With the Help of the Lord!!!!

Wow Mom 

So like I baptized and this week is going well. Elder C is making some great improvement.

We have 16 people on date for the 29th! Here are their names:

Fabio, Eduardo, Alexandre, Luiz, Giovana, Natialia, Vitor, Gustavo, Marcos and his son Patricia, Itamar, Wallace, Wallan, Wilson (Sabão), Camila, and Francisca. They will ALL be baptized on the 29th of this month. We are going to put another 10 on date this week! With the help of the Lord!!!!

Woah I'm not finished! 

We well surpassed every key indicator this week. (They are not easy).

And I baptized a Lamanite! 

So that was my week.

Allow me now to express the thoughts that have gone through my head as I worked this week. 

Ether 12:11-21 

Moroni 9:15-25

Alma 48:17

2 Nephi 1:23

Moses 5:1-59 (Incredible when studied thoroughly by the way)

Preach my gospel chapter 6

Alma 34:41

Alma 24:11-13

2 Nephi 16

2 Nephi 7:8

Doctrine and Covenants 18:10-16

There's a lot more but das all for now

Love Elder Tagg

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Back and Forth Letters

Hello Nathan Tagg the 2nd, my 21 year old (!?)

Thank you for your last note.  I am glad you are finding purpose in your new companionship.  I would really enjoy hearing about events from your week.  Your dream story was funny though.  

We are doing well.  Spring is coming and that is exciting!  60 degrees today.  I just did some yoga this morning and it is so calming and refreshing with some hard parts.  Today's yoga message was about finding strength from your center.  Confidence comes from within.  We can't look to outside sources to bring us happiness and joy.  We need to decide how we will react to life's fast balls.  

I am still curious to know if you got to the office to check on your packages. Please answer!  I will send you new shoes if you still need them.  

I want to know what your feelings are about us coming to Brazil after your return.  It will all depend on your brother's  report date.  We won't know that until April, so it's not an urgent decision.  I would like to know your thoughts.  If you decided not to extend you could see your brother before he leaves (most likely).  No one is asking that of you.  I just thought I'd mention it.  Everything will work itself out for the best. 

Love you the most

Mom

(Elder Tagg's reply)

Hey my 37 yr old Mom!

This week was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK with tons of divisions trainings and interviews and other stuff. I still haven't written it all down in me jurnle.... unfortunately. I'm doing my best ok?

The assistants have planned a Pentecost with 20 baptisms this week. I'm their DL and I have had the privilege of watching them work and see their true faith. They are incredible.

Well thats all! "I'm becoming an increasingly effective missionary and I love ITTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (was dat frum?)

PS Oh and I bought a huge watch and some pizzas with the birthday money

PPS And I got all the packages that you sent

PPS and my card

PPPS and I ate a huge samich

PPPPS pics next week

Love Elder Tagg

Dear Elder Tagg,

Hi.

How are you?  Well I hope.  Things here have been going well.  We are finally starting the spring melt.  I'm so ready for winter to be over.  Spring is my favorite time of year.  Every year I love it more and more.  I think its because it symbolizes new life, new beginnings, and freshness.  It gives me hope and just makes me feel great.  I'm also looking forward to general conference.  This year Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit for spring break.  It will be great to go to Priesthood session with Grandpa and Drewie.

Yesterday, in priest's quorum we discussed Elder Uchdorf's talk called "Lord is it I?".  I love this talk and have listened to it more than 10 times.  I love the story about the guy who believed that lemon juice on his face would make him invisible to cameras.  I think that the crux of the message is that we all have spiritual blind spots and only by going to the Lord in humility can we identify and overcome these blind spots.  I'm sure you've read it but I recommend it to you for further study.

This life is a time for preparation.  A time for growth.  I continue to be amazed by the growth of my children both physically and spiritually.  I'm so grateful for this perspective.  

I have been truly blessed and I think that I'm probably the luckiest and richest guy on earth.  I'm grateful for my family.  Your mother has been the greatest blessing in my life.  She is truly amazing and I love her the most!

It is great to hear your letters.  I can sense the enthusiasm you have for the work.  Continue to work hard and sprint to the end.  Don't get comfortable or complacent.  Stay young and green and excited!  I love you Nathan and I'm so glad that you chose to serve a mission.  You will be forever blessed for worthy missionary service.

Love,

Daddy-O

(Elder Tagg's reply)

Hey Daddy-O

This week has been great! I'm gonna baptize 10 People this month!!! Putting myself to the limits and challenging Satan's power is the motto for the rest of the mish! Não Há desejo mais justo! (is there a fairer desire!)  Pray for me! Breaking the limits! 

This week this dude snorted coke when I was doing a contact with him. We're visiting him Tuesday.

I did four divisions and a ton of interviews this week!

The biggest challenge of this area is getting people to church because it is a poor area with like 20 active members and the chapel is like 10 kilometers away from my area.

I'm teaching a Mason. He's elect.

Love ya!

Elder Tagg! 

Hi Elder Big Brother,

This week was a good week! We had 3 snow days which was awesome! We had a snow storm which gave us two days off and another one too.

So anyway this week I made the bold choice to rearrange my room. I couldn't move my bed which was tricky but overall I love my new room. How's your room? 

Today I am doing personal progress and it is fun I did a experience about patriarchal blessing (oh by the way Drew is getting his and I think Evan is too!) I am not getting it yet but I learned so many things I didn't know before about  a Patriarchal blessing. 

That's all for now!!

Luv ya and miss ya 

Audrey

Awesome

Unique

Daring

Responsible

Entertaining

Yells a lot   

(Elder Tagg's reply)

Hey Audrey!

This week was good, except a lot of people didn't come to church! D'OH!

Pray for them please

(Nathan)

Not bad
Average
Third teir
Half witted
Acceptable
Normalguy

Love ya!

Baptism / Dividing the Area

2/8/15
Hey Mom!

So this week Elder K & I had our first baptism!

We forgot to bring the camera to send you the pics so... Next week!

We are also going to baptize next week!

So the answers to your questions! No, I never got the reindeer food, and No, I stillo haven't gotten my card :) But it may be in the office. 

Tommorow I'ma going to the HOUSE OF THE LORD!!!!! HOLINESS TO THE LORD!!!!!! (Please excuse the blasfemes)

And I think it would be SCHAWEET if Evan came to Brazil. (I think it would help him to see the mission).

We almost hit ALL of the key indicators of the mission this week (which is unheard of). We just needed one more at church and 2 more new and it was ours. 

I love you MOM!!!!!!!

ELDER TAGG

2/16/15
so this afternoon transfers came in Elder K & I are DIVIDING THE AREA!!!!! We will both receive juniors tomorrow. So now it looks like my teaching goup is about to be cut in half. But oh well my friends.

So I think I have 2 packages at the office and I have no clue where my card is.

But I dont know. My mission is just becoming something so surreal for me. I can't believe I have only 4 more transfers. It's NUTS. I just don't know what to do besides WORK. I hope my new comp is obedient and hard working. I'm pretty stokedskies.

Well that's what's up. Love you guys

TCHAU

Elder Tagg

SOOOOOOOO close

Mãe!

So Elder Kennedy and I are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO close to BAPTISMS it's not even funny! Holy cow I love my comp. He's the man!

So this week was spectacular! This mission is changing it's vision right now and we are going to baptize out of our minds! I plan on doubling my baptisms in my last 6 months. Earlier on in my mission I was all like "baptism ain't success" but that has changed. To have success on my mission, I NEED TO BATIZAR.

We have been working a ton with the members lately and been taking them out with us for several hours of work. It's been great. By the way you should totally look for opportunidades to teach with the missionaries. They sound like they are good missionaries and they really neeed you to testify with them. I invite you to mark with them to teach.

By the way about the felt tomato, loose the mouth.

Keep running over mailboxes. It will be good.

Woa I'm turning 21 now lol.

My comp just turned 21. lol.

love you

Elder Tagg

Hey Dad 

I am way haps that Uncle Eric is doing better. I also pray every single day for E. That kid will not turn into a man if he doesn't go on a mission. Fer real. 

I am really glad that N is going on a mission as well. There is not a single person that should not go on a mission. This just makes me really happy. He could be a good influence on his friends. It just doesn't make sense why anyone would like not want to serve a mission. It just makes no sense. not at all.

So my debit card expired the 31st of Dezembro. I need you to send my a new wan like ASAP. It's pretty urgent that I get access to that money because I desperately need to buy a pair of shoes!

But I loves you,

Elder Tagg

Hay Mahm

Hey Mahm!

So this week was dank. We had tons of sucsess and tons of peeps at church. We are going to baptize in two weeks for sure.

K Daug and I are rocking the world down here.

A few days ago we talked to this lady at her doorstep and we marked a day to come back and hit her with GOSPEL FIRE. So we came back on the designated day and she wasn't home. This is very common. But then as we were about to walk away, a different lady left the home and so we decided to talk to her. She was way cool and immediately invited us over. Her name was V and she lived close by. We went over to her house on Wednesday and we also found her 19 year old son named L. We taught a watered down restoration but her son didn't really pay a lot of attention. V kept saying that we should pray for him because he really needed it. He kept saying the same thing about her. So I guess there was some tension. But anyways V loved our message and was really excited to learn more. Anyways the next day we were walking down the road and it was late There were a bunch of police cars and men with big ol' guns blocking our way so we couldn't get to our appointment. I asked one why, and he just said that there was an occurrence. Whateves. A few peeps told us that "3 kids had been shot by the police on the street." We were walking away and I turned to K dawg and said "what if it was L?" He was all like "naw". But the next day we went back and sure enough, L was gone. We taught V a watered down plan of salvation and invited her to church. She literally went to her son's burial Sunday morning and church that afternoon. She is the most elect person I have ever met in my entire life. She is finding comfort in her time of need because of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So just remember, there are NEVER excuses not to go to church. So she is working towards getting married so she can be baptized.

Fingers crossed!

Love y'all.  Gotta go! Tell dad that I will write him for sure next week!

Elder Tagg

Elder Tagg and K-Daug

Totally Beasting It Up

1/5/15
Whadup Mahm!?

So this week was WAY SWEET. K-daug I are totaly beasting it up down here in Vila Clara! This place is wayyyyyy slummy but it's awesome. We are already going to be staying together another six weeks so that makes me so incredibly happy. This transfer is looking up already with baptisms already marked for the first three weeks. We've got a bunch of people already coming to church and we are super excited to be baptizing a bunch of priesthood  holders here in a bit. 

My last pair of shoos are dead. Yep. So I went to Saude to try and find a new pair but I couldn't. I'm going to try out a store here in my area to see if they dont have anything. My feet keep getting wet because of the holes. And K-Daugs shoos are pretty much already done as well. 

A few daysago I introduced K-Daug to avocado shakes. Best thing in the entire universe. He loves them. We are also addicted to pizza. We buy it like 3-4 times a week. My favourite is called the Romeo and Juliet. It's a combination of either mozzarela or this cheese called catupiry and another thing called goiabada. Which is a type of candied fruit that only grows here in Brazil.  It's suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper good.

I am so excited to be baptizing with K-Daug. so glad that the Broaddy-B kept ustogether once more. 

I'm teaching a drug dealer right now. He stopped snorting crack and smoking marijuana. And he turned in his drugs, but now he doesn't have a job and has to pay the rent. He has a lot of faith. He's on date to be baptized on the 11th. He's already been to church a few times.

We are also teaching this lady named A who is super strong in her other religion. We use a lot og guile to get her to assume the invites that we give her. she came to church 2 times already. Here is a pop quiz for you. What prophet in the Book of Mormon was reffered to as using "guile"?

I'm so stoked Evan is on splits with the Elders. How are the Elders? Any convert baptisms lately in the ward?

Love you bye!

Elder Tagg

12/29/14

Hey Maham

So this week was good. We be working hard, Kennedy and I. We have already got some serious member support and several great baptisms lined up. 

But anyways it was great to see you guys this week. Sorry for crying. It's not my norm.

But yeah so everything is great! I'm healthy happy and baptizing, so that's great. 

Uhhhh yeah. Don't know what else I should say. Kind of just talked to you guys...

loveyoubye

Elder Tagg

These Streets are Sacred

Hey Daddy-O

I have been sharing that 'He is the Gift' video with a lot of my investigators lately. The Church has put a lot of resources into that baby. Every week I have to send a detailed report to Church Headquarters with a bunch of numbers and complicated data because of that video. Every day we have to do an additional 10 contacts using the little pass along cards about the video. It's sweet. The mission standard is 20 contacts per day.

But yeah that's sweet that you be doing your part with inviting non members to your family home evenings Dad! 

This week was OFF THE CHAIN. we had 8 investigators at church! YES! 

I'm doing great here in Baeta Neves. Having a lot of success. 

Oh yeah I needed to axe you a question. How is we gonna do this skype thing? becaz I forgot you guys's thingy. You know the username thing. I dont know how to do technology anymore otay? And my English is horrível so don't laugh at me when we talk on Christmas k?

Love you

Elder Tagg

Ay Maham!

How you doin? So I have a really crazy story to tell you and you are probably going to freak out.

Last night we got a call from Pres Broadbent. I was all like "whaaaaa???whayisbroadbentcallingmeatthishour?" and then I found out. I'm being transferred. 

So that was nice. So tommorow I'll be heading out to Piratininga to open a new area/train an American who is getting to Brazil now after waiting for more than a year for his visa. Yikes. Elder Bazante will be staying to train another American who is also arriving. I'm really gonna miss that kid. I'm gonna miss this area. This ward has been so nice to me. There is a road that cuts right down the middle of my area called "Rua Dos Vianas." It starts in the richest area of São Bernardo and ends in the poorest. I walk that road every ding dong day. that road has become sacred to me. These streets have become sacred to me. São Bernardo is sacred to me. I've been here almost a whole year in the same city. "A onde mandares irei" (I will go where you command)

Anyways we had a baptism yesterday. S guy named Antonio. I freaking love him and his family. the rest of his family was also going to be baptized. Too bad I'm gonna miss it.

By the way Evan has a cabeção. (that probably won't translate right on google it means a big head) And he is way bigger than Dad. Drew isn't far behind him.

Well that's all. 

loveyoubye!

Elder Tagg

By the way I love you.  Here is a photo of half of my mission.  There is a lot of power in that room.

Can you spot the assassin?

Don't worry, it's not loaded