only elder going out on splits with me and Elder Wood for a LONG time!! He is an incredible member missioary and...  he's moving :( and I'm going to miss him A LOT