Monday, April 20, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
April 13th, 2015
Dear Family and Friends,
This week has been awesome and so productive. I love being out in the middle of no where on the outskirts of the city. The people have so much more time and they listen to us and come to church! We have such great success here and it is so incredibly rewarding and I am so happy to see the fruits of our labors. It´s really just great here. My companion Elder Gehring recently turned 19 so we had a great birthday party for him too. Sad thing is I made him brownies with frosting but this oven is apparently way better than all my past ones and cooked twice as fast so it burned :( But still tasty with frosting and milk! But members gave us cake too and a tie for him and then we taught an English class which is way fun. This coming Saturday we will be in charge of a ward activity and are going to watch meet the Mormons on the stake center`s big screen! So it will be awesome. So excited to finally see the whole thing. But the investigators are doing well, activities are great, English class is great and in a week and one day an apostle is coming to the mission and is going to talk to the both missions here in Uruguay. So big things for these next two weeks! I am very excited! But other than that, not much to say. Not too many weird stories like before, just a nice constant peace. Not always, but generally calm and smooth going. That is the atmosphere out here in the wild! Only funny thing is we left the window open on our fourth floor apartment building and pigeons came in and pooped all over my companions stuff on his birthday which was hilarious and sad. Good times and memories though! Love you all! Talk to you all soon!
Elder Moss
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Mar 29th, 2015
Dear Family and Friends,
I have arrived! I was in all three zones of Montevideo and now I am in the zone farthest away and my area is made up of wide spaced houses, cows, horses, sheep, chicken, stray dogs and cats and tons of Gauchos(Cowboys).It is called the city of Melo and I am on the outskirts of the city. It is so cool because these people are a million times more friendly than they were in Montevideo. I don´t know what I did to deserve to stay in Montevideo for so long but now I am super close to the border of Brasil and their food is so much better and cheaper. I can buy most everything for prices I would pay in America. I can buy 4 gigantic pastries in the morning for a dollar and 2 liters of soda for a dollar instead of 3 like in Montevideo. Everything is super cheap, the people are incredible and want to talk to us, and the ward is actually huge and strong. So I have been blessed. We are never just stuck wondering around for hours like I was in Montevideo and we always have a full schedule to fill. We had huge success with several investigators coming to church unlike the rest of my mission and they have sincere desires to learn. The only problem is that the ratio of married couples to couples that just live together is like 1:500 and no one wants to spend money on marriage and whatever else. But that is what teaching by the spirit is for to convince them of the truth and help them change.
I have also been called to be a district leader out here which has been way fun because now I can do all the things that I wanted in a district leader before. So I plan on doing the best I can to love and serve them instead of correcting like I have seen before. I still get corrected a lot by the zone leaders that I live with but oh well. They are just better people than me and more dedicated. They are super dedicated to the work it is kind of scary sometimes. They don´t even talk about anything from the past, correct when you use the slightest slang and they are always studying. It is a little too much for me but at least it is a good house and I can learn a lot from them. I don´t really know what I think about it.
But anyways! My comp is way cool too and literally the most good looking Elder in the mission. But he is a super cool guy. He is from Logan Utah and a great worker and we are decently similar in likes and attitude.
We haven´t taken any good pictures but here is one we took right before we came here to write home.
So overall, I am still really quite busy with the new responsibilites but life is well. I hope life is well for the rest of you and enjoy the photos of me saying good bye to really good friends and a picture of all the financiers that are still in the mission. It is in chronological order of who has been a financier.
Love you and talk to you soon!
Elder Moss
Saturday, March 14, 2015
March 14th, 2015
Dear Family and Friends,
This week has been awesome but also kind of nuts. I got another ingrown toenail three weeks ago and in that time it grew very weird and I got a super bad infection. So that was not fun. I had to take antibiotics first to get the infection to calm down and then they removed it surgically again. Not fun, quite bloody and painful but oh well. Just a tow right? Not even cancer. Not big deal.
Other than that, i had a sweet division with an oro in my district who is super cool. He is a huge gamer from Peru and a great worker with a huge testimony and a huge heart. He is so humble which was a nice break from the past 11 weeks. haha
What is sad though is that all my mission friends are going home really soon. Within the next three weeks almost all my friends go home and the majority of them in a week and a half.
With that I also leave this area and leave for who knows where. I still won´t know next saturday but I might know my replacement by then and all that . Huge changes are coming! We'll see how they go. But overall a normal week.
We have Stake conference today and tomorrow and then the week of preparation for changes and then poof, I disappear. It should be good. I am sorry, I don´t have much to say this week. Just trying to prepare everything for heading out and finish all my work before I head out! Love you guys!
Elder Moss
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