April 25, 2011

Family,

Another week come and gone.... We had a good week...we picked up a new investigator named X. He is a nice guy who wants to know a little bit more about life. We taught him the first part of lesson one, focusing on God and Jesus Christ, and then we gave him a blessing because he has not been doing great healthwise. He was tearing up when we where done and felt the Spirit very strong. It was a cool experience seeing the Spirit work through someone. Our other investigator and her four kids came to church this week again! We are working towards baptism on the 30th of April. She can't smoke from now until then for her to get baptized. Also, this week we got some referrals that seem pretty solid. Most are part-member families, and those are usually pretty good contacts.

We had a good Easter dinner. What made it even better was that there was a non-member and a less active that joined us. The less active asked for a Book of Mormon because she didn't have one, but the non-member boyfriend was not interested at all.

The weather is finally warming up!! I hope this lasts until I go home and we don't get any more snow. But I wouldn't doubt it if we got at least one more big snow storm. Also this week we went on 24-hour exchanges (we just barely got these back. We were doing only day exchanges before.) I went to Magrath with Elder Hatfield from Mesa, AZ. It was a good exchange we helped an investigator with some service cleaning some stuff up and taught them a lesson. It was a good week! This week we have a lot going on with investigators, more exchanges, and a training in Lethbridge on Friday. Well I love you all so much! Have a great week!!

Love,
Elder Moore

April 19, 2011

Family,

Yesterday, we as a mission had an awesome experience to have Elder Richard G Scott speak to us in Calgary. Everyone south of Calgary got on a bus at 6am to get there by 8. It was a long day, but an amazing one, nonetheless. Elder Scott's main instruction for us was about helping our investigators attain greater faith in Jesus Christ through the Book of Mormon. Also he told us when we get home we need to get married and it needs to be our #1 priority haha. Then for the rest of the time he opened it up to questions. Most of the questions were on how can we help the investigator and we got some awesome insight from some of his answers. The best part about it all was his testimony of Jesus Christ. He truly is a witness that the Savior lives. After the meeting and the two hour bus ride to Lethbridge, we went and stopped by to see Troy Leavitt in my old area in the Bridge. It was sweet. We ate lunch with him and caught up. It was awesome to be able to do that.

Teaching-wise this last week we set a baptismal date for X and her kids for April 30th. We are trying to help her stop smoking, that is really the only thing holding back the baptism. She knows that the Gospel is true. It's awesome to see her testimony grow, we just have to get rid of those cancer sticks. We also got her and her kids to come the church.

This week we have been meeting with the Bishops and the Ward Mission Leaders to try to get everyone on the same page on what needs to be done and see how we can help them and further missionary work in the area.

Golfing last week was a joke. haha. I was terrible! That's what you get when you have not played in 18 months. That was my week! I love you all and miss ya tons! Have a great week.

Elder Moore

April 11, 2011

Greetings from the Raymond Public Golf Course!! Yes! The weather is warm enough so we can go golfing on PDAY ! We are going this afternoon and I'm stoked!

I have a new comp Elder Murphy from Atlanta, Georgia and he has been out 21 months. We are going to tear it up here in Raymond! We are trying to get all of the Ward Mission Leaders and Bishops on the same page and get the "Perry Plan" moving forward in the stake. Once that starts happening, things will get even better here. Raymond is a great place it's about 70% to 75% LDS. People call Southern Alberta "Northern Utah" sometimes because the small towns are mostly LDS. We get treated really well in Raymond. The members are great people and missionary-minded.

Investigator-wise it has kinda slowed down over the past two weeks, but that is going to change here really soon. We got four solid referrals yesterday at church and some really good potentials as well.

Also, this last week I had the opportunity to go to the temple two days in a row. Elder Murphy had a convert go through to get his endowments and he was his escort, so we got to talk with the Temple President and he answered questions we had. I also got to go last P-day with E. Reese before he left. The Cardston Temple is amazing. Well I will have lots to write about next week with Elder Richard G. Scott coming to speak to our mission! And also we have interviews with President Archibald this Wednesday. I love you guys so much and hope you all have great week!

Love,
Elder Moore

April 5, 2011

Another trasnfer come and gone.........

Sorry I missed last week's blogpost and this one is going to have to be a short one. We just got back from the Temple and now my comp needs to say bye to a lot of people since he has been transferred to a different area.

As missionaries we love General Conference! It's an awesome experience and you get to take in the Spirit. A lot of great messages that we will use when we teach people. One of my favorites was Elder Bednar's talk on receiving revelation. His analogy about turning on a light stitch and having the sunrise and how the difference between the two is quite different. We won't always have a light switch experience.

Workwise this last week was pretty cool and interesting. We had an awesome experience with a less active, he has been less active for a long long time and now he want to turn things around and baptize his daughter! We also had a non-member call us up and wants to start hearing from us. haha That was pretty cool.

I wish I had more time! We had a lot of cool stuff happen this last week. I love you guys so much! Have a great week!

Love,
Elder Moore