I ended up changing this to a pre-save filter (I needed to change some of the values) and I looked for specific custom fields and called my mail functions from there.
function custom_acf_pre_save_post($post_id) {
if($_POST['acf']['field_5a0dc6820fd89'] && ($_POST['acf']['field_5a0dc6820fd89'] != get_field('custom_field', $post_id)){
//wp_mail code here...
}
return $post_id;
}
add_filter('acf/pre_save_post' , 'custom_acf_pre_save_post', 10, 1);