San Cristobal, Week 93: The Last Letter

Well family, 

With so little time, there is a lot still to do. There is a lot still to say. 

Thank you for all your love and support over the last 2 years. It has gone by fast and I still can´t believe that I am heading home. 

Tomorrow is my last day preaching the Gospel of my Savior as a full time, name tag wearing missionary with a companion next to me. It is a very bitter reality. I hope to someday return to this soil and return to the name tag wearing mission. I will miss talking to the people and helping those that are willing. I will miss bearing my testimony as a Representative of Jesus Christ. I will miss promising blessings in His name. I will miss people referring to me as Elder Moore.

I love the mission! I love seeing people change their lives. I miss seeing the "click" in their minds and hearts as they finally realize the hope and the happiness that the Gospel brings. This truly is the only way that there is in order to live with Heavenly Father again. I will miss helping people change their hearts and come to Church! 

I will miss the Argentinean people and their ways and customs and styles. I will try to bring some back with me. I love the people. I love the country. Its a great city. I will miss the members and the wards. All of those that have helped me find and teach and baptize. 

I am very grateful for these last two years. Sure it wasn't easy but that's okay. I had help. From both sides of the veil. 

Thank you so much for your prayers, I have felt them being answered. Thank you for your love and support, I couldn't have done this alone. 

I love you all. Thank you for everything. Words cannot contain my feelings. 

I will see you soon. 

Love, 

for the last time. 

Elder Moore

Argentina, Buenos Aires Norte

San Cristobal, Week 92: The Dust Particle

Well hello family!

Before you all strart sending me individual emails asking me and everything. I will let you know that, I just called President, saying that next monday is my last PDAY. Tuesday is my last day of Proselyting and Wednesday I am in the President's home, and Wednesday afternoon I go straight to the airport in a bus. So that is that. 

Yesterday we did a service project in a museum. We painted white walls even more white. It was great. Apparently the missionaries do it every year. Without fail. When we finished we went to a place called ONCE. I don´t know if you all remember ONCE but its were they sell everything super cheap. Including jerseys. Well I went there with the plan of buying jerseys. Turns out about a year ago the governement started cracking down on fake jerseys and things and they went into this area and cleaned it up. Now its organized and everything and there are NO jerseys! So, to my dismay, I left without jerseys. But we shall see. 

The end of the mission is like someone vacuuming a room, and I am a dust particle. My whole mission I knew that I was going to be discovered at the end of 2 years and was going to get sucked up. And now near the end I can hear the motor and feel the vibrations and its getting closer and closer and there is nothing I can do about that. I am excited to be sucked up because its going to be different and I will be with other dust particles but I also am sad because I like my place here in the carpet. I love it here with the dust particles that still have time. The vacuum is just going to suck me up into the Presidents house, then the Airport, then the Stake Presidents office. its a weird thought. 

On that happy note. 

I had a great miracle. In this service project I say Elder K, a great friend. He told me that he did a baptismal interview with someone in Palermo (my very first area) and when talking about how he met the missionaries the man says, "the first Elders that taught me were Elder N and Elder Moore. Since then, I have been always thinking about the Church". Now, I don´t remember this man very well but it was an incredible miracle knowing that I had planted a seed and that even though I didn't baptize the person, I was still an instrument in the Lord´s hands. The saying comes to mind that you can count the seeds in an apple but you can´t count the apples in a seed. 

Second miracle is that a recently baptized investigator( he got baptized about 4 or 5 weeks ago) just got confirmed after not wanting to. It was a great experience and he is a lot happier. The Spirit exists! And is absolutely necessary! 

Anyways, please pray for me. I can´t die early. President made some jokes on the phone one of them was "You have till next Tuesday to work" then that night, I give you permission to freak out." What a great comforting comment. 

Anyways, I love you all. 

Thank you for the support. 

Love, 

Elder Moore

San Cristobal, Week 91: San Cristobal Elders

My companion Elder H is in the green shirt. Then Elder G and Elder T

 Kind of a weird posture goofy smile but that's okay. I am not perfect. 

San Cristobal, Week 90: The Last Transfer

Alright family, with three weeks left in the mission. I have news about transfers! 

I am now in SAN CRISTOBAL. Its actually near Palermo where I started but I went from Campana (country) to the downtown area. It was a last minute change and the President called me last night to tell me how it was going to go down. I will be here for my last 3 weeks. But thats not even the coolest part.

Turns out. My companion is Elder H, from Las Vegas. Capo. Second, There are 4 Elders in this ward. The other is Elder T, from Arizona. Also a Capo. And the third is the trainer of Elder T whom you will all recognize. ELDER G. ONCE AGAIN IN THE SAME ZONE. And this time, ward. My future roomate is now my fellow companion. He also might be my district leader. So we might do divisions. WHAT A BLESSING. I am so excited. We had lunch together today. 

Anyways, I don´t have much time. I will do a voice recording for you all later with lots of stuff on it. Its going to be an interesting 3 weeks. I can´t believe its passing by so fast. It scares me. 

I love you all! 

Love,

 Elder Moore

Campana, Week 89: Birthdays!

Happy Birthday Dad and Kerri and Uncle Craig and Grandma! 

I cant remember what I said in the recording but it was a very basic week. This week should be more interesting. 

I love you all! 

Love, 

Elder Moore

 Nobody on the bus!

 Voice Recording on the bus

Making a chicken pie

Campana, Week 87: Argentinian Soccer Game

 Anxoius...

 Anxious...

Sad...

 My excited companion during an Argentinian soccer game

Campana, Week 86: More Pictures

Elder Moore sent voice recordings again...so no email to go along with these

Campana, Week 84: Pictures

Campana, Week 83: Really Good Week

Alright family, I don`´t have too much time. 

Well as you all know President told me that my release date will be the 19th of August. He said that is hasn´t been approved yet but he is trying to send a group of us home,. That means that my despedida will be the last week of July in just 7 weeks. WOW. Never thought that that day would happen. 

Well, This week was a really good week, we found people and taught and everything. We broke or met almost all our goals. We taught 25 lessons with a member in one week, almost doubling what we did the last week . (not that numbers are important but is sure is nice to see the reflection of effort) We still are looking for those that are going to be baptized this coming transfer and hope to find some progressing investigators this week. My companion is awesome, he keeps me focused and on track! 

Something cool that happened today was that Elder B (the first missionary I trained) thanked me for everything that I taught him and (I didn´t think I did really well, I had no idea what I was doing) he was very sincere. Tonight, he will be going to Mexico, he has been waiting for his VISA this whole time. I am happy to see him in his mission because I know he really wanted to go. I hope he takes some Argentina Buenos Aires North fire with him. He will be a great missionary. 

I don´t really know what is going to bring this next transfer. If I stay, I die here in Campana, which honestly, would be a little hard to stay focused, But if I go from here to learn a new area it would be a great "focuser". So I have mixed feelings about the transfer. 

 

I have slowly started to get rid of things. For example, I gave some pens to my companion and stationary things. Also, a high council member in our ward told us that there is a higher need of missionary clothes in the Bishop's Storehouse because there are a lot of missionaries that are leaving without what is necessary, and so I gave some pants that still have a good 2 years in them. I don´t need 6 pairs of pants I can live with 2 or 3. Also some shirts too. Then some other clothes that were left behind by other missionaries. I felt pretty good giving them away because I know they will be used to keep preaching the Gospel to someone else in another country perhaps. 

Alright, 

That is everything that I have for you all! Next week will be a recording I hope. Love you! 

Love, Elder Moore! 

Campana, Week 82: Pictures!

Elder Moore sent voice recordings again but he also sent pictures! PS. I don't know how to flip the pictures

 Its kind of a funny picture. It a candidate for president here... Who does it remind you of. I can think of a few people... Think 30 rock too. 

 This is of the mission activity. We were in a theater of an international school. It was great.

 This is another picture of my and Elder K. Waiting for the zone. That's my best smile. 

 This is a picture of me and Elder A in San Pedro. Where we were today. 

The other is us playing a game with knives and stretching it was pretty fun, a simple game but it was hilarious.