Today is a New Day!!

Wow this week was pretty awesome!! And as usual, really crazy. I have already explained my role in the changes from the last two that I have been through, so I will not bore you with the random info and all that stuff.

But this last Monday, Elder Maradiaga and I received a new companion!! And he is going to be the new Records Secretary, so Elder Maradiaga will be teaching him how things work for the next two weeks now, and then It will be just us two! Elder Maradiaga will be going to serve in PUERTO CABEZAS as a Miskito Missionary!! Which means that he has to learn a new language: Miskito!! It is totally just a native language of here in the East coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. So my new companion is Elder Velazquez and he is from Costa Rica. He has about 3 months in the mission now, just like I was when I came into the office!! I guess President wants all the newbies in the office! He is 19 and he loves to dance. He even did this really awesome dance in the Christmas talent show that we had in the Hilton. Other than that, I don't know much more about him yet.

Some pics of the companionship! So presh.

On another note, that random phone call that you received has a really funny story. So we were in the airport on Tuesday morning dropping off some people that were finished with the mission, and as we were standing there waiting for them to check in, a man walks up to us and says "how are you Elders! I am Kevin Pearson, and I am a member of the 70!" So we talked with him for a bit, and asked why he was here in Nicaragua and stuff like that, and then another came up and said, "hello, I am José Teixeira" (I had to look up how to spell it) And they told us that they were there on a charity trip. Then came up the other man, Danny. He was big, had really long hair, and a huge beard. He said, "hello how are you? I know who you guys are! If you give me the phone number of your mom, I'll give her a call and tell her that you are looking all right, and that everything is going great for you!" So I decided, yolo, and gave him the number. So he called you and I was really happy to hear that he actually did it! haha But also, we randomly met two members of the Seventy on a charity trip with this random guy! So that was awesome.

Also,  President let us go to the Volcano Masaya again this week!! Because we didn't really get to enjoy it a ton when we went with all the others, we were busy being secretaries taking people back and forth in the car. But life went on, because we got to come back!!! It was so awesome, because this time there was not pressure, we got to go and just relax!!!

These are all pics from our visit for the second time to the Volcano :)

We took advantage and taught some of the missionary lessons to the volcano.

Also another pic from higher up of the volcano.

On the more spiritual note, I am back in a trio, and as I learned back in the MTC, teaching in a trio can be rather difficult. So before we got to some of our lessons, we did a little planning so that we would teach in unity, but in reality it was a disaster!! Until at one point in the lesson, we let the investigator, Jonathan, speak for a bit, and we started to teach him, not the lesson. We started to follow the Spirit, not what we wanted to teach. And things took a 180. Instead of telling us that his time investigating the church was already over, he told us that he would be able to come again in the next Sunday. And he started to really listen and take to heart what we were teaching. It was truly a testament that when the Spirit teaches through us, it is 1,000 times more effective than when we teach alone, maybe disregarding what the Spirit is telling us. I love the blessing I see in the work every day, and nothing is better than being able to see people progressing in the gospel to become better. Even if they don't make it to baptism in my time, they have take steps closer to be ready for the next missionaries!

Elder Velazquez is super excited to work really hard and I am so ready to be right there with him. I am going treat the area like a brand new area, but with the advantage that I already know the members pretty well, so I don't have to spend much time getting to know them, I can just jump right in with Elder Velazquez to get their help to baptize and establish the church in Ducualí! I love this Gospel with all my heart, and I don't know where I would be without it, but I do know that I would feel without a purpose in this life. Like the motivation was missing. Knowing the plan that our Heavenly Father has for us gives me the desire to be better each day and I want to help others have that desire too! I hope that all of you can start now to work to have that desire if you don't have it, and if you do, make it stronger!

Love You All!

Elder Moser

More pics from the volcano...

This is what we call a hueco or a hole.  And I decided to take a picture of me in the hole... thats really about it...

This is the inactive volcano right next to the active volcano. We were going to teach it to try to activate it again, but we decided not to.

Climbing up to the best viewpoint!

This is a great view of the south mission! haha and the lake Nicaragua.

I survived the Charles Dental Group, at the Volcano Masaya!! ;) haha

Some sweet missionary plaque pics! I think they're sweet!