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

November 21, 2011: Happy Thanksgiving

IM THANKFUL FOR...... Well my family, Both of my grandmas! Grandma Jake because she always writes me alot and her letters are super great and funny and I love to get letters. Grandma Moon because she always is so loving and loves to feed me OREOS... I have the best grandmas in the world.. My Mom and Dad. My Mom because of her strong testimony and the love she has for her children. My dad because of the great example he has always been in holding the preisthood worthly and the friend that he is to everyone. My Brother Jake and his beautiful family. Jake for his happiness and his will to do anything for anyone who needs it. His wife Michelle because she likes to have fun and cares for everyone not only because shes a nurse. and Britton because hes crazy cat and just a baller. And Brinley? cause shes going to be super cute. haha My brother Zach and his beautiful spanish family. Zach because he always there to make people happy and can always help us laugh. Stef because she is an example to us all when we need to choose the right. Beckham because he has cute face and hair and is my chancho. Lexi because she is super cute and will love her Uncle AL forever!! Julie Ann Because She is easy to love and when we need something she will help! Molly Jane because she is just and angel/Princess/ everyones best friend!

Well these are just a few reasons why Love you all and am so thankful for my family! Im thankful to know that we can be together forever! Families really can be together forever and I just love you all so much and hope you have a great thanksgiving! Most of all I am thankful for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the opportunity I have to be a missionary here in Guatemala! This church is perfect this gospel is pure! The Church is true and there is nothing more true on the is earth! This work will never die and I am so thankful for this work it is the best part of my life right now! I love you all and hope you know im thankful for you all!! Our family is the greatest! Hope well can always love one another! Love you all and hope all is well. Things are great for me! Keep on keeping on familia! 

HAHA 

LOVE YOU ALL

Elder Moon

November 14, 2011: Hola

Aloha,

Well how is everyone? I sure hope good! I am doing just great! My new area is great! I felt a little rushed last week so I didnt really explain very well. But my new area is Siquinala, Esquintla but im in the zone of Santa Lucia. This area is HUGE! But its okay I like big areas. Gives me lots of people to work with. Im excited to be here. My companion is Elder Jimenez. He is from Guatemala. From Zona 1 in the Capital. His house is in the North Mission. President asked me if I would help him finish his mission successful.. And he said and how do you do that? He said.. BAPTIZE! So thats exactly what we are going to do! Here in the coast it is hard to have baptisms apparently... But were going to baptize! I have the faith. Another thing that president told me in that interview was he said that he knows my future for the next 4 changes. He said he knows already who i will be with and where and what.. He said it was kind of weird but he said he already knows. I thought that was interresting. Well I know Ill be here in Siquinala with Elder Jimenez for 2 changes but he said he knows the two after too. Kinda cool.. President Brough is an amazing man. He is truly guided by the Lord everything he does is always by the guide of the spirit! But hey im glad to be here. I really hope that we can have some success to help Elder Jimenez end on a good note! Hes a great missionary. He just hasnt really let the mission become a life changing experience for him. I kinda think is been hard for him. For me atleast I thinks its hard for him because he is so close to home. But I want to help him change his view on the mission and so hopefully I can help him out. 

Well another thing that is kind of weird here in the coast is that it isnt a ward. Its a branch. So my first sunday was kinda crazy. But it was great haha. I love my branch. Everyone is so great. It was fast sunday so I had the opportunity to bare my testimony! I bore my testimony on the obra misional. Told them that we need to work together in the mission work and that we can have more success if we do. It was a great opportunity for me to start on a fast sunday. I also found out that alot of the members here are really willing to work with us! So I think it will be great to be able to work with the members here! I am really excited to be here. I love this work and I am so lucky to be able to be a missionary here in Guatemala. Missionary work is the greatest work ever! It will never fail. I love all of you so much and i hope you all know how true this church is and how it is the ONLY true church in the world! I think the biggest change for me here in the mission field has been seeing how MANY other churches there really are. Its really kind of sad. In Utah well we only know of one and we are so lucky! Well I love you all so much and love my savior and I am so happy I can be a representative of him here in guatemala. MUCH MUCH LOVE!! Keep on being the best family ever! and always remember CTR! ;) hahaha 

ADIOS

Con Amor

Elder Moon

Familia Chavez and I.. Playing some football the night before I left! HAHA Family Chavez was my family propia in Villa Nueva oh how i love them!! 

November 7, 2011: HOLA

Hello my family

 

I am in a new area!! YAY right?... RIGHT! I love my new area!! The only down part... Its in the Coast... what does that mean? QUE CALORRRR!! haha Oh wells... Its great area.. its called Siquinala Santa Lucia. Great place great people. The people here are so humble and much nicer then the people in the Cap. haha Now i will tell you my story about Change meeting. So Monday night.. This is the night that they call and tell you if you have changes or not.. I did.. Sooo After dancing and screaming silently I went to sleep. next day I just said bye to my converts and family chavez. Family Hernandez my most recent converts had a big dinner planned for me.. After I had already eaten so much that day so I ate a TON!! Anywho the next day I packed and all that jazz barely had a enough room some how I am gaining new things.. haha OH well.. Got to change meeting talking to everyone just excited and nervous and stuff like everyone. Then one of the APs came up to me and said I had an interview with president! HAHA What? i had no idea. My zone leaders just didnt tell me. So I had no clue why.. So i go and wait and then Its my turn for the interview. Walk in President sits me down and says.. Look you are completely ready to be senor comp. No doubt in my mind. But Im going to ask you a favor. You will still be junior comp but your companion is someone that has two changes left in his mission and has never been senior comp. So he said he was just going to keep him down but then he prayed about it and said he had the inspiration to put him with me. He said with a junior comp but the RIGHT junior comp and that was me.. HAHA but then he said im the leader of retention for my zone. So in a form I guess I moved up a bit. haha But I love my comp he is great! Elder Jimenez. Well I dont have much time but here are some fotos. Love you all I will explain more next week!!

 

Elder Moon

 

Fotos didnt work.... sorry

October 31 pictures

my district
Elder Loo me Elder Otuafi Elder Orteaga
Herman garcia and Herman Angel

This lady just decided to jump in haha it was funny

 

these are my old friends. they are in a resting home were teaching the one on the left and the other one is a member the most faithful member i know. Studies his scriptures non stop because he has nothing else to do

October 31, 2011: Family

Hello my family!   How is everyone doing? Well Im doing better. I sat my comp down and made him talk to me and we worked somethings out. Things have been better. I now realize that his angry face is normal. But when hes angry he doesnt change. so you just cant really tell.. HAHA.. Well im not going to lie. I love Halloween.. I miss Halloween with my family. alot! Tonight in my area is suppose to be kinda crazy! They shut down the whole main road and there is just tons of people in the streets I guess. So i guess im ready for that. My family that i love here Familia Chavez are all really sad. They DO NOT want me to leave. But I will find out tonight if im staying or going sooo.. Pray for me haha! But at the same time it will be hard to leave this area. I love everyone in this area its great! Anywho things are good here and hopefully tonight will be fun.. But i dont know my comp says we cant have fun. ZERO FUN SIR... Well all i can say is Molly... say hi to Vaughan for me haha thats too bad they arent telling you when he is coming home. Just try to guess. he left the 11th of November so hes still got a week or two.. haha Well Im gonna send some pictures. so its kind of short love yall and hope all is well with the family!! Much love   Love Elder Moon