Hermana Wagner returned home last week on Wednesday night to many hugs and squeals of joy (and a cute chalk drawn Hei hei by Em) and more than a few tears too – mostly on her part because she so wanted to stay on her mission in Mexico, but it has been wonderful to have her home and safe. After a week of living the missionary life here at home, we found out that all missionaries who returned to their homes would be released and then recalled & sent back out later when things cleared up. So, amid a few more tears, she was released yesterday afternoon. In the meantime, we are enjoying our full family 2-week quarantine and so far we’re all healthy. Hoping we can stay that way and praying so many prayers for all those who are fighting this illness & touched by it. When we know that she’s headed out again, we will let you all know!
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Let it Go! Let it Go!! 3/23/20
Hey all!!! So this week hass been really interesting. We were not able to teach a lot of people because they changed the time that we can leave our house. We could only be out of the house from 2pm-7pm and as of today we are now in quarantine. They let us know today that all missionaries that are not from mexico will be returning to their houses….. I am really sad and really bumbed but I know that the Lord has a plan. Thankfully, I will only be returning home for 2 weeks, and for these 2 weeks I will be in quarantine. After these two weeks I will be reassigned to a mission in the U.S. so that I can finish out the other 8 months of my mission.
Hola!! 3/18/20
Hello!!!! This week was very interesting for those of you who are worried about the Coronavirus, everything is ok here! They had us buy food storage so that if we are put in quarantine we will have the food that we need to make it through. This week we had so much fun!! On sunday our Zone leaders came to our area to help us with our area! It was so much fun! We were knocking doors and it was actually a lot of fun!! We had a race to see what house would respond frist. We also put a baptismal date with our investtigator named Diana!! We are really ex ited and we are doing all that we can to help her to prepare. This week there has not been to much happening. Elder Valenzuela came to our mission and it was so cool and we were able to recieve a lot of revelation! My time is short so I promise that I will write more next week!
Hello Hello Hello 3/10/20
Hey all!!! This week has been amazing!!!! We have been talking to a lot of people and we have had some interesting experiences. Yesterday we were not allowed to leave the house because it was national womens day and yesterday mexico was crazy!! So we were stuck in the house ALL day, watching movies, playing uno, and eating oreos with nutella!! Talk about interesting! I also made curry!!! I was missing my family and my moms cooking a lot so I planned on making one of my favorite foods from my house but I could not find the spice that I need to make it so I decided to make curry instead!!!! Ir was so much fun and it tasted so good!!! I was so happy to east something that smelled and tasted like moms cooking! Today we went to a mini pyramid and I was able to wright today because I was not able to yesterday! We have not had many lessons this week a lot of people canceled but the few lessons that we were able to have were so powerful!!! I have learned more sign language to help our investigator who is mute and deaf. I love you guys so much and I hope that you are all doing well!!!
Hermana Wagner
Lot’s of Work! 3/2/20
This week was amazing!!!!!! We had an area attack and during this attack we were able to find 13 new people to teach and 3 of them were families who are really really interested in learning about the church! During the entire week we found around 18 people to teach! We are super excited to teach these people! It was such a miracle and a blessing for us this week because we had plans to baptism dates with a few people but they have not gone to church ad we have been trying to get them to come for a while. So we are really excited to teach them and see where it will lead us.
Hello!!!! 2/24/20
Hey all! I am doing amazing! I absolutely love my companion!!! WE are literally always laughing and always smiling. We have seen so many miracles during these past 2 weeks! durin the past 2 weeks we have found 17 new people to teach and we are hoping to visit them this week! We are really excited to teach these people!
Helloooooooooooooo 2/17/20
Hey all! So this week’s really good!! I had changes on monday and I am now in Tlalpan, with Sister Solano! I am so excited to be here and I love my companion so much!!! We are literally the same person! We like the same things and our personalities are the same and it is so much fun!!! We laugh literally everyday and when we get up at 6:30 we immediately put on music because we both know that we will not fall asleep when music is playing hahaha
Hello!!!! 2/10/20
Hey all! So this week has gone by really fast! My email today will be really short because I have 20 minutes to write! So on wednesday we took kan investigators to the temple! She loved it so much and she put a baptismal date for february. Right now I am in Tallalpan and I love my area so much! I love my new companion and am excited for these next 6 weeks love you guys lots!!!
Hermana Wagner
Espiritu de los mundos 2/3/20
So to begin with a funny story… during one of our first lessons with one of the people we are teaching, I tried to explain what the spirit world is but I switched the words around because spirit world in spanish is el mundo de los espíritus, and I said el espiritu de los mundos, so in english I said the spirit of the worlds. Needless to say my companion and that sister that we were teaching were both buying of laughter
Hey All!!!! 1/27/20
So this week went by really fast!!!!! I totally scared my companion!!! She left the room to go to the bathroom, so I decided to hide under the bed…… she came walking back into the room and I grabbed her ankles from underneath the bed. Lets just say that she was more than a little terrified, but it was a good laugh!! we had a lot of fun this week. We have 12 people who we are teaching right now so we have literally been running around like chickens with our heads cut off. We had one baptismal interview this week! This little girl is 9 years old and she is so excited! She was literally beaming when she left the baptismal interview! She was so excited to tell her none member friend that she had passed the baptismal interview. Her friend then began to ask her what questions they asked her. So she started to tell him all of the questions that they asked her and then she told him all of the answers and explained why it was important. She was a great little missionary and is she helping to prepare her friends for our next lesson because we have been teaching her friend as well!
There is a place close to our house where my companion and I always by tacos, and they are really good. Usually we just order our tacos and we eat there or we will take our tacos to the house if it is late. Well on Saturday we went there to eat tacos again, but this time the people started talking to us. First someone asked if I was from Canada hahaha. I explained that I was from Ohio and then they began to ask me why I was here in Mexico. I explained that I am here to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I explained our purpose as missionaries. While I was doing this my companion started talking to a women next to her because she started to ask her questions. Everyone who was there eating tacos began to listen to us and to ask questions. My companion and I both started to talk briefly about what we believed and asked them if they would like to listen to our message. The two people who were asking us a lot of questions said yes and we put appointments with them. It was a really cool and interesting experience. We were just doing something normal, and they started to ask us questions which led us into the perfect opportunity to invite them to come closer to Christ.
Yesterday we were searching for some of the people that we are teaching when we saw a sister that has not been coming to church for 2 years, and we felt prompted to walk with her and talk to her. She was going to by pizza for her kids because they were hungry but only wanted to eat Pizza. We started talking to her about her family and asked if there was anything that we could do to help. She expressed to us her desire to go to church but, that the last time that she went to church that she began to have serious problems with her husband( who is member , but stopped going for a problem with a member) and that to save her marriage, she stopped going to church. While we were waiting with her for her Pizza, she decided to buy us tacos( although we said that were fine). After we finished eating our tacos, we started talking to the sister again, when another lady walked up to my companion and I and asked if we would like a taco(we did not know this lady and had never met her before) We told her that we were OK, but thanked her for the offer. The Lady left and the sister that we were with looked at us and said “You should have contacted her! It was the perfect opportunity!” My companion and I were so focused in this sister that we missed and opportunity to bless the life of another child of God. But in this moment we were blessed to feel the love that this sister has for all of God’s children. We were able to feel the desire that she had to help in the gathering of God’s children, and she showed us once again that no matter what situation we are in we always have an opportunity to share the gospel. I testify that every single one of you, have the ability and the opportunity to bless the lives of those around you and to share the gospel. You do not need a missionary name tag in order to share the gospel with those around you. My invitation to you this week is to share the gospel with someone in a natural situation, and to pray every day for the opportunity to share the gospel with someone this week! I love you all so much!!!
Con mucho amor (with lots of love)
Hermana Wagner
1.) a friend from the MTC
2.) my companion and I with Luisa, who will be baptized this Saturday!!