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!!