Week Two Baby!

Temple Visit

Fixing pants

My schedule

GUYS I HAVE MADE IT TWO WEEKS HERE!! WOOT WOOT!!! Let me explain to you where I am living. It feels much like Salt Lake where there are mountains (small mountains) all around me but with crazy houses up upon every inch of the mountain. Then in the C.C.M. I literally feel like this is the community out of the Giver. It feels fake. Everyone is perfectly dressed, speaking perfectly, and just as kind as ever. Then theres me...wondering what's beyond the twelve foot walls circling this place. I swear this place is fake and someones just up on the mountain with binoculars like, "cue the train sound, cue the crazy Mexican concert music that no one would ever want to listen to. Cue the fog machines and the fire smells. Ok good they are probably thinking this is real, now cue the Adele music, and cue the dead cat smell, PERFECT we got them today!! Mexico never stops. It's some new smell, sound, music everyday! But it's so beautiful here! This week was AMAZING!! We went to the temple today. Such a great experience. It was closed so we couldn't go inside but it was beautiful and fun to see Mexico! KEV I don't know how I feel about you walking those streets... they were really scary looking!! 

SO I told you how we had an investigator Jorge. Well after five lessons he became our teacher... so great and so embarrassing! It's perfect because he knows exactly what we need to be better teachers but Im soooooooo embarrassed because he thinks I'm so weird and he straight up tells me that and just laughs at me. I have thee FUNNIEST stories from teaching him! I can't wait to tell you guys in person because they won't be funny over email. But for example we didn't know he could speak english so my companion and I said the stupidest things in english. Also we were teaching him about the word of wisdom and he was like, (all in spanish of course) so what can't i drink? and i went to a complete blank. I couldn't remember any of the words I had practiced to teach this lesson so i just say, "No Spiked Drink" in a Spanish accent. I felt like dad trying to speak another language. hahaha he was just laughing at me! I have so many more stories like that! hahaha

I need to thank you all for making this the BEST week ever!!!! Mom thank you thank you thank you thank you sooo much for all the donuts. I was the most popular girl for a second because I had such delicious treats! Everyone loved the donuts and Mindy seriously THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for the letter and the package!!! sooooo good! And mom i LOVE this necklace you sent me for Valentines. I haven't taken it off mainly because it reminds me of you but its also so darling! and kev and rach your mini fiesta box is a hit. Random people come up to me and are like, "Are you the one that likes mini things?" We wanna see your mini box! Minds your treats and letter got me through the first week! I was made fun of for the treats but hey whats better than going to bed licking a baby bottle pop? I've also been flipping bubble tape for bobby pins and band-aids. They are a great treat! Kels thank you for your calendar. I looove looking at that everyday! and ads thank you for those earring and necklace. i love them so much!!! 

I have also never been more proud of a boy being a player in high school but heck I am so happy because we get so many packages from different girls Elder Love has kissed and I couldn't be happier....except for when I have to address letters back to them because he has horrible handwriting! 

While I've been here, every single night I've been dreaming of dad. Crazy I know.... your still alive right? First dream I had they told us I had one hour to go home so when I got home dad had planned this ice cream party for me and all the fam and some friends were there. But dad was freaking out because the ward had planned an ice cream party the same night so he had a megaphone and was like, "Judith we have mint ice cream! Jerry, Cristie we see you and we know we invited you!" I was like, Dad please stop, this is plenty of people ahhahaha. The next dream, I wake up and I'm walking to class and I see you in our old suburban towing the boat. Dad was blasting music and then I see Tanner, Abby Rigby, Meg Hop, and Ab Wag hanging out the boat. I was like what the freak?? i'm like dad this isn't like you, what are you doing?? He's like jump in! If we get to the Mexican lake before 4:30 we get in freeeeee!!!! I was like dad you know I cant do that? I can't get in the water. idk even know they are the most vivid dreams because I sleep like a log. 

For service this week we got to.... drum roll please.... WORK IN THE LAUNDRY FACTORY!!!! BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!! You guys know how I feel about laundry and factories!! I love both of them so so so so much!!! I kept on telling the worker FUN in Spanish because that was the only thing i knew how to say... he was making fun of my Spanish so I was like, try saying my last name. TAKE THAT! NO ONE CAN SAY WAGSTAFF! IT'S SOOO SIMPLE PEOPLE! Anyway, back to the factory. There was Mexican music, assembly lines, lations everywhere, and me getting a farmers tan on only my right arm because it couldn't fit under the roof!! ahhh man I want to work at Costco or a tooth paste factory sooo bad! It would be amazing!!!!! 

I am also yet to have a warm shower here. I dread showering! The girls wake up at like 5 just to do their hair and I'm like ohhh heck no. So every morning I tell myself, "Come on Nats, just put your ski on and jump in jackson lake!" ha seriously feels like that just not as amazing and fun! BUT its great it wakes me right up! 

Tanner this week told me that he had the same teacher as me?!? how crazy is that. But I'm also not sure if he's just tricking me because he does that a lot so ill let you know.... 

Also this week I was getting so frustrated preparing a lesson. I was like, "Why in the world was I called Spanish speaking? This would be so easy in English. Why do I have to go to bed at 10 and wake up at 6?" So that night I prayed harder than I ever have to gain a testimony of what I was doing. I can tell you honestly the next day it wasn't that anything had changed just my attitude. I was GRATEFUL to be learning Spanish it became fun! God needs me here and he will help me. I know that this will be a slow but amazing process. I wouldn't change these experiences for anything!!! I'm learning so much! 

Ok I'm so sorry I have so many thoughts and this email is just craziness but our teacher showed us this quote that was hanging on this mans door and it made me think of our fam. "Burned out by drought, drowned out by flood waters, et out by jackrabbits, sold out by sheriff, still here!!"  It made me think of that family "debate" we had in California. There will be some gnarly things thrown at us in this life but we are still here and still strong we can beat ANYTHING SATAN THROWS AT US!! One of my favorite scriptures is Alma 18: 21 I think??? I don't have my scriptures with me but I hope that's the right one. It should say in it that God would guard us with all his armies but he knows we are stronger than all of world!! We can do this guys! I love our family so dang much and I'm honored to be a part of it!!! 

Love you more than a beaver on christmas! Dad, the singles ward sounds amazing, well of course it is with you and mom in it!!! 

mucho mucho amor! I think that's a lot of love in Spanish but hey who fetchin knows.

ha love you! nats nanners natsy tonny tini tinny ton