Week 2 MTC

Buon Giorno Famiglia!!!

How are all of you?? Mio e fantastico!!! I love it here.. Thank you all for the packages and the letters.. I love them so much!! My entire district is keeping a chart on how many letters they all get combined compared to Anziano Gatchell, haha I'm killin it.. To all of my family members that wrote me during Sacrament..... MINZIGA'!!!!!! Just kidding, I loved it.. They were all awesome.. This place is awesome!! It seems like yesterday I sat down to write to you my very first time.. The problem with so many letters is so many questions so I always forget to answer some of them!! The language is coming very naturally.. I haven't really been focusing too much on it but I'm about to kick it up a notch. My teachers are absolutely amazing, Fratello Silva is my favorite person in the world and I will more than likely be his best friend when he gets back, he owns two alligators and lives in Utah, how awesome is that?!!! How was youth conference?? I love it.. I never went and finally when I leave not only Hayley and Wyatt have to go, but Tanner has to, also!! Even more funny is that I guarantee that Tanner got along with the kids better than the other two!! That's awesome.. Wyatt, I'm sending you a package so be ready for it.. Well what do you wanna know?? My comp is great, we're getting better and better but this week we sorta had a rough go of things.. I don't think he knows we're having a rough go of things, part of that straight path-ed intellictual things.......Dad. Anziano Parry is my sancutary, haha we joke about the funniest things and I'd seriously be looking for an accordian curtain to slam my head in if it weren't for him.. He's a stud.. I saw Elder Garcia yesterday, probably the last time 'cause he's headed for Peru!! Unreal.. So jealous.. I'm actually coveting his departure.. And I have 7 more weeks!! I've seen Elder Frei multiple times now, he's a stud.. We talk for awhile each and every time.. Elder Haws is everywhere, I have four Anziani in my district that go to BYU and therefore praise him as their King.. I think it's a crack up.. My district is so funny.. I have absolutely ZERO things in common with ANY of them, save it be this Gospel. Being that this Gospel is the only true and perfect thing on this earth today and forever, I think that's a commonity we can get by with. The timer on this e-mail is absolutely ridiculous.. I'm putting out like 134 GWAM and it's still racing to 0:00 like a Japanese Bullet Train (MOSHI MOSHI!!!).. Couple of words you can use for your weekly activities in Italian.. MINZIGA!!! It's like the ultimate expression, good, bad, awesome, wicked, sad, depressed, amazed... Look it up.. and Farfala meaning butterfly.. Use it in a sentence you ask?? Hayley's beauty is as dreamy as a farfala flowing about in the fields of Tuscany.. Okay so maybe the worst word in that sentence was farfala but we're ROMANS!! If you don't like it, find a new country and language.. Rome rules.. I haven't even been yet, but still, way better than anywhere.. Mom, Relief Society President?? AWESOME!! We fasted on Sunday and the entire day I had you in mind and the things that you all were going through, praying for you every day.. You'll be great.. If whenever you're in doubt, 'If you love them today, maybe they'll learn from you tomorrow'.. You'll do amazing, you're perfect for the calling, just rely on the Spirit and pray.. Pray, pray, pray, pray.... Well I'm just about half way done.. Basketball is awesome here.. It's how you make friends, the Mexican Missions HATE the Italian Missions, because it's Italy, and that's Mexico.. So they challenged us to a soccer game.. They haven't lost yet, they're all waiting on visas so they've been here about 12 weeks.. So we took them up on it.. VIVA ITALIA!!!! We won 3-0.. I had a goal and an assist, Anz. Parry is the best goalie I've ever seen. The Mex. had a mission-wide meltdown as we pranced around like children shouting out completely unsuiting Italian phrases that make no sense.....MINZIGA!!! My time is running low now, the 134 GWAM has dwindled to a unflattering 11... I just want to let you all know that I love you.. The packages, the cards, the amount of love, and the prayers.. I'm praying for all of you every minute of every day.. My whole motivation is my family. My family can be together forever, I know this. And because this is such a blessing in my family, I'm doing the best that I can, with the Lord's help, to bring this blessing to the people of Italy.. I know this church is true, the Book of Mormon is true.. More than true, it's perfect.. There is absolutely no falseness in it.. I know this.. I love it.. I feel like our Savior in a humble way, when he was teaching the Doctors, and Scribes, and Lawyers, at such a young age.. I'm a punk, 19 years old, Mario Champion... But somehow the Lord blessed me and us with the knowledge of the Book of Mormon.. I KNOW it's true.. One of the only things that I do know, but I know it.. One of the other things is that Family's are amazing, and we'll be together forever.. I love you all!! Viva Italia, pray for the Italians, that they might have what we have been blessed with.. I love you..

Your Roman,

Anziano Gatchell

P.S. Just cause I love you doesnt mean the letters and packages have to stop;) I have a contest to win.

P.S.S. I hate BYU.. Please include this in the big e-mail.. With all my heart, BYU.... che malte e no so buono...

Ciao!