Elder Preston Moe in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission: "HE IS MY NEW TRAINER!!!" and in Belgrano!

Elder Moe's new companion, Elder Morel!

Oct. 8, 2018

Thank you for the pictures!!! I love them! hahahahaha Ok Mom, sorry I'm probably not going to be able to answer all your questions this week because I have lots to tell you!!

I have AMAZING NEWS! I didn’t just get to see Elder Morel at conference.... HE IS MY NEW TRAINER!!! (Elder Morel, from Paraguay, was an exchange student while living in Salt Lake at the same time that my brother Brinton was serving his mission there a few years ago. Elder Morel, not an Elder at the time, would go out on splits with Brinton. They were great friends! After graduation, Elder Morel went back to Paraguay and ended up getting his mission call to Buenos Aires Argentina North Mission!) Saturday morning, Oct 6 – third week in the field, President called and informed me that an Elder in another area had just gone home for personal reasons mid transfer, and he felt inspired that I needed to move there and take his place. He told me to get packing. Within an hour I was leaving Tigre in a taxi. I arrived at the apartment building and my new trainer was nowhere to be found. I was so worried and stressed. Then a missionary walked into the door and the weight of the world was lifted off my shoulders as I saw the face of Javi Morel!! I am so so so so excited to be here, and this emergency transfer has been such an answer to my prayers. I am so happy here and so ready to work! Elder Morel and I have already been able to become pretty tight and he is helping me a ton with my Spanish. Because of the unity in our companionship, I feel like I am a lot closer to the spirit and the language has started coming faster and my love for missionary work has increased.

Belgrano is capital, meaning we are literally in the big city. It is super cool, VERY different from Tigre, but very cool. The people here hardly ever want to talk to us hahaahah! But with the Lord’s help, we are about to tear this area up. Our pension (apartment) is sweet, you should be receiving a video in the drive (the computers are much newer here:)

No, I have not gotten sick! I have been very good physically! I have been sleeping great! No, I have not had to use my sleeping bag. I probably will during the winter, but for now sheets and the soft blanket I got when I arrived are more than enough.

I got to watch conference here in English with the new crew!!! I am now in the Belgrano-Norte Zone! There are two stakes in our zone (Belgrano and Norte); this is where all the general authorities of the area come to church hhaha! It is a super nice building and has a family history center right next to it.

We walk a lot! We walked a lot in Tigre too! But I like it! Me and Elder Morel just talk to each other while we walk, its fun! Sometimes we talk in English and sometimes in Spanish! And sometimes we just talk in both haha! He is a very good teacher.

There is only a sliver of bad news... this is Elder Morel’s last transfer. So we only have three weeks together. After that I will probably get a new trainer here in Blegrano, but I will most likely be the only one of us to have been in the area before so I will have to lead the area. Oh well, President just told me not to think about it and focus on our work here right now!

I loved loved conference. I felt the spirit so flipping strong when President Nelson was announcing the new temples. It was so good, a few stood out to me, I’ll share notes next week. I love the new home focused church supported schedule. I couldn’t stop thinking of Becca the entire time. I knew that you guys would follow this new counsel and that Becca will benefit a ton from it. The blessings will be tremendous. Becca will be able to become so so so so strong through this home study, She will enter the mission field as a huge force to be reckoned with. Oh gosh, I love the fact that we have a Prophet on the earth.

Love you dad, I talk about you all the time. When people compliment me on my spanish I just tell them that my dad taught me a lot before I left. While definitly true, you are also my scapegoat to humility. Thanks hahaha! love you!

Elder Moe

Finally able to send some pictures! Lots of these are from the CCM, a few are from my three weeks in Tigre with Elders Correa and Orellana, and the last are with Elder Morel in our new area of Belgrano.