It's a Jungle Out Here

BUENAS BUENAS

Pues, this week was A LOT! So I came in at about the last week of our transfer so transfers are tomorrow and after a week and a half me and Hermana Lopez are training a new missionary! HAHA! She is from Honduras and her name is Hermana Martinez! So that's exciting... also my area got split in half, and my district changed too, so lots of change (what's new;)).

Here is what's new:

- We take the bus or we walk a lot 

- I have 12 active bug bites

- We tried Minutas, basically a fancy snow cone with sweetened condensed milk and strawberry chunks 

- We started teaching 2 new people this week and they're so cool!

- Both me and my comp got super sick this week haha BUT tender mercy it happened on different days so that's good :)

Guess what!

So yesterday Hermana Lopez was super sick and was knocked out after church, so sad her stomach hurt a ton ;( but we had a call lesson, so we called our friend (she's a chica who's in school to be a teacher and she's about my age) before the lesson I prayed that I would be able to talk to her and understand her (it's about 10x harder on the phone fyi jaja) because Hermana Lopez could barely pay attention to anything she felt so bad. It was AMAZING though because with that prayer I was able to understand her and talk with her and share the whole message!! The spirit was so strong and she opened up! It was so amazing to be able to do that. It was definitely the spirit and it was an answer to my prayer.

It's a good time here, I'm super excited for this week and for my niña!!! ¡¡Espero que todos estén bien y que tengan una buena semana!! ¡¡Con mucho amor!!

xoxo

- Hermana Wagner

Estoy en El Sal

Jaja Buenas a todos, cómo están?

So Im here :)

- my luggage broke on the way to santa rosa (fastest and most expressive walmart run ever)

- my flight from Dallas to San Sal got delayed like 3 hours jaja

- they lost half the plane's luggage,,, including mine jaja just got the rest of it today XD

- i experienced my first downpour yesterday!! It was the best

- where i live is basically a jungle mixed with a city, so green, so pretty

- my compa es de Guatemala, hna López and is about a head shorter than me:)):)) i LOVE HER. Cutest most patient person ever. She doesn't speak english, we get along great though, my Spanish is actually pretty good! jaja

Its so different and not easy but its awesome to be here!! Love you all a bunch!!!

xoxo

Hermana Wagner 

Baby Octopi for Dinner

Wowzers! Howdy folks!

Highs: the Hmong branch made us a homemade Korean Barbecue which basically was every type of meat you can think of, including salmon, shrimp, pork, beef, steak, tripe, abalone and octopus. SO YUMMY!

We also had an amazing lesson with our friends about the Restoration! The spirit was so strong and looked at us and said, "I believe that happened" SO COOL! It was an awesome lesson! And she told us a story of how her boyfriend was in a really scary situation and going to the hospital and she was panicking. She thought to pray and so she did and felt all her panic and fears go away and she told us that now she knows that that was God answering her prayer through the Holy Ghost! <333 it was awesome to hear her talk about that.

Lows: I packed away all my stuff that I'm sending to Utah that I wont need in El Salvador and I am going to miss California so much! I love my companions, the missionaries, and my friends here and it will be really hard to say goodbye in the middle of the transfer, but I know I am exactly where Heavenly Father needs me to be right now. So not quite a low... this week was a REALLY happy good week!

Quote of the week: “If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.” - Dale Carnegie

We can't just let life happen to us, we have to live it intentionally! Choose for ourselves, make goals, learn, progress, and recommit to (aka use Christ's Atonement to become better at) following the Savior each day. That is how we become the best version of ourselves, and it's a life long process! It's so awesome! That's the plan!

I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father's perfect plan for us! He loves us and He sent His Son to pave the pathway for us to follow. He is always helping us, always lifting us to higher places. He comes to us where we are but He is not going to leave us there. I love the Savior and I'm so joyful and grateful to be able to represent Him and share the good news of His gospel. 

I LOVE IT AND I LOVE YOU ALL! HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

xoxo

Hermana Wags