HARRY KIDDY

 MY FAMILIA CAME TO CHURCH!!! THEY ARE MY EVERYTHING! THE FAMILIA DIAZ... BETTER KNOWN AS EASTER BASKET FAMILY! their son just got here from el. salvador on thursday! i am not leaving houston till they are in the font and to the temple! I don't care how long i have to stay!

TEMPLO HOY!!! SO GORG 

IM OBSESSED! LAY ME IN A BED OF ROSES AND JUST LAY ME OUTSIDE THIS TEMPLE FOREVER! MY GREATEST MEMORIES ARE IN THIS TEMPLE! 

FAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM, 

HEY GUYS HOW ARE YOU??? PROBS ALL SUN KISSED AND LOVELY AS ST. GEORGE CAN MAKE YA! I hope you all have snowcone juice stuck to the bottom of your feet, scottish guards running through your dreams, and of course JUDDS JUICE JUGGLIN THROUGH YOUR NOSE! This week was incredible! couple words... Hna. Mayne INCREDIBLE! love her so much! we are working so hard! you know you've biked too many miles in one day when it's 8:49, your legs feel like a noodle mixture, you get stabbed in the eyeballs with palm trees, you just ran over a dead kitty because you can't see anything in the pitch black night and the once again INHALE IT and find it's blood all over your legs when you get home... that's when you know...that's simply when you know it's time to call it a night but other than that KEEP GOING. NEVER STOP TILL YOU DROP (or have kitty juices on your legs)  IS OUR NEW MOTO! 

SOOOOOOO HAPPY!!! TODAY WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE WITH CRISTIAN! seriously thought I was taking my child to disneyland for the first time! HE WAS GOING WILD. WOW WONDERFUL THE TEMPLE WAS! (don't even blame him for a second) It was such a perfectly crisp humid wonderful crunchy versatile day! I brought some temple names because Cristian is still waiting for his mom to give him more info about his ancestors so I printed off some names for him to do and we have an ancestor named HARRY KIDDY! HOW DARN UNFORTUNATE IS THAT??  IT MADE ME LAUGH SOO SOO HARD!!! we were sitting in the temple and he's like why are you laughing so hard? I just don't get what's so funny about his name! HARRY KIDDY. HAHAHAHHAHA. OHHH OUR POOR FAMILY! dying!!! 

MI FAMILIA!!! LA FAMILIA DIAZ! guys Rudy (40), Janira (39) , Natalie (20), Angelica (16), Miguel (15), Ana (9) I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS FAMILY SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I FIT RIGHT IN!!! i think i love them so much becasue they remind me of mom and dad! Janira, if her house isn't perfect she's like ahhh guys no I feel so bad. My house is a wreck and Rudy's like, "Honey let them in, it doesn't matter!" Janiras always going over the top with everything, cooks like Paula Deens never seen nuttin. She's my houston mom!!!  I absolutely refuse to leave Houston till they are baptized and in the temple! Miguel just got here from El. Salvador this week and they haven't seen him in 8 years. Happy reunion needless to say! He looks as lost as a small chimichanga at a wagstaff family dinner! They treat me sooo darn sweet. My blue shoes are so beat up and have holes up the wazoo. Next day I come over and she bought me new shoes. They told us they were going to move but made us draw a map of our area because they refuse to move out of it! They came to church and we made a goal to never go to their house without a member so the ward could eat them up when we both leave. And by golly gosh Janira has more friends in the ward then I do. Seriously felt like I was dragging Julie Egan out of a wedding trying to get her to stop talking after church. They all say they aren't ready for baptism BUT YOU KNOW I WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT! THEY ARE PERFECT AND SO READY!!! I LOVE THE FAMILY DIAZ SOOO SOOOO BAD! I'VE NEVER WANTED SOMEONE BAPTIZED INTO THIS PERFECT GOSPEL SOO BAD! 

also computer is about to shutdown... quick story... Erlin incredible right! new invest. from Nicaragua... he tells us he saw us walking and there were two men walking behind us that looked like they were going to hurt us but when he looked back at us there were armies of angels around us and that's when he KNEW WE WERE REPRESENTATIVES OF OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST! SOOO COOL I LOVE THIS WORK SO MUCH! MY ANCESTORS ARE WITH ME!!!!

LOVE YOU BYYEEE SHUTTERING DOWN BYEEEEEE

full rainbow say what!!!!

BABY SHOWER FOR STEPHANIE... GIRL I WROTE ABOUT COUPLE WEEKS AGO. SHES INCREDIBLE! 

FAV HUMAN IN THE WORLD. HNO. GONZALEZ I TELL HIM I LOVE ADVENTURE AND ONLY WHEN I HAVE ADVENTURE HATS! NEXT THING I KNOW HE PULLS UP TO CHURCH WITH OUR ADVENTRUE HATS! (only bad thing is he always expects me to wear it... i aint workin construction hermanito)

CUTEST INVESTIGATOR EVELYN TAUGHT ME TO MAKE PAPUSAS! SHE SAID I COULD OPEN MY OWN STORE. WHOOT WHOTT

DONDE EN EL MUNDO

 BIKING LIVE HOUSTON COMIN AT YA 

Dear Family, 

WHY DOES TIME GOOOOO SO FAST??? This is crazy. I literally can't even keep up with the months! Transfers are wednesday! looks like I am staying here in H-TOWN HIZZLE with the one and only sizzle H. Mayne! I'm so excited. She's a sweetheart and we have a lot of work to do! #1 being that we have to clean up the kitchen... we were just studying when all the sudden we hear this drizzling sound coming from the sink. What might that be?? MAX'S BATH WATER. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. COMING UP OUR SINK! FLOODING OUR KITCHEN FLOOR! DISGUSTING YELLOW WATER WITH ALL SORTS OF FLOATIES! YAYAYA COLONY OAKS! I still love the brazilian bungaloo! Also we will have to fix our eating situation.... Hna. Rapalo made us spaghetti with at least enough butter to slide down South America. Hna. K and M were trying to do this "diet" no sugar plan... next morning hna. K had six pop tarts down her throat and I saw a Baskin Robbins. You know I have to try all 31 flavors with all the mini spoons! ahhh love it! But it will be a great transfer and I'm pretty sure I will be here for the rest of the mission because I only have 2 more transfers! I'm such a city girl but a country girl at heart. Like I could probably see myself in the future rollling down Bissonnet on a honda 90 with a do-rag, slick black pants, with cowboy boots hidden underneath. 

This area is the BEST BEST BEST! Don't think you ever need to pay 2,397,840 dollars to travel the world. Just simply come to Houston and you'll hit every country, no lie! 

A normal day we start out in Brazil in our brazilian Bungaloo... bike bike bike maybe stop at a gas station to go to the bathroom... where you will always find yourself in Pakistan with a man from Pakistan or Iraq working.... bike bike bike some more. We then hit up Erlin, Freddie, Lester, and Eddie from Nicaragua, head to the easter egg fam from El. Salvador, Antonio from Cuba, Vanessa from Porta Rico, Familia Alecio from Guatamala, Onandy and Jariela from Honduras, so many people from mexico, and all of Los Arcos from the Congo and Nepal, then biking down bissonnet with a black man from Wyoming mounted on his horse like he's ready to take on a cowboy at any given moment! District meeting we've got peeps from Washington, Cali, Las Vegas, Tonga, Milwaukee, and of course UTAH!! This week district meeting got a little nuts. They brought in this huge wooden table and it felt like a big ole' family din din except instead of passing the corn and salt, we are passing missionaries best practices all the tricks and the trades we learn each week!   Houston is incredible family! I have the best of every country!! I never thought Houston would be like this but we have people from every single country! I always get so excited every morning. Where am I going to travel today?? SOMETIMES I WONDER WHERE IN THE WORLD AM I?? 

Ok so you know the little pup less active we found on the side of the road Misael?? yeah so he invited us to his b-day party on Wednesday and poor thing. WE WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO SHOWED! ohh it hurt my heart! he had 100 pupusas straight from El. Salvador and I couldn't eat more than 2. He was like wow what a great turn out. At least the missionaries came! His cousin who he lives with was there and she's not a member so we started teaching her! she's darling!! Misael... you could say I'm currently on his bad list. On fast and testimony Sunday he was sitting by me and our investigator and I was like, "Misael go, go up there! now!! Our investigator needs to hear your tesimony!" So he walks up in his jeans and Texas roadhouse shirt and gives such a beautiful testimony but on the way down.... Misael takes a tumble! He didn't see the little kid step and hit ground deck. He jumps back up with a face redder and hotter than a pistol and just points at me, "YOU!" HE IS SO ANGRY AT ME! I'M TERRIFIED OF HIM! But funniest part of it all is that he's dating a beehive! HAHAHAHAHHAHA he's like Hna. want to see a picture of my girlfriend. I'm like of course I do! I'm picturing some guatamalan lady around his age. NOPE WRONGO! Pulls out all these pictures on facebook of his tiny girl with braces and all her posts of facebook were about her medallion. PERSONAL PROGRESS WHAT UP! #soproud gotta work hard for the beehive award now! ohhh Misael what a goon! dating a beehive oh my!  

Well this week was amazing! We are seeing so many miracles! so many people coming unto christ. And so many people hitting us on our bikes! I am sending every texas driver to A1 driving school right next to sonic on that street by target, with that skeleton man that made me go feed his cats and go to the store with him. THEY WILL ALL FAIL. THEY ARE TERRIBLE DRIVERS! TEXAS COME ON NOW! wish me luck on the streets! love you more than all the cars we found that had driven into the bayou this week! bless these peoples hearts! 

LOVE YOU SO MUCH! SO MANY HUGS AND KISSES! 

HERMANA WAGSTAFF

SORRY TO BREAK THE DIET... LOVE MY BASKIN ROBBINS! 

ALL THE SINGLE LADIES. ALL THE SINGLE LADIES. TOUR LIVE HWAG AND BEYONCE!

had to bake a cake in a sauce pan... ACE OF CAKES for an investigators b-day party... so scary when I looked in the oven and it was boiling.... I had to literally PAT A CAKE!!!! turned out real cute tho!

"GOOD MORNIN FAMILY, I SAID GOOD MORNIN FAMILY! Thank you all for coming out today rain or shine you're gunna shine bright to these people today!!" Thank you paster (not sure your name but you look exactly like the freeze man from incredibles) I GOT TO GO BACK TO ST. JAMES CHURCH!!! Lots more trick or treaters and dang sis still isn't wearing pants! Best service ever! Just throwing so many veggies in peoples carts like this is the last time they will ever see food. I had the privilege of working along side a big man Robert! ohhh Robert. He was the biggest, the bestest, security guard St. James has ever hired and he knew it! Once he told me he was the security guard I knew he would know all the in's and out' s of the church and you better believe I got all the small turns, tunnels, and secrets out of him! He's telling me about what they believe, then he's like, "Hey, did you know this is Beyonces church? She's come here since she was a kid and was here on Sunday since her concert was here Saturday." I was like, "So what you are telling me is the youth teaching's aren't too great here..." He thought that was hilarious... great lead into For the Strength of Youth. HIT IT BEYONCE! But then Roberts like "hey let me give you a tour of the place." I grab a missionary and I got the best tour Roberts ever given. He showed me where Beyonce sat, where her studio is, where her parents sit, where her grandparents live. (mom I will show you when you come here. We won't have to be on a wild goose hunt looking for t-swifts house in Nashville) Then all the other missionaries were like we want a tour! Robert cued me in, HIT IT HWAG! he's officially hired me to give tours and said Beyond will probs need me this summer for backup issues and probably convert her! SOOOO don't know how to break the news the soft way but... I won't be coming home and will be traveling with Beyonce for the summer! President Hall has a small concert planned. Then we are just leaving from the mission home. 

GUYS I GOT TO RIDE THE BUS IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON! PUT YOUR HAND UP THAT I DIDN'T EVEN THROW UP! I didn't even have the baby gags! WHOOOOOOO! The missionaries on the bus say here's our card, here's our card here's our card, the missionaries on the bus say here's our card, and getttt baptized!!!! I was on exchanges in H1 the bike area and we were on our way to teach english class and WE RODE THE BUS SO MUCH FUN! SO MANY PEOPLE TO TALK TO! I tried to get everyone off at the church stop. NO ONE HOPPED OFF LIKE I EXPECTED BUT I MEAN AGENCY REALLY HAS BEEN A KICK IN THE PANTS LATELY! But after english class was over we realized the bus wouldn't be coming by for the night and would have to run to Westheimer which was like 2 miles away... we start running and we see Wilver and Cristian running behind us... "You can't run in the dark by yourselves. That's so scary!" ... they made it about a centimeter then they heard we had to run all the way to westheimer. They quickly rethought everything and turned home for safety! hahah ohhh Wilver! Missed that human! 

ok ok soo Antonio!!! ahhhh he is my gramps! We just love him so much and he calls us his little daughters! so he had his interview to be baptized on Saturday and man guys he has completely changed! You know when I told you about the fhe where we played charades and he would laugh and thought it was stupid. Well now he laughs and smiles and sometimes loves life. He just lived so rough over there in Cuba. Man I hate to hear those stories! But he hasn't smoked in over a week! But he gets no income, the government helps pay for his food. So when our DL asked if he was willing to pay tithing he said, "I am so willing but I don't have the money to even pay 10%. When I tell people I am a mormon I want to say it loud and proud and I want to be living all the things that the prophet and God ask me to!" HE'S SO COOL! we just don't really know what to do with the tithing deal. We are going to talk to bishop and see what he says. because he is willing to pay ALL THAT HE HAS!  

Last story.... you know how I get when I'm scared. Let me take you back to the MTC power goes out... on my comps lap in a matter of seconds. So thursday we are just doing some casual weekly planning in the church sitting in the relief society room. when BZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZ the bell that rings when class is out. didn't really think anything off it then BZZZZZ BZZZZZ BZZZZZ. I start freaking out! "THAT ONLY DOES THAT WHEN SOMEONE IS PRESSING IT INSIDE THE BUILDING!!! MURDERS!!!" then it starts going again in the tune of jingle bells! WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE IS THIS! A murder playing jingle bells?? You better believe I didn't even think twice. I grabbed my backpack full on sprinted out the door... no idea if my comps where following or not. I"m outside books and pencils flying everywhere out my pack back like the church has just been bombed and there's this group of missionaries just laughing their heads off. "hna. wagstaff you didn't know the church has a doorbell??" TEXAS I HATE THESE STINKING TRICKSTERS!!!! NO I DID NOT KNOW THAT AND YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK! 

WHOOOO WHAT A WEEK! WELL THAT'S A WRAP! LOVE YOU ALL MORE THAN ALL THE LIGHTERS I STOLE FROM ANTONIOS HOUSE! 

HERMANA WAGSTAFF 

agency... turns for the worst.... when we go to wake up less actives on Sunday morning... not a welcoming site!

sandwiches with the easter egg family! holy hanna what is that?? cake turned out darling! never doubt my skills! 

DID YOU SAY BANANA SOUP?? KILL ME

FAMMMMMIIIILLLYYYYY, 

I take everything back about the librarian.. she's not as stuck up as I thought swinging those keys at 11 a.m. to let us in. There was a huge line for computers today and she took me to the back with a HP (sigh)... then WAALAA... she switched me to a darling cute little mac laptop. I take everything back lady. You are wonderful!! OH I FORGOT HOW WONDERFUL YOU ALL ARE! You don't get too much time to think about your family on the mission so when you do and when you GET TO SEE THEM IN PERSON! It's better than hot summer day running through the rainbirds eating raspberries!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH AND YA'LL GAVE ME SO MUCH ENERGY AND I JUST WANTED TO JUMP UP AND YELL TO ALL OF MY INVESTIGATORS TO JUST LOOK AT THE TYPE OF FAMILY THEY COULD HAVE THROUGH THE GOSPEL!!! I'M SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LUCKY! Sorry about the popcorn... got a little crazy. Sounded like a small hail storm on the railroad tracks... also sorry I couldn't have Ronnie on my lab with all paws on board. I tried to lift him but he's about as heavy as real Ronnie! 

Since I just talked to you yesterday and it was the best thing of my life, there's not much to tell ya but I will tell you my week according to my five senses again....

This week....

Touch..... FELT LIKE RAID, GREEN APPLE DISH SOAP, AND WINDEX ON MY FEET! I've become a professional cockroach killer! I call it our "bangin time" we come in every night and have to bang on the counters and all the cockies run loose.... I for some reason can never find the right way to kill them and the raid is never with me. So we currently have a pile of green apple dish soap that I got to personally dip my toes in this morning in the dark and WINDEX! got to love the texas bugs!! I have a huge frozen coach roach that i've had my whole mission. His name is sabastien... my comps hate him but I can get them to do anything with him in hand. He currently has a leash made of floss and he will be coming home on the plane with me!! can't wait for you to meet him! 

smell....  smelt like a FUME FREE HOUSE! please donate to the fumes free foundation for Antonio Alfonso... jk just love annoucing foundations. That's my goal to announe a foundation at a Fergie concert. Anywho, we went over to Antonios house after skyping and by golly jeepers! HE STOPPED SMOKING!!! can i get a HIP HIP HORRAY!! he's been smoking for 45 years and he stopped thanks to the atonement of our savior Jesus Christ! because a 19 year old girl like me couldn't get someone to quite a habit like this... only our savior! He's amazing! wait i'm 20 a 20 year old girl!  His house smelt clean for once! and he looks so happy! He's getting baptized this Sunday if he can just stay FUME FREE this week! I know he can do it! I have complete faith!  

Taste.... TASTED like banana soup... have I told you about Onandy and Jariela?? He shook a BOM in my face and told us, "This book means nothing to me! I will never read that!" We dropped him... we HAPPENED (THANKS TO THE SPIRIT) to call the day his grandma passed away and he sure as heck got the humble stick straight to the head and THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!... except when they make banana soup. yep you heard right- banana soup. They hand me a huge bowl of I'll call it chicken noodle soup hits the islands. Noodles, veggies, meat, AND BANANAS. I'm looking around frantically when I can dispose these bananas but they watched me INHALE the whole bowl... I tried to swallow them whole because I was so nervous but after a while I think my mouth just went numb. Praise the heavens that I couldn't taste anything! 

Hear.... this week sounded like MY FAMILY ON SKYPE!!! Hearing your voices and your laughs made me the happiest missionary south of england! I HAVE THEEEEEE GREATEST FAMILY ON EARTH! how did I get so lucky?? I've seen so many sad family situations here and I just feel too spoiled to have all you! thanks guys for being YOU!! 

See.... This week LOOKED like a small hispanic catering company.. I've already hired them for my wedding and first childs baptism. These hispanics here love a good reason to party. you all know that! all you got to say is it's nation pineapple day and you've got yourself a party!  Mothers day party... started out dull like usual because most don't know how to come on time. It was suppose to start at 7 buutttttt it was me, my comps, bishop,and his wife, some investigators... listening to slow hispanic jazz just chillin till 8 when THE CATERS CAME STROLLING IN... AKA high priest group leader. they had all the women sit down while the men went to the kitchen to serve... I got a little nervous about the whole situation. (hispanic men here just don't cook. thats not their thing) so we go back there and they look like they don't know where to start. So I start up an assembly line and I'm like, "guys your doing awesome! lets start a catering company!!!" we were all just messing around and they were getting so into it... I thought it was mom ordering us around with just strict rules. "Turn the fish this way. get the lump of rice more round." best part was the guy drizzling the gravy took the Catering Company comment way to serious and was making designs! it was so much fun! The party actually started at 10 when bishop started a game of karaoke (i cant think of how to spell that word. the game you sing to. sorry english sometimes is so hard!) We were well in our beds at this hour!

This week was AMAZIN! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!

byeeeee 

natsy!!!

                                                    QUICK PIC OF ONANDY AND JARIELA!!!

                                                     

 SORRY KATHRYN. HATE TO BORE YOU AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE. DAD LOOKIN SHARP REAL SHARP! (in his Texas Thrift clothes for his Christmas gift)

Is there Sunshine in your soul?

WAGGER FAMMILLLYYY, 

HEY FAM! HOW'S EVERYBODY DOIN?? I get so scared when I wake up on a small Monday morning wondering how the family night group always sneaks into my dreams. This episode Lori Radman wouldn't take off her sunglasses and Jana couldn't find a fork so she was knocking all our neighbors doors. Angie instead of bringing a lesson was like, "guys I've got an awesome new, chic activity" BREAK DANCING ON HER HEAD! ... oh man I was so embarrassed for everyone!! This week was warm... couldn't find my bike shorts soooo what does one do in a situation like this?? go to texas thift you might say?? nope. we moved.... knock the neighbors doors like I did for sugar?? nope. I'm so angry at max the dog upstairs- he pooped on OUR DOORSTEP and we don't have the guts to move it so now it's all moldy and fuzzy! So I cut my fleece lined tights to the knees mom sent me for christmas.  Now I feel like I'm riding with cats wrapped around my thighs!! sooo much fun on the bikes!! so many adventures!  

So the ginger sandwich is fun!! I've learned ALL the ins and outs of being a ginger! Sometimes i think i'm in some sort of therapy called Perks of being a Ginger from all the things I'm learning! So far i've learned.... that sunscreen only works for 10 minutes. While everyone else is getting a golden tan you look like a lobster. You burn through your clothes. You get small patches of freckles in random spots and when your lucky sometimes your freckles will all attach and you will appear TAN!! and lastly you can't marry anyone but a white tall man. Learning new things every day. Perks of being a wallflower! 

My heart has really really been opened this week and now any struggle of mine will seem like a pebble in my shoe. We have this hilarious member Hna. Rapalo. When i first met her i was like how in the world does this lady know spanish?? comes down to it that she's married to a man from honduras. When I first met her she was 350 pounds in a power chair but now has lost like 100 pounds and can walk. She's been a member for 9 years and she is the only member in her fam. She asked us to come meet her daughter and kids who really need love and help so of course we were soooo excited to go meet them but i had no idea how much this sweet little family would humble me! 

Stephanie is her name... she was 350 pounds as well. Two years ago she got a surgery called the sleeve. She was fine for about a week and then went into a coma. When she came out of the coma she was completely brain damaged, couldn't really remember much, she can't wake, can barely talk (it sounds like a 8 year old), has to wear diapers, and just lays in bed all day. She has these two ADORABLE daughters Brittney and Breanna. Her boyfriend that she lives with is really really sweet to her and her daughters just love him so much! But stephanie is pregnant with ANOTHER DAUGHTER! I was just so humbled sitting on her bed. I just started to bawl. She kept telling us, "I've lived this before. I know what's going to happen. I'm going to die soon." It was kind of scary but we just testified of our Savior and his perfect plan! I'm obsessed with these little girls! We invited them to church with us on sunday and they were kinda hesitant because they have outgrown their dresses but have no fear Andi Wagstaff has style! Breanna wore my dress to church and she asked if she could keep it! of course little one! Then I asked if they wanted to play Church fixin' and they did! So we came over sunday morning and blow dried and curled their hair.They looked like movie stars stephanie said!  I was like stephanie can I curl your hair! she didn't want to but I love when she laughs! she is amazing and so strong! i just can't believe how amazing she is.

Lorenzo snow is doing awesome! we threw a b-day party for his GF. The party was off the hizzhouse! We had people lined up all down the neighborhood to Dallas because we brought THE RESTO VIDEO!!! HIT IT JOSEPH SMITH!!! we then topped the night off with a good round of there is sunshine in my soul and everybody was crying!!!  THERE IS SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL! SAN MARCOS WHAT UP!!! Gotta love San Marcos! none of our members will come there with us because they are too scared! haha such a beaut! texas!!!

ALICIAS B-DAY PARTY!

i love you more than alllll the dead squished frogs i've picked up off the road this week! whooppsss 

hermana wagger