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

FAMILY!!!

             It's been a great week!! Started off good with some interviews with President Wilson.  This was probably one of my favorite interviews!  It was really personal and we got to talk about a lot of things, not even like missionary things but like real talk, life and future things.  It was great!! I love President Wilson! We did get to see Meet the Mormons!! The first Presidency gave President Wilson permission to show it to missionaries early and they streamed it at one of the nearby stake centers.  It was sick!!!  It might just be becasue it's the only full length featured presentation that I've seen in like 19 months but I thought it was a great movie!!!   It made me cry, of course the very end segment about the missionary mom.  I don't want to spoil anything.... but you'll understand when you see it!!  I loved it. 

             KRISTI IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!  On Friday this week Kristi is going to be baptized!  It's so great, she had her baptismal interview and after she was done she was just telling us how excited she was to be getting baptized!  It was so good to see how happy she was.  She has come such a long way since I've met her and come even further from when the elders first found her in the compass 6 months ago!  Super excited for that, you'll definitely be getting some pictures for that. 

             We found this super awesome girl this week named Taylor Conrad, she was raised Roman Catholic but her parents divorced and now she doesn't really practice so she is SUPER open to finding out the truth!!  We had our first lesson with her on Thursday and it went so great!!  She understood everything super well and has such great desire and this is how I know she has such great desire.  We invited her to church and she said she was going to come, she doesn't have a car but said she wouldn't need us to get her a ride so we didn't.  5 minutes after church starts no Taylor and we started to get a little bummed, we shot her a text.. no answer.  So we go outside to the foyer call her and no answer.  We are super sad.   Then like five minutes later we get a call from Taylor and she says sorry guys I'm almost there.  We are like yeah for sure just let us know when you're close so we can meet ya outside.  She calls us we go out side and see her walking up monument with a bike..  and we were in shock...  This girl had biked 5 miles, in the rain, in a skirt to come to church. It was crazy and surprisingly enough she loved it and wants to come to Kristi's baptism and then do the same thing next Sunday!!  It's awesome!! She is my hero, I don't even know of many life time members of this church who would be willing to do that!!  Such an awesome miracle!! 

 Mom!!!  It looks like you had a way fun week!!!  those are some awesome pics!!  the Brigham City Temple is beautiful!!  Soo my new address is  6737 Dartmouth  Richmond VA 23235,  but before you send it, if you could you should include some dress sweaters and maybe a black wind breaker rain jacket thing.. cause I have no idea where any of my winter stuff in and it's getting cold and rainy :(

Dad-  Thanks for those.... words of wisdom? hahaha :) jokes pops, I miss you. I miss our conversations and your counsel!! 

Tyler- Yooo BRUHH, did you say there was a letter coming?  Let me know what's up man, love 

ya!!

Jessica-  It sounds like you are having so much fun with dance!!!  You are looking so grown up it's scary!!!! 
Keep me updated!!  I really love hearing about your life!!!

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

Love,
Elder Sahagun