Transferred! "It's Provincia!! Sarmiento Zone!!"

Elders Wallace, Moe, Vickery, Albrechtsen, Harris and Haynie

Jan 28, 2019

1) If you were transferred, where did you end up? - I am in Jose C Paz 1 in the Sarmiento Zone!!

1a) What is the area is like? – It’s Provincia!! (Country side) No more big buildings or rich people ahahah. The main roads are paved but we walk on dirt roads almost all the time! Our area is huge. The houses are generally really small and a lot of them have been built by the people that live there. There are a ton of stray random dogs everywhere haha. The people are generally humble and nice. A lot more trees and a lot less people!! If you are out in the morning and during the siesta there is hardly anyone out haha its like a ghost town. But during the afternoon and night there are a pretty good amount of people out and about! 

 2) What is your companion like? - My comp is Elder Albrechtsen. He has been in the mission for a year now and is from Los Angeles. My first gringo companion!!

 3) What are your living conditions like compared to your other 2 areas - the pension (apartment) is big, it is basically like a small house, and we live with the elders who are opening JCP3! (we are both in the same ward, jcp2 is a different ward) They are elder Vickery and elder Wallace. They are studs, I love them. Elder Wallace is training elder Vickery who just left the ccm! So there is the topic of the Spanish... We really are trying to speak all Spanish unless we need to explain something to elder Vickery. It’s hard sometimes though because elder Vickery wants to speak a lot of English. Thus far, between me and Elder A, we have only spoken in Spanish so that’s good. But it is honestly super fun living with 4. We don’t have air conditioning hahaha. And it is super hot, but hey, it’s ok. Thus far it has basically been the exact same weather here that we have at home just flipped seasons.

 4) What is the ward like? - the ward thus far has been awesome! I already love the members here. They are super ready to always do missionary work and it is sweet, but there are A TON of less actives here.

5) Are you still being fed lunches by members? - yes

6)What is the transportation like?- we use the collectivos (busses) a lot because our area is huge, but yes we still walk a lot

7) Do you still have a bidet? Yes, but it sucks so we are buying paper.

That is so awesome about Isaac and Noah!!! Holy smokes that is insane. Five different languages in the family. That is sweet that Ricks got his Eagle!!!! 

It rained like all day Friday so it was all super muddy, it was super fun for the first 3 hours but after that I was doing my best to avoid the super muddy spots. The area is sweet, ill try to send some pics next week. Thank you for all your prayers, I love you so much mom. Thank you for everything.

But seriously mom, thank you for all you do for me and all your prayers. I love you so much.

Have a great week family!

Goodbye to Belgrano district

Elder Moe & Harris

Elders Wallace, Vickery & Moe

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VIDEO: The New Place

"Two New Investigators!"

Jan 21, 2019

This week was really awesome!  We were able to find two new investigators on Monday named Emilia and Pablo (names changed)! We had a great first lesson and they accepted a baptismal date of Feb 9th! 

Elias (named changed) is still progressing very well, he is super prepared for his baptism on the 2nd of February. We are going to plan his interview for this week. And the best news of all is that all three of them came to church this Sunday!! It was amazing and the members did an amazing job of talking and hermanaring (fellowshipping) them.  

I was praying so so so hard that all three of them would be able to make it to church; sometimes we pass by their house and walk with investigators to church but we decided we would see if they would come. They all came!! Then Sunday night we had a mini "noche de hogar" (Family Home Evening) with Santiago Mejia ( who just got back from a month and a half of vacations) and it was super good.

Elias is so so prepared and it has been awesome because he has been able to see all the changes and blessings that are coming in his life as he has tried to keep the commandments and read the Book of Mormon every day.

We did divisions with the zls (Zone Leaders) in Chacarita again this week and that was fun.  Elder Simmonds told me, "Habra muchos muchos cambios en la zona este translado" (There are going to be very very many changes in the zone this transfer) so I have no idea what is gonna happen.

Ya the new mission president comes in July! Presidente Zuñiga! Hahaha Elder Fuentes actually knows him, he is from Neuquen, Argentina. He is the dad of the girlfriend of one of Elder Fuentes's friends or something like that. Elder Fuentes knows his daughter. I wonder if we are going to be able to drink mate?? Every Argentine that ever lived drinks A TON of mate. It is basically a type of herbal tea, but we aren’t allowed to drink it as missionaries.

Love you family!!

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Video: Rain or Shine

"Another Lesson with Elias" / "Videos of Sam and Ethan"

Elders Moe & Harris

Jan 14, 2019

We had another lesson with Elias (name changed) this week and it was awesome!! Hahah and then this Saturday we woke up early and went running with him in Parque 3 de Febrero!! Hahaha it was actually super fun. He has a baptismal date for 2 of February and he came to church this week!!

Hahahaha I loved the videos of Sam and Ethan. I’m so glad they visited you guys, its good to see that they haven’t changed at all. Well, Sam’s rap skills have gotten a little bit better since his jig at the senior grad bash, that has changed.

In the mission picture with Elder Gong, find the guy who is sitting in the front row on the far right, my face is directly in line with his, five rows up.

This week was good! I did divisions with Elder Galves and Harris this week, they both came here to Belgrano with me. Other than that, nothing much else happened this week. I am getting quite tan which is nice.

Yep we are in week 6 of the transfer, so in two weeks you guys will know where I am (calls come in Monday night)

Elder Fuentes is learning a lot of English!! We had dinner with the family Jackman this week and she made something similar to alfredo, it was so good. And she had made pumpkin cookies!! Oh they were so good. It was crazy talking all in English for a solid hour.

Spiritual highlight... idk I just love studying the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon is the best.

I sent a video for Sam and Ethan, sorry my Spanish is so so gringaso...

Love you family!! My soccer is improving a little tiny bit at a time and my basketball skills are decreasing, haha.

Elder Moe

Mission pic with Elder Gong

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Video: Hi to Sam and Ethan

"Two Hour Church Was Wild" / "At Least We Have One Investigator Still"

Jan 7, 2019

I studied the Come Follow Me book last pday and probably will again today. I love it, it is so awesome, with all the scripture references, it’s basically like, "here take this personal revelation!" Ya these changes are crazy, I love it! 

Two hour church was wild!! But we had ward counsel at 9 anyway so we were at church for 4 hours still, yay. Eleena (named changed) is moving so we are gonna have to pass her info to the hermanas de Palermo and they can baptize her. Some guy that has talked to the missionaries before came to the church out of the blue when we were having interviews with President; he just said he felt like he needed to come so he did. We had an amazing lesson and he has been so prepared! But he doesn’t live in Belgrano so we will have to send his reference to another area. We did find one more person named Elias (named changed) and he seems very prepared as well, and he lives in Belgrano!!! We have had one lesson with him and it was good and we will have another in this week to come. So, at least we have one investigator still!!!! The Lord is directing the work here, I know He is, He is teaching me a lot of things right now that I need to learn that I would probably be too proud to learn if we had a bunch of investigators and baptisms. He is here with me and I am learning a ton!!!

I love the Burris Valley shirt dad! I wear my retainers every night! My shoes are all holding up perfectly fine. Yes, I am drinking a lot of water.

I love Ethan and Sam, they are the best. Tell them I love them. I cant imagine Dad speaking Spanish, its kinda crazy, I bet he has a super gringo accent... jk tell him to send me a video of him talking in Spanish. 

We played soccer today!! I still am really really bad but I am getting better!! It was really fun.

Love you family!!

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Video: Argentina Cultural Tip #2 - The Bidet