Howdy family!
I hope that everything is going good!
This week has been busy!
Something that I am really excited about is that in every mission we have Standards of Excellency that the president puts. They are numbers that should ultimately be our goal to reach. I am happy to announce that we broke 3 or 4 of the standards of excellency this week which inst bad for our second week in a new area. I am definitely blessed with the opportunity to work with my companion and the missionary to help open this part of the vineyard.
Let's see. What happened this past week?
Hmm. Nothing really out of the ordinary. Every other morning we wake up at 5:30 and play soccer with our district at a nearby chapel. Its a great way to wake up and get going. I love the soccer here. Its fast and its constant I have actually become a diecent arqero which is the Goalie! Its an awesome start to the day.
Every morning I have a drink which is called Mate Cocido. Its basically an herbal tea thats part of the cultural and is natural too. We arent allowed to drink mate straight but I like the smell of it. Its basically hay drink. Anyway, its pretty chilly in the morning and its great to read the Book of Mormon with a nice warm cup of hot chocolate or mate cocido.
The ward here is great they love the missionaries and are ready and willing to provide food for us whenever we need something. It's also very interesting as in the ward we can see the missionaries helping the members in their efforts to reach and rescue. Its a great opportunity.
A cool story but short that happened is we were about to open the church song and everybody started singing without the piano. I was surprised since the church has about 250 memebers in the buidling and nobody could play. So while they were singing during the first verse I silently walked up to the piano, passing the bishop (i was already on the stand becasue the new missionary were going to give their testimonies.) and said "I can play the piano". I sat down just as the second verse started and from half memory half the music in front of me started to continue playing "we thank thee o god for a prophet" I surprised the lady that was directing the music. But it went well. But they were a little off key so they had to change according to the piano. But still it was a blessing to play for them. Then I went back to do the sacramental hymn which was a song that I have never played but before the song, I was reading the music and playing without the piano. Then I played it on the piano. with only minor mistakes. However, I could not play the 3rd song because I never had heard of it and it was too difficult to learn in the 20 minutes before the song. Then I found out that the song doesn't exist in the english hymnbook so its all okay. I said that in my testimony when I started. I said "Hello brothers and sisters, I am Elder Moore and I am part of Soldati4 in Monoblocks. I also have a confession. I have never heard of the third song before in my life so I will not be able to play it." they all got a kick out of that. Nobody knew I could play the piano so it was a surprise to them and my companion too. Blessings!
Thanks Lindsey for teaching me the basics and beyond. Thanks Grandma for making me read the notes and count and thanks Mom for making me choose an instrument! It is a blessing that I can never repay. But I have a confession mom. You are going to like this. :) . Sometimes, when you came home from errands or something and asked me if I did my piano practice. I said I did, but I think you knew I didn't. I just moved all the piano books to make it look like I did. (it was a childish thing. I was a young kid I am better now) Haha the consequence for those actions are not being able to play that third song by site reading but the blessings for the practices I DID do are being able to play the first 2. I will learn the third though! Thanks Mom. :)
All of our investigators now are references with members that we contacted WITH the members themselves. They are all progressing and have dates for baptisms. It is TRUE what the apostles are telling us, MEMBERS ARE KEY. They help the work so much, yeah we can talk to people and maybe perhaps,probably not they are going to listen to us more than 20 seconds. Its frustrating, but when the members are with us BOOM. The door is magically opened. It's awesome.
Well. Forgive me but it's time to go play some soccer on a bigger field. :) I am excited. I will score or save a goal for you all back home!
I love you all! Write me!
Love,
Elder Moore
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