Elder Preston Moe in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission: "Starting December With A Bang!"

Dec. 2, 2019

Thanks for the email family!! Since the last the last time I officially wrote, I've been transferred to a new area. I'm now in the Liniers Zone and Elder Andrus from my CCM group

is my companion!

Thanksgiving was fun; that afternoon we went to the mission offices and stayed the night there with a bunch of other elders because we had a leadership counsel early Friday morning. Elder Vickery was making pumpkin pie but I didn’t get to try any because he didn’t finish it until late and we had to go to another pension.

Well we are starting December with a bang! It’s so nuts that it’s already December.

I woke up at 4:30 on Sunday morning and my stomach didn’t feel good, so I got out of bed and went to the bathroom… Then the diarrhea started - 100% liquid. My stomach started feeling worse and the diarrhea kept going. I feel like the Lord never answers my prayers faster than when I am on the edge of vomiting. I was literally having diarrhea when I started praying, “Oh please no, I don’t want to puke.” My stomach started feeling worse; I absolutely hate that feeling. Luckily the bathtub is right next to the toilet, because right after thinking the words, “Oh Padre, que se haga tu voluntad no mas,” (Oh Father, Thy will be done) I fell off the toilet onto my knees and puked up the mountains of food I had eaten that day. The first time puking on my mission!!

So I felt terrible, but we went to church anyway!! We were able to help three of our friends get to church and we had a total of 9 of our friends there! We have a zone goal of 12 for the month of December, and the goal for our area is 3! I told you we were starting off December with a bang!

We came back to the pension after sacrament meeting because I felt horrible. I puked one more time after church, but I’m feeling pretty good now! I was absolutely miserable for about four hours that afternoon though.

This week we stopped by a few of our friends' house and they were outside playing "volleyball" with some of their neighbors (the net was a construction fence). I’ll finish the story next week. I’m out of time. Love you all!