Week Twenty and a half: Last email from 2014 from Elder Wagner

¡FELIZ NAVIDAD! I hope you all had a gread christmas! mine was pretty great! but a little weird, its the first time ive spent christmas in warm weather and away from the family, but its all good because i got to spend christmas with servants of the lord! we had a special district meeting with a small gift exchange and testimony meeting and it was one of the best christmases ever! everything was centered on the true meaning of christmas and no one was very preoccupied in the gifts or anything and we all shared our testimonies of the church and of the reason we celebrate christmas and it was great! I have abosolutely no idea how we are going to spend the new year, but ill let you know next week how it goes haha. Today i bought a camera, so hopefully ill start sending more pictures and stuff for all you people who are like i was before the misson and just want to look at pictures because reading is just too much work haha. I realized this week that i never told you about my new companion! His name is Elder Garcia and he is from Mexico City and he is amazing! we get along really well which is good because were going to be together in the offices for up to 9 months or more. I dont have time to reply to all the stuff i receive, so i just want to give a quick thanks to all the people who sent me letters and cards. I dont really have time to write all of you and thank you personally, but i really appreciate the letters and cards that i get because i can keep them in the house and read them without spending my time on the computer. Also, i get mail whenever it arrives at the offices now instead of once a month because when im out as a regular missionary, i only get mail every month, but now since im in the offices i can pretty much just get it from the mailman and open it right there haha. 

Last week i listened to a talk by Elder Holland named "Remember Lot´s wife" it talks about how we should never look back on the mistakes weve maid or on the person we used to be and that we should look forward with hope in Christ. Its an incredible talk and i encourage all of you to read it.

But the challenge this week apart from that is to start this new year with hope for the future and know that the future holds everything for us even though sometimes it may seem like a tough road ahead. You can also make new year resolutions, but we all know that we break almost every one within the first two weeks haha.

I love all of you! thank you for all your support!

¡Les amo mucho! ¡Gracias por todo su apollo!  -Elder Wagner