February 28, 2011

Greetings from Raymond!

I feel so blessed being able to serve in Raymond at this time because this area is on fire right now! To paint a picture of how well this area is doing, we have 6 investigators that we are teaching right now and 2 of them have a baptism date for March 12th and also we have another 7 that we are going to be teaching here in the next week or so and most of them are going to be pretty solid investigators. So let me tell ya a little bit about me first few days in Raymond....

Raymond is a town of about 3,800 people and about 3,000 of them are members. w
We cover an entire stake, so we are always getting fed ha. On Sundays we go to about 8 hours of church...... ya its way long. We did the math and figured that if I stay here for 6 months I will go to about 3 years worth of church haha. Also to tell ya a little bit about my comp Elder Reese, he is from San Clemente, California and he has been out 13 months. He is a cool kid and we are going to tear it up here in Raymond.

So my first few days in Raymond were busy busy, we met with most of our investigators. The first one that we met with was A and her kids. She was supposed to be baptized this Saturday, but she can't stop smoking Now she is taking off for Montreal for three weeks. We also met with B and she is way solid, and will be baptized on the 12th of March. She needs to stop drinking coffee. She loves her coffee and I know Dad loved his too, so you got any pointers on how you stopped?? We also had some people who we haven't started teaching yet but one guy we might start teaching has read 100 pages of the Book of Mormon already. It is pretty amazing, We meet with him this next week to discuss it. There are so many things happening here in Raymond. It is amazing and the next couple weeks are going to be awesome.

So I just got an Email from the Mission and Elder D. Todd Christofferson is going to be speaking to the mission on March 12th in Calgary! That is going to be an amazing experience and we are lucky, cause we got to hear Elder Bednar the same time last year.

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

Love,

Elder Moore