Family,
My Last Email as a Missionary......
Just a quick note on our area and what happened this week. This was a week of me saying good bye and getting ready to head out. Yesterday we found out that Elder Hansen is getting transferred to BC, so it will be a brand new set of missionaries in this area. He and some of the members are kind of bummed that both of us are gone.

Man, this last week went by soooo fast!!! My mission went by sooo fast!!!

This Church is TRUE!!!! Over the course of these two years, I have had experiences to where I cannot deny the truthfulness of this Gospel. I will miss this work. I will miss the special spirit that a Mission brings. Just recently, teaching S, J, and O, I have come to fully realize that the Gospel works miracles in peoples' lives and that the light and direction that it brings is truly amazing. Another truth that has been close to my heart is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real and it the best gift that has been given to us in our lives. We as a mission have been studying the Atonement and have been putting a focus on it in our studies and man you can go on forever learning about the Atonement and trying to understand the full measure that it can have in our lives. Did I say that a mission is AMAZING?? Because it is! This is what I needed and it is what every worthy and able young man needs to do! It helped me grow in ways that would not have happened unless I went on a mission. I know that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God and the fullness of the everlasting Gospel was restored through him. I know that Thomas S. Monson is who leads and guides this Church today. I am so excited for General Conference, as as a missionary you gain a love for hearing the messages they share with us and I am looking forward to what will be said on the next couple weeks. Well this is my final send off! I love you all and thank you so much for all the support and love that you have given me over these two years. I will be seeing you Thursday!!!!!!!

Love,
Elder Hayden Moore

September 12, 2011

Family, What a week!! Over the weekend we had three baptisms! On Friday S and her son got baptized and then XXXX went into the water on Saturday. The confirmations took place on Sunday and they went great. XXXX became a priest right after church, so that will be good for him to be able to get involved in the ward. It was a busy week leading up to the baptisms...making sure that we taught them all the lessons and getting it all organized and ready. And that was pretty much our week. The baptisms seemed to take up most of our time. It's crazy that it has come down to my last week as a missionary...and it will be a good week. With the baptisms we have no one left in our teaching pool, so this week we are going to try and find some more people for Elder Hansen to teach next transfer. Well because we went golfing today, I don't have much time left on the computer. I love you all so much and I will see you in 10 days! Love, Elder Moore

September 6, 2011

Family,

Man you guys are TRUNKY!!! hah

Well, we had a busy week teaching and getting our investigators ready for baptism this Friday and Saturday. The baptism on Friday is going to be S and her son J, and on Saturday its going to be XXXX ( I will send pics). We just started teaching J on Saturday with his Mom.  He is just 14 and is a way smart kid. Things are going well in this area, but we need to find more people to teach because once they are baptized our teaching pool is going to be zero. ha. Teaching S&J has been such an amazing experience.  They are going through some rough times and they can already see the Gospel blessing their lives, and giving them comfort and direction. The Church is true!!!!

We as a mission have not really done much tracting by contacting people on the street, but we are trying to get out of this bad habit that we have gotten into with not talking to everyone.  That is something that the mission is pushing lately.  Not tracting per se, but making sure that we are talking to everyone. Also this last week we had a specialized training on the second lesson on how we can teach it better.  It was a great training, but the trunky part was that they had the three of us that are going home in a couple weeks stand and bear our testimonies. It has not really hit me yet that I am coming home in a couple weeks.... I guess it will at some point, so it felt weird. This is a great work and I will be sad to leave it!! My companion is keeping me in line ha and I'm trying not to "trunk" him out too bad. He has about 10 months left. Things are going great! The weather is amazing and so is the work!

I love you all and miss you and we'll be seeing you in a couple weeks!!!

Elder Moore

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