Dearest Family,

How was the family reunion! I can not believe that it is August. It doesn't feel like the last time we were all together was a whole year ago. Crazy and unreal. Did you do skits again? Dancing? Karaoke? I'm sure there was at least an hour of just letter writing to us missionaries. Just jokes. I just want to know how everyone is doing and all the silly embarrassing things that happened - you know how I don't like missing out. 

Jessica and Tyler! How has your summer been? What's the countdown? How many days until school starts? Remember when we made that baking show movie? Flat bread. Haha I don't know why I just thought of that, but you two should make some movies and document this time of your lives. 

Mom and Dad, are your classrooms ready? It's okay, stress just means you're alive. I did this stress management thing with Sister Tilley for training this week and I realized I'm at a healthy level of stress!! In the green zone. Yay! All is well.

We had a lovely lesson with our new investigator โดนัท (donut) on Wednesday about the Plan of Salvation. She is so sweet and humble. Her face lit up when we talked about eternal families and then minutes later she just looked so sad and sick. She made this weird noise, grabbed her stomach, and ran out of the room. I felt so bad! She threw up a couple times and then we had a member that was at the church give her a blessing. The spirit was strong, and we were able to bear testimony of the power of the priesthood. I'm grateful that Brother was there to help! 

Right after that lesson we went onto the foyer and there was this lady there that was asking to work at the church. She saw Sister Tilley and just had this unbreakable stare and would only talk to her. It was a lil scary and none of us could understand anything she was saying. The members that were with us helped us explained everything, it was just really sad because she was asking for a place to stay and we couldn't really help here with that. She's not really all there and has been camping out outside the gate of the church for the past 5 days. The Elders have tried to teach her, but she's not interested at all. I just wish we could help her more! 

I love serving in the International branch. Also, Relief Society is the most organized inspired organization ever. One of the Sisters invited us over to her home for a luncheon with all the other Sisters. Sister Tilley and I gave a lil lesson about Family History kind of more of a pep talk maybe and offered to have a Family History night once a month at the church. We watched this wonderful clip from Elder Eyring, go find it, called The Doctrine of Family History. I know that family history is so important! I want to do family history for the rest of my mission! That will just have to wait for later though. Those women are all so amazing and I'm just so excited for when I can have be a wife and mother and have a cute lil family.

I'm so grateful for fasting! This week was good and hard and that just means growth! Things are much easier said than done. I just have to remind myself to be myself and not make this work harder than it needs to be. I am so grateful for personal study time and time during the day when we are biking and I can just self reflect. I felt so much peace yesterday. I'm grateful for revelation. Church is the best place to receive revelation. I'm grateful for hymns and the spirit that they bring. I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that if we will simply ask and seek that we will find the answers that we need to help us feel the peace of God's light in our lives. I love you all so much. Have a wonderful week.

Love, Love,

Sister Sahagun