Elder Moore

MUNRO, WEEK 37: HI!

Carrying around an egg (supposed to represent an investigator) during a zone meeting.

Hi Family!

Everything is going good. A week full of WORK! We had divisions with the Zone Leaders and BOOM! Showed us a new way of work and teaching. We doubled our references from members this past week. And we increased our lessons by 50%. It was a great moment for learning, and very humbling. I learned a lot!

Sunday was interesting. I put on the lunch calendar that it was my birthday and nobody signed up! Until a family surprised us with an invitation after Sacrament meeting. The second counselor was conducting sacrament and he announced before the meeting the it was my birthday that day. I was so embarrassed.

Then after that we got invited to dinner to have some amazing milanesa and papas fritas (french fries). Then the family made bizconchuelo which is a weird form of cake. But it was good! With some Nesquik that I bought.

We found 3 new investigators this week but they weren't able to come to church because Sunday was Dia Del Amigo, which is Friend Day. It's a BIG deal here. Everybody says in the street "Feliz dia del amigo!" Happy Friend Day! Which is great because everybody is happy!

My companion and I are doing great. We get along well.

A very interesting experience I had this week was that one day we talked with the neighbor of a member. The neighbor recently moved in from Nigeria. We started talking to them and they interrupted and said in broken Spanish. That they only speak English. My companion replied in a little English "Great, he speaks English too" and so I started to speak and we talked and then I started to introduce the gospel and my words kept running into Spanish. Every 5 or 6 words the word in Spanish would crash into my sentence. It was DIFFICULT. It was almost funny to the other because they could see that I was struggling. Well the Lord helped me and they accepted a pamphlet and we will follow up! But it was just very funny, to think that I have been teaching the gospel so much for the past 10 months, that I have forgotten how to do it in English! Which in a way is a good indicator. I will have to relearn English after my mission!

Anyways, this week should be good! I am very excited to go to infinity and beyond!

I love you all!

Happy Birthday Grandma! Happy Birthday Uncle Craig! Happy Birthday Dad! Happy Birthday Kerri!

Love,

Elder Moore