August 29, 2011

Family,

What a week! Two dates set for September 10th!! On Wednesday we set a date with XXXX, Finally!! We went over the Doctrine of Christ with him (he had heard it a few times before). But this time, when we started to read it, he said "oh yeah, I have heard this before. I know I need to do this". Then we whipped out a calender that Elder Hansen brought along and Elder Hansen said, "write in on September 10th that this is your baptism". It was an awesome lesson and it will be an awesome baptism. XXXX and his wife are great and they will be even greater when he is baptized.

So for the past few weeks a non-member, XXXXX has been coming to church and it had been impossible to set up a lesson with her. But Saturday we got a call and she invited us over for dinner. We had a great time and got to know her and her family a little bit better. Well we taught the first lesson with her yesterday at church. It was amazing! Right off the bat she started to get emotional and she accepted the date of September 10th! She has a son and a friend who want to be taught the first lesson as well, so we are going to teach them tonight. By tonight we should have two more dates set!! SO many miracles happening in our area. The Lord seems to be pouring out his blessings upon us all!!

I ate bolut this week again haha. Do you remember the duck egg? Yeah, it was nasty. I have some pics and maybe video that I can send.

This week was awesome. This will be a good way to end things. I am trying to stay as focused as I can be right now. At times it can be hard, but I can do it. It's only a few more weeks. I love you all so much!! Have a great week!!!

Love,
Elder Moore

August 22, 2011

Family,

Another week come and gone.

For us this week was just another week of missionary work. That's not a bad thing, it's a great thing! But it was just the norm of having some appointments cancel on you and others going through. Those were awesome! Also, this week we had an awesome hail storm (I will send pics).

On Friday, we had a training from President Archibald on the third lesson in Preach My Gospel. It was a really good training on how we can teach it better and more simply for people to understand and what they need to do progress towards baptism. We also got a portable DVD player for training purposes in our companionship study. It's weird having one, because for so long if you had one of those you would get in trouble. But now they gave them to us! We can only watch Church stamped movies and the Preach My Gospel DVDs. Tomorrow, we have a Mission Tour with Elder Baxter from the First Quorum of the Seventy. They are always awesome because the Spirit and the direction that we receive from it is top notch. I will tell you about it next week.

Investigator-wise this week, we met with XXXX and YYYY, our two most promising investigators. XXXX is awesome. He knows it's true and knows that he needs to be baptized, but just does not have a date yet. We are really working on that. With YYYY, it's a little more work. He needs to read and pray. The next time we meet with YYYY, we are going to eat bulot (the Duck egg from my first area). Elder Hansen has not tried it yet, so he is in for a real treat. Well that's all folks! Love and have a great week!!

THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!!!

Love,
Elder Moore

August 15, 2011

Family,

Things are going well, this week went by really fast! We had some good lessons with our investigators OO and JJ. With OO we are so close to setting a baptismal date. He knows it's true but needs to take the step of faith and get baptized. He is way solid and going over there is a lot of fun. It makes our week, for sure. With JJ, he is not reading right now, but is coming to church, which is good. But he also needs to take that step of faith, it's almost as if he might not want to have to deal with all the commitment that comes along with joining.

We have a Mission Tour coming up next week and Elder Baxter from the Seventy is coming to the Mission to make sure we are all in line haha. It will be fun. We also have a specialized training this week on the third lesson. We have improved our teaching in this mission so much.

Elder Hansen and I are doing great, I'm trying not to make him to trunky in "Killing me off". He is doing good though no worries.

I don't have my camera this week.....sorry. but I will send off some pics next week. I love you all and have a great week!!!

Love,

Elder Moore

August 9, 2011

Family,

Looks like I'm sticking around for my last transfer and Elder Hansen is going to kill me off haha. That poor guy. It will be a good transfer and I'm excited to have this be my last area.

Well we had a decent week and we made some awesome progress with our investigator Oxxxx. He knows its true and he knows he needs to be baptized. The lesson that we taught him was definitely an inspired lesson. In our previous lesson we walked out of it feeling like we need to go over the baptismal interview questions and we did for this lesson and it was awesome. He will hopefully be in the waters in the next couple weeks. We had a great opportunity this week to be in the circle for the baby blessing of Josel's daughter. As for our other investigators, we have not been able to meet with XXX.

Well I love you guys so much and I will see you in 6 weeks!!!


Elder Moore

August 2, 2011

Howdy y'all

Well another week come and gone and pretty much a transfer come and gone, and it's crazy how fast it has gone. We had a good week, the unfortunate part is that most of our investigators were either out of town or they just flaked out of their appointments. On the plus side the weather has been really nice and is supposed to be be nice for the next week.

So yesterday we got to go to the Calgary tower and we had lunch to the restaurant up there and it spins like the Compass room and the food was bomb. I will send pictures next week. I have to run I love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week!!

Love
Elder Moore

July 25, 2011

Family,

We had a good week! We picked up a new investigator named XXXX from Ethiopia. He is way solid, wants to be baptized, and has a willingness to learn and read and come to church. Things are good here and work is happening. Besides teaching XXXX it was kind of a slow week and we kinda hope this week turns out the miracles. Dan was a miracle for sure and it will be sweet to work with him.

The weather this last week turned cold and rainy. Today is supposed to be alright but not that great. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

Love
Elder Moore

July 18, 2011

22 months!!! Crazy how time flies!! We had a good week! Stampede is over and Calgary is now going back to normal life. We meet with a few of our gators this week and we also have a few that are struggling. Downtown this past week was a little nuts because it was stampede. The actual Stampede grounds were in my area this year, so it was busy all week down here. We were not allowed to go to the Stampede, but we did go to the Stampede breakfasts and BBQ's around our area.

Investigator-wise, we had a good and bad week. We had a couple drop lessons and also we have one going off the deep end. XXXX is the one going off the deep end. She is the one who had set her own baptismal date for the 28th of June, but didn't stop smoking. She was still reading and doing fine, then she went MIA again and we have not been able to get a hold of her at all. On a lighter side of things we do have a couple investigators XXXX and XXXX who are awesome, but they need to exercise their faith a little bit.

We had interviews this week and they were awesome, this is my last interview with President Archibald until I have my departing interview with him. Again, crazy how time flies. He told me it will be over before I know and I need to act like it,s not going to happen till it happens.

Today for Pday we went and golfed 18 at a really nice course owned by members. They let us go for free! Clubs, carts and balls all for free, it was one of the best Pdays on the mission. I will attach some pics with this email.

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

Love,

Elder Moore