Feeling Baggy

Maham Y Daddy-O 

How's things going... Everything is pretty good over here in chapinlandia. (?) This week was pretty normal working in the obra of the Señor (work of the Lord)... One weird thing did happen. I had a dream that I got home after my 24 months, and I wanted to go to Five Guys for a burger. But you guys wouldn't let me. Instead we went to eat freaking caldo de pollo con tortillas de maíz, (chicken broth with corn tortillas) and I hated it. Then I wanted to show you guys how to play trompo (a small Guatemalan toy like a top) but I didn't bring one so I had to find a freaking Guatemalan store and buy one. But it broke like right when I touched it. It was pretty sad. So that was the wierd thing. 

We Baptized this week which is cool. Ke.. he's 10 years old, and has been going to church for like 3 years but his anti-Mormon Dad didn't want him to be baptized until now even though the rest of his family are members. 

They made some cool changes to the rules this year. Now we don't have to study on P-days and we can choose at what time we want to study during the day. Also there are only 4 key indicators now; Baptisms and confirmations, fechas, investigadores (baptismal dates, investigators) in church and new investigadores (investigators). Pretty cool. I think it's a little better this way cause it focuses more on the investigators not the work of the Missionary. Like I could have like 20 other lessons a day but if none of them went to church it would just be like a false indicator that the missionaries aren't working hard. Now it shows more in the data if somebody is not working. 

This week has been pretty baggy (baggy means he's homesick). I don't know, I just have some off days sometimes. Anyways, I love you guys. HAVE FUN AND DON'T DO DRUGS!

Elder Tagg

All is Well

MAHM Y DAddy-O 

So this week was pretty dope... It was sad to say good bye to Elder J... but I have a new/old companion his name is Elder G... he is from the Guatemala City (the capital). He was in my district like 7 months ago and we were in a trio for about 2 weeks together so we already know each other pretty well. I am a District Leader again so that's kool but this time my district is of 5 companionships, so it's a lot bigger than my old district... Hahah we've got some dope people up in my district so I'm pretty pumped... Elder Ga... the guy from the CCM is in my district again but he is a Zone Leader now. Sooo yea, and we also got the Elders from the office, 2 gringa Hermanas, and a guy from Arizona who is training a newbie from El Salvador. So all is well in District Tagg... All is well. 

We got some work done this week. We are going to baptize Ke we are going to baptize Alv and his wife.  Please send prayers for them. Also, we did some divisions and we brought this freaking old dude that can't walk to church. His name is Mercedes. He had to go home like half way through church though, cause his stomach was hurting but he says he will get baptized mas adelante (later) .... so dat's kool. 

We also were working in a kinda further out part of our area and there were some awesome sunsets ¿BENDICIONES! (BLESSINGS!) we took some kool pics. This week we killed two mice and one rat. I got my new shoes they are AWESOME THANKS MAHM, and that's pretty much it.. haha.

The rat we killed with a possum trap that an Hermana lent us. One of the mice drowned in our sink, and the other one we beat to death with a broom.. t'was pretty fun.

To answer Dad's questions...

- I freaking love my area and my new comp is pretty dope

- I write in my journal like every other night

- The most important thing I've learned from all of my companions is love the people, and to be patient. 

- The mission has changed my veiw on life and my thoughts about God

Love you guys! Have swell week. You're in my prayers Mahm,

Elder Tagg 

Get off the Couch and Talk to People

January 16

Mahm y Daddy-O

This week has been pretty good. Not much has happened, so I'm going to (instead of writing much), just send a bunch of photos and cool stuff. I am going to say one thing though... my comp has changes (is being transferred) and I'm staying in Peru. We don't know who my new comp is though. Hahah! I love you guys. Have fun and do cool stuff this week. Get off the couch out of the house go to DC and talk to people. It's really cool to just talk. Jesus lives. And Guatemalan Coca Cola is the best thing ever, when it's cold.

Elder Tagg​

Elder J's broken nose

Hospital Selfie

Elder J

Trompos! (tops)

Worshiping False Gods

Jan 9

Mahm Y Daddy O 

How it going? This week was pretty awesome. We baptized, we worked hard, they took all the stuff off my comps face, we went to the beach, and we saw two fat Guatemalan ladies fight in the street. 

So first of all is that we baptized Ev... a little 12 year old girl who had been going to church with some members. She was so awesome. We contacted her an baptized her the same weekend because she already had all the church attendences she needed, a real persona escogida (chosen person) If I do say so myself.

From there we were working frickin' hard all week long so that the Lord will bless us. Profundamente (profoundly) I love that all you have to do is work hard and obey the commandments and He does the rest... Dope 

They took my comp's cast off and the 5 inch like wads of cotton he had inside. So he can breath, but now he can't smell. Is that bad? probably not right... they said his sense of smell will come back. But I reminded him where we are and that it would probably be for the best if his smelling doesn't come back until he gets to the States haha.

We went to the beach again for P-day but this time we played AMERICAN footbal instead of just futbol It was pretty dope, even though we couldn't get in the water...

And we were sitting infront of our house talking with Oscar the owner (who is in a wheel chair), and out of nowhere two large Guatemalan ladies started yelling and screaming and we got to wittness a classic Guatemalan screaming battle... The good thing is I learned a whole bunch of new swear words in Spanish. Haha it eventually ended and we went inside but it was pretty amazing.

I have a strong testimony I'm not sure how it happened though. I have definatly had some challenges but nothing to bad haha.

Love you guys.  Have fun.  Do good things 

Elder Tagg

I Freaking Love God

January 2 2017

Mahm y Daddy O

How goes it? everything over here is pretty great, besides the fact that we did pretty much nothing this whole week. my comp was in reposo (repose aka resting from work),  because he had to have surgery on his nose. But apart from that it was pretty cool. The assistants brought us like a bunch of food. Macdonalds or Taco Bell everyday and I got a lot of studying done. I also learned a new trompo trick (trompos are these top things that are really awesome that you see in the pictures you can do some pretty freakin cool tricks with them). So that was cool. Also we had a milagro (miracle) this week. I was on divisions and we found a member in the street and she said that her niece (who had been coming to church for a little bit) wanted to get baptized and that SHE, the member, would go and get permission herself from her nieces Mom since we were unable to go. So I was like hahahah AWESOME!  Let's do it so on Sunday she handed me the signed registro bautismal (baptisimal record), Such a Blessing! I freaking love God. He's a good guy, even thoough we didn't work very much we still are going to baptize. What a Guy. 

Aside from that, nothing really happened.  I went on a lot of divisions one time with a youth from the ward who I think might be a little gay because he would luagh real feminine like, and the touch my arm like a female.  But anyways we did divisoins and then we got freaking soaked in a downpour on the first day of the year.

But pretty much just that happened. Love you guys 

Elder Tagg

  

December 26 2016

Hey guys!  This week has been pretty good, it was good to see you guys yesterday. Sorry I didn't have much to say... I guess it's cause there is not much new stuff going on. I'm pretty used to the thug life now. Nothing new really happens from now on. It's just like im coasting or gliding like a melodious Guatemalan eagle. 

One thing that happened this week was that today Elder J broke or fractured his nose. We where playing volleyball, and then we started to play soccer and he went to head the ball some other kid did too, and they colided and J's nose came out all crooked.

love you guys...

Elder Tagg

Gringo Comp

Mahm y Daddy O 

Ha! This week was pretty freaking amazing. My companion had changes and I got a freaking gringo comp. His name is Elder Johnson he has 1 change more than I have and he's freaking awesome. It's soo nice having a gringo comp, I think we will work well together.  His first day in the area we baptized a kid named A... so that was pretty dang exciting.

So this week was pretty fun. We had some cool experiences.  We went to a house that was pretty freakin' far away and these kids had caught a large rabbit.. I don't know how they caught it, but it was pretty cool. So we took pictures with it and everything then we got on with the lesson and like 3 minutes later the rabbit just dropped dead out of nowhere. It threw up a bunch of white stuff and died on the spot... awesome. 

So Nathan is getting married eh? Well all I gotta say GET R´ DONE, and that I love him and I wish the best for him. I can't wait to get back cause we're gonna have lots of fun. And that I don't know much about marriage or what that really even means, but I found a quote that made me feel all tingly inside. "Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's left over after you have given the best to everyone else" Give the best of yourself to her.

Love you guys 

Elder Tagg

We Going For it All

Mahm y Daddy-O 

Hey guys how's it going? This week has been pretty good. We got two fechas (baptism dates) for the month coming up, and we ain't stopping there. We going for it all... that's right we gonna baptize 'em all. So this week are changes (transfers). They coming up on Wednesday to be exact It'll be fun to see what happens. Lots of people are saying a bunch of crap but Imma just wait to see what happens. 

It sounds like a whole butt load off crap is happening with all the wedding stuff... That kind of is a little weird though to have the wedding in Rexburg. Like I have personally been to Rexburg and unless they are getting married in the freaking ONE 711 they have there, then they are gonna freeze there butts off in the great out doors. But whatever they want I guess... 

This week we moved houses because where we were living wasn't in our area. Even though the house was really nice, we had to move to a crappy house in our area. That happened, and also while we where doing service on the National Service Day I threw up like all the freaking rice and beans that I have ever eaten here on my mission. Like it was seriuoslly bad. But I had been feeling bad all this week and when i threw up, I felt a little better, so that was a bright side... It's the little things. 

This week for P-day we played soccer again from like 8 o'clock to like 12 o'clock. It was pretty dang exciting. Also Elder Ga... and I played trompo. Trompo is a little toy which is like tops, like plastic tops they sell to all the kids here. They come with a string and you have to spin them.. its pretty fun. 

So that's pretty much it. I love you guys hope everything is good.

#dadshouldgetatesla

Elder Tagg 

Things here are Amazing

Mahm y Daddy O 

How's it going guys? Things here are going amazing. We baptized L... this Saturday, and now the members are supporting him and motivating him to go on a mission... He is awesome. I think he is going to go in a year. So that happened. We also found an awesome family of 5 (but only 3 with the age of baptism), they are awesome too. I have faith they are going to be baptized. The Dad takes care of race horses. He has a bunch of horses from the States, a couple from Spain, and one from Panama. He told me he was going to teach me how to ride. Haha, I'm not sure if we can.

Last week we went to the beach as a zone for P day. Before we could only do activities as a district, now we can do 2 zone activities a month.  So this P-day we played soccer in the morning as a district, and then we went to eat Taco Bell and then we did everything else we do on P-day. 

That was an awesome dream you had Mahm,  but the churches here are just churches. In one of my areas (Maclen) there where a bunch of apple orchards though.  Just like your dream, so that could come true haha!  

I miss you guys, and I can't wait to see you on Christmas. Hey did Dad ever sell his car back or what because if he did he should get a Tesla to replace it! Haha that would be awesome. 

Anyways I love you guys,

Have an awesome week!

Elder Tagg