Transfers

Family!!

Well I was right about transfers, right when things start picking up and the ward figures out what it means to be missionary minded and nothing seems like it could go wrong, they tell me to leave hahaha but that's just how it works!  And I really am excited to go to a new area and meet new people there!!  I've got a really bad feeling that I will be in a car.. but whatever the Lord wants.  

 I will be leaving Massaponax tomorrow and I still haven't packed any of my stuff... Looks like it's going to be a late night and an early morning.  We have been going around these last two days just saying goodbye to my favorite members and investigators and it's just super sad.  I've been on my mission for 17 months now and I'm still really bad at goodbyes.  I never thought, especially when I first got here, that I would be sad to leave, but there are a lot of people/things that I am going to miss, but I am definitely ready for a new challenge and a new phase of my mission!!  I love this work so much, and no matter where I go there will be people who need to hear the restored gospel of Jesus Christ!!!  I love and miss you guys a lot!!  I hope you all have a great week!!  I'll let you know my new address next week.

Love Elder Sahagun 

Me out Tracting in the suburban Forest  Straight up trees for DAYZZZ!!!!!  

Exhausted in the Work of the Lord

My Wonderful Family!! 

WOW!!  You guys have no idea how crazy this last week has been!! Pretty much, it's been the most busy week of my mission, hands down!!  It's been so great!!  This is the most I've been able to teach in one week and it's definitely the most teaching that this area has seen in like a year and a half!!  And I'm straight up EXHASTED!!!  Things are going really well!!! The ward has really stepped it up!!  We are being fed regularly,  Members are coming out and teaching with us every day, and we just got a new bishop and he is super missionary minded!!  That's why I'm pretty sure I'm leaving this next transfer, well that and the fact that I've been here for 7 1/2 months. We find out if we'll be leaving on Saturday of this week and then we'll leave next Tuesday if we get a call, I'll let yall know for sure!!  I'd feel good about leaving the area the way it is. I always want to leave an area better than I found it, and it's been really rough and challenging but I think this area has really improved since I've been here!! 

The Family reunion!!!  Holy cow!!  I am incredibly jealous.  It looks like it was soo much fun!! I can't wait for next year to see all of the cousins and everyone!! It's so crazy to think that the last family reunion Heather and I went to was 2 years ago!!  How does the time go by so fast!?!?  

I love you all so much!!  I hope that you have a great week,  be grateful for the dryness.  Virginia is freaking unreal sometimes. 

The Church is true!!! 

Love Elder Sahagun 

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 :(