Week Somethin'

Hey everybody!

I hope everything is good with you guys!

So this week I don't really have a lot of time because we went on a really cool hike to this lake called Lago Di Carrezza.  It was super duper pretty.  I didn't take any pictures

Hows Flubba doing?

This week we did some trainings with the zone and they went really well.  That's right, Imma zone leader.  We set a fun zone goal where we play a card game called bang as an entire zone.  The way you get cards is you do certain things during the week like lessons with members/investigators or also obbedience stuff.  Then we do a zoom call like twice a week to play a couple rounds together.  It's been fun so far.

Other than that we were able to find a couple new people to teach this week which is good.  We do a lot of find over Facebook by posting things in Facebook groups to advertise who we are and what we do.  We've been able to start a lot of conversations!  Some positive some negative reactions.  I've noticed that people have a lot less filter with what they say over social media.  But elder Holland said that when we are rejected we are standing shoulder to shoulder with the best life that this world has ever known.  We're trying our best to follow our savior Jesus Christ and I feel closer to Him than ever.  

I am really greatful for these last four weeks I have.  I'm gonna work really hard and sprint to the finish.  And then the last week I've decided I'm gonna get really trunky

But yeah I heard this week that we are not going to be able to go to rome.  Real sad about that.

But I gotta go so here's a pic

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Day 672

Day 672!  

I'm mixing things up today.

Alrighty, so this week was crazy.  The biggest news is that transfers happened and so I said goodbye to Anziano Kunzli.  That was sad.  He was a good friend.  We were together for 3 transfers and so technically we are eternal companions.  We had good times together and did good work.  I will miss him.  

Anziano Svoboda came today and he's great.  He's a sergeant in the Swiss army and was a trainer for the snipers.  He could kill me if he wanted too.  In fact he will kill me at the end of this transfer.  But I am super excited for this next transfer with him.  It will be an adventure for sure because neither of us know how to be zone leaders!  It'll be fun though.  Basically I can do whatever I want cuz "I am the captain now."  

If you guys have any advice for me, I would be grateful, but I would politely decline because I've got this I don't need help.  I'm kiiiiding

Anyways I really really really really hope that Flubba sticks it out at least until the end of july.  No being too rough with her and no poking her one big round okay?  

ALSO Anziano Gardner and Sorella Cooper left the district which is really sad!  That district was so fun we got really close over the 3 transfers we spent together.  BUT Sorella Cooper was replaced by Sorella Torres, I don't know her, she's Italian, BUT Anziano Gardner was replaced but the one, the only, the man, the myth, the legend, my firstborn in the wilderness, Anziano WARD!!!! I was so so happy to see that he was coming to be in this district.  AND he is gonna be district leader!  He's gonna do great and love it up here.

Anyways that's about it for this week

stayoutfromwayfromroundemboys Audrey and Eliza.

Love you guys tons

Anziano Tagg

This is Macillia, pray for her big time guys!  I feel she is close to baptism but she needs to take a leap.  It would help her so so much to have the gift of the holy host in her life.

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Oh How Lovely Was the Morning

Oh, how lovely was the morning!
Radiant beamed the sun above.
Bees were humming, sweet birds singing,
Music ringing thru the grove,
When within the shady woodland
Joseph sought the God of love,
When within the shady woodland
Joseph sought the God of love.

Humbly kneeling, sweet appealing—
'Twas the boy's first uttered prayer—
When the pow'rs of sin assailing
Filled his soul with deep despair;
But undaunted, still he trusted
In his Heav'nly Father's care,
But undaunted, still he trusted
In his Heav'nly Father's care.

Suddenly a light descended,
Brighter far than noonday sun,
And a shining, glorious pillar
O'er him fell, around him shone,
While appeared two heav'nly beings,
God the Father and the Son,
While appeared two heav'nly beings,
God the Father and the Son.

"Joseph, this is my Beloved;
Hear him!" Oh, how sweet the word!
Joseph's humble prayer was answered,
And he listened to the Lord.
Oh, what rapture filled his bosom,
For he saw the living God,
Oh, what rapture filled his bosom,
For he saw the living God.

Week 80/81?

Hey all!  

Alrighty it's been another week.  I guess 2 weeks actually since I last wrote.  

This week was really good.  We have been really busy even just from our apartments which is super coo.  It was full of happiness this week.  The week before was a little rough but this week was really good.  I mean not everything was all peachy... we have problems with our car and we've tried to fix it like 3 times but it no worky.  Then we called a mechanic and he just didn't show up.  We called him a second time and he didn't show up a second day in a row.  Customer service in Italy is the worst.  We really need to fik it because we need it for the baptism on Saturday.  BUT overall things are good and we were able to deal with everything.

Oh yeah and V is all ready to go for saturday!  She had her baptismal interview on Monday and she got a C+ so that's passing ....  Jk, she did great.  She's really awesome and she's gonna be a great strength to the branch.  Plus she has a son so it's like we're getting a 2 for 1!  We're really excited for her.  We have had to work out some complications with the whole ceremony like how many people can be there and the procedures for disinfecting everything before and after.  Also an usher needs to stand at the door to take everyone's temperature before they come in.  And then everyone has to pee in a cup.  

I'm kiiiiiiding but they actually do have to take temperatures.  It reminds me of that scene in I Am Legend when all the guards are letting people through but only if they pass the little eye scan thingy and then when people don't pass it they're all like "no let me through I'm clean!  Scan me again"  and then it creates a panic and the people storm the gate and try to get on the helicopter but it's too heavy to take off and it ends up crashing and exploding.  So that's basically where we're at right now.

But anyways I hope things at home are good.  Are restrictions lightening up yet?  

So I guess I should finish this email.  A lot has happened between the last paragraph and this one.  We went on a short hike that was actually really fun and then we got home and we were wippin' up some pizza when Anziano Gardner and Anziano Fry just walked in our apartment ! Apparently, president called and gave them permission to come up from Bolzano and hang out with us haha.  I was shook.  But yeah they just came in here and munched on our pizza and we hung out with them for the day.  It was so fun.  Definitely the best P-day for a while.  We were banging (playing a card game called bang) when the Sorelle in Trento called and we had to all be quiet to not blow our cover. But they found out that we were hanging out without them haha.

Anyways that's why I haven't had a lot of time to write or call.  But I love you guys a lot and a lot and I miss you tons.  I can't believe that I only have like 2 months left 

Anziano Tagg

Week 79

Hey Hey Hey!

Wassthup guysth?  I wanna asthk you guysth a questhion.  What do you think of listhpsth?  I hate them.  Honesthly sthpeach inpedimentsth in general are justh horrendousth.

Okay anyways this week has been a good one.  I wanna wish you a happy Mother's day again!  It was good to be able to talk with you Mom and I just wanna say thank you for everything that you have done for me.  I didn't say it enough growing up.  Probably because I was always too busy being nagged all the time.  I'm kiiiiiiidiing I love you a lot and a lot.

Things here are looking up.  we have been able to do a lot of good work.  We found two new people to teach.  One is a friend of an old simp.  His name is E... and he picked up the phone when we were trying to call H...  We said "hey is this H...?"  and he said "No" "oh then who is this?" "E..." "ok well we have a message for you E... can we share it with you?" "yeah sure"

E così via.  We have been able to teach him a couple of times.  He's a cool guy!  The second new peep is the cousin of some members.  We were able to teach them all together and it was a really really good lesson the spirit was there.  I love love love teaching the Gospel .  Every time it is such an amazing experience.  It's almost as if it's true.

Also this week V... committed to be baptized on the 30th of May and we are super di duper excited for her.  We love her a lot and we haven't even met her in person.  She's continuing to learn and grow and were happy about that.  I think she understands about Hill Cumora now.

Also things have been lightening up restriction wise which is good.  They are still taking it slow and not letting up all the way.  But it's progress.

Well that's this week.  What'sup with y'all?  I hope school and work is all going well.  I'm thinking more and more about coming home and starting work and classes and yucky grownup stuff.  What I'm really excited for is to play with my stuffed animals and bideodames and have playdates.  But I still have two more months and I'm grateful for that.  I don't want to leave yet.

I love you guys!

Anziano Tagg

Week 77

Hey Guiyzzzz!  How is everything!?  I always ask that but nobody ever answers me.  Does anyone even love me?

Ok anyways this week has been gooda.  We are workin' hard, and having fun too.  

I hope you guys make some time to have fun.  playing with Bruno baby?  Playing with Flubba but not too rough?  Going outside?  

This week it was raining almost the whole week but we didn't care, we just put some rain coats on and went outside to go on our semi-daily walks.  The only rain coat I had was this leftover Sorella one I found in the apartment but I didn't care.  It's made a big difference being able to go outside.  Man wasn't made to stay inside all day.  Unless of course he has biolent bideodames to keep him busy.  

As far as the work goes this week was good, there's not much different, we are doing well, Mike and Prascilla are doing well, they are happily married still.  Wait, I did tell you guys about Mike and Prascilla our pasta-ball friends right? 

Oh yeah we've also started doing this thing as a zone were we try make cool videos to post on the zone facebook page as a way to find people who are interested.  People have done little vlogs explaining who we are, little musical numbers, and other things.  As you know my comp and I did a concert on our balcony for all our neighbors and it was actually really fun.  And then other people started playing their instruments for us too.  It was awesome!  We are also working on one of those "pass the tag" videos.  Idk even how to explain it but there are a lot of example on facebook right now.  Basically one person has the name tag and does something cool and then tosses it out of the video frame and then the next person catches it and does something cool and throws it to the next person.  You have to be cool to do it.  No "not-cools" aloud.

But yeah, this week I have been using this app that was recommended to us missionaries called the "mindfulness" app.  It kinda like guides you through different meditation exercises.  It was strange at first but then I discovered that it is the best thing ever and it really helps me.  I often get too caught up and worried about every little thing thanks to my dang genes, but this has really helped me to kinda step out of the current situation and look at it in a different perspective and be able to control how I react.  It's kinda hard but I can feel myself becoming master Oogway from Kung-fu Panda.  "yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift....That is why they call it the present"  Might as well tell the church to return those plane tickets cuz I'm gonna just disappear into a cloud of peach peddles and float my way to America.  

Ok as a final thought, I want to share this quote from the introduction to the Book of Mormon.  "the Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on earth" think about that, THE MOST CORRECT BOOK ON EARTH!!  and then it says, "we invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ if the book is true"  Have you guys prayed to ask God if the Book of Mormon is true?  Have you really pondered the message it contains?  Have you done all of that recently?  I have, and I know that it is true.

I love you guys a ton.  You are great examples to me.  All of you.

In the name of Jesus Christ amen

Week 76

Hey Gang how's it?

This week for me has been good.  We are still working hard and finding success and blessings on blessings on blessings.  those little blessings everyday are what keeps us going.  The Lord is with us I can feel it.  

As I said when I called home, we were able to find a new "friend" which is the politically correct term for gator (slang for investigator).  Her name is V and she actually found out bout the church online and when she saw us missionaries in Brixen on Facebook we were able to start a conversation and set up an appointment over whatsapp.  She was catholic but she left because she wasn't happy and is trying to look into other religions.  So we had one lesson with her and she said that she has read some of the Book of Mormon which is amazing!  She was like "I understood everything except I don't know where the hill Cumora is I've never heard of that"  So you could say she's having some major doubts about her testimony.  Be sure to pray for her!  And also for our other two peeps who are progressing Blessing and M.  We are only teaching women because Anziano Kunzli is a Swiss snack.  

We are continuing to make good food.  We made another lasagna and every time we make lasagna with fresh pasta we have the left over scraps of pasta from when we cut out the sheets.  And so we just make a big pasta ball and cook it.  The first time we birthed Mike the pasta ball and this time Prascilla was born.  They're married.  Not in the temple yet but they're taking the lessons and progressing towards marriage for eternity.  Next time we are probably gonna make some lil pasta babies for them.  I guess you could say Mike and Pracilla are our equivalent of Wilson from the movie Castaway.  

Anyways  other than that everything here is going well.  I wanna hear how things are going back home and all.  Although maybe I kinda know everything already since I call you guys teewice a week.  maybe that's too much.  Maybe we should do once a month.  I'm kiiiiiiding! I like hearing from y'alls.  Family game night sounds fun I miss playing boardgames.  Also I miss having family hide from the Nazi's night??  Sounds pretty fun?  

Anyways let me know how everyone is doing.  And also I always love getting pictures of paisley.  How is she?  

I love all you guys and miss you a lot and a lot.

until next time...  CIAO!

Anziano Tagg

Mike and Prascilla

Week 75

Hey guys!  How is everyone doing?  

Here we are all good.  We really enjoyed general conference last weekend it was super bomb.  

I think that my favorite talk was Elder Holland's.  He talked about 1820 hopes, and 2020 hopes.  He said that God isn't some unmerciful punisher that comes to deliver justice, nor is he an absent being, but he is like a parent who guides and leads us, correcting us when we need it and being merciful and forgiving us when we repent.  

I really really like that.  It's true.  He said that we have every right to hope for things in the future, because this is God's work.  He cares about us, he cares about our desires and hope.  If we loose hope in the darkness then there is only darkness.

Anyways after all that heavy stuff.  I hope everyone is doing well and that you are keeping busy.  We are.  We have continued to work with M and B and all of our members.  We are doing English class online and we want to start using facebook more to find people.  

today we are making kebab and we are blessed to be able to watch The Other Side of Heaven.  Although if I remember correctly there is a bad scene in that movie.  Boh.  President said it was ok, so I guess it is.  I'm pretty sure the mission office is illegally downloading these movies because they just send it to us each week over google drive hahaha.  

Also we went to the farmacy the other day to get masks and my Omnefrazoid meds for my stomach.  I got the meds but they were out of masks and told us to come back tomorrow.  (today is tomorrow)  So we went today and they still didn't have them and said to come back in the afternoon.  While we were walking home we were stopped by the police and they gave us a ticket for not having a mask!!  We were like we don't have any we were trying to get some!  But the guy was really rude and was yelling at us and stuff and we ended up with a 280 euro ticket!! Sooooo real bummer there.  I'll probably talk to you about that later.  But all is well non c'e niente da fare.

That's all folks.  I love you all. Avanti andiam

Anziano Tagg

Week 74

Holy cow those weeks are getting up there!

Anyways I am doing well here in Italy even tho things around me are kinda cray cray.  It seems like everyone around me is dropping like flies!! Friends from this mission as well as around the worl and stuff are going home but we are just chilln' here in the epicenter.  

This week was good we were able to teach the word of wisdom to blessing and the plan of salvation to M and we've been teaching the restoration to the members so we are still very much preaching the gospel which is good and makes me feel like a missionary again.  

We had a tender moment with a family of the branch were we read with them Joseph Smith history when it talks about the first vision.  Then we made a huge list with them of why they were grateful for that event.  What was restored that they were grateful for.  I said that I was grateful for the plan of salvation and I really am.  It gives purpose to our entire life.  It was really good to ponder about the first vision and the restoration and to bear testimony about it even if all of them already knew it.  

Speaking of the restoration, I have been listening to this podcast that is on gospel library about Joseph Smith's experience in 1820.  It's really really good and goes into a lot of details about why the Smiths moved to that area and why there was all this religious commotion at the time.  Even what Joseph's sensational experience must have been like as he entered the grove.  I would recommend it to you guys.

WELL how are things going over there?  I hope you are finding things to fill the time with.  I was thinking that if I were home during this time then I would be a lot more bored haha.  I definitely would waste more time.  So I'm still grateful to be here and I'm not comin home any time soon.

I love you all and I miss you guys.  

Anziano Tagg

Week 73

Hey you guyz! 

I hope you all alive.

If not then hahanananabooboo I lived longer than you 

Ok maybe that was inappropriate.  I'm actually really sad for those people who are suffering and who have lost loved ones.  Remember to pray for those people.

Anyways this week was good!  notwithstanding the quarantine and the virus and everything, we are surviving, striving, and thriving as is the motto for our mission.  

This week we've been making progress with B.. who still has a strong desire to be baptized and to read the scriptures and change her life.  It's really amazing to see.  It's funny because we were talking with her the other day about why she has made the decision to be baptized and she said that I.. her member friend asked her one day if she had been baptized and she said yes and he said "no, you need to be baptized again you are a sinner and so you need to come to my church with me and be baptized"  Africans are such savages sometimes I love it!  She said that when he said those words she felt something inside of her that it was true.  Pretty sick.  

We have also really been working a lot with a lady named M..  She is Brazilian but has been living in Italy for like 20 years.  You guys should pray for her because she has asthma and she's really worried about this coronavirus.  She had to go to the hospital to be tested to see if she had it.  The test came back negative but today she said they wanted her to go back and do another test.  We have had 2 really good video-lessons with her and have talked about baptism.  She said that she would say yes but that she wants to be prepared first.  We invited her to pray to know if it was the right thing for her to do.  She is so great and really loves talking with us, loves reading the bible and the book of mormon.  We have been able to meet with her because of the quarantine because otherwise she works like 14 hours a day.  

But anyways that's the haps.  I'm doing well physically and spiritually.  There are hard days but we're just gonna throw a little bit of wait it out on it and a pinch of faith and hope and we'll be up and cooking once again.  

I likie that song you sent me Mom.  seems appropriate for right now seeing as how the whole world is just sitting like birds in the wilderness.  But wait does that mean we are all waiting for "El Flamo" to come and light fire to the world? 

And yeah I definitely think that you should put up a Wilber web saying 'Some Pig' in the front window of the house.  

I love you guys a lot and a lot.  I'm glad that the grills are finally taking my advice and gettingoutfromwayfromroundemboys even if it's forced upon them by the coronavirus.  Tell them I love them cuz I know they don't read my letters.  In my life story that I wrote (and finished because I ran out of paper) I put the story of when we found a sticky note in Audrey's room that had an evil to do list on it and it said something along the lines of, 

1. get revenge on drew

2. make fake money

3. sleep trick

We found out later that the "sleep trick" was just her like putting a pebble under my pillow or something.  Meno male because sleep trick could have been something a lot more sinister especially if she had already stooped to the level of fraud.  

Anyways I love you guys and pray for you.

Anziano Tagg

Week 72

Heeeeey!

So I don't even really know what to write about this week. 

Oh yeah, we got a baptismal date!

We've been continuing on with patience and trying to be diligent and keep busy.  It's been good because we actually been able to teach a lot using technology.  Some people that we never were able to set an appointment with are being taught now because we can do it easier over video call.  I think one of the many blessings of the quarantine is that it's teaching us missionaries how to use technology to do the work in a way that we have never done before.  

We were able to start teaching B who is a friend of I.  She's awesome and has already studied a lot from the Book of Mormon and learned some things that she never knew before.  She accepted our invitation to be baptized at the end of the quarantine.  So that is a real miracle and we are super duper grateful for that.  

We are keeping in good contact with our members and our investigators.  Everyone is freaked out here, but they have really come together as a community by going out on their balconies at night and singing together or shining a light into the sky.

We were teaching a member English the other night and he was giving us phrases for us to translate from Italian into English.  The last phrase that he had us translate was, "Prego ogni giorno che questo virus passi e che permetta a tutti di rivolgersi a Dio e trovare la chiesa di Gesú Cristo."  

"I pray every day that this virus passes and that it allows people to turn to God and find the church of Jesus Christ."

These Italians are being tried right now because of this situation, but I have been really astonished by their faith and their hope and their resilience.  It's what we do in times of distress that show who we really are and they have shown time and time again to me that they are truly converted.  I love them a lot.

Anyways I'm sure that things are kinda getting crazy over there as well.  Any updates?  How are the grills holding up with no school?  Are they spending all day watching TV and playing biolent bideodames?  if not then tell them that this is precious Office watching time that should go to waste with productivity.  I'm kiiiiiding.  one thing that I have realized is that you can do sooooo much in a day and I kinda regret wasting so much of my days ya know?

I love you guys and I hope you are safe and you are guudu.  Until nextime

Anziano Tagg

I'll also try to send a video that we made

practicing for Paisley

Week 71

Hey Guyzzz.  How are ya?

We out here just chillin' inside still.  It's rough, there have been days that I don't really feel like a missionary anymore.  We still try our best to do missionary work but it's not the same.  But on the bright side I have had a lot of time to reflect and ponder and meditate and levitate.  The other day I did meditation for the first time in forever.  It went actually really really well!  I was able to have a nice talk with God, and reflect on myself, on what's going on around me, and other things.  It was really good I recommend doing it.

That experience made me think of a talk that Elder Holland gave where he said, "tonight’s message is that when you have to, you can have sacred, revelatory, profoundly instructive experience with the Lord in any situation you are in. Indeed, let me say that even a little stronger: You can have sacred, revelatory, profoundly instructive experience with the Lord in the most miserable experiences of your life—in the worst settings, while enduring the most painful injustices, when facing the most insurmountable odds and opposition you have ever faced "

I'm not saying that this coronavirus is the worst most miserable thing that has ever happened to me. In fact it's not even that bad when you think about it.  But it is a little bit hard sometimes and it's comforting to know that God will talk to you even in hard times and even when you are facing more spiritual difficulties and you maybe don't feel worthy to talk to Him.  We are always worthy of God's love and it will always help us.  He might not immediately liberate you from all your trials... that has almost never been the case, but He will give you peace even and especially in those rough patches,  

Right now all of Italy is in a sort of rough patch.  The whole nation has become a "red zone" which means no travel unless it's for work, groceries, or emergency.  We get updates every couple of days that the number of infected people is rapidly increasing.  Right now I think we are somewhere around 10 or 11 thousand.  Italy needs your prayers!! I hope that everyone is fasting today for the worldwide fast for this country. 

I'm not too worried about the virus as much as I am the future of the mission and how long we're gonna stay in here.  I don't think they will close us down.  I just don't know for how long all this will continue.

BUT enough of that boring stuff!!!!

How is everything back home?  Is the virus there too, or not so much?  That's funny that E-rail went to to Hawaii without telling anyone.  You think you can just go to Hawaii E-ail!!!??   How are the grils?  Are they still in the back like they're supposed to?  I can't wait to see lil' Paisley.  I hope that she still will be fat when I get home.

I really miss you guys.  I hope that you are hangin in there like I am!  I love you.

Anziano Tagg

Pictures: We made ravioli and spetzle and Anziano Künzli and I (his name is Dominik) locked our brotherly love for each other on this bridge.  (Actually we found it like this already).

Week 70

Hey Guys!!

How is everyone doing?  Here all is well

This week was kinda like last week.  It's been hard to stay inside when I know I could be doing so much more.  But we've been trying our best to stay busy and to stay sane.  We've been able to see some miracles even from in our apartment!  Because we have had some over the phone lessons and they actually went really well!  I felt the Spirit.  So that was cool and we're gonna try to continue to do that.  We don't know when this is all gonna stop.  They even talked about the possibility of us being temporarily reassigned!  But I think that's not gonna happen they just wanna take every precaution.

I've had a lot of time so I've been reading Santi volume 2 and it's really really good!  10/10 would recommend.  I'll drop a link in the bio below.  Be sure to like and subscribe.

But yeah it's all about the early Saints and their struggles and their efforts to move West and settle the Salt Lake Valley and the rest of Utah. The early Saints definitely where not perfect.  But it has been really amazing to learn about the sacrifices they made for the kingdom of God.  compared to that all of my trials suddenly become piccole piccole.

Well I can't really think of anything else!  

I love you guys and miss you a lot

Until next week 

Anziano Tagg

Week 69

Hewo everybody!  I'm still alive.  But things around here are getting carazzy!  We are basically quarantined here in Northern Italy because the zombie apocalypse has started.  It's crazy, like a week ago was the first time we heard anything about the coronavirus and now the mission has said that we cannot go out and do missionary work given that we as missionaries have a lot of contact with a lot of different people.  

There are like 300 different confirmed cases of the virus here in Italy.  Mainly in the North.  But where we are at in Trentino and Alto Adige there is only 1 case and I'm pretty sure it's way down in Trento.  We are pretty safe I think.  But since there are different hot-spots of the virus spread throughout the mission they decided to have all of us stay close to the apartments and not to have appointments or do street contacting.  It's been crazy.  Crazy boring.  I hate staying inside.  It's been good to have some time to study and to paint (I took up a new hobby) and to write in my journal and stuff but I get bored really easily and I don't like being cooped up in the house.  They have given us some suggestions about what we can do to keep busy and stay productive inside and that is gud.  

An update came in-between the last paragraph and this one.  The missionary executive counsel in collaboration with the quorum of the 12 apostles have made the decision that our mission needs to reduce the number of missionaries in the field and so everyone that is scheduled to go home in May is instead going home now and all of the senior couples are going home.  CARAZY!!!!! so there's me, then the group that came in a transfer before me, and then anyone who came in before that is leaving.  I barely made the cut!!!!  It's really insane and it kinda has me worried about what's gonna happen in the future if things with the virus don't get better 🤮🤢

I think maybe everyone is overreacting (especially the Italians) but then again I trust the 12 apostles and you can never be too careful.

But yeah that's what's up here.  I hope everyone at home is staying safe and having fun and enjoying life!  

I have been surprised this week about how even though everything isn't going perfectly and the ride is a bit bumpy right now,  I am still really really happy.  before the quarantine we had some kinda miracles and we were able to deliver some very powerful messages of hope to people who were struggling to have hope especially in this time of disease.  

When things aren't going well, there is always always always hope.  Thanks to Jesus Christ who is the Light of the World.  So next time you lose hope remember Him.  When things were hard for Him what did He do?  He turned outwards and loved and helped His fellow man.  When He had just suffered the pains of every sin of every creature that has ever lived and ever will live, when he has just been crucified by His own people, what did He do?  He went to the spirit world and for the three days that His body was in the tomb he preached to spirits there.  (1 peter 3:18-19 which is also evidence of the spirit world in the bible).  I love Jesus Christ and His example of diligence in service and His message of hope when things get hard.  I have loved sharing that message in the mission field.  

So keep on keeping on everyone! Don't catch the virus  and have hope   

I love you guys

Anziano Tagg

We've had a lot of time to cook homemade lasagna and capelletti all from scratch we made the pasta and everything it was fun and really good.