Sooo this week was absolutely a crazy one...
To start, I will answer a couple of your questions. I will just tell a little more about Elder Clark! He is super funny, and we are super weird together. He is from Idaho and Utah and also a little bit Arizona. He has moved a ton. His family is huge, 11 in total, and he is the 2nd to youngest of the 9 children. Anyway, he is really cool!
Elder Clark being a goober haha..an Idaho hick!
As far as the Spanish is coming, it is definitely better. I was really improving a ton with my comps that could only speak Spanish especially. Elder Clark and I always said we would only speak Spanish to each other, and then 30 seconds later we would realize that we were speaking English again. It was pretty rough. But overall, I feel super comfortable speaking. A good way to measure if you feel comfortable with Spanish yet is to talk to a latino in Spanish over the phone. That is the absolute hardest way to understand when they speak. But I am totally improving in that haha.
The food situation in the office is kind of a weird one. To be honest, we eat a lot at places like McDonalds and Subway, because when we are running around buying things or on errands, we really don't have much time. But also, there is a place right next to the Office Building that we also go to a lot that is pretty cheap Nicaraguan food, so it is almost like having a lunch appointment every day. But we don't have any breakfast or dinner appointments. In the mornings, I usually make some oatmeal or eat some cereal, or have a bagel. It's pretty easy to have access to food like that here in Managua!
My morning oatmeal!
So our investigator Margina actually ended up coming to church on Sunday, which was pretty nice! But after the first hour, she told us that she had to leave, so we said we would stop by later that day. We did just that and upon arriving, we saw over the fence (because I am pretty tall here) that her and her husband were home. She came to open the gate out front and said, "to be sincere, I don't want to come anymore. I promised that I would come today, so I did, but we have our church." So then we asked if her husband was home(already knowing that he was of course) and she said that he wasn't, that he was out working.... I withheld the smart remark about how we had seen him over the fence and just said, "ok, thank you and bye." haha that was a tough one for me.
But on a brighter note, Marina also came to the church with us. I don't remember if i have talked about her, but we were teaching her and her two grandchildren, who are 14 and 15. They are super receptive! We also started teaching her daughter in law a bit. Anyway, only she came to church, but she totally loved it, and she and the grandkids are totally coming to General Conference!!! Sadly, there was a little change this week.
So President Collado asked this week if I was ready to take it solo yet on Monday, and I decided that I was ready enough, so we gathered together all in his office and he told us that Elder Maradiaga would be my new comp, and that Elder Chén and Elder Clark would be comps. So I have yet another new comp! haha If anyone else was keeping track, I have had 7 now :) That is more than some people have in their whole mission...So anyway, with that change we also changed our investigators. Elder Clark still works in the area, he is just with Elder Chen now. So they took the investigators that we had, and we took the ones that E. Maradiaga and E. Chen had. But this week has been super busy too.... We have two of the busiest responsibilities in the mission (just putting it out there) and now we have to organize our time well enough to get both of our responsibilities done as one companionship! I have already seen how hard it is going to be! Because a lot of my responsibilities are out of the office running around, and basically all of the responsibilities of Elder Maradiaga are in the office.... So it has been hard so far, but we are working on planning better the things that we have to do so that we can get to work in the area more during the week. So sadly with the lack of time we have had in the area, we have not been able to find almost anyone to teach. It is kind of sad, but we will change that soon!
We had a super cool zone meeting this week where we worked on committing to church in a more loving way, and at the end we did a really cool commitment to being more obedient. Elder Clark and Elder Chen (our zone leaders) made a Title of liberty for the zone that we all signed to be more obedient, so that was really fun and got everyone excited!
Our Zone Title of Liberty
Lastly, this morning we visited what they call a Paca. It is basically a thrift store of thrift stores, which means that thrift stores donate the clothes that never really get sold, to these places like this. So we found a bunch of church books in English and I took a picture. We also found a bag of like 30 ties that cost about 80 cents total. Sure a lot of them are worn and tattered maybe, but they'll make great gifts to people here that don't have ties!! haha
The random church books that they have for about 20 cents a piece.
I didn't buy those ones though...
My new ties :) I am so happy about that one!
For real it is like Christmas for a missionary to get something like that!
Funny Story:
So I think the tiredness is getting to my speaking abilities. We were in Quiznos buying lunch for a meeting and as we were leaving I said "donde podemos exitar." (trying to say where can we exit) For those of you that don't speak Spanish, exitar does not mean to exit, salir means to exit. For those that do speak Spanish, you might find a little more meaning behind this accident, something that I learned after it was explained to me. Needless to say, I don't think I will be making that mistake again...
Spiritual Thought:
The importance of planning is real! haha I think in home life too! Not just as a missionary. We could waste soo much time doing nothing if we do not plan very well. So I would advise you to maybe plan a little better, so you can have extra time in your life to meet/visit the missionaries and help them teach other people with your extra time :)
Love you all!!
Elder Moser
A couple more pics from this week...
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