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