MUNRO, WEEK 30: TRANSFERS

Well hello family! 

Well we just had transfers today AAAAAAAAANNNNND.. BOOM. Transferred to a new area. It's called Munró. You have to roll the R. :) It seems pretty cool. A quiet, little (not so little) area. My companion told me that we spend a lot of money on the bus here so the members give us lunches. That's awesome! 

I will miss my old companion and my old area but the Lord wants me here now! 

My new companion is Elder B*. He is from Colombia! He was in my zone before so I know him a little bit. I am excited; he is a really cool guy. It's very interesting how I have had 4 companions all from different countries. Utah, Spain with Elder G*, then Argentina with Elder L* and then Elder B* from Colombia. Pretty cool! It's an awesome experience. 

Kyle's most recent companion (on the left) with another elder in the mission

This past week was good. The time is FLYING by. My two transfers with Elder L* seemed like it was only one month. I learned a lot from him and I look forward to applying it. 

Our new apartment is pretty nice. It has a barbecue thing to cook by fire (it's like a fireplace). So that is something dandy. Maybe I will have to venture for different foods. 

In Soldati we had three baptisms. I don't know if I already told you all but they are doing great; 20 years old. 19 and 17. 

The weather is great. Crisp is a good way to describe it. Cold at night somewhat warm during the day. It's perfect weather. 

My umbrella broke the other day so I will be looking for a new one! 

A member just received his calling yesterday in my last area. He is going to Resistencia, Argentina. He leaves in one month. It's going to be great. It's exciting to see people that you have helped progress in the gospel! 

I feel like during the week things happen and I get excited to tell you all. Then comes Monday and I can´t remember a thing about the week. Maybe I will start writing these things down. 

It's a miracle that everything fit in my suitcases today. I feel like my things are multiplying. But in reality I haven´t bought anything. How does it happen?!? I do have a lot of books from the MTC that I could probably get rid of. I will see what I don´t use and toss it this coming transfer. 

Something that I just learned is that my MTC companion is in the same zone! So we will be playing soccer together. WOOT! 

The temple was awesome last week. I'ts closed for June (members say for the World Cup but that's not true) for cleaning and stuff. So we went before and it was great. One of the photos that I sent was of my companion and a friend from his ward he met. It was great photo. 

We had interviews with the president. They went great. He told me that when I turned 6 months that he felt I was ready to be senior companion but the problem is that there are no new missionaries right now. We got rid of 3 missionaries and just received one new sister this transfer. And the next transfer doesn't look like we will receive many more either. When I arrived we were at 290 missionaries now we are at 240. 

My first Zone Leader went home. He finished already! He greeted me my very first day. Then my next area he and I went on divisions. It was great. He is awesome. Taught me a lot. 

One day family, we are all going to be sitting in the living room drinking mate together! (I drink mate cocido. It's great) 

Off to play soccer! I love you all! Pray for me and I will pray for you! 

With love, 

Elder Moore!

POMPEYA, WEEK 29: TEMPLE TRIP

We went to the temple today and didn't have time to write! I will write a lot more the next week. 

All is well. Next week I will write on Tuesday because we have transfers! 

I love you all!

Love, 

Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 28: THE WEEK

Hi Family, 

Well, this week was cool, had a meeting in San Fernando and everything! 

That's about it! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

Me and my companion (we met him on Skype and they were making jokes that he is shorter 

than Kyle's big sister, Lindsey)

Just kidding.

During the week, we had a meeting in San Fernando in the church offices for district leaders and their companions. It was very interesting. I also got too see my old district from the MTC. We sat together for lunch and it was good to see their progress. 

We have 4 baptisms this coming weekend. They were going to get baptized yesterday but they wanted to get baptized together, so we postponed it. 

Baptisms from last transfer

Today the president invited us to go to his house to have a barbecue with him and play games for p-day. I hope there is soccer! So we are writing early today. I am excited! 

I am doing pretty good. Eating healthy. (We bought the equivalent of 8 pounds of mandarins and oranges for one dollar! Score!)

I am looking for an umbrella because the one I brought from home broke. It's definitely getting colder here and I am very grateful for my jackets! 

"This is our area called "Monoblocks." The picture only shows about a quarter of it. It's ginormous."

"Another photo of Monoblocks. Just beyond those big white apartment buildings that run from middle left to lower right in front is where our area ends." 

Something that I would like to do is return to Argentina to do some extra curriculars like fishing, backpacking and hunting because I heard that the south is very beautiful. It would be awesome! 

The temperature is a changin'! 

That's really all I have for you. I will write more next week!  Enjoy the photos! I will take more today at the president's house. 

I love you all!

 

Love, 

Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 27: REEEAAAL QUICK

Don't blink! You will miss the email. :) It's going to be really short this go around because I just talked to you all yesterday!

You guys all look great, I am glad you are all receiving the blessings. 

Like I said everything is fine here. Just keep scything (is that a word?) the field that is ready for harvest! 

Today we are going to the River stadium and a tourist area of the city so I will try to take some pictures!

ANNNNNNND thats it. :)

Thanks for the support!

Love, 

Elder Moore

MOTHER'S DAY PHONE CALL

Kyle got to Skype home on Mother's Day afternoon. It was so good to see him and hear from him! Weekly emails are great but it's just not the same as a face to face! Once again, we had multiple computers hooked up so Kyle's sister, Lindsey and her family, could participate from Washington. We had a whole hour to pepper Kyle with questions and hear more stories from his mission. It was over all too soon! 

We can't believe he only gets to call home two more times on his mission. Where is the time going?

POMPEYA, WEEK 26: HELLO FAMILY!

Alright.

This past week was good for us but also dissapointing. We had 4 baptisms planned for yesterday (Sunday) but they fell through. They were either sick or suddenly went out of town. I don't know for sure. But we reset the date for this Sunday and we will see what we are going to do! 

We learned a lot this past week about the little simple things that make the difference. We as missionaries feel responsible for the decisions of our investigators and we have to make sure that we do ALL that we can do in order to help them make the right choices, and that includes diligence and obedience! 

So, my companion and I rededicated ourselves. Set goals and everything to be better this week. To find more, teach better, and be faithful instruments in the hands of the Lord. 

One thing that I realized this past week is that if we are doing what we are supposed to do, the members are affected too. If we are being good examples, the members are going to notice. 2 weeks ago a father of a priest that accompanies us told us that he is very excited that his son accompanies us because he can see a change in his behavior and how he acts and talks about the missionaries. Now that was a great blessing to hear. That even when we don't know it, we are making a difference! Well then, this last week that same father called us at about 9:30 when we were just finishing planning and he told us: "Elders, can you call my son and talk to him? Because he is not being very obedient today." What a surprise! My companion said. "Wow, he sure does have a lot of confidence in us to tell us that!" It's so true. We called the son up. Told him what's what and helped out the family. They are all awesome and help us a lot. The son is really cool and a super good member and priest. So remember! SOMEONE IS WATCHING AND SOMEONE NOTICES. You can affect lives without even knowing it. So affect them for the BETTER! 

Besides that everything is going great. Getting colder but the heat still comes back with a vengeance sometimes. Humidity is killer. Today though I put on my jeans! For the first time since forever. It feels good. But walking in the street with them feels weird. I feel like I blended in a little more. Like I was in hiding. In civvies.

Well today we are going to go play soccer once agian! YEEESSSS. With the members too so it's going to be fun! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 25: HELLO!

Hello family!

Once again I write!

This past week was pretty good. We had good lessons, we found some promising investigators, found some old ones and we help Young Single Adults and the Young Men and Young Women work in their qourumns. We were assigned to them to help with reactivation in qourums and everything. It's going to be fun! Our first activity is mission preparation because we have about 4 young men that are doing mission papers and 3 or 4 young women too. Then the ones in the future, I am excited!

Let's see, what else happened this week... nothing much. One of our investigators who was going to be baptized yesterday just mysteriously disappeared. We haven't seen him this whole week. Also his friends who are members. And when we call nobody answers and nobody answers the door. Probably just a vacation or something but still... wierd. On the other hand we have a whole family to be baptized this week so pray for them! The mom is already a member. They are progressing nicely and the young single adults help out a ton. It will be a great blessing to the ward. Especially since they are splitting our stake! They are rearranging the stakes to make a new one. Stake Chacabuco. It will be great. Also a VERY high baptizing stake. It is interesting how it will work out.

Something strange that happened to our apartment building is that one morning, I went to take a shower after working out and there was no hot water. Nothing came out. Cold water yeah but no hot water. No big deal, cold water it is. I showered, then my companion. Then when we returned to the apartment at night, we went to get a drink of water. There is none. It's not that its all cold or it's weak, its just that nothing came out... For the whole building... I bet people are very happy. Haha. Then when we woke up this morning it was the same. Oh well! If the problems persists we will call our Zone leaders and travel to another missionaries apartment to shower there. No biggy! Trials of Faith. :)

We had a Sunday all about missionary work and reactivation. It was really cool. Very inspired. Awesome stuff is happening! I get a front row seat!

Time is moving along like a coursing river!

We are off to go play soccer! Woohoo!

Love,
Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 24: ONE DAY MORE

Como esta mi familia?

I hope everything is going great!

To let you all know, there was no change in the area. My companion and I are still together which is awesome! But there is one change. My companion got called as a District Leader so that's pretty cool. We both were very excited when he got called. It's awesome.

Anyways, this past week we have found lots of part member family of less actives. It is really cool I am very excited for the work that we have now.

Every morning we have been listening to General Conference. We finally got to Priesthood session. WOW it was amazing! It was great! My mind was blown.

Uh... I don't know what to say. Everything is good. The Lord is blessing us.

For the first time in this area our numbers and progress was pretty good. The Lord and the President are proud so they let us stay longer. We are definitely looking to improve this transfer! Lots of new things we are going to try.

I have trammites tomorrow. Woohoo. A lot of train riding tomorrow. I can't wait. :/ 

It is definitely getting colder! Rains a wee bit every now and then. I found out that my rain jacket isn't so rain proof! So that was a great experience. I will look for something to rain proof it. A spray can of that oil stuff.

Things are ticking along! Learning and growing everyday! I love this church! Everything the church puts out is FILLED with the Spirit. There is a new video called "Because of Him" that's on the church website. It's amazing. 

Well, my companion and I are going to go get our hair cut and then we are going to go dominate the soccer field. What a great day!

Pray and Pray! Blessings!

I wish you all a good week.

Love, 

Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 23: THE LAST MELON

The last melon. Which means the last week in this transfer! WHICH MEANS I WON'T WRITE TILL TUESDAY!!!! 

6 weeks went by fast! And it was a great week! 

Monday was a normal day. 

Tuesday we went on divisions in our area I went with a future missionary that is preparing and my companion went with another. We ended the day with some really good lessons taught and good numbers. And that helped us to bump up the rest of the week too because we started on a good note. Definitely a lesson in there. 

Wednesday was great. We had minidivisions. Where I went with my district leader for about 5 hours to his area. We found a new golden investigator and we taught well and he taught me a lot of things. 

Thursday was weekly planning! Woohoo! Definitely not like weekly calendering but it has its similarities. We try to make it fun but effective. It's always fun to see your plans get completed. 

Friday we had a zone conference which was great. And THENNNNN. Afterwards the President AND his wife accompanied us to our area for about 4 hours. It was amazing. They drove us home (which was a blessing) then they drove us to the area, where they taught with us and talked with us. They met our baptisms for this past week. Then my companion went to visit someone with a member. So it was just me, the president, and his wife. So went to visit our next appointment. It was awesome to learn from the president. He is really good and the people immediately respected him (minus a few poeple of course but that's missionary life!) It was cool. And then at the end of the day we just walked back to the church for his car. We just talked and walked. It was a definite reassurance that every missionary needs. The President was like a kid in a candy store when he entered our area. He was so exited. He always tells us how much he would give to be with us on the streets every day. He is right. These two years are the only time I have to be a 100% authorized representative of the Lord. There is no other time like this. I can promise and do things with the assurance of the Lord behind the words I say. It's a really neat experience. 

Saturday was good.

Sunday was good.

Monday was eh. 

Today is P-day but I had immigration papers this morning so that's why I have about no time to do anything today. But all is well. I got next week! 

I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

POMPEYA, WEEK 22: ANOTHER WEEK!

Wow, this transfer is going by suuuuuuper fast! 

We had divisions this past week, it was pretty fun to work in another area and help out a younger companion a wee bit. Definitely learned a lot! Always be a representative of Jesus Christ at all times! People are watching and you are always planting the seed of the church in someone's heart and mind. It's cool to see the miracles. 

Alright, it was a good week. Our numbers were a little lower this week but that was because they upped the anty (uhhh i don´t remember the spelling) so things are a little challenging but we will get it done! 

Conference was awesome. Probably the most amazing conference I have yet experienced. I don't know why but it was amazing. Over, WAY too fast. I watched the first two sessions in Spanish. Then all of Sunday in English. It was great. The Spanish was easy to understand but I found my mind wandering just a little bit.  But they were still amazing. 

I will now be checking in on all of you to see what you all have learned from Preach My Gospel! It is actually a really good book. When I return from my mission I look forward to applying it as a member missionary. The missionaries need help. They need people to teach. It is the difference between a good area and a dead one, a happy day and a frustrating one. HELP THE MISSIONARIES. I can't say it enough. 

We were going to have two baptisms this past week but it never happened. Their grandma who is a member got sick and they didn't want to leave her alone. We tried to help them but in the end we felt that we should just reset the date for the following week. Pray for them! 

Attitude of gratitude! I am grateful for this experience to be here no matter how hard the days can be at times! It's worth it! 

I am listening right now to "Let Us All Press On" by the Motab Choir that just sang in conference. I LOVE this version of the song. 

That is all I have for now. I am convinced it's never going to be cold here. Only humid. The mosquitoes are a killer here.

I love you all. 

Love, 

Elder Moore

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SOME PICTURES!

Zone San Lorenzo

"Eggs like Annie" [A family meal of soft-boiled eggs and toast]. 

Just a bunch of stuff we had left over so I cooked it... Wasn't the same but it was something to eat.

Sewing my pants.

Dulce de Leche ice cream flavored. I died. It's that good. 

A little scratch after playing soccer.