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 ;) 

November 2nd, 2012: Family

Dear Family,

This week was fun a good week. I once again missed Halloween at the house. I thought about pumpkin dinner alot. I love but thats okay it was my last time missing it! But it was kind of weird this year for halloween we couldnt even go work. All of the missionaries had to be in their houses at 6 It was kind of a bummer. But it was ok because President came to our house to study with us and it was super awesome. I learned so much. I learned that I need to study a lot better. I doubt too much in the revelations that I recieve from the spirit. I just need to trust in the spirit more. It was great! I learned so much! I love President Brough and I have the greatest opportunity to work close with him. its really great! Time is going by way too fast for me though. I dont feel like I have time to do anything anymore. This week has just flown by and it is changes in ten days. Elder Jaramillo leaves the office this change so that will be weird. This change we are opening 5 areas so we have been running all over to buy all the things for the houses and also going on hunts to find houses in those areas its been fun. The mission is growing and growing fast! next change we will be opening 6 or 7 areas and so next change will be really crazy! We are going to be looking for houses for all of next change. The bad thing is, is that next change is only 5 weeks. because they didnt want changes to be the day after christmas. so that will be crazy! Also with those areas that we are opening I think I will be opening one and training sooo that will be super duper!! I sure hope so!! I dont know what I will do! Keep in your prayers family Lemus and Marroquin they are both such great families. Fam. Lemus should be baptized this weekend but we will have to seee.. Fam. Marroquin can be baptized at anytime. They are such great people and so ready they are just waiting for some reason! The Sister is waiting on here answer still but I think she just needs to recognize it! They are just too great! They will be baptized thats for sure! Well I sure do love you all! I get to go work today a little early so that will be fun I love you all and hope you are all doing super great!!! Miss you all and Happy birthday to Zach and Thank you for the blanket Grandma Jake!!!!!  I absolutely LOVE IT!!! Thanks a billion!! Also I dont know if you have sent my Christmas package but in another package I need some shirts. I seem to have lost some shirts and also some socks and also someone stole my USA soccer jersey im so sad. Can keep track of much in our house. HAHA but I would love some Pretzle m&ms they are great and alsoooo I dont know you always send great packages! maybe some hand written letters would be fun. Pictures and just love!! I love you all..Send my love to Cami! She will be great!! 

Love your missionary!! 

Elder Moon

      Secretario

 Misión Guate Central ;) 

October 19th, 2012: Family

Dear Family! 

  Well long time no talk. Im sorry I havent written for a while, we have been super super busy with all of the registros and we have had a lot of zone conferences and stuff sooo its been a long couple weeks but next week things should kind of settle down in the office hopefully! But things are great! I am doing super good. My companion and I are working really hard. Elder Vindas is my new companion from Costa Rica and he is great! He is learning everything here in the office super fast and so things are great! We also are hoping to baptize 6 people this month so pray, pray, and pray some more. We have a great family that is super duper ready but for some reason they don´t feel completely ready yet. They want to learn more about the church yet. They are so ready to be baptized the most ready I have every seen anyone but still want to wait. So they definitely need some prayers. We explained to them about the temple and they loved it they said yeah thats something that we want. But after they asked when I was leaving to my house and I said May and then they got super sad and said so wait you wont even be here when we get sealed! So im just super confused with this family. I know they will be baptized but they are just wanting to be sure i guess. they are great though! Also we have a great family of 4 that will be baptized. Its not a complete family because the mom is single but she has 4 boys that are super awesome and love the church alot after going one time. We past by the church last night and one of the kids was there practicing a dance with all of the young men that they are going to do in the stake this month so that is super awesome as well. So hopefully they will be baptized the 28th we are sure hoping to be able to baptize a lot together we have been working really hard and the Lord is blessing us a lot! Well I sure do love all of you and next week hope to have a longer letter. Hows my Grandmas? Hows The Texas Moons doing? What part of Chile are you going to Stef? Are you going to see David? An Elder here in the office Elder Araya is from Santiago. Julie Ann I love you! Miss your quick emails!! Welp cool beans! I sure do love you all and miss you all!! Much Love!!!

We are doing some contacting... haha

Some General Conference fun! 

Sister Wilcox... We have to take pictures of the newbys haha they are still on my camera! 
She is doing great by the way! He companion is awesome.. She was once in my district.. She is in San Lucas where I was one time.. cool eh??

LOVE YOU ALL
Elder Moon

Secretario

Misión Guate Central ;) 

September 27th, 2012: Family

Hey Family

Hello everyone how is yall doing? I am doing good! Dont have much time to write but I just thought Id say hello and I love you all and send some pictures! Everything seems to be doing good. This week has been busy because next week is changes already and we had to prepare for all of those! It should be a some good changes! We are getting a new Assistant and a new executive secretary! It should be cool.. Also I am receiving a new companion as well. I am getting Elder Vindas from Costa Rica! I cant wait he is a great kid! But yes it is true Elder Walbeck is being sent home for health issues.. Im super bumed out for him. I feel bad but I think it will be for the best! I love him so much but he has to go welp so do I!! I love you all

playing ball with president and the office crew 

Elder Jaramillo and i after playing ball in presidents car with sister broughs glasses!! hahha!! 

Love 

 

Elder Moon

Secretario

Misión Guate Central ;) 

September 13th, 2012: Family

Dear Family,

   Well this past week was a pretty good week! We have a family getting ready for baptism and should be baptized this next week! We are really excited for them! Family Jimenez. Angel and Nanci, they are awesome! Funny story on saturday we were driving all over the mission in the morning. It was really a rough morning. First we had to take a mini missionary to the coast which is like a 2 hour ride and then to another area like 20 minutes away to take a fridge to. So it took the whole morning on saturday! We had to make a lot of stops on the way back just droping off random things at houses. Anywho after we were all done we had to take the truck to presidents because he needed it for the weekend. After we droped it off we had guy that worked at the place president lives call a taxi. After getting home and leaving the taxi we were finally ready to work. But.... one thing I had left our cell in the taxi sooooo we spent a couple more hours on trying to call the taxi service place to get us back the cell phone... Good thing we didnt just get some random taxi that day because it would have been long gone. But Still we spent the whole weekend trying to find where our cell phone was. Finally on monday we were able to go to their offices and get the cell phone back. It was quite the fight but we did it! It was funny but really annoying because I had to keep calling and keep calling this taxi place. It was kind of a weird weekend but we got it back. But I know I know it just sounds like typical me but i was really really tired from that morning. But thats okay we learn from our mistakes. It was kind of funny. Good thing we got it back though! 

  Today I guess a Volcano exploaded here in Guatemala. Crazy huh! Luckly where we are we wont be too effected but if I would have been in either one of my last areas I would have been alot closer. Right now we are kind of in a panic trying to get a hold of all the missionaries so that we can tell them they all have to be prepared with 72 hour kits haha crazy but super cool. I dont know if we will get any of the volcanic ash but ill send you pictures if so. Last time this happened I remember the mission turned into a service mission for 3 days but I think this time it might be differnt I dont know though. But Anyyywhoo.. Hows the family doing? How are my lovely Grandmas doing? I sure do love them! I love you all so much and I feel all of your prayers. keep praying hoping that we will reach 300 baptisms as a mission thing month! We are doing well so far. right now we have 125 baptisms. Thats great for the first two weeks. That gives us 3 weeks to get 175 baptisms and its should be great! We should be able to get it! It just puts alot of work for me and my comp with all the dats and baptismal records! hah But I love it! the more work the better! Well I love you all so much and would love to hear from yall!!! Love yall and miss yall. Keep on being a great family! and Thanks mom and dad for all that you do!! Much Love!!!

Elder Moon

Secretario

Misión Guate Central ;)