Wow,
it has already been two weeks. This past week went by a LOT faster. But
probably because I had a lot to do, especially in the mornings.
MONDAY was pretty
crazy with soccer. They play fierce! I LOVE it! And on concrete indoors. It's
really awesome.
TUESDAY
PAPERS!!! WOOOHOOO, Me
and my companion had to travel to the local mission office on a bus then a
train. (which is just a max, not really a train at all but they say it is) for
about an hour and some minutes to pick up my passport and documents. I saw all of
my MTC district there too so it was really good to reconnect with them and see
how they were doing. We went to two different cities to go to two different
buildings for my papers. I guess this means that I can stay for a year but I am
not entirely sure. They just did their own background check and took my
fingerprints and put them into the system. It was a lot like the DMV just for
people not cars. We got back and ate a quick lunch with two other elders at the
church because we had a meeting. Don´t ask me what it was about because I
didn´t understand a thing. Only something about numbers, and preach my gospel,
and our planners. That´s all I really know. Then we went out and taught some
investigators that are doing REALLY well. I will take pictures today because I
forgot this whole week. It has been pretty crazy.
WEDNESDAY
Not really sure what
happened on this day but just the regular. Except, I taught an English class
for about 8 people. It went really well I think, some of them know a little
bit, others don´t. It also really helped me to translate between ingles and
spanish from what I say. Then they asked the dreaded question that I don´t even
understand yet. They asked what does ¨got¨¨ and ¨get¨¨ mean. BOOM. That was
soooo hard to explain. Because in spanish it doesn´t exist. Unless I am totally
wrong and it actually does exist I am just missing that much desired and needed
word/verb. Other than that it went well.
Oh and a cool story. My
companion and I went into a COTO (Target/Winco kind of store) to by some drinks
and also go to the bathroom. We go to the restroom and as we are washing our
hands a guy comes up to us and starts chatting and Elder Garcia was
chatting back but acting wierd, almost, stiff and cold. I had no idea
why. Then the guy asked us if we had a Book of Mormon in our bags and Elder
Garcia said NO! I was like, What the heck this is incredible of course we do!
But I didn´t say anything. Then the guy got really close and then a guard
walked into the room to go to the bathroom, and the guy backed off, told us to
have a nice day and left. I was so confused. Then when we left Elder Garcia
said, "Did you see the knife?" WHAT?! Haha, the knife was in his
right sleeve hand and he was trying to hide it until he got close, but then the
guard walked in. It made so much sense! The guy was acting really weird and
animated with his left hand I guess trying to keep our attention away from his
other. And when he asked for a book of Mormon he wanted to see what we had in
our bags. But the Gaurd walked in. Coincidence? Of course not. Already I have
realized there is no such thing. God looks out for his missionaries and this is
but one example. So don´t worry about me. I am totally comfortable here
already.
THURSDAY.
We had to go back and
do PAPERS again because I failed the background check, which has never happened
before in the mission so they had no idea what was wrong, and I don´t have a
history so I was panicking thinking. "what if they send me back?!" I
don´t know what to do. ETC ETC. But it ended up being that my fingerprints
didn´t go through well. My companion says it's because I rock climb. But I
think it's because they just went really fast through the fingerprints.
FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY
Really slow days.
Didn´t have many appointments. We had to go to the chapel to use the phone to
call old investigators and stuff. Really boring and difficult. But necessary! Sunday we
had 4 investigators come to church and love it with their family. I promise I
will tell you more about it in the future.
Our appointments are
going well. In my 12 week programs I am probably already in week 4 or 5 because
my companion and I both think that I don´t have to follow the book and I can
definitely say a lot more than just the baptism question for my second week. So
I am giving scriptures and testimony and questions. It's pretty fun but
embarrassing because of my Spanish but slowly and surely its coming.
The weather is nice-ish
here. It is sunny and warm but it's very windy most of the time. December and
January and February though are going to be really really hot not looking
forward to that but the Savior´s ministry wasn´t easy, so it's a blessing that
mine will be too.
Oh…almost forgot! Elder
Holland was here and talked to the Buenos Aires North, South and West Missions.
ABOSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. I feel great just thinking about it. I am so blessed.
In the MTC we got visited by Elder Oaks and now Elder Holland. When they walk
in the room they literally chase darkness away. I could feel it.
Anyways. That's
it. Today we have soccer and I am going to teach an investigator family
how to make brownies. I am really excited about it. Oh. I had the meat
from the calf of a Cow. (HAHAHA funny pun) (I mean the leg part) TO DIE FOR. SO
GOOOOOOOD. Oh my gosh. Succulent.
I love you all!
Keep Praying!
Love,
Elder Moore
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