MUNRO, WEEK 47: ANOTHER BAPTISM

Well alright family! 

I don't have much time to do everything because we have a short p-day today because Friday we are going to go to the Temple to prepare ourselves for General Conference! I am very excited! I hope that everybody watches General Conference! I hope I get to listen to it in English. When it's the voice of somebody else, it just doesn't grab my attention. At all. 

Well, this week finished great! S* got baptized and confirmed and gave his testimony in Church. It was amazing. I met him 4 and a half months ago and it's incredible to see the change. It's almost black and white. I am very grateful to see that change. It's humbling and makes me think "What have I done to be a different person for the better in the past 4.5 months?" Below are some pictures of the service! 

Anyways. Yeah, I am learning a lot concerning the ward and how to work and collaborate with other people. It is a great blessing and I get some weird happiness when I am in a meeting with people. I like sorting things out, working plans and stuff. I am becoming an organized person! 

I know that this is a short e-mail but next week will be better!

Love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

MUNRO, WEEK 46: WEDDING BELLS

Well...wow! What a week!

First off, we had a wedding!!! It was awesome. It was an honor to be the witnesses for the wedding. :) S* and A* are both doing great. Any marriage advice for them? My companion and I gave them a drawing of Jesus Christ that my companion did, (I just bought the picture frame). It turned out really good! 

(Don't laugh about the picture of me in the wedding. I am more interested than I look. Haha.)

This weekend on Saturday is going to be the baptism for S* and then on Sunday he gets confirmed. We are very excited and we need your prayers for him. Always the week before baptism is difficult! 

This week we also did some service at a member's house! We got to shovel a whole lot of rock and stuff into bags and everything and haul them out to the front. It was good to get some physical work done! It is a good change to the daily mission grind. 

Our investigator that got baptized last week has experienced one of the hardest weeks of her life and couldn't be confirmed the next week because she was super sick. It's very tricky because she thinks that these bad things are a sign from God. So pray for her! 

As I work with the members and the counselors, I learn a lot. So much that I have started to keep a little book about all the things that I have learned. Just so I don't forget in the future. The President called us the other day because he knows of the challenges in the area and he told me that it is a good thing that I get to experience these things here on the mission, so afterwards I can be even better. So that was pretty cool! Tomorrow is the President's birthday. I was set apart on the President's birthday. Cool! 

Anyways, that is all I have. Next week we have a short P-DAY because we go to the temple that Friday! So I will write furiously. 

Thank you for everything! It's fun to see the nieces grow! What about te nephews? 

I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

MUNRO, WEEK 45: A BAPTISM

Allllright! How is everybody doing? I hope very well with school, health, kids and things.

This week was good. Lots of walking but lots of appointments! We also were blessed with a baptism which is one of the photos attached. We found M* Thursday a week and a half ago. The end of this week was Stake Conference. And we have a rule that a person has to attend the church 3 times to be baptized. So she attended Sunday the 7th. Then the President told us that if she attended the Stake Conference meetings, she could be baptized this weekend. We told her that and she said yes, let's do it; the sooner the better. So we taught her every day. She read, she prayed, and her testimony grew so fast, that Sunday she was able to be interviewed and then baptized. It was a great experience. She was baptized in two other religions but when she attended the first time Sunday she told us on our way to her home, "that was incredible, it was so complete, so full (of doctrine) and organized." So we explained how God's house (church) is a house of order and authority. And that's how he directed us to have the church. So that was pretty cool. That was just another testimony to me that yeah this is the Church of God. That everything about the church testifies of the truthfulness of it even down to how a Worldwide church is organized and run. It was pretty cool. 

This picture is of me drinking chocolate milk from a bombilla. Which is not a drug or anything so don't worry. What it is is basically a metal straw with a filter at the end. It is for mate (mah Tay) which is an herbal drink that is very common, however, for missionaries we cannot drink mate. However, I bought the bombilla and use it as a metal straw. It's pretty cool. 

This last picture is of peanut butter crunchy. The Argentinian type. It's pretty good. A little on the expensive side but I just cut back on other things. 

This week I added a little bit to my testimony about patience and prayer. There have been times when I pray, I feel like I need the blessings, or the help or the answer NOW or I am going to blow up or something. But what I have come to know that, is the Lord knows exactly what we need and is willing to give us these things. But unlike us, he knows when we really need it. Sometimes we think we are at our wits end, we are spent, and there is nothing left, the Lord makes us wait just a little bit more, just to push ourselves a little more, strive a little bit more and then we receive what we need. Which, like Elder Bednar said (I think) that the blessing we receive is different from what we wanted but better than we expected because the Lord knew what we needed. So yeah, the Lord's time and in His way is what will really help us. 

So keep praying a little bit more sincerely. Be a little bit more patient because the Lord knows what we really need. 

This week we have a wedding! The 19th is the wedding of S* and A* and as you can imagine they are experiencing the trials! So pray for them! The week after that will be the baptism of S* too and he is excited but it's a fight! So pray for him. 

Anyway that's about it. Thanks for the emails! I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

MUNRO, WEEK 44: A RELIGIOUS MINISTER

Alright! 

Well, first off we have Stake Conference this coming week! Woohoo! That means that if an investigator comes to the Saturday meeting and Sunday meeting they can be baptized the next week! The rule is that they have to have to attend at least 3 times. So this week we have the possibility of baptizing two different women. We have a family Home Evening with them tonight. It's going to be great! 

Today, we also went to the Registro Civil here in Munro. (It's where people get married) and we filled out papers with A* & S* because they asked us to be the 2 witnesses! That's awesome. I recently received my DNI (identification for Argentina) and that means that I can be legally a witness! It was also pretty cool to put "Religious Minister" as my occupation. Interesting!

Today we played soccer and it was awesome. S* gave me an old ball and I have been practicing juggling in the apartment in the morning and i am slowly improving! I will send pictures. :) 

I have found out that I like meetings with the ward...Ward Council and stuff. I like talking bold, helping people do the missionary work, making goals and then completing them! Getting things done! 

Anyways, I don't have much time because I am starving and we have to eat before we go back out. 

It is weird to think how fast the mission has passed! I just keep working! 

I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

MUNRO, WEEK 43: A WEIRD MISSIONARY

Alright family! Nothing much happened this past week. But I do have some news. 

A* & S* are going to get married the 19th of September and then S* is going to be baptized the 27th. So pray for them that it happens. For some reason the exclamation point and question mark buttons have stopped work only this ª and + appears. Argentine keyboards are so weirdª.

Anyways, this week we worked pretty dang hard to find and have someone in the church. We had 4 set of investigators to go to the church PLUS we had a set baptism this week. Members and us passed by for 4 investigators and neither one of them went to the church. Then, our baptism disappeared. We haven't been able to find her for 5 days... So, that's just great. Haha. 

Good luck to every one for the new school yearª. I hope it goes great. Study strong, work hard, and I will do thesameª. We can only challenge the Lord for blessings when we are obedientª Read and Pray and GO TO CHURCHª and HELP THE MISSIONARIES. 

I am a very fortunate soul. Something cool that happened this past week is two families told me "You are a weird missionary" I said why. They then said that I am not like other gringos. I laugh more and am more animated and stuff. Then they both told my companion to be more happy. :) Haha. That's awesome. I am glad and grateful for the personality that the Lord has blessed me withª. 

Keep praying for me and my companion. We have to find and find and findª. I love you all.  

Love, 

Elder Moore