BASES ARE LOADED... EAGLE QUARTER

DEAREST FAM... 

You know when it's the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded. Everyone has just finished singing, "take me out to the ball game," it's slightly raining, you're standing on 3rd base, eatin' a popsiscle. Then the next ball just goes over the fence, WAY out of the park further than you could have ever imagined. THAT'S EXACTLY HOW MY MISSION HAS FELT! SOOOO AMAZING! SO MUCH CHANGE. SO MUCH GOODNESS. SO MUCH JOY. SO MUCH LOVE. SO MUCH PURE ADMIRATION FOR OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. PURE JOY IS ALL I CAN DESCRIBE IT! This whole mission thing. Who would have thought it would be this much fun, this much happiness, and this WONDERFUL! Seeing people change is life changing. (ok so if the computer goes out I'm so sorry. There is the biggest rainstorm out there and I'm terrified. I don't know if hna. Ruiz will let me cling on to her leg if I hear another thunder that scary! send Mrs. Orlob!) 

Today I've got you the top 10 biggest plays in Houston.... Instant replay HIT IT.

1. Fasting with little Lorenzo who is just saving each and every last quarter to pay for his divorce. We fasted with him to see a miracle and GOD IS GOOD. GOD IS GOOD!  He was suppose to pay 2,000 dollars to a lawyer but for now he doesn't have to! I'M JUST WANTING AN INSTANT REPLAY ON THAT ONE IN HEAVEN! thank you Heavenly Father! So good! 

2. Antonio.... on Papito Tono! How I love him! I swear he is just waiting to get baptized so that I will have to come back for it. that little stinker! But huge progress! He said he is willing to pay tithing for one month! He has to move out of his apt because it's way too expensive with tithing he claims. Soooo we've been ya know tracking down all flyers from all the complexes. AND OH MY GOODNESS I don't know. Why haven't I been doing this my whole mission. You walk in the office after riding your bike in the sweating sweating 105 degrees and they are like, "sit down can I get you a lemonade or a water?" Make you feel like you are a thousand bucks! Great way to cool off and we've been finding so many new cool people to teach just by walking in. and now I know all the apt lingo. WHAOOOOO 

3.  Cristian got the Melchizedek Priesthood after stake conference on sunday! Wilver ahhh wilver he's like Hna. Wallace I need your prayers just like the one on the freeway. I've lost my wallet and I need your powerful prays. I'm like WILVER YOU CAN HAVE A POWERFUL PRAYER IF YOU JUST PRAY WITH FAITH. He's like really?? Bless his heart! So fun to see all my H1 best friends!!! Weird I've been in the stake for a year! 

4. Hna. Ruiz came and was like WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR EYEBROWS? I was like idk haven't looked that close to a mirror in like a year. OH DEAR HEAVENS.  I THINK I LEGIT HAD BUSHES UP THERE! SO BAD!!! Huge game changer tho after she weed wacked South america. whole new girl coming at you live houston!   

5. Erick noooooo sooo Erlin... the member that got him a job just gave him a car. like so nice right?? He's like use the car to drive to work, help the hermanas teach, and drive to church. Sunday we see Erick who is this 18 year old living in Erlin's Apt just driving the mini van looking so drunk. So we run to Erlin's apt and he's like, "HNA. ERICK STOLE THE MINI VAN LAST NIGHT AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM SINCE. I AM SO STRESSED OUT! BENJAMIN IS GOING TO KILL ME. HE JUST STOLE THE VAN." we go on a high speed chase... (on our feet) running down the street trying to catch Erick. Never in my life have i seen so many mini vans. they were poppin up like pot guts on a good summer day at the ranch. I found myself running after sweet little mothers taking there children to the park. WE JUST WANT TO FIND ERICK!!! HE STILL HASN'T BEEN FOUND! the police say the car is in Galveston.... Erick wiilll hear a word from me! no one steals the alecios car! they are my fav humans ever! 

6. Welll.... news spreads fast that i like roadkill.... i have had at least 3 people just this week give me dead frogs! yessss! the aps slipped me a dead frog in the middle of a plan of salvation pamphlet. Elder smith in my district... biking elder collects them all for me! yayayay! i love texas roadkill! i have so many surprises for you guys. last night.... my zipper broke on my skirt. hna. ruiz was trying to pull it up and over down and lower. nope STUCK FLAT OUT ON ME... yep i had to cut it off of me. cant wait for that instant replay! 

7. Yedwin.. new investigator. We brought him to a FHE with this old couple. BAD IDEA. he was terrified and she made us eat enough spaghetti to fill a bathtub. Yedwin was terrified though literally loooked like i asked him to do the downward down yoga pose infront of President Monson, Tim Mcgraw, and HR when i just asked him to simply read Alma 1:14-15. don't ask your investigators to do that. it's terrifying! 

8. We had zone conference this week! hna. Mcmullin and i had a training on the Apostasy for 2 hours! LONGER THAN A SACRAMENT MEETING! terrified! didn't sleep or eat for weeks. (ok maybe like 2 days) but i didn't prepare the heavens out of that! and Pres. send me the sweetest text after the conference. "hna. always so impressed when i see you teach. thank you for lifting and inspiring. we love you!" I LOVE MY PRESIDENT! HE IS THE GREATEST MAN EVER! 

9. never get yourself involved with a 15 year old birthday party. they think it's a fetching wedding! they buy a dress, crazy foods, limos, im like heavens the girls turning 15! but we found ourselves cutting pineapple into all sorts of crazy animals till we couldn't see straight! I couldn't feel my hands by the end of the day. And when she handed me the knife that could have cut through a brick i knew it was gunna be a fun day! 

10. LAST BUT NOT LEAST! THERE IS A MUSICAL COMING LIVE AUGUST 17TH. FEATURING HOUSTON 9 WARD. SO STOKED. I HAVE CHOREOGRAPHY PLANNED FOR EVERYONE EVEN THE BISHOP DOWN TO THE PRIMARY. FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY. SOOOO STOKED! OH MAN I CANT WAIT FOR YA'LL TO SEE IT! STIL THINKING OF THE MAN BUT IT'S GOING TO BE HUGE!!!! 

SUCH A GOOD WEEK! SUCH A GOOD LIFE. I LOVE TEXAS AND I LOVE YOU FAMILY!

LOVE YOU MORE THAN ALL THE OLD MEN HERE IN THE LIBRARY!

love hermanita wagstaff

cutest comps ever!   MEMBERS LOVE BRAIDING OUR HAIR IN THE SUMMER TIME 
 
JESSICA AND WILVER.     
CUTEST NEW FAM WE ARE TEACHING. Darwin looks like brett nydegerr and Karla was so bored she just fell right asleep 

 

carvin fruit into owls?? sure! no problem. i've done this for years!

Grand Slammer Jammer

HATE PUDDLES. AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS

NEWEST MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRSIT OF LATTER DAY SAINTS! 

Ending up being a beautiful night after the baptism! 

Key Lime cupcakes.  It's all we had.

DEAREST FAMILY, 

First things first... let's get this out of the way quickly. I SWORE. Yes you heard right I SWORE! A missionary from Holladay, Utah right?? You don't expect that or see that coming from a girl but MISSIONARIES AREN'T PERFECT. Who did I swear to you might ask?? PRESIDENT HALL! of all people!!!  I think I'm probably the first missionary in history to swear in front of their mission president. We were just simply talking about subway sandwiches, simple harmless, not sure why. I start rhyming... THE GRAND SLAMMER JAMMER ****. both of our faces just went bright red. I was like, "President, no I promise I don't swear. I didn't mean to! I'm so sorry!" He's like, "I'm emailing the parents right now! So glad to know someone has a mouth around here." He was giving me such a hard time! SO EMBARRASSING. WHYYYY!! 

Next big news... we got a new comp from Quintana Roo Mexico, (right by Cancun) She's a temple square sister and gets to serve in the best mission in the world for 2 months. I LOVE HER SO MUCH! Hna. Ruiz. She is learning English and it's the cutest thing! and I make her give me words of the day in Spanish. like libelula DRAGONFLY WHO KNEW!! we get along so well and we are having so much fun! Any comment I have like today, "I love the smell of horse poo." (in the cutest accent) "you are so American." that's always her response to everything!

Bestest news yet. ERLIN GOT BAPTIZED!!! HE'S SO AWESOME!! Thursday night he had his interview. Just so excited to get baptized. Friday night he comes to the ward fathers day party in his church clothes. Very embarrassed when he saw everyone was in their jeans but he got over it. THE FATHERS DAY PARTY WAS OFF THE HIZZ HOUSE! They got a real live band just for fathers day! They have no idea what's coming for 4th of July! But Erlin at the party whispers to me, "Hermana, I have my tithing in my pocket. I'm really just so excited to pay it. Can I do it now or should I wait till after my baptism?" CAN YOU PLEASE GO TEACH ANTONIO??? 

Saturday comes around. His member friend that got him a job was like we have to go work today but he will be home in time for 5:30 baptism. It's 4:30 and I've got 2 toes in the font to feel if it's warm and the other 2 trying to answer the phone that says ERLIN IS CALLING! I answer and he's like frantic talking so fast. I flip off the water to hear him. "hermanita I can't do this today. I haven't even got home from work today. The work guys dropped me off at Walmart 30 minutes away and i'm walking home. I haven't showered. Someone in the ward texted me to bring white underwear and a towel. I DON'T HAVE THAT! My brothers and I just got in a fight. They said they were coming to the baptism but they aren't anymore. I'm just so stressed. Tell everyone we will do this tomorrow. WHITE UNDERWEAR. WHERE DO I BUY THAT?" I'm like, "Erlin, let's take a quick step back and look at this in the big picture. Nothing else matters. You don't need anything special. Just come here and we will have everything ready. Don't be stressed. Don't be nervous. That is satan. He knows this is the most important day of your life. Just calm down and come to the church." "ok I will come in 30 minutes" 

WHEN THE SKY IS FALLING YOU KNOW YOU ARE CLOSE. We are frantically trying to find bishop with the keys to the library to print off the programs. Everyone was there just waiting. It's like 6:30 and HE STILL HASN'T COME! If one more person asked, "is he coming?" i was gunna lose it! We went outside and knelt down and prayed and i'm pretty sure the people in heaven are like what could make this more dramatic?? hmmmm CUE THE POURING RAIN! His member friend Hno. Alecio was like hnas he called me and says he wants to do this he just feels so stressed and scared today but i'll talk to him. In the mean while hna. mayne and I picked off every leaf of the freshly pruned bush. SO NERVOUS. 7 o'clock he finally shows up! (favorite part this little old lady walks out of this dark room like she had just had herself a good hour nap, "he's here!!" He walks in, "LETS DO THIS!" THAT'S THE ERLIN I KNOW!!!! whoott whoottt. fist pump the heavens. fist pump mimi!  I hand him a 2xl jumpsuit. He looked like a straw in a king size bed. SOO BIG! But it was the most beautiful baptism. He was like wooooowwww now I understand why my other baptism wasn't right without the authority. I actually feel like a child today. Completely clean! I AM FREE FROM ALL SIN TODAY! He was so excited and he wanted Cristian to speak at his baptism. they are pretty good friends both from Nicaragua and it was just sooo cool to see how far Cristian has come. The testimony he bore for Erlin! such a special day! I NEVER WANT TO FORGET ALL THE FEELINGS YOU FEEL AT A BAPTISM! IT IS SOOO BEAUTIFUL! 

mom... hate to say it but I grilled up some key lime cupcakes you send me for st. pattys day. BY ALL MEANS it was all we had! I think I probably gave everyone the green poops till next easters but thats ok! 

HAPPIEST DAYS EVER!!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIOANRY AND ERLIN IS COMING TO TEACH WITH US TONIGHT AND WE ARE GOING TO THE TEMPLE JULY 2! WHOOOOO THE GOSPEL IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO STINKIN COOL! 

HERMANITA WAGSTAFF

cockroach hunting! 

after the baptism smoothies

cutest new comp! 

love her! hna. ruiz 

favorite little kid! hna. ruiz was like, "hey I'm from mexico." he's like, "i'm from Mexican too!" soo americans can't even speak spanish!

 HNA. KIRK CAME BACK! we found Erlin together back in december and then never got to teach him till like 4 weeks ago! 

texas has the best sunsets

the bush I devoured sooo nervous waiting for erlin to come!

the only male that emails me!

CAT WISPERING 

IT TRIED TO JUMP ON ME

ward party. Onandy and Jariela. i would like to draw your attention to the back wall TE AMO PAPA thank you thank you. I made that in 10 minutes. SO BAD! WAYYY HISPANIC. DON'T CARE!

palmer knows my heart! bubble gum everywhere!

HAPPINESS

IT TAKES TWO.... BUT I GUESS SOMETIMES THREE

hair salon member. cut our hair a couple week back. this is her dying her hair... so talented! 

DEAR FAM, 

HOW ARE YOU GUYS??? HAPPY P-DAY! First off, I have a question for you all.... WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND INVENTED TUNA AND TAMALES?? Disgusting I know!!! We just had lunch with a member in the back of her hair salon... (at least she didn't make me eat shampoo right) but TUNNNNNAAAAAA. You all know my feelings on tuna! I prayed to the heavens so hard that Heavenly Father would make it taste like chicken. But God and I have a funny relationship. He makes me laugh so hard! Instead of tasting like chicken it tasted like a small beached whale from the gulf of Galveston that the Varners have had in there wood shop for a good 40 years. I thought I was going to die. Luckily there was a toilet nearby and when she had to go back out and help with someones hair... I took that bad boy straight to the toilet! (that's the best option to get rid of food. No trace. No evidence. You are guilt free!)

WARD COUNCIL GOT CRAZY YESTERDAY! Bishop has been in El. Salvador for a good three weeks... it's about time to come home bishop. Planning a ward party without you is about like asking to put braces on Mindy! Scary! Everyone was getting so intense and so scary. No good ideas for the fourth or July party. Lots of comments like the following... "we can't do it at the church that's LAME!!!" "the kids hate when there are no activities." "I hate every idea you guys are saying."  "what about water sports?" "who will provide all the food?" "i want a bounce house." "i want coke." "we want it low key but yet chic!"  

GUYS- WHOOW WHOOW WHOOOW I'm so sorry I should have stopped you sooner. In the H25 we know how to throw a 4th of July party. All you gotta do is have the kids bring there bikes decorated and act like it's a parade. LOW KEY AND CHIC HNO. REYES. So who's in charge of the 4th of July parade?? THIS GIRL! I told them I would lead the parade with my bike decorated AND provide candy and music. So when Hno. Reyes stood up to announce it, "it will be a great activity ask the missionaries if you have any questions!" WHOOO I LOVE ME A GOOD PARTY. ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM IN CHARGE! I AM GOING ALL OUT! I am duck taping a boom box to my bike and MOTAB "this land is my land" will hit home. Throwing books of mormon and all sorts of candy to all families and investigators! whooooo soooooo stoked!!! (the elders aren't excited that I signed them up for team leaders as well. They don't know how to decorate bikes they say?? We will see about that!) 

This week was straight up "It Takes Two"... MY FAVORITE MOVIE! We had exchanges out in the booonnss. Man I've missed my country land. ahhhhh I couldn't stop jumping up and down and yelling and listening to the most country music Motabs got (please put in a request to Brodster- THEY NEED MORE COUNTRY!) Hna. Mayne and our mini missionary Hna. Hernandez thought I was NUTSO. I got so excited seeing fields and actual live cows not just the huge statues that are on top of Papa's BBQ here in the city that I'm determined to get on top one day! It was such a B E A U T I F U L DRIVE! And to my surprise I felt just like it takes two! I felt like I was just dropped off at some foreign summer camp with all the foster kids. Because we did service at this place called Lunches of Love. They blobbed a hair net on me, gave me some gloves and they all yelled, "LAY OUT THE BREAD!" I got to make lunches with all these foster kids! They were hilarious and they all hate school and hate studying and hate summer school... we all became pretty good friends! 

Also, this week... we have this investigator Rosa.... oh rosa.... what to say about Rosa. For some reason she reminds me of Marge Nydegger how ever you spell that. We've been trying to serve her mom. So we walk in and there was a big pile of dishes so I'm like, "Rosa can we do your dishes??" "CLAROOOOOO" little did I know MAGGOTS EVERYWHERE. SOOO SCARY. I WASN'T SURE IF WE'D MAKE IT OUT ALIVE! I pick up the sponge to start wiping things down and MAGGOTS START CRAWLING OUT OF THE SPONGE. EWWW. Makes me sick thinking about it! Worst part is we were drinking out of those cups we were cleaning! uhh nightmare but we almost made it out alive. 

We were a threesome again this week. Hna. Hernandez was so stinkin cute! She's going to be a senior and she is still deciding to go on a mission. I WAS DETERMINED TO MAKE THIS 1,084,187 TIMES BETTER THAN BEEHIVE CAMP. I didn't even make her call me ketchup!  So we made sure to make it the best, the funniest, the most exciting week ever! By the end of our little week we were all crying and she is sure she want's to go on a mission! MISSIONS ARE THEE GREATEST! 

Erlin is sooo cool!!! He hasn't smoked or drank in 2 weeks! He works every day with a member in our ward and has become great friends with him. He accepts everything so fast. He's like I know with all my heart that I already learned this somewhere. YOU DID. YOU ALREADY ACCEPTED IT IN HEAVEN! He's obsessed with everything we teach.  The law of chastity he's like, "wow not any other church is teaching this anymore. THIS IS SO TRUE!" He's also obsessed with preach my gospel. He keeps asking us for his own copy. It's been so easy to teach him. He called us the other morning and was sooo sad, "Hermanas, I'm here at work and I told this guy I was getting baptized and he told me that in the mormon church I will be baptized in the name of Joseph Smith. Why didn't you tell me that??" He was so so sad and happy to hear that wasn't true! He should be getting baptized this saturday if thats god's will. It has been sooo cool to see how much the savior knows each and every one of us. The atonement changes us!  I thought it was going to be so hard to make Erlin stop smoking with all his friends being little nuggets but then I remembered, Hermana Wagstaff this isn't you that is stopping him from smoking it's the Savior so of course it won't be hard! We literally did nothing just supported him and the Lord has done EVERYTHING. It's been the most incredible thing to stand on the sideline and watch my Savior work magic in these people lives. 

GOD IS GOOD, PEOPLE ARE FUN, AND TEXAS IS CRAZY

I LOVE YOU ALL MY LITTLE FAMILY! I AM AS HAPPY AS A PACK OF BUBBLETAPE!! 

exchanges to the boonsss. thank hna. palmer for the dress! 

English class favs!

OUR MINI MISSIONARY AND WARD MISSION LEADER

 QUICK TRIP TO INDIA. NO BIG DEAL! so many cool temples here in houston! we made a goal to visit them all!!! what a beaut! probs how people feel outside our temples! 

coolest architecture. LOOK AT ME AP ART HISTORY I REMEMBER THAT BIG WORD!  

ERLIN!!! HE'S AWESOME! 

 din din with Leonor Barrios! love her mainly loved the table cloth cuz it looked like home! 

WHEN YOU HAVE TO TIE HER TO THE TREE... no I understand the crazy moms at disneyland with those leashes! I feel you! a lost child is worry some thing! 

when you spot your fav investigator Rudy (easter basket dad) at work and embarrass him in front of all his friends! SORRY MY BAD. SMILE! 

UNIVERSITY LIFE IN TEXAS

FAMMMMMMMMMMMIIIILLLLLLLYYYYYYY, 

Hey fam! how's everyone doing in Holladay today? Things here in Houston are amazing! just here on the laptops with my FAV librarian. She has a cute tattoo that says JXDX love... not sure what it means just LOVE HER! This week was so cool soo soo cool! Elder Robbins came for our Mission Leadership Council on Thursday and I'm still mind blown. He said that the lessons that we learn as missionaries are lesson you couldn't learn anywhere or in any other way. And it's sooo true. I could never learn the things I'm learning in stinky old UTAH or cute little UVU but only here in Houston. So here's some of the classes I'm taking at TEXAS LIFE LESSONS UNIVERSITY... First off, I'm trying to major in Christ like attributes but man 4 words KICK IN THE PANTS! and then i'm going to minor in mothering.  

First class, I've got FAITH1010- My professor is the best in the world. his "rate my professor"- ALL A THOUSAND STARS! He's the only begotten, he suffered EVERYTHING just so he could succor me! He's so easy to trust and as soon as we become better acquainted with him, we get better grades! 

Next down the hall LOVE2040- i laugh when i think about before the mission. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT LOVE WAS.  I think my heart might just burst right now. I love these people so so much. Every night when I pray for them I just want this so badly for all my little best friends here in houston. But mostly my professor just shows me how much he loves me. Everyday he shows me just little tiny pockets of his love. Whether it's the free donuts the women gave me at shipley, or the words he puts in my mouth to testify of him, or the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls. I know he loves me and he loves all of you! i feel it, i see it, and i know it!

MARRAIGEPREP1050- whoooooooooossssssiieeeeeee have i learned alot about marriage. With each companion i've learned something about myself. How to react. How to love. How to compromise. Pres says exactly how I treat my companions I will treat my eternal companion. Elder Robbins only talked about marriage on thurs. EKKKK DISGUSTING! I'm terrified of marriage. It's just about the scariest thing now after seeing so many lets say off the cliff ones. But one thing I've learned and something Elder Robbins said that will save a companionship or marriage is... rule 1- your companion is always right. rule 2 -when you think they are wrong re-read rule one.  

I remember Hna. K's and my first fight... imagine this. Sitting around a plastic table studying for our investigators. She has her head down just done for the day. I'm frantically flipping through scripts. Finally I flip to Mosiah 14. I'm like whoooww this is perfect i read it and she's like, "great that's great. That's perfect. Lets go" I'm like, "you hate it! I know you do! You hate mosiah 14!" we then just had to talk it through.... MOSIAH 14 GOT US GOOD! learning alot about marriage folks!  

we've got Diligence2020, knowledge 4050

and my electives are off the hizzhouse!! 

let me tell you about

 DRAMA1050 WITH EVERY HISPANIC!!! Erlin our new investigator is HILARIOUS! so dramatic. only English he knows is from Titanic so you can only image how dramatic that gets! "dont let go!" "I'm never gunna leave you!" he is so cool. I feel like we are teaching a less active. Anything we teach him he just gets! He's so excited to get baptized. He has a date for june 19th and his mom called him yesterday and was like, "Erlin, I had a dream of you in water. It wasn't a lake or the ocean but you were in water and these men in white were cleaning you off." He's like, "mom that's because I'm getting baptized in two weeks!" We are helping him stop smoking and it's hard because all his friends live with him are not helping. But we of course go to the scrip dogs and I was like "ERLIN, YOU ARE NEPHI. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LEAVE, ABORT, ABANDON, JERUSALEM." He then got all his friends on the porch and was like, "guys I'm quiting, you have to help me! I've made the decision and I'm stopping!" Hermanas come to my house tomorrow morning and pray with me then come back at 3 and pray with me again. then at 7 we will go to the church for english class." so we wake up the next morning and head to his house at 7 and I'm like man I shouldn't doubt him but I don't think he will be up... OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH! He throws open the door (not sure if he thought he was the star of bye bye birdie or High school musical) and just yells, "I'M LEAVING JERUSALEM." He's been doing awesome and came to church yesterday and our member friend for him got him a job with him!! SO COOL HOW MUCH THE MEMBERS HELP!! pray for Erlin!

Other electives...

eatingskill505 PRESIDENT TOLD ME I WAS THE WHITEST HISPANIC HE'S EVER MET AGAIN... HE MADE ME EAT MORE THAN ALL THE ELDERS.

speedwalking6708 RUN RUN RUN ALWAYS ON THE RUN

so many great life lessons I am learning! I LOVE THE MISSION!! WE HAVE A MINI MISSIONARY WITH US THIS WEEK! SHES A DOLL AND A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL! WE LOVE HER! WELLLLLLLLLLLL LOVE YOU FAMILY!

NATS

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!