Week 61 - September 24, 2018 (Sincelejo - Week 1)

So I am back on the coast in a city called Sincelejo, we are in the San Carlos Branch. My new companion is E. Gonzales from La Paz, Bolivia, he has only been out a short time. He is a good guy and he speaks really good English. He has three brothers and 2 sisters. The weather here is super hot and super humidity. My "coast" rash has returned to my body with red patches all over. My body doesn't do to good with the heat and humidity. It is so hot that I have had trouble sleeping. I did find some fans under the beds, so we got a member, Jason, in the branch to come and install them. It helps a little, but it still is super hot at night. Thank goodness I have all the ant and bug stuff you sent when I was on the coast the last time. This place has bug and ant problems also. I put down the sticky paper and it caught two mice. So anyways we are looking for a new house and we have found one that is just up the street, so hopefully we can move to it. I really do miss my last area and especially those that we were teaching and members of the ward. It was such a great area and I loved it there so much.

We did a lot of finding this week, we stop and talk to everyone, and added 23 new people to teach. One thing I like about the coast is that the people will listen to you, everybody we stop will at least listen to what we have to say, and a lot of them will let us come and teach them. It was a short week this week because Tuesday we had our district meeting, then we had a meeting with Elder Fallabella who is a General Authority Seventy, he is from Guatemala. We traveled Wednesday to Monteria, spent the night there, spent all day Thursday with him, then finally came back to Sincelejo on Friday. We have a few people that we are teaching that should be getting baptized in the next few weeks. Had some great lessons on Prophets, The Book of Mormon, and the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ. We were teaching this one group in their house, and little by little, more people kept coming into the room, we started off with 3 people and by the end there was 16 people in the room listening to the lesson. I think they just like to see a Gringo speaking Spanish. We had 7 investigators at church on Sunday which was good since we weren't in our area a lot this week.

Love you all,
Chao
Elder Moore

My furry friends that I caught

The Colombian sombrero vueltiao

E. Tapia and I in Sampues