Moore on a Mission in Medellin, Colombia: Week 49 - July 2, 2018 (Rionegro

So last week I was transferred to a city about 40 minutes south of Medellin called Rionegro. We actually live in the town just outside called Marinilla, which is just 9 miles to the north. However, we are looking for a new house that is closer to the church building. The weather is awesome here with a high of around 73° and at night around 54°. It is a nice change from the heat of Planeta Rica. The people are not as open however compared to those on the coast. Our ward building is in Rionegro and it is the Porvenir Ward. My companion is E. Nelsen, he is from Utah. He actually came out in the same group as I did. He is taller than me, and so far we get along great. We also got a new mission president (President Ceballos) this week, but I haven't meet him yet.

So this was a great week for my first week in Rionegro. We did a lot of contacting and knocking doors. It is very different here than in Planeta Rica, the people are not as open to talk with us, they even slammed the door on me while we went knocking. Tuesday we went to Medellin for our district meeting, and I was able to pick up my packages!!!!! Thank you mom so much for sending me all the stuff it is awesome. I have been chowing down on all of the candy and drinking the chocolate milk. The ties are super cool and look great.

We had a baptism of a young boy named Santiago. He is here for summer break with his Uncle and Aunt (they are members). He is super smart and it was awesome to teach him, he had questions and everything. I got to teach him a few lessons this week and then he was baptized on Saturday. It was awesome teaching him, he understood things very quickly and had good questions. Definitely saw the Lords hand during the baptism, since the portable plastic baptism font broke and started leaking right before the service. We had just enough time to have the service and started to drain it before it made a mess.

We have some good investigators here that we are teaching. We don't have as many as we did in Planeta Rica, but we have some good ones to teach. A couple of the recent investigators that have family members and friends that are not members that we want to start teaching. We went and taught Alejandro, one of the recent converts. He is the only member of his family. So we are teaching the others in the house. It was one of the most spiritual lessons I have every been in. The spirit was so strong. His wife is not a member yet, and we gave her a blessing, it was also super spiritual and I definitely received revelation during the blessing, Alejandro even had tears in his eyes.

We had five investigators at church on Sunday. Santiago got confirmed a member. Then we had testimony meeting and it was very spiritual, there was some great testimonies that were shared. One of our investigators said he wanted to go with us to El Peñón de Guatapé, which is this huge rock that sticks out of the ground that has tons of steps to get to the top. It was super cool to look out at all of the water and surrounding areas.

Love you all,
Tchao,

Elder Moore