July 25, 2011: Hola

Hola everybody!

How is everyone doing? I hope well! Happy Birthday to Grandma Jacobs TODAY! Wish could be there! Go party it up for me GMizzle.. Love you all! Im excited for you all to be together! that will be so fun for moms birthday! I hate to say this but it wont be the same.. Sorry.. Im just the life of the party lets be honest.. ;) jokes.. haha but i hope it is a blast! happy birthday MOMMYY... the big 50... haha thats kinda weird. haha just kidding. Well this week was a great week. We worked hard.. It was awesome! We also had interviews con Preident Brough. that was great! I had a good interview. My comp gave me some good tips on it. He said dont just let the interview be boring and normal ask president questions you have but from the heart so I learned some great things from president and it was just the greatest interview ive ever had it was great. Well I Dont have the address to my house and i was told if i did you would really be able to find it on google maps cause it doesnt have the streets n stuff for guatemala but I live in Ciudad Del Sol and the colony I live in is called Villa Sur. I guess you can look that up i think. But yeah mom i will send more picture i just gotta figure it out my comp will show me. But I love it down here. We knock doors alot and every family we see in the street we contact because out missions theme is N.B.F. Nosotros Bautizamos Familias. Because thats how we roll! haha its really great. The memebers are good.. some of them We have agreat ward. The Bishop is a good good guy he is pretty young he is awesome i went on divisions with him on last wednesday night that was great! And I just love our ward great people. Well lets see what i eat you ask. Well in our fridge you will find tortillas black beans eggs and cheese... you do the math. I LOVE IT.. haha pretty much what we live on besides the occasional Taco Bell but thats just to get their sauce so we can put it on our egg bean and cheese tacos every morning and night but for lunch we have cocineras they cook good stuff usually meet with rice its great or just different things my favorite so far is Pollo y crema. its pretty good.. but yesterday we had the stuff that zach makes with beans hotdogs and bacon i think but it had like ribs in it it was good eats just reminded me of home i loved it. Corn tortillas for every meal as well i cant eat lunch with out a corn tortilla in hand. non of this fake corn tortillas like in the states just the legit great ones i love em! haha freshly made eery day! Im fed well but Still losing weight no se por que. Well I love you all.. Keep praying for me! My spanish is getting better everyday! Its pretty great! We actually got a visa waiter with us now. Hes from Retahulehu here in Guatemala gonig to Peru. He is nice and helps me with spanish haha its great opportunity to practice we will see how long he will be with us. there is an Elder in our zone suppose to go to England has been in our mission for six months haha i hope its  not like that but we be riding 3 sum right now. hah its great but yeah I Love you all and remember READ THE BOOK OF MORMON.. It changes lives on the daily down here and i know it can always change our lives I LOVE IT. Well love ya...

Love your Elder..

Elder Moon... Luna.. ;)

July 18, 2011: Hola

Hola mi familia. How is everybody doing? Hope all is well in Utah. First off Happy Birthday Father this saturday! Hugs and kiss! ;) Things are well down here. Dont worry I spray my lion protection on every morning so there wont be any attacking me. But maybe dogs. YUCKY YUCKY Dogs and they are EVERYWHEREEEE. I feel so bad for them they look so sad and yucky and just wish i could do something but they are all diseased and Dr. McAurthur said that every dog, animal is sent from HELL to injure missionaries haha he is a crazy fella. But Some nights I get scared when the dogs chase us but Im learning good techniques to fight them off. Anywho the work is good. Spanish is..... lets just say i try... Apparently im understood but I dont think they understand my language prolly just the Spirit. Which is good id rather have them listen to the Spirit instead of me. But this past week was good on thursday i went on my first divisions with an elder that i entered with Elder Bardales. He is awesome. So two nuevos just doin our thing. It was a good experience though. Fun to go to a new area and see where they roam. Its super great though today I am on another division with one of my zone leaders Elder Martinez. It should be a great night i am excited to work with him and learn from him. Maybe teach him some english haha. But its great he said we got some great citas this night so im excited. Sorry im always kind of random I just type. But anywho we had a lesson last wednesday in english haha it was crazy.. This guy is crazy but he graduated from Boston College and just loves to speak english. He is awesome we taught him and got another day to come teach him but then all of a sudden he called us and told us he is moving? haha not we saw his mom in the street and she was like uhh i know nothing of that and so he called us this morning and said i dont want anything to do with your religion and to never talk to his family again... haha it was super funny and there is more to the story but he is a crazy guy. hes like 48 and lives with his mom cause his family cant live with him in Guatemala cause it is too dangerous and so they live in mexico and he sees them only once a year kinda sad but hes crazy. He asked me to give the first prayer and it was really hard for me to come up with words for an english prayer. I dont remember the last time i gave a pray out loud in english. It was kinda weird haha. Great fun though. I love my area. I have two cocineras Hna. Chavez.. She is super funny always just makes fun of me and hits me if i ever speak english in her house I love her and her family she has 4 boys and 1 girl. They are awesome little niños. Then Hna. Gladis Juarez she is super nice goood food at both places i love it. My house is good size for two people but people have 5 families in what we live in. We are super blessed.. we live in like a gated area so its pretty nice ill have to send pictures. And then lets see I dont have the address to my house but i will get that to you dad. And We have a great family in Family Perez and they are progressing fast but they bailed on church yesterday so we were sad. But they will be baptized soon I know it haha they are great. Hermano Oscar the husband is PILAS. He just wants to read the book of mormon all the way through and he says he gets respuestas every night on how true our religion is! I LOVE IT. But we are just working with his wife now she has a hard time waiting for answers she says she just mummbles prayers then goes to sleep so she just needs to be more patient but he is trying.. Well I love you all and pray for you all EVERY morning and night. Its crazy how much Beckham and Britton have already changed! I love it. I love you all and hope you all know that. The CHURCH IS TRUEEEE. LOVE YOUUUUU and jake seminary teacher.. thats AWESOME you will be the best EVAHHHH.. pumped for you! PILAS!

MUCH LOVE, 

Elder Moon... Your missionary ;) haha the one and only... ;)

;) 

July 11, 2011: Holas

Elder Nielson and Elder Moon

From the baptism this past Saturday

Hey Crew
I email on Mondays... :( no emails for me....
This week was pretty awesome! We had a  baptism!  It was super great! Familia Paz Alan,  Claudia and Stephani. They are awesome. Alan the  father asked me to Baptize him. So I had the privledge to particitpate in my first baptism! It was SUPER great! I was so Lucky. They are going to be  great members of the church I am so excited for them! Elder Nielson and I each gave Alan a tie. He wore mine on sunday! Yeah he likes me better haha jokes... But yeah so things are great here! No one here can say Moon so i just tell them all in español Elder Luna so that helps them remember my name! HA its funny! But I love  love love my area! Its just so  great! The ward is awesome! We have great people that are always willing to help us. Guatemala is just super great! Im so  lucky to be serving the Lord here! This week was great though.  We had some great lessons. one was to this old old guy. he is a fiel miembro and we just went to visit him in the rest home!  it was  great he just talked to us and we taught him lesson one but his eyes are crazy the whole time he was looking at both me and my companion but we werent even sitting by each other haha one eye on me one eye on my comp it was great! He is such a great person can hardly walk but is a church every week and  Elder Nielson says he reads his scriptures more then anyone he knows.  We also took him some food cuz he said the he  gets  fed dinner at 4 and he is always hungry before bed haha he hates it. Spanish is slowly getting better! Slowly but surely. I am understanding so much better now. Its just difficuly because my gospel spanish is good but my street spanish is no bueno haaha but im slowly learning it all I love it! My  comp is the man! I love him so much! He is just super great!  But WOW I cant  believe it I already dont recognize Beckham. He looks super different with his hair cut haha but still baller status OJ just how i left him. Well I hope everything is  great back home. I got burnt so bad last Pday it was kinda rediculous. haha We  played soccer all day and I dominated lets be honest haha okay im lying im  not so good at soccer but i try and i score so  thats good. but i l ove it. the Latinos i entered with some are in my zone and they  say i look really delgado now. haha I guess im losing it already haha but I love this work!  And I couldnt ask for better place comp or anything to be honest! I  am loving life! I hope all is well back home I miss you all and want to hear from yall n stuff.. Theres my texas slang comin out again...  I learned that from Jake.. haha Love you all! YAY! I willl try and say more cool things next week i dont really know what to write im sorry im boring. But I love you all and stuff!

;) Elder Moon

July 5, 2011: Hey Crew

Hola 
Well hello everybody! I hope all is well back home! Cuz things here are AWESOMEEE!!! ;) I am loving life thats all! I have  been  blessed with the most awesome trainer in the world! Elder Marshall Nielson. He is so  great!  The greatest missionary in this mission probably right now.. thats all I can say he truly is  so  awesome.  He is from Plesant Grove so just Utah buddies haha its great! He was the wide reciver who caught the pass on the 4 yard line  my jr year when we won at pg just barely he was the guy that caught the last pass and almost  beat us hah. He was kinda bitter at that at first but now things are okay. I am going to learn so much from him! We had a meeting yesterday for the new missionaries to have one last meeting and so we got to talk to our new President. President Brough.. (bruff) He is an awesome man! so  young only 47 at change meeting he was pretty nervous but his wife was 10 times as nervous. Anywho we were there at the mission office and President pulled me aside and told me how he  was looking at pictures and he  felt like my companion should be the next zone leader. he prayed about it and then he said he received the most clear answer he has ever recieved he said it was really really powerful NO. So it was really clear to him that he needed to keep Elder Nielson with me. That was crazy  to hear. He also told my comp that so I am truly blessed to have such a great companion I know the Lord has a lot in store for me! I cannot wait!   Anywho the work is going good my toe is just fine dont worry dad it was a doctor from the church who is on a mission and is a doctor for all of central america. He is a crazy guy hes from Springville his name is Docotor McAurthur. his wife said that he is in someone johnsons ward i cant remember. But yeah he was just making fun of me cuz he said that he hates doing toes.. he said he prolly end up doing more toes then what he was trained to do.. haha But he later told ccm president that he was very impressed with me haha he said that hes never had anyone just watch the whole thing without passing out haha i thought it was kinda cool he took out both sides of my nail haha it was funny didnt hurt one bit after and is healing up quite nice! well i dont hav e much time i wish i did but we have a cita at 6 so we gotta get but all is well... Blisters are fun to walk on haha they will just get my feet nice and ready for the whole mission ill tough it out haha but First Baptism on Saturdayyyyyy... Such an amazing family they are so ready to be baptized its a family of The mom Claudia and the dad Alan and their little girl who is soooo cute she 1 years old Estefania.. I am so pumped  Hermano Alan asked me to baptize him so im so  pumped the said he wanted to give me the  opportunity  since i am new. Such and awesome family!  People in this area  are great! I love it here! Well all is well and i hope things are well  back home sorry i didnt write last week I didnt have anytime! But all is well spanish is rough but I try as hard as i can! Pray for me and ill pray for you! I love you all and thought id have a bunch of emails from all my family after not writing for two weeks but nope just the people that love me my mom and dad! ;) well LOVE YOU ALL AND STUFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF i wish i had more time i just wanna tell you everything!!!  welp love you and remember the Church is true and I do love you!

Elder  Moon ;)

Mision Guatemala Central
Ave. reforma 8-60 zona 9
Edificio galerias reforma
of. 505 apartado 921-A
Guatemala,  Guatemala C.A.

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Hello family, just a quick sidenote by elder Nielson. I love Elder Moon, he is the best ever.. he really is such a great person and a great missionary, and he is going to be a great missionary for his whole mission, he is already teaching me how to baptize and he has only been in the mission for a week, he is the best trainer ever.. we are working hard and having alot of fun.. he has had some minor pains due to his hard work, he has had 2 blisters on the bottom of his feet but they  will not hold him back, he is still working hard and loving everything.. he is the best, and i look up to him alot, he is teaching me how to be soooo cool and crazy.......
adios
elder Nielson

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