May 7th, 2013: Hello

Hey family..

Well things are good. I am working hard... Hope to talk to some of yall on sunday! Welp see ya later... haha here are some pictures..

1 We went to the zoo... AGAIN!! haha.. My idea.. La Zona El Frutal
2 Our bapism of Cristal... Shes pilas!
3 Some crazy eyes at the bishops house!
4 Get ready!! When I get back we are opening a stand of Elotes locos... I love them soo much and its simple and its gonna make us rich! Whos in??? 
5 Im sure going to miss this food.. Nothin better then black beans with creme!! Oh GOODNESS!!
6 Me and my friend Mocoso
7 This time at the Zoo I came prepared with my tiger tatoo!! 

Well I love you all and I hope you enjoy the photos.. I will be workin my butt off for the last week!! How crazy it is!! I cannot believe it!! 

I will call hopefully at 230 or 300... sound good... My number is 502-XX-XX-XX-XX.. Same number I had at Christmas!! Love you all...

April 30th, 2013: Im still a missionary!!

Hola


Well I woke up this morning and thought well atleast im still a missionary!! I love being a missionary and im happy with the work that ive done!! I love this work and couldnt be happier!! This past sunday we baptized a girl named Cristal. She was a blessing from the tender mercies of the Lord! We were very happy to help her into the waters of baptism!! I dont really have time to send pictures again but.. Ill see you in 2... weeks.. haha cool experience that happened was on saturday the sisters in my district told me that I would also be baptizing one of the three baptisms that they had on sunday as well!! We probably should have had the same baptismal service but theirs was at 11 and ours at 1 so we didnt.. Sooo I had the opportunity to get wet twice!! Would ya look at that! It was fun putting on wet pants for our baptism.. It was a great experience!! Well we are hoping to baptize atleast four more before I head out.. Family Osoy and Lesly and a little girl named gabriella!! WE hope and have a lot of faith that all will work out but we could use some extra prayers!! Also Im thinking of calling this sunday instead of mothers day! I feel like it would be better but i dont know But If so I will call to confirm and then hang up so you can call me back OKAY!!???? If not we will do it the 12th but I feel like it would be more effective this sunday for some reason!! What think ye??? Well I love you all and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE I sure do love you 30 30 30 30 30.. Cool beans!! 

Welpcyalater...

Love
Elder Moon

ps.. Kind of a bummer no one wrote me!! HAHAHAJAJHAHASHHGJHAJAJ oh welll YA ME VOYY!! 

April 23rd, 2013: Family

Hello Family...

I dont have much time but things are well. I am just filled with mixed emotions... I dont really know what to expect to come home. It is kind of a weird feeling.. I love this work though and I am pleased with the work that I have done. I have no regrets! I have alot of time left to continue working hard. Satan is working harder than ive ever seen him work in my mission the family that we were going to baptize this week didnt come to church last on sunday because their moms house got shot at and the mom fell and broke her arm so they were at the hospital all of Sunday... Keep them in your prayers I have to see them baptized before I leave! They are the greatest! Well love you all.. Happy Birthday Molly I love you lots!! have a great week!!


Love 
Elder A.R. Moon

April 16th, 2013: Family

Hello my Beloved family! 

The mission is going by too fast. I cant seem to find a way to stop it! This past week was a good week we are working really hard with a great/wonderful family that really need lots of prayers and thoughts. Family Osoy.. Edwin and Carolina. They are an awesome family. We hope to baptize them this weekend or the next. We are really happy for the improvment that they have made. Sunday night we helped them empty a brand new bottle of tiquila that they had. It was super funny but was a big step for them! They are super duper Catholic but thats okay because sooon they will be Mormons. This is the Truth! Catch the Wave!!! Everytime Elder Nelson said that I couldnt help but to think of the family at the beach catch family waves!! haha It was funny. I couldnt help but to laugh! I love Elder Nelson. 
We recieved a new companion but he left yesterday for Mexico so it was only for a week but it was a great time with him. His name was Elder Maldonado. He was from Guatemala and was a kid that loved to talk. A great teacher and a good friend. He will be a great missionary. He just needs to continue to remember the importance of obedience. I love our mission. We are an Obedient mission and it sure is great to be able to say that. yesterday we had to go to the Capital for my companion elder Legorretas passport. That was fun but just seeing all the other missionaries from other missions with vans on with cell phones and itouch Ipods it really made me sad to think of the time wasted by these missionaries. Its not our time it is the Lords time and it really makes me sad. I am no one to judge them but rules are rules and they struggle to keep them. The work is progressing and it is being slowed by alot of disobedience. It is sad. 
Well things are good we are working hard. Maybe not having the results that we want but we are working hard!! Gotta keep the faith strong!! Welp I sure love all of you and hope that all is well.. 

Love 
Elder A.R. Moon

April 9th, 2013

Hello Family
Hey Family how are things? Sure hope all is well! I hope everyone loved conference as much as I did! it was super duper i know!! I just love it when President Monson talks about vivian park and the provo river. It just makes me think of going to the Rock!! I always tell everyone how the Prophet and I have that in common! Its super great! Also Keifer wrote me today and told me he and Cody have already been to the rock and cant wait to go with me when i get back! So needless to say i have been thinking about the Provo river lately! HAHA i love it! I loved all the talks but I especially loved Elder Falabellas talk!! it was super great and because I know him!! YAY He is awesome but now he lives in Salt Lake! He is super Pilas.. (awesome) i jsut loved it though!! My last one in the mission. It really made me think and want to make a lot of changes when i get back to be the member and brother and son i need to be.. and Hopefully soon husband? Prospects mom?? Where they at?? Hit me upp.. Im kind of... how they say it here jewed when I get back.. haha. Well the mission is great. We are working super hard and we are finding newbees like crazy! We will hopefully baptize here soon!! We need more prayers!! haha I love this work and well not wanting to come home.. Yet... We will be recieving a new companion today so that will be fun back to three!! More prayers again please!!! I love you all so much and i know you all have great testimonies about this everlasting truth!! I love my family and i cant wait to spend all of eternity with you!! Yeah buddy!!

Words of guatemala that would be good to learn Zach too.. 

Pilas.... Someone who is outstanding or awesome!
Que Chilero... Thats cool
Calidad.. well isnt that neat
Chapin... Guatemalan
Saber... Who knows.. or I dont know

haha 

Loves and kissing.. 

Elder A.R. Moon

April 2nd, 2013: Fam

Hey family.

Well this past week went fast. Me and Elder Legorreta are staying together another change.. Cool beans I guess. HAHA We finished the Book of Mormon as a mission this past sunday. Oh how great it is! I love the Book of Mormon so much! I learn so much from it. We started Dec. 13th and ended March 31. How cool is that. Once again reading it has strengthened my testimony even more and confirmed the truthfulness of this Church. I love the Book of Mormon and I hope we all can feast from it daily! 
Right now we arent bapizing as much as we would want. Not really sure why. Sister Lesly bounced on us this past week and went to her moms house. It was Holy week so lots of people left out of town. It kind of was sad but we had a great week and found some potential baptisms for this month of April. I cannot beleive its April. Well General Conference is this weekend and I cant wait im really excited for that and I hope that we can all learn alot! I love this work. It is hard and it does take everything one has but it is all worth it and I couldnt be happier! I love you all and I hope you all know that. The mission has flown by like a dream but yet it is not over. If we teach enduring to the end then we have to do it too!! I will endure to the end.. its coming fast. Well I love you and hope all is well for the family!! 

Love
Elder A.R. Moon

PS.. Pictures??? 

Psss... I had a nightmare that I didnt get to sleep in my room and my bed when I got back... Where are Molly and Jeff Sleeping?? haha

April 2nd, 2013: Re: loves from mom

What a blessing it is to have a Mother and a Father like you two! I sure do love you both and I hope you know that the mission has been hard and it is hard but I am loving every minute of it! I have learned a lot and continue learning. I just want to thank you both for the wonderful example you both gave to me. Maybe I didnt learn much from your teachings because I really I never listened but I always learned from your example. Thanks for all you do and I can wait to see you!!! Love you both so much and I am So grateful for the blessing I have to call you my parents! 

Love 
Elder A.R. Moon

March 26th, 2013: Hey Family

Hello

  Well things are great here in Guatemala thats for sure. This week is Holy week for all the Catholics. They suck. But its the only week that they are Catholic. Its pretty great! Holy week is pretty crazy in Guatemala just a lot of prosessions im not sure what they are called in english but Molly knows.. But it is the hottest week of the year as well here in Guatemala. But atleast this year im not in the Coast. This past week was a good week. We hope to baptize Lesly this sunday but keep on praying and yes mom She is a She. haha It should be great! We continue to work hard. This past saturday we had a combined activity with the ward that attends our same building it was great we really worked hard on it and had lots of help from the ward. Well kind of we had a lot of people show up so that was good! It was about the plan of salvation and it was really fun. Probably the best activity ive seen here in guate so that was cool. 
We also had the divisions with the Zone leaders and That was fun. it was over my birthday. Elder Cucuk came with me in my area and so that was great. He is a good buddy here in the mission. He was in the office with me for a change. We enjoyed it together. His birthday was the 17 so we celebrated it together at 6 we had to prepare the activity for saturday. and the sister missionaries from the other ward bought us a cake so that was nice but when they started to sing happy birthday they threw a whole bunch of sparkles and flour on us and so we got really dirty and cakey because it was raining that day and we were still wet so the flour stuck to us and it was really gross but thats okay it was funny. We got detroyed. I dont have pictures of it but The sisters do so ill ask for them sometime. It was a good birthday. After the planning for the activity we went to a great family, Family Osoy, that we want to baptize and after they also gave me a cake. So that day was full of sugar and craziness it was a GREAT Birthday! A whole bunch better then last year when I was sick.. HAHA But it was great! I got Three cakes.. One at lunch as well that day from our cocinera. She is great. She make us some great Carne Asada as well that was SOO GOODD.. Well i love you all and i hope all is well with yall. Marshall Nelson from the ward is now in chile and is writting me he is so funny!!! He sent me a picture and it made me laugh my head off!! welp love you all!! and i will send pictures next week. Changes are in a week... I have no clue what will happen for my last change!! Big gulps huh? Welp See ya later!!

Love
Elder A.R.Moon

Ps. The guy next to me here in internet cafe is singing really beautifully and I cant stop laughing he might get mad at me so pray for me!! He only has one arm!! Welp love you all!! 

March 19th, 2013: FAMM

Hey yall.. 

How is everyone doing?? I am good. A little sad. Yesterday we had to take our companion to the offices yesterday because his visa finally came through. Its kind of sad. We are back down to two. But on the good side I got my package because we went!! YAY! Thank you so much it is a great package. Today we baked the cake for District meeting but I left my camera at home so I wont be sending pics this week but next week for sure! Thank you so much for everything. I absolutly love it! Thank you Gma Jake for the cds and for the Ring it fits perfect! and is Chilero!! I love it.. Thanks for the Shorts and the Tie is super good looking it will look awesome wtih my new suit im getting. Its a blue suit so it will be great! The suit is black... NOT.. Anywho the work is going well. We need to baptize this month!! We are working super hard we hope to complete a family and baptize the wife of a less active. Her name is Lesly so pray pray pray for here we hope to baptize here this sunder er the next so keep her in your prayers.. Well I love you all and thank you all for the Birthday wishes! I really celebrated today and yesterday but thats okay it will be great! Thank you all I love you all so much and I hope all is well.. No more time.. Sorry but have a good week.. The Church is true!!
L
Love Elder AR Moon

March 13th, 2013: Hello

Hey family!! How are thingss===

Hope all is well with the family! All seems to be well here. We have been back and forth to the area office trying to work everything out with the visa of my comp thats going to mexico.. It looks as if he will finally go. We dont know when yet but soon. It will be sad again but thats okay! Well We are really fighting to get some baptisms. We need to baptize this month!! Its funny though we thought we had a whole bunch for this month. But.. They all just lost intrest in the church it seems like.. but that okay we will still do it! I know we can. With your prayers and our prayers we can for sure! We just got to work harder! Gotta Love the mission!! 
Thank you for all the little letters in the Package. I love it! GREAT Package. Cookies aw gosh.. Cadberry eggs Oh my.. HA Seeds, little copies of the book of mormon Oh it was great! Little Spongebob square pants eggs.. HAHA I gave those to some kids here and they went NUTZ. It was great. I loved it! We went to the temple yesterday! It was great! Just what I needed!! Well Im going to send fotos todays so hold on....

Love you all so much

Elder Moon

Elder Cucuk and I
Me and my kids arent we cute.
Baptism of Nery. He is super awesome and is ready to work! 
Painting a house it was fun!
Good Golly..
Elde Finch and Elder Davis.. 

Welp Loves and kissing... ;)

March 6th, 2013: Hello

Hi family...

My heart is full of love for my family. Thank you all so much. Thank you mom and dad for always writting me.. Thank you Molly Jane and Zach for writting me as well. It is always a special treat here in the internet cafe when there is more then you expected. With tears in my eyes when I read those email. My district laughs at me but thats okay. Thank you so much. It doesnt make me baggy Trunky how ever you want to say it. It actually makes me a lot more relieved and want to work a lot harder! I am working hard and I am trying as hard as I can to finish strong. I love this work. It is hard though. But its not my time it is the Lords. Well I sure love all of you and I hope all is well! Today we had a conference with president. Just him though because his wife is in Utah because his son gets married this sat. Crazy huh. He just got home before the new year. Pray and Pray that I can do that!! haha just kidding... but really.. It was a really good conference I learned a lot. I love my mission President! 
This work is amazing and I couldnt be happier. I hope you all realize how lucky we are to have a family that we have. We arent perfect but we are blessed! I love this Gopel and I know of its truthfulness. No one can change a changed heart like mine. Even though we get called to repentance by all the other leaderes of the churches here.. its great! Well I love you all and yes mom I got the package. Elder Finch and Elder Cucuk and Elder O'harra loved the cookies. I only gave them one and the wrest are for me and my comps! Thank you soo very much. I also got two letters from Gma Jake and im excited to read them and also thank you Gma Moon for the letter last week! I Love you!! Love you all and I hope you are all doing well and all are happy! If not be more obedient... haha welp the Lord lives I know it.. Keep on keepin on family mia! 

Love
Elder A.R.Moon

February 26th, 2013: Hey Yalll

Hey how is everyone doing?? Well things are great here in the mission. We had a Baptism!! YAY. Hermano Nery. He is super awesome. He will be a great member of the church. He is willing to serve and ready for any calling. We are working super hard but there is always room for improvment. Right now my companions have had some differences. They have kind of been fighting. I just think they are being little girls and need to buck up but its been kind of annoying. haha Oh well. They are super different. Its funny though at times I really feel like I have to be their father. Its weird. But I just tell them to go to work and for get about it. Things are good though. 
Hope things are good with the family. I would love to hear some mission experiences from my brothers and dad. I havent really heard many. But Thatd be cool. I would like to know your feelings and stuff when you were at the time that I have right now. I am kind of overwhelmed and dont want time to keep going. I just want to continue in the field forever! But at the same time everthing has to come to an end so Im happy to say Ive worked hard. I hope you all know that I love the Lord and I love this wonderful work. I know that Our Heavenly Father lives and loves us. I hope we can all stay faithful and obedient to be worthy of his kingdom. Its so wonderful to think that one day we will all be together in his presence! I love the scriptures and Im so thankful for the opportunity that we have to repent and be better people. Keep on being the greatest family ever! and keep on keeping the commandments of the Lord. Alma 50:20

Read, Pray, Go to Church. Its simple. 

Love
Elder Moon

Sure do love you all!! 

February 20th, 2013: Uts Uts

Hello family!
 How is everyone doing? Hope all is well. Things are good here in the Guatemala ville. We are working super hard and are happy to be to gether for one more change. Elder Cox might leave us de nuevo but this time to go to Mexico for good. It will be sad but oh wells huh. This weekend we will have a baptism. A brother that we found that has been looknig for a church for a while and how to change. So we were able to be guided by the spirit to knock his door one night. He is super great. Was suppose to be baptized this past weekend but had to have an interview with President Brough didnt pass his first interview but this time he did so we are super excited for him! Hope all is well for the family! Health....and all the good things... David Cusick wrote me and said he goes home the 9th of april.. I entered before him.... Thats weird.. Prolly for football or something. Well I love you all and Mom thanks for your quotes they help alot! Thats why you are the greatest Mom in the universe!! All that agree say I.... Welpp much love and much prayers.. 

Love 
Elder Moon 

say hello to mikey for me!! 

February 12th, 2013: Hola

Hola Soy Elder Moon.

How is everyone doing? Sure hope that everything is great n stuff?.. Happy Annaversary Zach and Stef... ( i dont know how to spell that word anymore..).. Hope it was great! Well the mission is going great we are workin harder then ever. We are really trying to help the ward become more involved in missionary work. Right now we are having some success. We have been recieving alot more references as of late and things are really progressing here is super great! We are going to have a baptism this sunday. a Brother that we found three weeks ago just knocking doors. He is kind of an awkward guy but really has the desires. He wants to serve in the church and wants to be baptized so we said well sign him up.. He is really really positive and will be a great member of the church. His name is Nery. Keep him in your prayers so everything works out for him. We hope to baptize a family here soon named the Family Perez. They are super great but just the dad of the family has really lame doubts. He wonders why we dont have a preacher shouting at us in our church. I hate when people compare the truth to something that is really false. But thats how it goes here in Guatemala. 
When yall come.. Im down for doing whatever. For some reason right now I dont really feel like visiting that many people. It just will be super hecktic that way. I just want to visit some converts and some members. that will be enough for me! If we stay in Antigua it will be good and safe there. Antigua is cool beans! Just keep looking around for things we can do. Im down for whatevs. We will definately need to go to Lake Atitlan. the Waters of mormon. Welp I sure do love you all. The Church is true and this is the Lords work.He only wants us to be obedient! He lives and loves each of us! I love you all too and miss you all as well.. Keep on being great!! 

Love
Elder Moon 

February 6th, 3013: Family

Hello 
Hi family! How is everyone doing? Things are great here in Guatemala. Like usual... How is Provo, Texas, or where ever in the world you might be? Sure hope things are great? We are back to three. Yesterday the mission recieved 24 new missionaries. We found out that we needed to go to recieve a new companion. We went and got back our same old companion Elder Cox. HAHA President said that the Lord wants us to be companions. So I have something to learn from him and him from me. Its great becuase Elder Legorreta and Elder Cox are great friends. It was unexpected to get him agian but its awesome. The work is growing and growing fast. The mission had changes yesterday and we will have changes again the 19th of this same month. we recieved 24 yesterday and on the 19th we recieve 30 or 40 new missionaries. It is growing super fast. kind of crazy. After the 19th more then 50 percent of the mission will have 8 months or less in the mission. Thats not me but that is alot of young new bees. The area presidency is worried about the obedience of the missionaries with all of the young and new missionaries. It is kind of fun to be a part of this growth that is happening. Well I sure love you all and miss you all. The Lord lives and Loves us all so much. His hope is that we can be the best we can be. So lets do it! Stay strong in the faith my wonderful family! Love you all so much. The Church is true! 

Love

Elder A.R. Moon

January 29th, 2013: Family

Dear Family.

Well this week was a good week. We were able to have a baptism. My companions first baptism!! It was great!!! We were really blessed to be able to have this baptism. We have been working our tails off. The hard work finally came through but just means we need to work harder. My companion is great. He will be a great missionary. At times I feel as if im too hard on him but he handles it well. I hope that I can help him be a great missionary I know he will be one. Kind of crazy how fast time is passing. I cant do anything to make it slow down. Today Im gonig to send pictures so I dont really know what more to say. I know that this is the true Church. I love it so much. I love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so much! This is his work and us missionaries are here to represent him and his great church. I love the book of mormon. I have learned so much from it and I continue to increase my learning from it everyday. I love all of you and hope all of you can continue to progress in this wonderful gospel!! I hope all of us can add to this wonderful work and do something to serve in it! Much love and kisses and hugs!! 

Love 
Elder A.R. Moon

Our baptism

My family tree. My first kid also is trainning so I became a grandpa that day.

January 22nd, 2013: HOlas

Hola Family. How are things. Good Good Good. Things are going pretty good in the mission. Last week Elder Christofferson came to Guatemala and we had a great big conference with him. All of our mission was able to be there and Part of the North and South it was awesome! Elder Christofferson is definatly an Apostle of the Lord. What an amazing man. It was super great being in his pressence. Elder Martino also spoke. it was great. All of us learned so much. He talked about repentance and how that is what we need to teach nothing but basics and listening with our hearts. It was a great conference. Well the time is sure passing fast and there is nothing I can do to stop it all though I would love to stop it just for a bit. I love this work and it sure is great to be a big part of it. Also something that Elder Christofferson mentioned is that we are big parts of the work. If we dont give it our all we can slow the work. No matter if were missionaries full time or members. So we all need to give it our all so the work and progress faster and faster. Also that we are the companions of the Apostles. That there arent enough of them so we are the companions of them. and so our Authority is Apostalic. It was awesome. But things are well in the work we are going to have a baptism this sunday just pray pray pray for him. His name is Jonathan. He is great. The work is definatly increasing. We will be have two change meetings this change and in total we will be recieveing just about 70 missionaries. It will be crazy. The work is growing and growing fast!! President said we will probably be recieveing another visa waiting on the 5 of Feb. So that will be fun. Well I love you all n stuff. Keep on keeping on!! 

Love 
Elder Moon

January 15th, 2013: Family

Bueno.... How is everyone doing? Looks like the snow is great.... HAHA.. There is no signs of snow here. Kind of weird. Today we were able to have District meeting in the house of President. That was fun. I think they miss me too much. haha not really but we were chosen because last change we didnt have enough time to go out to eat with President. Usually when Secretaries leave he always takes them out to eat. We had no time though so he said my district would be able to have our meeting there and Sister Brough cooked afterwards to that is always great. I sure do miss the Broughs though. They are such wonderful people! Another great experience we had with a different family. It happend yesterday. A family that we hope to baptize here soon. They are awesome. Family Juarez. When we got there we asked if they had read the assignment that we had left. They had, had some problems so they werent able to so we decided to ready it with them. We read in Nefi 31 and talked alot about baptism is was a very spiritual lesson and we were able to help them understand much more what they need to do to prepare to be baptized at the end we ask the wife of the family to pray. She said no but we taught her over again how to pray and said okay now we will close our eyes and listen. Took her a while but atlast she started. The Prayer was excellent and at the end she said. And father please help us to be able to change so that we can be baptized and enter into this path. It was so great and the spirit was so strong. after she said amen we all felt the spirit enter the room. What a blessing it was. We had to run to the house after because it was already past 9 but it was a great lesson and so we hope to baptize them here soon they are awesome. 
I forgot to tell you but two weeks ago they took away one of my sons. so I only have one but president told me that I will probably recieve one the 5th of Feb. So that will be fun! Sure hope so. I like being in trios. Its great. Elder Legorreta is my comp right now he is soo great. I love him lots but he is tooooo Skinny he weighs 100 pounds I feel like im going to break him everytime i touch him haha Well i love you all and i hope you are all doing well. I hope you all are reading the Book of Mormon everyday! Much love


Elder Moon

January 8th, 2013: Family

Hello Family!

This past week was a week that was called The Perfect week. Its the week that we have to achieve all of our goals with New investigators and lessons and things like that. We werent able to baptize darn it all. And we didnt get atleast 8 to Sacrament meeting so we were a little bummed with that but we did our best and Worked our butts of too kill the lessons and kill in finding new investigators. It was great. but we are hoping for baptisms here soon it will be great. We have some good familes that we are teaching and so we will be able to get them in the water for sure. But we need to do it in this month because this is the big month that we are going to baptize 350 as a mission. So keep that goal in your prayers and we reach for that amount i know that we will be able to do it! Cool story to end because i dont have much time but with a family that we just found We were trying to close the lesson and we told the family that any questions that they might have we would do our best to answer them and if we couldnt answer them we would study to find out the answers. The wife of the family thought that it was intresting that we studied everyday. We asked her to end with the prayer. She agreeed and in her prayer she ask God to help us to be able to study good enough to help them with the things that we need. When she said that it really made me realize the importance of studying and studying good everyday. As a misionary our investigators really depend on our studies and the revelations that we recieve as we study. It really has helped me to focus more on each investigator and to find out what they need through our studies. I tried to do it before but now my focus is alot better. It was a great prayer! They are a great family! They will be baptized in this month. After the prayer the Wife asked if we could pass by their house everyday to teach them The husband was taken back so she said well every other day! So we agreed and now we hope to baptize them here soon! Keep them in your prayers! the Family Mejia Perez they are awesome! Well i sure do love you all and hope that you all know that I know that the Lord lives and this is his work! I love being a missionary and I couldnt be happier of where I am and what I am doing! This is where im meant to beee I can find my way i can go the distance.. haha just kidding. Hurcules Hurcules!! Welp i love you all! God Speed Familia Mia! 

Love
Elder Moon

the good looking one..;)

January 1st, 2013: Family

Hello!!
Well I sure am glad to know that we have all lived to see 2013!! How crazy is that. I never thought it would come. Its here now and well the good thing is that im still a missionary and I couldnt be happier! Sure was great to be able to talk to almost all of you! I was waiting for Julie Ann´s call in the night and instead came one from Mexico. haha I thought it was my companions family calling. He was asleep so I wasnt sure what to do. HAHA it was Zach. That was fun. Well I sure hope you all had great Holidays! HAPPY NEW YEAR. Kind of a crazy 2012 huh. A complete whole year without seen Alex. Molly Jane got married.. (finally) haha jokes.. Good job Jeff. A lot of other things that I prolly dont know about and things I dont remember the good thing is that the work of the Lord must go on and that it is constantly progressing a whole lot of missionaries are now entering the field. I cant wait to see the increase in the numbers! 
Well I love all of you and hope that you all love me too!! haha I am so very thankful for each and everyone of you and I love you all so very much. I am so very Grateful for all the love and support I get. I am thankful for all your prayers and want you all to know that they do work. I have recieved too many blessings to count I sure do love you all!! Thank you all!! and Hope the best for you all. Well sorry its so short Im not really used to an hour long internet still. Oh well I will send picture next time!!

Love 
Elder Moon
Thankful for you all and love you all!! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR....ill bee home this year. 

December 24th, 2012: Hey Family

Oh I love this work. It feel so good to be back out in the field! I feel refreshed!! We have been working our butts off! new area 2 new comps oh life couldnt be better! We will chat tomorrow. My plan is to call in the Morning sometime. i will call when I am ready and then yall can call me back.. Sound good? Alright cool. My companions are Elder Legorreta from Mexico.. Oralè!! and Elder Cox from Guatemala. Welp we will talk more tomorrow!! I only get an hour now of internet lame huh! Haha Welp love you all! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! YAY!!! WOOT WOOT!! Hope to talk to you all. If not. ya lucked out. HA Ha Much love Watch the Grinch for me.. Thanks Byeeee 

Love

 Elder Moon

Your favorite missionary!! 

December 18th, 2012: Family

Hey family, 

I sure do love you all n stuff! Today is my last day here in the office! Can you believe it... Time is passing so fast! Im real happy to get out again. Im kind of nervous I feel as if im starting my mission over again. But its going to be great. It sure will be different but so great! Im excited to train again and have two hijos this time. Its going to be crazy but I will love it. I love being in trios. Its fun. Tomorrow is the big day though. Finally! This past week has been the craziest week ever! We havent gotten a full nights sleep yet. Its been really hecktic! But anywho I may or may not have already opened my christmas package. It was super duper great! I loved it so much. My favorite part was the pictures with everyone wishing me a merry Christmas i just wanted to cry! It was too great! Thank you all so much and Dont have much time today because we have to go to presidents house right now but I love you all and ill talk to yall next tuesday!!!! WOOT WOOT! My number will be.... 502-4045-6276.. Thats the number to my new house! So im thinking you should prolly call me.. I will confirm a time this monday. We have internet on monday and Pday on Christmas cool eh? So just let me know if yall have a better plan! Sure do love you all and Happy Holidays!! Much love 

 Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) for the last time.. QUE ME IMPORTA!!! 

December 7th, 2012: FAM

Hello my family! 

Hey friends how are all of you? Good, Good. Well things are great here in Guate. I got the package with the shirts and socks! Thanks so much it was great and just perfect muchas gracias! Its crazy that I am almost leaving the office. I now know my new area and things like that. We were able to find that out yesterday. I am going to be one of 3 elders that are going to be trainning two new missionaries! How crazy is that. I will be in a trio trainning its going to be awesome I am so PUMPED! President Brough said that, that is where the Lord wanted me to go and what he wanted me to do. He said he tried to send me to other parts of the mission but that is where the Lord wanted. The place I am going is called Las Margaritas. It is part of the new stake of El Frutal. It is going to be AWESOME! My two new Hijos will be worked to death!! Its going to be quite fun!! Finally leaving the office. Ive loved it and ive learned a lot but I am ready to go! I dont have much time today but I sure do love you all and I hope that Mom and Dad had a great anniversary! I sure do love you two!! Welp much love. More details on monday!! 

Much love!!!!

Love 

 Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

November 29th, 2012: Buen Dia

Hello my wonderful family! How is everyone doing? Can you all believe it that it is almost Decmeber! How crazy is that! Time is flying by! I bet you are all loving the Christmas music on the radio. Here in the office thats all we listen to! Its great. David Archuletta and Motab christmas is the best!  Well last change I dont think I ever told you about the two people we baptized a couple weeks ago huh? Well they were just two brothers that a family gave us as a reference. The oldest is 16 and his name is Christian and the other is Alex and hes 10. It was great. Right now we are working on their Grandma and oldest brother but they are a little more hard hearted. But thats okay we can do it with the help of the Lord. But they are awesome. Here in the office our motto is kind of like the motto of the Titanic. "Women and Children first!!"... ha.. Not really but thats how it is right now! The worth of every soul is great! My letters are boring huh. I just dont know what to write anymore. 

We had a pretty cool experience the past week. We were in a bus on a way to visit someone at the very top of our area. While talking to everyone that we could some guy came up to me and said "Can you come to my house right now?". I said well sure. But who are you? I said. He said that he used to know the missionaries and that he wanted us to come to his house. He lived in a place far a way from where we were going so we asked if we could pass by tomorrow he said that would be fine! So we went and found where he lived the next day. He is married to a member who is inactive. He said when he saw us in the bus it was a Miracle because he had been praying to find someone that could help his wife. Because she has been sick. He remembered about the blessings that we give and right then he realized that it was an answer to his prayers. He is a super humble guy and wants to learn more about the church. But they arent married.. like every other couple here in Guatemala and he works sundays but we will have to see what we can do about that because he needs to be baptized! It was a great lesson that we had with them and the spirit was strong! He was also an answer to our prayers. We have been looking and looking for people to baptize and before we found him we really had no candidates. But the Lord works in great ways and I am so grateful for the opportuinities that we have as missionaries to be able to see his hand in the work every single day! Today we have another lesson with this guy. His name is David. So I am excited about that. 

Well anywho. I love all of you and I hope that we can all see the little things that the Lord does for all of us each and everyday! I love the Lord and I know he lives. He can and will help us change our lives! I love this work and couldnt be happier in this part of the vineyard! I love my family and I am so very Grateful for each one of you!!! Thanks for your prayers and love! 

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIE ANN I SURE DO LOVE YOU AND HOPE YOU HAD THE GREATEST DAY EVER!!!! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Love,, HUGS N KISSING.. kisses

 Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

November 23rd, 2012: I L0V3 MY FAMILY

Hello Family!!! 

Como ESTAMOS!?!!? Muy Bien! Sure hope Thanksgiving was fun. I was here. In the office. Haha. But good news is that I found a huge box of Stuffing at a place called Pricemart here. Its like Costco and it has a lot of american things so I was pumped and had to buy it! I did, at least make some stuffing yesterday here in the office! It was great! I bet yall had some fun though? Cool beans! Well I feel like my letters have surely not been that good lately. I am sorry. I think I have been kind of down. I didnt really know why but on monday we had Interviews with President and he really helped me a lot! He is such an amazing man and is really guided by the spirit! At first I thought I was down because no one writes me and no one loves me but then I thought about it and realized a lot of people love me. Que me importa if no one writes me. Thats what I say. After I thought it was because no one wants to listen to our message and everyone hates us as missionaries. The only people that love us are the Drunk guys out on the street. But that only lasts like 10 minutes and ends with them crying and hugs from them. Its so precious. But that really thats not it either. President told me that I am turning into an Office Elder. He told me that is was he doesnt want. He said I am a Missionary first and an Office Elder Second. He told me that it happens. Its hard to maintain our spirituality in the office. It is so true. I really have to focus in being more diligent and getting my studies in. In the office its hard to get studies in. That is the main thing that I have been missing is really the daily study that we really need as missionaries and as children of God. So since monday I have been having my personal study atleast an hour a day and really it has made all the difference! Yesterday even proved it. We had a good day in the office and left on time from the office. Got back to the area to work and we had 6 lessons and found 7 new investigators that are really positive! It was great! I sure cannot wait to get back to the field just 4 weeks more! YAY. President told me I really need to prepare now to get back to the field! Its going to be great!! Gotta just finish strong! I know I can do it! Well that was my story for the day! But I will be better in my weekly letters. I just am not a big fan of writting, I just dont know what to write. and I know you are all the same! Welp I sure do Love you all and hope you all can realize the importance of daily study of the Gospel. I know it will bless your lives ALOT! Welp the Church is true and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ lives and loves us more than we can imagine. And So Do I!!!! MUCH MUCH LOVE!! 

Love you missionary,  

 Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

November 22nd, 2012: Happy Thanks Giving

Hello Family, I hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving!!

I love you all and I am Thankful for each and every one of you!! Hope you have a fantastic day!! Feel free to write!! ;)

 

 Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

November 16th, 2012

Hey Family!

Well changes have come and gone once again! I cant believe how fast the mission is going! It really is kind of crazy to me. This change will be a short change. It is only going to be 5 weeks and we have to open up 5 areas. Hopefully one of the areas that we open will be the one that I will go to! I sure hope so! It would be awesome. I hope to open an area and train for my last three changes! That would be great!! The next change will be 9 weeks! We have to change our schedule of changes because now latin missionaries will be 2 weeks in the MTC and Gringos only 6 weeks. So now with this change I will be coming home two weeks later! Cool eh? Maybe not for yall but for me that is! My release date is now the 15 of May instead of the 1st. Sooooo yeah. Ill be coming home later now. But I would love for whoever wants to come pick me up to come! That would be super fun! So details with that is.. The day I am realeased we have dinner together as a group with President and Sister Brough and then after we have a testimony meeting that the parents are invited to the dinner and testimony meeting! So that would mean come the 15th or the 14th I dont know what day would be best. I have a good friend that I have made here in the office that would be more then happy to help us transport and stuff when you come. I just dont know how much it would be though. Let me know what yall are going to do and we can set the up with him. But anywhoo.. Things are great here in the mission! We hope to have some baptisms here soon. We have had 2 these past two weeks that I dont think i have mentioned. Great miracles that I will tell you bouts later today is my PDay and I gotta go! Not that my Pday is more important than my family its just I gotta do somethings and I dont want to be in the office anymore! I love you all and attached you will recieve a great Picture that I hope you can include in the Chirstmas card or make a chirstmas card for me! I love you all!!! 

Bendiciones!!!  

Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

November 7th, 2012: EARTHQUAKE

A hard Eathquake hit Guatemala. 7.4.. Crazy!!!

Dont worry Im fine and we have almost heard everthing from all the missionaries! Kind of crazy. It shook super hard here in the office building. At first we were like oh another earthquake like nomal but then it kept going and got harder and harder. So we all were like lets get out of here and so we started to leave and the whole office building was evaquating! Everything is fine now though just a big scare. I dont know how it is inRetalhuleu but thats where it hit. Kind of crazy we felt it all the way here in the city. But everything is fine. If you were worried or even knew!! Love you ALL!!

Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;)