October 25, 2010

This is a picture of our zone with Elder and Sis. Zivic and President and Sis. Archibald.

Well the first week is down in my new area in Medicine Hat. It is a nice place of about 50,000 people. We also cover a small town called Bow Island (which is the home of Spitz Seeds and also is the bean capital of the west haha). It has about 1,500 people and is a place where everybody knows each other. We have a few investigators out there and we are hoping to meet with them this next week. The hard thing is we have to find rides. It is a 45 minute drive from Medicine Hat. My new comp, Elder Stevens, is from Oakley, UT and has been out about 14 months. He came out here a transfer ahead of me. He is a cool kid and we are working hard and having fun. This area is about to take off, there is a lot of potential here. In the five days I have been here we have already picked up a new investigator, X, who was a former investigator and had been taught a few years back. She turned down the firm invitation, but said she wouldn't mind being baptized. She has been baptized in three different churches but didn't feel any different after. She also has a concern of going to church and wants to just worship herself. It will take some work to answer her concerns. She is pretty stubborn, haha.

Glad you guys had fun in San Diego this last weekend. So I got my suit (it fits) and the shoes too. Thank you so much! My blue suit was pretty much done. Sweet that Perry beat Skyline! Bummer about the Cards and ASU.

Well I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Moore

October 19, 2010

Hey all!! Well I don't have very much time to write this week, but we had a very good week. We set a baptism date with a kid on Sunday!!! Too bad I won't be here to see it through, because I'm being transferred to Medicine Hat (2nd Ward) and Bow Island area. My new comp will be Elder Stevens. I don't know him, but I have heard good things so it should be fun. So back to the date that we set. We went into the lesson just expecting to teach the less active mom, but the kid wants to be baptized!!!!

Thanksgiving was fun - we played football!! Well sorry to make this so short, but I love you all so much and will tell ya lots next Monday!!!!

Love ya,

Elder Moore

October 12, 2010

Well things this last week were pretty good. We again seemed to have a lot of appointments fall through on us. We taught a few less actives and members and had some good 7-day challenges. On Thursday, we had interviews which were really good. We are now driving a 2008 Chevy Colorado truck haha. It is sweet! We won the clean car award for our zone and took the truck from the Zone Leaders ha.

We did pick up a new investigator on Monday. We had to cut P-day short in order to teach her, so we taught her the first three principles of the first lesson. She loved to talk haha. The Spirit was way strong. It was amazing and she did recognize it. We gave her a firm but she said no because she was already baptized. We didn't have a lot of time because we had another appointment. We set up a return appointment for Saturday and I know it will be awesome. Later on Monday night, we had a lesson with a less active named X and it was awesome. The Spirit was very strong. We taught her about faith and the atonement. It was a good lesson.

About Elder Dana (Elder Moore's second cousin). Haha. Yeah I just saw him today at the mission office. He is serving with Elder Dastrup (Elder Moore's old companion) right now in Airdrie which is just north of Calgary.

Glad to hear about Connor's game, that is sweet (Perry defeated Marcos 23-17). It is also awesome to hear the Cardinals beat the defending champs!!

Well, I'm going to run. I love you all and hope you had a great week!!!!

Love,

Elder Moore

October 4, 2010

Well this week was good but it fell apart on us. We had a lot of investigator lessons and less actives set up to start our week. All of our investigator lessons fell through, but we still taught a couple of less active families which is good. This week we are looking to rebound.


Conference was amazing. Pres. Uchtdorf's talk on pride was really good and it truly is the "gateway sin". This is very true on a mission. Any time we don't follow a rule it is because we are being prideful and not following the will of the Lord. President Monson's talk in Priesthood session was good as well. Our district got together and watched conference at the stake center. Conference weekend is very chill for us missionaries. It is a nice break in the action.


So last night, H (the lady we were teaching before the area go switched up) got baptized along with her daughter, S. It was so cool to be able to see them enter into the waters.


Bummer about Perry losing. I can't believe Chaparral is that good. Are they 5A-1 or 5A-2? Glad Conzo played well. Tell him to keep bustin' heads out there. ASU stinks...what's new? haha. Same with the Cards. I'm glad I'm not there to see the slaughters. Heard BYU lost to Utah St. That is a sad, sad loss for them.


Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!!


Love,
Elder Moore