Elder Moore's Report Details

Elder Moore comes home August 29th! Here are the details for his report.

Week Ninety-Seven: Almirante Brown (LAST WEEK!!)

Hey fam!
So I believe this is the last time you will hear from me before we see each other in the airport!! I know you guys are super excited! I am too! But there are a lot of mixed feelings, as I imagine you guys understand. I have really come to love this work and have developed a relationship with my Savior that I know could not be so strong if I did not make the choice to come and work in his vineyard. I love what you said, Mom, about the tender mercies of the Lord. I have seen so many in my mission, too many to count. The mission is nothing easy, it really requires all you have and all you are, but I've learned that if you put your faith and confidence in the Lord it will make it all so worth it. He can do way more with our lives than we can do with our own. I have put all I am and who I want to become in the hands of the Lord, and that before anything else is the best decision I've ever made, and I believe it's the most important we can make in this life. Life is black and white. There is no gray area, no matter how many people want to believe otherwise. We are with God in everything or we aren't. We're all in or we fold. I have come to love these people, that itself is a blessing and a curse. You try all you can to get people to understand this amazing gospel and when they do, you feel the joy they feel. But when they don't, the feelings are just as strong but in the other direction. I can honestly say that the mission has changed my life. Doing the Lord's work with a broken heart and a contrite spirit can't not change you. I won't write all I feel because I have 20 minutes to fill on Sunday and I want to say something that not everyone has heard. Just know that I know this is the Lord's church and everlasting gospel. And it all has been restored to its original form through a chosen prophet, seer, and revelator, Joseph Smith, and Christ is again at the head of His church guiding us through modern prophets and apostles.
Thank you guys so much for helping me out so much. Not just with the end-of-mission supplies but all throughout my mission. Your prayers and love has made a gigantic impact on my mission. I really couldn't have done it without all of you!! I don't think I can't express how much of an impact you guys have had on my life! I love you all so much!! I will be seeing you soon! Give lots of love to Chloe for me!!!

Week Ninety-Seven: Almirante Brown

Hey fam!
So this week sounds like it was pretty busy!! You guys aren't the only ones that are talking about how much time I have left. All the members and missionaries do the same lol. Well, all but my comp which is pretty nice lol. We are working pretty well together. We have a good amount of people we are teaching so that helps. Everyone has been asking me how I feel about having only two weeks left, I imagine you guys also want to know, and I always say the same thing. I feel the same, I know mathematically speaking I have only a small amount of time but on the inside I feel the same. I am still a missionary and I will work to the end. I don't get how missionaries get trunky?! The more I learn, which is everyday, the more I feel how important this work truly is and the more I come to love it!! I have learned so much in these last 2 years, more than I thought I ever could, and really I don't want it to end, so I have to take advantage of every second i have left!! I really believe I have developed a hunger to learn more about this gospel. I just want to know more and more!
My comp and I on P-days have been downloading talks and stuff given at BYU and they are incredible!! We are learning so much! It's awesome!! This week we were able to have some fun and have some good lessons. On Friday I had to do some baptism interviews for the sisters and they were coming pretty late. We were in the middle of a park, that's where we were going to meet, and we saw two guys playing basketball. We thought we had some time to kill so we played with them. Now I'm not the best basketball player in the world, but we were ballin' it up!! I was like Steph Curry or Chris Paul! It was way fun!!
Last night we were contacting some houses and a lady of about 30 years came out. We introduced ourselves and we quickly learned she had little to no  knowledge of really who God is and had no interest to know either. So we shared our short sincere testimonies and she let us in. (Don't worry, a male was present lol.) We asked her a few questions and quickly introduced the Restoration then she started crying. She had just lost her mom and was angry at God for taking her. We gave her time to express her feelings and then we shared a more sincere testimony of the Plan of Salvation. She agreed to hear us again and we knew that after our visit she felt better and felt something she hadn't felt before.
Also on a little funny note, as my comp and I were walking in the streets we started free style rapping and it was way funny!! We aren't the best rappers but we can spit fire!!
I love you guys!! Have a great week! I'll talk to you soon!! Give lots of love to Chloe for me!!!

Week Ninety-Six: Almirante Brown

Hey fam!
I have some wanted news that I know you guys have been dying to know so I'll start with that... I just got an email (did you get it too?) with my updated flight info. So it's official, I will be coming home the 28th! Well, I leave here the 28th and will be getting home at 10:03 am the 29th. You guys got the last one so I imagine you got this one, but if not tell me and I'll send it to you. This flight route is a lot faster and easier! Just one layover of 3 hours or so. So that's awesome!! And I'll be in Dallas. HAM are there right?! Now you guys don't have to stress anymore and can start all the planning lol.
The beach sounds like it was lit! (My comp told me thats new slang) (I feel like an old person not keeping up with times lol.) Chloe looks so cute with her vest and hat lol!!
Time here is going by fast and things are going great! This week we were able to find 15 new investigators and 12 of them are two families of 6!! Teaching families is awesome! My comp and I are working hard and we are getting a lot done!! We are really seeing the fruits of our labors! We have a great relationship with the members! They have had some not so good missionaries pass through this ward and to have two studs like us helps a lot lol.
This week we had our zone conference and all the missionaries that are finishing their missions this transfer get to share their testimony. So finally it was my turn. It was a very strange feeling. Every transfer for my whole mission I've seen elders and sisters give their testimonies and I always thought, man I'm soo far from that, I wonder what that must feel like, now I know!! I still have a few weeks so I won't start talking about the end yet, it's still go time!! I love this gospel and this work!! So you gotta enjoy it to the end!! There is nothing like missionary work!! Just to be able to teach this gospel and learn more about it, I know my life has been changed!!
I hope you guys have a great week! I love you!! Give lots of love to Chloe for me!!!

Week Ninety-Five: Almirante Brown

Hey fam!
Man it's so awesome to hear that everyone is having a great time on vacation!! Dad, that sucks that your truck got broken into!! How much did they take? Was it a lot or not too much? Buying the vest for Chloe was so funny!! Haha that's a really smart idea! Who thought of that? I don't think I would be able to think of that! Has chloe gotten in the water?
This week for us was pretty good. My comp is a hard worker so that makes things a lot easier! I forgot what it's like to have ping pong in a lesson, or when I talk then my comp talks then I talk and we do that kind of thing. My last comp didn't do too much talking. We were able to find a good amount of new investigators this week, so our teaching pool is getting a little bigger! We did some service for a member this week and it was pretty fun and tiring. We basically had to reorganize a warehouse of food and stuff. We got there and they told us where things needed to go and then gave us their instructions, but as we thought about it my comp and I came up with another way to make things a little faster and easier and we then went to work! It took a bit of time but it was pretty fun! The member took a video of my comp and I and I'm trying to talk with him right now so he can send it to me then I can send it to you guys.
We talked with one of our progressing investigators this week. He needs to get married to get baptized. We had planed to talk with him and try to motivate him to start the papers. We talked with him and he told us that he had already started and will be done about next week. We were like oh... okay awesome! So we are pretty excited about that! His name is Javier, and he is super ready for baptism. He is basically a dry member for now lol.
We have a conference with President tomorrow and I will talk with him to get as much detail about my date as I can!
I think that's about it for my week, Don't worry my comp and I are working pretty hard together and we are getting some stuff done!! I love you guys and hope you have a great week!! I'll talk to you soon! Give lots of love to Chloe for me!!

Week Ninety-Four: Almirante Brown

Hey fam!

There are a lot of questions and things to say and I'm not too sure where to start lol.... So let's start with my comp. 

My comp, Elder Rojas got transferred and I'm now with Elder Baker. And yes, you guessed it, he's a gringo. He is from Wisconsin. (I don't think I've met someone from Wisconsin before.) He has almost 10 months in the mission, so he has experience and speaks well. The 20 minutes I've had with him so far it seems like we are going to get along. I was kind of thinking a gringo would come and kill me lol, and I was right. I'll send you a pic. Oh and he is 6'5'' so he's a bit taller than me. I'm pretty happy for this new comp and change. I feel it's going to help me stay focused until the very end. I don't want to get trunky, there isn't time for that, so I'm glad my comp is ready to work. 

I had my interview with president and I forgot to ask about the homecoming date ooppss.... No I'm just kidding lol. He said he will take care of it. I'm not the only one thats finishing a bit early so he has to do it for others. But as for my mission, I'm the only one finishing one week early. The others are cutting 2 and 3 weeks. I asked president if he knew of anyone else that would travel with me he said from our mission there won't be anyone. But he said that every time he has traveled to the states (and he's done it quite a bit) he has always traveled with an elder. Especially in Georgia. It's almost certain there will be more elders there. I'm not worried about traveling solo, I just worry about the fact it will be pretty boring lol. 

I got my plan today!! Man is that crazy!! I haven't started it yet but i will soon. I've already done it three times lol so I know what it's like. And it's pretty awesome! 

As for a first meal, I have not given it any thought but I imagine after 20 hours of travel we might have to pass by In-N-Out to refill the tanks lol.

To answer the question about the phone and computer. It definitely has to be Apple, no doubt there. But here in Argentina there is zero Apple. No iPhones, iPads and less Macbooks. So I have no idea what is new. I can imagine that in the last two years some new things have come out but I know nothing about it lol. So I don't know if it's possible but I would like to wait till I get back to decide, to do some research and all that good stuff. Actually the first iphone and macbook i saw in almost 2 years was the iPhone and Macbook of my new president lol. But if there isn't time send me a few pics, info, and opinions and I'll do what I can. Lol I think I answered most of the questions, I'll reread the letter but I'll let you know about my week. 

It was pretty good. Yesterday we had the primary program and a lot of people came!! A lot of less actives and family members came, it was awesome!! The primary is actually a lot bigger than I thought! It was a really good program! 

A pretty cool experience we had was when we were looking for a less active's house and we knocked on the door. We saw and heard the neighbors talking about us between themselves. I could tell it was not good things, and they were telling some rumors that aren't true. So we went to talk to them to resolve and clarify their doubts. We started talking to them and they shut us down before I could finish saying my name. We listened to what they had to say and I started to talk very calmly and ask a few questions to get to know them a bit better. Well long story short, they ended up letting us teach them, and they gave us cake and soda. I really feel that it was a miracle. Someone with their heart so closed and hard ended up opening up and gave us cake lol. Goes to show what a good attitude and a Moore smile can do lol. 

Oh also BIG NEWS! The Martinez family got baptized this week! Remember the family that we found in my last area and were super chosen. Well they were baptized!! I talked with my old comp and he said they always talk and want to know how their "gringo" is. I was super happy to know they were baptized and to know that they are still progressing!! 

I hope you guys have a great week and have lots of fun in Leo Carillo!! Take lots of pics! I hope I could answer the most of your questions! I love you guys!! Give lots of love to Chloe for me! 

Oh and just a fun fact, my new comp has a golden too! She's a little old and reminds me of Stella and Luna!

Week Ninety-Three: Almirante Brown

Hey fam!
So I know you guys want to know what the president says about coming home and well... so do I lol. I have the interview Thursday. And I will for sure have some info for you guys! I promise. As of right now, I know of no one else that will be traveling with me. Elder Curtis, one of my comps, also is going to finish early except he'll be two weeks early. So we won't be together. But I honestly have no idea if someone else will finish early too. But you make a good point, there are others missions and some elders that might finish the same time as me. Looks like we are going to have to pray and see what happens. Lol. I'll ask president if anyone will be finishing with me and I'll let you guys know what he says.
This week was pretty good. We were able to have some nice experiences in the week. One that I thought was pretty funny was that we have been teaching a sister, Maria, for some time now. She told us this week that "the father of my baby" (they say that when they aren't married)(dang it!!) doesn't want her talking to us. She gave a few reasons and I just smiled and said, "That's because he doesn't know us and more importantly he doesn't know what we teach." We invited her to invite him to talk with us. (We don't meet in her house, but in the store she has.) She doubted that he would come but said she would do it anyways. We passed by for the next appointment and he was there. We started talking to him and he warmed up to us. He accepted the Book of Mormon, a return appointment, and it seemed like he was pretty interested. So that was a fun experience.
Also we found a new investigator this week that has some potential. She has investigated a lot of different churches trying to find the "right one for her." She let us in without hesitation. We taught her and left her 3 Nephi 11 to read as homework. She read it when we left and said that it was an answer to her prayers and feels that it's true. We were obviously super surprised, and invited her to be baptized and she accepted. But it's hard for her to come to church for a few reasons, so we are working on that but I know she will come. Her name is Raquel by the way.
This is the last week of this transfer!! Man has that gone by so  fast!! I might get a new comp next week or we might stay the same. We really have no idea. So we will see. It's so weird to think that I have so little time left, it's crazy!! But its not over yet, there is still A LOT to do! So let's get it done!!
I love you guys! I hope you all have a great week! Talk to you soon! Give lots of love to Chloe for me!