Cinnamon Bear Situation

Hey Maham e Dadio/Padrel 

(Drew's Mom here) Drew Calls me Maham in his letters.  It's a hand-me-down nick name from his Eldest brother Nathan who would sometimes use that spelling when whining at me in his mission letters.  Like Mahaaam Staaap!  Also when I write it'll be in blue : )

*Maham! Stop forming the Mother's Gadianton robbers behind my back!  I know you can't be as good of a Smother with me being far away but secret combinations are bad!  Haha.  (I'm gonna say haha at the end of every paragraph) 

Here is the paragraph from my letter that Drew is referring to...

"I made friends with H's Mom from your MTC district on Facebook.  So that's good.  Also one other Mom who's name escapes me at this time.  We're forming our own Mom's District behind your backs!  I'm thinking secret combination hand shakes, youtube videos on how to make care packages, breaking into your son's email account to spy on them while they're away for 2 yrs.  It's a bad-girls district"

First of all Dad, it's obviously spelled Padrel what else could it be?  And mine is obviously Derail.  Second of all I'm a little confused, did Evan choke on two pieces of meat?!!! or just one?  I hope he doesn't do it again while you guys are on the road.  Haha.

Drew's brother Evan started calling everyone D-rail, A-rail, etc  a while ago. It's another Tagg nick name and I believe Drew and Troy are having a spelling dispute.  Also Drew knows how it bothers me when letters from missionaries have ton's of misplaced 'ha has' so he's teasing me here. 

That's awesome that Audrey had her patriarchal blessing.  Did she like it?  I wrote you guys a handwritten letter but I haven't sent it yet, I can't remember if I have some envelopes or if I need to buy them.  In the letter I did kinda a big paragraph about Audrey.  I felt like I needed to say some things to her including asking her to seriously consider and pray about going on a mission.  I've felt so many blessings in my life already because of this mission and I would love for her to have the same experience.  She would be such a great missionary.  I don't know I've just felt impressed this week to say that to her.  Haha.

My roomates are great, theres my comp. Anziano Fry, then theres the other companionship Anziani Brown and Humble.  In the other room there's Anziani Buckner, Mosteller, Bawden, and Weight.  They're a reaallly cool group of guys and really fun to hangout with.  I'm giving you this information in confidence Mom so don't use it to do secret combinations with all the other Moms.  Haha (An appropriate ha ha here!)

Ok so there must be something wrong with the cinnamon bears you sent because I was eating more of them and I bit into one and I felt another hard metal thing!!!  I don't even know how to explain this one so I'll just attach a picture of it.  Haha.

Lo vi volgio bene TANTO!!!  Io so che Dio e i nostri Padre Celeste e che lui anche vi ama. Io so che la chiesa e la verita e sono molto molto grato che posso servire il signore e i popoli di Italia.  Questa missione ha cambiato la mia vita.  Lo sono contento a essere qui. Haha.

I love you SO MUCH!!! I know that God is our Heavenly Father and that He also loves you.  I know the Church is true and I am very grateful that I can serve the Lord and the people of Italy.  This mission has changed my life.  I"m happy to be here.  Ha ha 

Here are some pictures

1. The thing I found in my cinnamon bear this weeks

2. Me being photographed without consent

3. Anziani weight’s weird pinky

A letter to Drew's friends below.  He's a fantastic letter writer!! 

Hey everyone! 

Week three has been awesome here in Provo.  It's a little dry but I'll just have to get used to that again.  I actually really like it here!  I love looking out at the mountains all the time, I love feeling the Spirit all the time, and I especially love how they keep me soooooo busy.  Sorry I just learned that in Italy they don't use sarcasm so I'm just trying to get it all out now.  

I'm loving my district.  There are some really cool guys and we have lots of fun. We all have these little zippy things that can attatch our keys and our ID cards to our belt loops and the other day we made a chain of people by putting our ID cards in the back pocket of the person in front of us.  So we did that and then walked all the way back to the residence in the rain.  Elder Maguet actually joined in so it was just a bunch of Italian missionaries and a couple Malagasy Missionaries connected by short strings wobbling through campus. It was a good time.  At one point someone tried to walk in between us and ended up breaking the string connection.  There were casualties.  But it was not in vain.

We are all learning the language amazingly fast.  I know the gift of tongues is real and it's blessed me so much.  Heveanly Father really does love his Missionaries.

Sometimes I do get a little homesick but it goes away when I pray or read the scriptures or listen to hymns.  I know that the Lord wants me here and that's all that matters.  

Ciao!

Elder Tagg