siswag: TRIO

FIRST SECOND WITH OUR AMAZING TRIO! everyone was telling us trios are so hard... i beg to differ

First and formost.... we broke a world record this week...yep not really sure why we were included in it but we had to go read this book Farmer Will and the Growing Table to this third grade class because everyone in the world was going to read that same book at 10 o'clock... not sure why they asked us to read it since they all have teachers but it was a super fun time and I'm kinda a professional with children's literature after my class from UVU. But this elementary school was sooooo freakin nice. holy cow. I was like is this Harvard Law? I mean hate to hate on Driggs Dragons but that color scheme.... got to go! It's time! It was a really fun week though

EVERYTHING IS JUST SOOO HAPPY! We got the cutest cutest new companion. Her name is Hermana Rivera. She's been living in West Jordan for 8 years and she's from Lima Peru. Sweetest thing you'll ever met but feisty at the same time. i love it! Her testimony is golden and literally she is amazing! She is training me! WE are the happiest three some you'll ever met! I'm going to become a bit more Peruvian I'm determined!!!!! I made rice for us the other night and she said it was good- woot woot! Rice! i can make it! And then the other night i was doing a small irish jig in my bath robe, on her bed while spraying the bugs on the ceiling and she paddled my bum with her hair brush while saying/laughing, " Hermana Wagstaff why didn't you tell me we had bugs!" Yep still got bed bugs... we were trying to hide it because we thought they were gone since we got new beds, and they sprayed but NOPE still here and biting our cute new comp... Goodnight don't let the bed bugs bite has never been so real... We got a wagon.... i mean bunk beds though they are so much fun! they sound like an old rickety 1567 wagon straight from Martin and Willy. Not R.C Willy. The handcart company. If i even move my big toe it sounds like I'm headed straight down rocky ridge... So sketchy sleeping top bunk. I just think happy thoughts till i can fall alseep because i feel like it's about to fall AND i'm about 40 feet closer to the bug situation. Hna. Palmer was like "i can sleep up top" but 21 year olds just don't sleep on top bunks ya know. And she came up top for a second and realized yep your right 21 year olds shouldn't be up here.

So don't know if you've heard about hurricane Patricia but she was an ANGRY one. like the last one-Bill wasn't even bad but Patricia was mean! It rained soooo hard this weekend and I was scared our bayue (however ya spell that) was gunna overflow. I'm about to make our car/ bike area into a paddle board area because you could paddle board down these streets and it would be more effective. I'll call president. There were floods everywhere and the power was out at church on sunday. It was kinda creepy in sacrament I'll be honest. It kinda looked like the Iglesia Catholica because it was all dark and there were like a couple emergency light glowing but that's it... sketchy! But right as i was about to take the sacrement the lights switched on! And i was just kinda like yep this is the light of my week-makes sense. Thanks Heavenly Father for this amazing covenant that we have!

Hermana Rivera didn't have a bike so we had to borrow one from the mission office and literally i think it was ridden across the boarder, hit by a semi and then just ductaped back together. Riding it was quite the adventure. I didn't want her to have to experience the sidewalks here.. those are a whole other story so i rode her bike and at first it was a fun adventure. I felt like i was riding a small pony because it was also a bike for like a fourth grader. I had the seat all the way to the top and I could barely reach the handle bars it was so little. It was fun and by the end of the day it was SOOO stinkin hard and i could hardly move my thighs AND on top of that it didn't have a light so i felt like that one talk from conference where i was relying on my friends light. And it just came to me stupid analogy but I so willingly jumped on that bike and by just looking at it you could tell it would be a terrible ride but it was fun and an adventure for a minute just like the things of the world. We can tell they are bad and won't take us where we want to go but we so willingly get involved in the things of the world. STAY ON YOUR BRIGHT SHINY BIKES(PATHS). THEY WILL TAKE YOU WERE YOU WANT TO END UP, WITH OUR SAVIOR!

We have seen so many miracles together already! We found 2 new families and we just have the coolest things happen to us! like Louis from mexico at the gas station just walks up to us and asks us if we are mormons. he tells us that he hasn't been to church in 8 years but would love a book of mormon.

Then Fernando our recent convert called and we asked how work was going because that was the reason he moved to Alabama and he said, " hermanas, i quit because they wouldn't give me sundays off. I'm moving back to texas to be with my brother because he's lonely." HE'S COMING BACK! WOOOOOHHHHHHH soooo happy you have no idea! We are planning to go to the temple with him and i could not be more excited! It was also a miracle because the other day i had the feeling that we needed to go see his brother (this was before he called us) and he was never ever interested in our message but he was like, "Hermanas, it is such a miracle that you guys came to visit me. I've been feeling so lonely. (he's here all alone) he's like i miss my wife and kids so much it hurts! his wife called and told him, "just come back to me. i would rather eat a tortilla with salt than have you living away from me."

THIS GOSPEL IS AMAZING AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR YOU MY FAMILY I LOVE YOU ALLL SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

HAVE A FABULOUS WEEK!

MUCH LOVE,

HERMANA SWAGSTAFF