My Shoes are Like Submarines

Nos mojamos BIEN esta semana. Jaja!! But this week was good!!

Updates: 

- We had cambios, but I'm going to finish my misión out here in Juayua with Hermana Saggeth!! Super excited for that!! 

- I am still telling people that I'm from Chalatenango when they ask where i'm from jaja (its where the whiter salvadoreñas are from)

2 El Salvador Things:

- We legitimately got soaked this week... like come home peal your clothes off and hop in the shower AND i had my first hot shower in months!! And my first ever bucket shower!! So we heat up water on the stove and then put it in a bucket and then put that in the shower. Use another smaller bucket to dump water on yourself. Ta-da!

- Second thing, jaja, we don't have running water today so pro tip. Here you have to keep your pila full and then when you'

re done using the bathroom you dump (again with the buckets) a bucket of water into the toilet :) problem solved. :D i'm a plumber. 

This week I had a really cool experience with one of our friends!! We called our friend named Edgardo and he brought up a talk I gave in church about 4 weeks ago. He said he was STILL thinking about what I said! He told me that the things I said touched his heart deeply, that God was speaking through me, and that what I said that day was a big reason why he wanted to (wait for it!!) be baptized!! What?! So we are excited for him!! 

We are never going to know how many hearts we touch but the Lord uses US to extend His hand to the people around us. I just felt so happy to know that, yes. God is working through me. The words I said weren't mine, but through me he saw a light. The light of Christ. I love Jesus Christ. :))

So just know that if you're reading this God loves you, and He's proud of you. Your efforts aren't in vain.

Les amo a todos!!! <333

Saluuuu!!

xoxo

Hermana Wagner

The One Where I Became a Wedding Planner :)

Holissss!!

I learned how to make pupusas this week, we got lost in a laberinto, and went on two long trips to San Salvador and Santa Ana. 

As the title says, we are planning a wedding for our friend Abi!! She the one who lives up the giant hill jaja she is really awesome, and despite lots of challenges she keeps pressing forward. On Sunday she came to church which was actually a miracle. It has been really cool to see the change that has happened with her!! I love Abi!!

Also something funny... I got asked to give a talk in the sacrament meeting... during the sacrament... so I had 10 minutos to give a talk in spanish, ohmyheck!! XD las cosas que pasan en la misión jaja

I don't have much to say but I wanted to share a quote I read this week, "in this Church, we believe in the divine potential of all of God’s children and in our ability to become something more in Christ. In the Lord’s timing, it is not where we start but where we are headed that matters most" ("Becoming More in Christ: The Parable of the Slope" by Elder Gilbert)

Les amo!! Espero que ustedes tengan una buena semana!! <333

xoxo

Hermana Wags

Bishop Bought Us TWO Pizzas XD

Holissss!!! Que onda???

What a WiLD week!! We had our Mulitzone Conference, Interviews, I took a trip outside of my mission to to San Salvador, and I ate my first Chocobanana :))

Lots of trips in Mircobuses, which are like 17 seater little stalker vans. We had to go to San Salvador for my Visa stuff. We stayed the night in my old area with my old companions to shorten the trip. On the way there that night we ended up picking up a bunch of the new elders from the states to go through migración también. Our route lasted from 7pm to about 10pm jaja nice BUT the good things is that the APs bought us dinner from Wendy's so :)) The drive the next day was super beautiful, its SO GREEN here!!!

It has been really cool to see how the Lord has been working in our areas! This week one of our friends who is preparing to be baptized this month told us that her sister wants us to start visiting her and teaching her too!! So cool!!

ALSO!! Yesterday was kinda rough, we had 4 visits fall through... that doesn't sound like a lot but including walking time thats like four and a half hours. We ended up sitting on the side of the road and Hermana Saggeth told me, Hermana tengo ganas de llorar...She felt like crying... and same... we called the people we had appointments with and they canceled :/ so we decided to visit a family in the ward. We had passed by their house a little earlier but we left because we had an appointment, (which fell through) but this time we stayed. Turns out the grandma is not a member. She told us she wanted to learn more! She watched General Conference last week and she loved everything we shared! The lesson went really well and we're going to start teaching her!! Milagro!! God puts us in the places we need to be when we need to be there. :)

My invitation for you guys is to find out why you are where you are right now. There are lots of reasons and lots that you won't ever know but if you ask God He will reveal to you at least one reason why you need to be where you are. I loved how in Conference they said that Christ taught us how to serve and He has called us to be His disciples. Ask Him what He needs you to do. <333 

In Doctrine and Covenants 6:14 it says:

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, blessed art thou for what thou hast done; for thou hast inquired of me, and behold, as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not have come to the place where thou art at this time."

Les amo un montón, besitos besitos y un gran abrazo a la distancia jaja espero que tengan una semana feliz!!

Saluuuu!!

xoxo

Hermana Waggy

Gabi Feliz

Buenos días estrellitas, la tierra dice hola!

This was a good week! We had exchanges this week with the Hermanas Líderes and it was super fun! I got to go with Hermana Pastul. We also had a ton of Family Home Evenings with the families in our wards and they were so good! 

Also!! Conference!! My brain feels like its going to explode with all the spiritual insights, and the Spanish jaja (all 5 sessions in español!! Whoot whoot!!) 

One of my favorite parts of conference was the emphasis on how we are not alone. When we exercise faith in our daily actions we open our hearts and lives to our Savior and our Heavenly Father. They fill us with the Holy Ghost to guide us and give us direction so we don't walk in circles. 

I loved the quote by Elder Wilcox, "We are not walking to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, we are walking WITH Them" :))

I love you all and I hope you are enjoying fall porque aquí no hay jaja!! <333

Saluuuu!

xoxo

Hermana Wags