Sunday, June 30, 2019
Coming Home
In one week this boy returns home a young man. It has been great to see his growth spiritually and intellectually and reversing his growth physically (he lost a lot of weight). So well pleased in him and his decision to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He has been a great instrument in helping find the lost sheep and returning them to the sheepfold. He has definitely help change the lives of many for the better. He returns July 11, if you would like to hear of his journey these last two years he will be speaking on Sunday July 14 at 10:30 am at the Sarival Church building, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Google Local
Monday, October 1, 2018
Week 62 - October 1, 2018 (Sincelejo - Week 2)
So I have been in Sincelejo for two hot weeks. The good news I got was that Marcela and her two daughters were baptized this week in my last area, so I am so excited that happened. We have been working really hard here in Sincelejo, we found 23 new people to teach, we committed 10 more people to baptism this week, and we had 10 people come to church on Sunday. The funny story for the week was we contacted a guy that was drunk, or should I say he contacted us. He is actually a good guy that wants to change his life for him and his family. Another cool story is we started to teach this one girl that has been coming to church for a while, and we found out that she was not a member, and that she wants to be baptized. She is only 10 years old so we will have to get her parents permission. We have been teaching another lady, Johannes, and her two daughters, Daisy and Maria. They all came to church on Sunday, and we have taught them a couple of lessons. We started off teaching a lesson with 6 people and then ended up with 25 people in the lesson. We have been teaching some really good families and we have had some good lessons with them, we watched the restoration video with them also, and it was awesome. We also are teaching Ivan, he is the half-brother of a missionary that just came home for a little while that is serving in Buenos Aires. He brought him to church and then we started teaching him and set a date with him. We also taught a young man named Brian, who actually came to church all by himself. It took us a while to find his house, but we are teaching him and his mother, it is great. We also taught this couple from Venezuela, and she wants to be baptized, only problem is that they are not married, and they would have to go back to Venezuela to get the documents, and they don't have the money. I finally met Jennifer and we taught her and she accepted a baptismal date. It has been a very busy hard working week, with lots of success.
This week I also had a little issue in our house. I was sleeping and it was raining a lot outside, and then I started to feel wetness on my bed and something dripping on me. I realized that our roof was leaking, so I got up and moved my bed. Then it started dripping on the floor, so I got a bucket to catch the water. Then I was trying to feel where the water was coming from and the ceiling fan cut open my arm. I cleaned it up and then went back to sleep in my wet bed. We also went to the police station to do my immigration paperwork, we have to do it every few months. One little cool experience this week was that I lost my agenda book in a cab. The next day the cab driver found us and he had my agenda book and gave it to me.
Love you all!
Elder Moore
This week I also had a little issue in our house. I was sleeping and it was raining a lot outside, and then I started to feel wetness on my bed and something dripping on me. I realized that our roof was leaking, so I got up and moved my bed. Then it started dripping on the floor, so I got a bucket to catch the water. Then I was trying to feel where the water was coming from and the ceiling fan cut open my arm. I cleaned it up and then went back to sleep in my wet bed. We also went to the police station to do my immigration paperwork, we have to do it every few months. One little cool experience this week was that I lost my agenda book in a cab. The next day the cab driver found us and he had my agenda book and gave it to me.
Love you all!
Elder Moore
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| The fan cut me open today |
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| You can see I am a Colombian Paisa! |
Monday, September 24, 2018
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
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
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| My furry friends that I caught |
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| The Colombian sombrero vueltiao |
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| E. Tapia and I in Sampues |
Monday, August 6, 2018
Week 54 - August 6, 2018 (Rionegro - Week 6)
OK Family, its going to be a short email since it is transfer week. I am currently in Medellin to pick up my companion, Elder Quispia from Bolivia, and I don't have my camera or audio recorder. It was a busy week with lots of traveling. I have realized that a lot of missionary work is just opening your mouth. I have no problem opening my mouth, whether that is eating or talking to people. We do lots of contacting people as we walk from appointment to appointment or anytime we are traveling. Keeping a rough estimate, I know we contacted over a 100 people this week, 60 of them said we could come to their house, out of that 10 of them actually came to church. I know a lot of people just like to talk to me because I'm an american. So I just talk to everyone. Even when we are on the bus, I will start talking to people, I realize as we open our mouth and invite others we will find those that are wanting to know more.
The hi-light of the week was the baptism of Alejandro's family. Alejandro is a member and we have been teaching his wife and two daughters for awhile. Well Saturday the three of the them were baptized. They are an awesome family, and will be going to the temple in a year. I was asked to confirm them, so I was a little nervous since it was my first time doing the confirmation. They are awesome and always feed us on Sundays. They are a strong family, Alejandro wants to sell his business so they can move closer to the church, he is awesome and it going to have so many blessings.
We have also been teaching a young man named Mitchell. He is awesome and wants to be baptized, and event though he is like 20 years old he wants to get the OK from his mom to be baptized. He is the one that took us to "Piedra de Peñol" the first week I was here. He is awesome and will be baptized soon.
Another thing that happened that was really cool, was we saw this white guy that we could tell was a Gringo, and he was trying to get a room in this hotel. I go over to help him out since he doesn't speak Spanish and get him signed int the Hotel. Anyways we find out that his traveling around South America on his giant motorbike. He asks if we are hungry, and of course we always are, so we go across the street and he buys us some huge bandeja paisas. We find out he was a bishop, he wanted to do this trip like 6 years ago, but he was called as a bishop so he had to wait till now to travel. He is a great guy and told us about all his kids and where they served missions at.
Well that's all for this week!
Os Amo a todos,
Elder Moore
The hi-light of the week was the baptism of Alejandro's family. Alejandro is a member and we have been teaching his wife and two daughters for awhile. Well Saturday the three of the them were baptized. They are an awesome family, and will be going to the temple in a year. I was asked to confirm them, so I was a little nervous since it was my first time doing the confirmation. They are awesome and always feed us on Sundays. They are a strong family, Alejandro wants to sell his business so they can move closer to the church, he is awesome and it going to have so many blessings.
We have also been teaching a young man named Mitchell. He is awesome and wants to be baptized, and event though he is like 20 years old he wants to get the OK from his mom to be baptized. He is the one that took us to "Piedra de Peñol" the first week I was here. He is awesome and will be baptized soon.
Another thing that happened that was really cool, was we saw this white guy that we could tell was a Gringo, and he was trying to get a room in this hotel. I go over to help him out since he doesn't speak Spanish and get him signed int the Hotel. Anyways we find out that his traveling around South America on his giant motorbike. He asks if we are hungry, and of course we always are, so we go across the street and he buys us some huge bandeja paisas. We find out he was a bishop, he wanted to do this trip like 6 years ago, but he was called as a bishop so he had to wait till now to travel. He is a great guy and told us about all his kids and where they served missions at.
Well that's all for this week!
Os Amo a todos,
Elder Moore
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| The Gringo bishop we met and he took us out to dinner |
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| Mitchell with us at "Piedra Penol" |
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| At the top of the "Rock" looking out at Guatapé |
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| Lunch at Alejandro's house |
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| Awesome lunch |
Monday, July 2, 2018
Week 49 - July 2, 2018 (Rionegro - Week 1)
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
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
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| Baptism of Santiago |
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| Traveling to "El Penol" |
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| On top of "The Rock" |
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