December 27, 2011: HOla

Well It was such a blast to talk to you all on Christmas! I hope you all had such a FANTASTIC Christmas! I love you all so much. Dont worry mom the phone call didnt make me homesick. It was a good talk but a little too short. I loved it though! Thanks for everything aswell. Good call on the tuna because thats all I have been eating lately. I found out thats a great meal for me at night tuna out of the can.. haha I love it! Everything is perfect! I think tonight Ima cook us some mashed patatoes with chicken and gravy so that will be good! Well This past week was great in the work of the Lord we found some great new investigators that will hopefully progress! I love to find new investigators. Those who search, find. Those who find, teach. Those who teach, Baptize! Gotta do all of the steps and the Lord will bless us! Well Im still eating tamales for lunch and dinner so Im still not over the tamale rage but thats okay I think I can do It! Just good be diligent in my tamale eating! haha At times I think im too nice and always say yes to seconds and fouths when I really want to say no! haha Well I love you all and hope you all are doing well! Have a Happy new year!!! 2012 here we come! End of the world!! WOW that came fast.... Well I love you all and love dads pedicure!! HAHA Well I love this work and I love the Lord. Thank you all for you love and prayers! I really feel like im a loved missionary! Thanks for everything! And lucky jeremiah got to skype I dont think we will ever skype. Equador is probably rich. haha WEll Much love and prayers! thanks for everything! Sorry this is so short! I always forget things i want to say in my letters but I just read a joke on my laughy tafy rapper Id like to share.... What washes up on small beaches.......................................................... microwaves... I had a good laugh.. hope you all do too! 

Love 

Elder Moon

December 20, 2011: Hello

Merry Merry Christmas! WOW how time flies? I know right.. Well it will be a weird one without the Family! But HEY! no Big Deal! Ill just be here in Guatemala with my Guatemalan companion and families! Good ol Navidad you betcha! Well My companion gets more and more baggy every day. Baggy or Trunky or whatever you call it. Ask the boys Im sure they know the mission terms. Its been kind of rough for me not going to lie! But I love the Challenge. Love this work! We have goals as a mission to baptize 204 souls in January Mosiah 18:16 And right now we just had 3 baptismal dates fall! Its a little frustrating. But Its okay. We gotta just keep doing our best and the Lord will bless! Well I sure do love my family! I hope you all are doing wonderful! Thanks for the pictures Jake and Michelle! Britton looks like a baller in his jersey. Brynlee bear is GORGEOUS! Good work Team! My nieces and nephews are just angels and I wish I could just squeeze them all! I have a good story to tell about some of my letters that I received so remind me to tell you story about the letters in case I forget when we talk on the phone haha. Its great. Thanks for being the greatest family ever! I hope that you all know how much I love you! My testimony of this work and this gospel grows more and more each day! It can not be shaken either. Its been tried by some great Guatemalan preachers but even they dont stand a chance! haha Well Happy holidays to all and I sent some letters home so let me know if you get them! I sure hope so. But you never know with this mail service. WELP love you all and Pray for you all daily! oh yeah real quick. my comp and I were a part of a Families gift exchange we drew names and all that Jazz it was pretty great! I love that family. Family Gonzales is their name and this saturday we will be with them helping them cook tamales and all the Guatemalan food for Christmas so that will be fun. Saturday here is when they feast and we have like 5 feast invitations and so I will be really fat by sunday! haha LOVE YOU ALL!!!! HO HO HO n stufff! 

Loves from Santa

Elder Moon tambien

December 13, 2011: YAY

YAY!!! New BABY GIRL!! Happy Birthday!! WOOO What a surprise! That is super great! She looks super cute and chubby! Love her already! What a Cutie.. I am proud to be an Uncle again haha WOWZERS... Cute little Brynlee.. Well that just made my week! I am so happy! Well I hope all is well with everyone! Jake and Michelle Congrats I hope she is wonderful and Britton be nice! haha 

 Well the mission is super great! I love it! Changes are on wednesday and Im staying with my companion of course. So it will be a great change with him. If I can get him to work a little harder! And I can! It will be great! I feel bad I meant to say Happy Anniversary two weeks ago to mom and dad but I forget things some times. Well for the Christmas call I can do it the 24th or the 25th and you can help me decide! I dont know which will be better... or when. But the day of my companion can call you and tell you when i will call.. or I can cause he doesnt speak english. So let me know next week and I will call the day of to confirm! I am super excited. I am going to ask president this week if I will be able to call Jake and Michelle and talk for atleast 10 minutes or something but we will see. I hope everyone is having a great Christmas season. Jake and Michelle already got their present and more so thats super great! I wanted to send a Christmas card and photo home but I live too far from the foto place so I was a little bummed but thats okay maybe next year.. haha It seems like people arent even getting my letters anyway. and Ive been told that people have sent me letters but I havent gotten them. So thats kind of sad. But oh well.

 There is a girl in my district that goes home this week. She is from Equador and her brother is serving in the same mission as Jeremiah so she is taking a letter for me to send to him through the package she is going to send to her brother. So that will be great! hopefully he gets it! Well I love this work and I love all of you! I hope the new baby is just wonderful she looks it already! Great to have pictures. Thanks for everything and I love you ALL!!

MUCH LOVE AND PRAYERS FROM GUATEMALA

Elder Moon

PS I sent the picture of zach and I kissing to Jeremiah cause I didnt have any others to send. He will have a great laugh... LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLL

My district. I had to sit in the chair cause i was too tall... haha 

December 5, 2011: GO JAZZ..

Hey Fam

Well this past super P'day Christmas was AMAZING. It was really just wonderful! Our zone was with two different zones and then President and his wife and daughter. We started off the day (monday) having to wake up really early to get to the capital by 9. When we got there we got our service assignments. I got luck and just painted a little appartment. It was fun and great to get some painting in. haha At 1 We went back to the stake center to eat a little McDonalds and then we played games and just had fun for a bit. at like 5 we got dressed into our mission clothes and ate dinner. It was great food! some nice carne asada n stuff, Chapìn style.. after we started our fast. We all fasted so that we can achieve our goal of the month of january. Our goal is to have 204 baptisms in that month. After that we had a devotional. It was really great! First watched a movie called 17 Miracles. It was a really great movie. If you havent seen it you probably should and perhaps with the ward dad. Its really great movie. Its about the pioneers. The Willie hand cart company. Its a real tear jerker. I dont think there was an eye dry during that movie. It was great. It really brought the spirit. After Hermana Brough bore her testimony in which her spanish is getting really good! I love it! After President talked about Christmas and alot about Jesus Christ and how we need to remember the mission of Jesus Christ at Christmas not only the birth. And about the things he suffered for us. and how he really felt everything we go through. It really made me realize I can do a lot more. In that movie its crazy to see all the thing they suffered. We really have it good as members in these days. At times I feel like things are hard for me. When compared to the pioneers I dont have anything hard. And really I need to always have our Savior on my mind and everything he did for us. At times we forget about him. Still do the things we should but days pass without even thinking about the things we have because of him or the things he did for us. It was really an amazing night. We then topped it off this morning with going to the temple. It was a great 2 day event. Now its time to take the spirit that we have right now and go and work! I love this gospel and I love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I hope we can really focus on Him this year for Christmas and have the true happiness Christmas can bring! I love my family so much and I love this Gospel. Everything we have is because of this Gospel and we need to give everything we have back. I love this work! Being a missionary.. there isnt a better calling in the church. Love you all. and Jingle Bells n stuff.. I sure miss the cold in this season. I dont how jake does it. LOVES and PRAYERS from GUATEMALA.. ;)

Love 

Elder Moonnn

November 28, 2011: Hello

Family,

Hola como estan? MUY BIEN...First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SISTER JULIE ANN! I hope it was all you ever wanted and more! I hope you know I love you soooo much and hope my letter gets to you. I sent it to home. Sooo get it from mom and dad! YAY! Well I love you all and sounds like your thanksgiving was really great? haha with sickness... And some family. ;) Cool beans! I had a good Thanksgiving my comp and I ordered Pizza and I made us some mashedpatatoes they were good but just didnt mix well with pizza. I can tell you what I really missed was STUFFING!! Mmm I love stuffing perhaps next year. haha Another thing I missed alot.. Playing football. Good ol turkey bowl and well I just miss Football. The real kind non of this Football fake kind the one you play with your foot haha. Well I love the mission. Also there is been some changes to our P'day. P'day has been changed to Monday. So we will now be writing every tuesday. So that will be a little different but maybe some more time for you all to write me more! haha Too bad to hear about everyone being sick! Sounds like Beckham did work... Atta babe Ham.. ;) Good to hear Grandma is doing well! Shes a warrior we all already know that. Nothing can phase her! HAH Well this Change has gone by really fast we are already in semana 5 so gotta keep working hard. This might be my first change with out a baptism.. Thats too bad but when I came I had nothing to work with! We had no investigators and still have few but thats okay we are going to have a great next change! My companion is counting the days til he goes home so hes not wanting to work more and more everyday but im going to push him hard! I think hes starting to get mad at me a bit but thats okay NO BIG DEAL! This next week we have our Christmas, two day, P'day! It should be fun. Monday we have service project in the morning after is just a couple hours of playing sports n stuff. After we have a feast and President said a spiritual devotional that we will never forget! We all think Someone is coming like Pres. Uchtdorf because the temple dedication is so close. Im really excited to see what it is. It should be great But I love you all and hope you all are doing well! I love this Gospel and I am so lucky to be able to teach people this perfect gospel! I am also so lucky to have such a great loving family! I love my family so much and love this work. Serving as a full time missionary my testimony has grown ALOT! It will continue to grow each day! The blessings I have in my life right now are tremendous! I love you all and miss you all too! MUCH LOVE and MANY PRAYERS FROM THIS GUY... 

Con Amor

Elder Moon

Purè da papa y Purple drink in my cup.

Guapo Guapo Guapo..

Thanksgiving dinner

Lago Atitlan.. Guate is amazing yeah I know... We went two weeks ago for Pday with the zone