Okay so that night Tuesday night we taught Hannah and Kevin.
It was a really good lesson with Hannah she opened up to us a lot, we invited
her to get baptized, she said no and expressed how her family is going through
a divorce right now or I guess getting the plans ready for going through a
divorce, and all of this crazy hectic stuff that is going on in her life right
now. She just felt overwhelmed. When went and talked to Kevin and we are
teaching him tonight, um Kevin is doing really good, slowly moving along. Today
we went and taught a recent convert, Dillon, he wants us to come back and teach
him about the doctrine of Eternal marriage or the doctrine of marriage (ha ha),
it is kind of funny, it will be a fun lesson. Today Elder Salomon and I are out
tracking, today is Wednesday July 9th, we are out tracking and going
by visiting less actives and we say what we thought was a YSA down the road and
we got up and found out it wasn’t a YSA but an old lady dressed very very
inappropriately, she wasn’t like really old but she wasn’t YSA age, but still
very inappropriate and she had a Selby mustang or a cobra and her battery died
so she had to push start it, so we helped her push start it and it worked and
it was very tiring. It is like in the high 90’s today, but yum it was good and
we liked to help out and it was really cool she um wanted…we got her
information and she said we could stop by and so that was really cool and then
on our way back to our car we say another lady and we went and talked with her
and it turned out that she was a member and we got to know her a little bit and
some things that have happened in her family and we left her with a blessing
and so… it was a good simple day. We were able to see a lot of simple things
that were pretty cool. We will be having a lesson with Kevin tonight, but that
is all so far. I love you all – have a great day – love ya bye.
Hello family and friends this is Elder Moss, today is Friday
July 11th and I am sending you out this voice recording. Some things
that have happened this week; we were getting done with an exchange and I am
the driver of the car and so I don’t carry the cell phone and we were driving
along and we realized that we didn’t have the cell phone. So we thought, “Oh
shoot we need the phone!” The other elders they had our phone and they forgot
to give it back to us. We tried to chase them back down, but they had already
left and we thought, “Oh shoot where did they go?” and so we knew we had to go
to Selida – this is their main working area, because it is all Mexican (they
were a Spanish companionship). So we go to Selida and we drive around town and
Elder Salomon felt like we should go down this street, so we went down the
street and we found them. They were parked and it was super funny, they said
they didn’t know if they would have to go clear over to Oakdale or come find
you but we decided to stop. So long story short we got our phone back. It was a
crazy chase around the town and we eventually got it back so we could go work.
So the next day we had a lesson with a member in mean in the members home with
one of our investigators, Hannah. Hannah brought a friend with her and then she
became a new investigator, so it was like our investigator found us an
investigator. It was pretty awesome! We also contacted a less active out in
Scallion and her name is Dezie she is very nice she does photo shoots, but in
grave yards. She not like Gothic but she has the darker side, you know like the
black fingernails and everything. She is a very nice girl and very polite but
she has a dark side to her. Yep she is less active so we are going to try to
get her back to church. I will finish up in the next voicemail.
Okay… so, I’ve decided these voicemails are really simple
and really nice, but they are kind of weird. I just keep recording myself over
and over again. My companion is just staring at me, he is just watching me talk
to myself. (ha ha) But ah it is good! We um, there is something else that
happened that day – we found a new investigator also on the street, we went up
and talked to her. Her name is Crystal and super funny she thought I was a
model and it was so funny. She plays soccer for MJC (Modesto Junior College)
and she is so busy all of the time. She seemed really interested and we are
going to try to teach her, she plays soccer on Sunday so that will be hard for
her to come to church, but are going to find a time to get her in the gospel. –
Dang you are always tired as a missionary! It is good though, good. Today we
are finishing up district planning and we have a lesson in Escalante – Our whole
evening is packed! One of the things we are doing for finding is we are doing a
missionary movie night. Last week we watched…ah…at Amanda’s…we watched Forever
Strong. This week we will be watching Seventeen Miracles and hopefully this
will be away for members to invite there friends and we can be able to get
introduced to them. So we don’t have anyone with any baptismal dates right now.
We still have progressing investigators; Hannah, Kevin, and Sarah. We have
invited them to be baptized and they are ready to be baptized, but we are just
still trying to work with them. They are just being bums right now, but patients
are a virtue. It is one of the things we need to constantly obtain – the heavenly
virtue of patients. That is really all that is going on this week for right
now, um we’ll close up right now and I’ll send you one at the end of the week
to let you know what else has happened. OH, we caught a hornet and we caught a
black widow and we fed the hornet to the black widow, they were like fighting
and everything – it was really awesome, but that was besides the fact, it was
just a funny story that happened. Love ya.
Okay, okay, okay, so once I got off of the voice recording I
thought you might want to hear more about the story of the black widow and the
hornet. So I’m going to tell you the story… it is quite a fascinating story.
Elder Salomon and I were doing our weekly planning and Elder Salomon noticed a
flying thing outside our screen door – oh it was a big ole thing – and I said, “it
is crazy big”. I decide to open the door and a long story short the hornet came
into our apartment (ha ha) and we were fighting it off and it is going crazy,
it was so much fun. Then we caught it, we caught it alive, and a couple of
nights before…we have a prisoner, his name is Ronnie. Ronnie is a black widow,
we change his name all of the time. So Ronnie he is kept in a cup he is going
to die soon, but um we put the hornet in with the black widow and they were
like fighting and just like going at it and of course the black widow won and
now the black widow is feasting upon his dinner. It was quite the adventure and
funny, but that is what we do for fun here…you know it is totally weird! But
you’ve got to love it…and don’t worry mom I’m going to be safe! K, I love you
all so much! The mission is the best! Mission life is the best and I am
grateful to be a representative of Jesus Christ and for everything I have
learned and my character how it has changed and my eternal destiny and how I am
figuring it out more. I love you so much! Have a great week!
Alright good morning family and friends, this is Elder Moss
it is Sunday July 13th. Here is my update, so um…Friday to Sunday we
taught our investigators it was kind of fun. One of our investigators her name
is Hannah – I probably already told you this I can’t remember, there are too
many things going on. She brought one of her friends to our lessons and now
they both have baptismal dates and they will be getting baptized together. That
is really cool, they are going to be baptized on August 3rd, so keep
them in your prayers so they can reach that date that would be cool! Also
Friday we had our missionary movie night, which we had more investigators there
than members. They watched Seventeen Miracles, we just go to the first part to
introduce ourselves and then we leave. But that was kind of interesting, but
hopefully we will start to get more people to show up for that…um (what else
happened? – he asked is companion)… um, oh I guess this would be important for
you to know. We are planning on having two people to church today, Hannah and Alysia
can’t make it today. An update with Sarah her family has offered a full time
job working for her church the Lutheran church. She hasn’t got baptized because
of the Lutheran church and now her parents are offering her a full time job and
so we are going to have a lesson with her today after church, she has been
freaking out, she really wants it because she needs it, um but she doesn’t know
what to do. We have to help her hopefully the spirit will help guide us. Also,
I guess you should know that we got transfer calls… wooo! Elder Salomon he is
going to be leaving, he is moving down to Porterville, so he is going from one
part of the mission clear down to the other end of the mission. They are making
me a Zone leader again and we are opening up a new zone area it will actually
be this area, so the YSA will be a zone area again. I haven’t been a Zone
leader in a while and I am getting a new Zone leader that I will be training,
so keep me in your prayers – it will be crazy, but it will be good. Okay love
you all and have a great week!
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