December 20, 2010

Family,

This last week was awesome! We picked up a new investigator and got two less actives that haven't been to church in a while to come!! So first about the new investigator, his name is X and has a wife who hasn't come to church in a long time. We found them a few weeks back by just calling people on the ward list and since we didn't know her so we gave them a ring. She said it was cool if we came over, so we set a time, but she forgot so it didn't happen. Last Sunday we felt like we should stop by and they let us in. We got to know them a little bit and came back on Tuesday and taught a little bit about Christ and then we asked him if he wanted to hear the discussions and he said "yes". Cause of this being Christmas week, we won't be able to meet with them until next week. Also we had our ward Christmas party and they came to it!! It was sweet because we have built some trust with them and they also got to meet people in the ward.

Another less active member and his wife hadn't been to church for almost six weeks, if not a little more ( he got baptized on the 17th of October). We hadn't been able to reach them and his mom got really sick. So they came over to a member's house for dinner. It was at the Elders Quorum president's house, along with the ward mission leader and his wife. After the dinner, we taught them the first half of lesson three. We threw in keeping the Sabbath day holy and coming to church and it went really well. Saturday night we finished up lesson three and they committed to coming to church. We also talked about the Priesthood, why it was important to have it, and going to the temple. They came to church, but left after sacrament because she wasn't feeling well.

Another less active is a single guy who has lost his desire to come to church. We had been over there a couple times before, but the lessons weren't really sinking in and he didn't act on anything we invited him to do. But this last time was different we talked about the Book of Mormon and its importance. Then we set goals with him to help him progress, come to church and get him to start reading his scriptures. So far he has been doing a really good job of it, and he came to church and stayed all three hours! It was really cool. He said he is already feeling a difference throughout the day.

That is great that the home ward is having a convert baptism! Fills me with joy! (Editor's note: a wonderful young man named Chad is being baptized on Christmas day and is part of Hayden's home ward here in Gilbert.)

I got the Christmas package. I got the shoes and the razor out, but I didn't touch anything else and won't till Saturday. So for Christmas we are eating breakfast at the Oberg's where I will be talking to you guys. Bro Oberg was our ward mission leader, but just got released. Then we are going over to the Peppers to eat dinner. It will be fun.

I love you all and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Love,

Elder Moore

December 13, 2010

Hey, hey, hey,
How are things in sunny and warm AZ? It's been a little chilly up here, but nothing too bad. It is supposed to warm up today and tomorrow. Can you believe only 12 days until I talk to ya! Crazy, crazy!

So we had a couple of cool experiences this week. The first was that a couple of nonmembers came to church and one of them is living with members to do some sort of internship to be a doctor. We might be teaching her after Christmas (she went home for the holidays). The lady I told you about last week got sick and didn't come to the church tour...hopefully we can get her to one soon. Yesterday we stopped by a less active, part member family and they let us in and were really nice. We have a lesson there tomorrow.

Glad to hear the Cardinals are doing something haha. I hear Amare is doing really well in NY. Too bad for the Suns.

I'm also glad to hear the home ward is doing so much missionary work! Tell whoever is the Ward Mission Leader (it's Br. Darron Mortenson) they are doing a great job for getting appointments.

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

December 6, 2010

December already? Nothing happened with us at transfers. I'm still with Elder Stevens. I am glad we are still comps. In our district, only Elder Harris moved. He went to Lethbridge. Elder Townsend (he's from Tucson) came in from my greeny area, Parkland ward.

This week seemed slow work-wise for us, but we have a church tour tonight with a nonmember that we met while emailing. It was pretty cool. Elder Stevens was sitting next to her and she was asking him questions about the mission. He invited her to come on a church tour and she accepted! I will give the details on how that goes next week. Also, we have a potential family that we might be teaching. We go the referral for the zone leaders. Their investigator brought a friend to the lesson and when they asked both to be baptized he said that he wants his family to learn with him first. Hopefully we can teach him soon.

So this week we finally got our own car for the area! We were in a car share before where we switched off every Monday. The weeks we didn't have the car seemed to really slow us down especially during the winter when it is so hard to get around. It's a brand new 2011 silver Malibu - nice car. Also this last Saturday we moved into a new place. We are in the basement of Br. Stewart who is an eye doctor in town. We share his kitchen and we have an elliptical and Bowflex to work out on. It's sick. haha. We lived with a really nice family in our last place.

I heard about the ASU win! That is so sick! I also heard that the Cardinals stunk it up again. Wow, they just need t0 lose the rest of their games so they can get a top draft pick. That is sick that Connor got a call from Southern Virginia. Is that a D1 or D2 school? He should try for the ASU football team haha.

Well I love you all and hope you have a great week and enjoy the warmth. Ha!

Love,
Elder Moore