3 more days!

That's right! In 3 small days I will receive my new companion!!! AND President already told me who it is!! And it is not at all who I thought it would be. I thought it would be Elder Hobbs, and oddly enough, he was not made financier, but he is ZL in my zone as of 2 weeks ago. The new financier will be Elder Campbell! Recognize the name?! Yep! My MTC companion is going to be the next financier!! So yeah in three days I will not be the man in charge of the money anymore!! But I will be in the office for 6 more weeks training him...haha so I am not going anywhere soon.

On the note of the work in the area, things are going pretty good. This past week, we baptized Carlos Aguilera, the little brother of Jose Antonio and Everth Aguilera. His parents finally gave him permission. And he was super happy about it. His mom was complaining that he was a misbehaved child one of the nights that we went to teach, and when he said the prayer, he asked God that he could not be so misbehaved so that his mom would be happier. It was honestly really awesome, and changed her perspective a lot. So that was a big moment that helped her decided to let him get baptized. Also because she was able to see a change in the older brothers behavior. They are the two that got baptized with their grandma in October! So the family is growing little by little. At some point, the parents, Idania and Ernesto will decide to get married, and then they will be baptized.

At the Baptism of Carlos!

His older Brother, Jose Antonio, was just ordained a priest about 3 weeks ago, so he got to baptize him!

The Whole family. Eventually everyone in that picture will be members of the church, but they just really like to take their time and give in one by one. haha

Carlos Dwarte is doing really well right now! He has been having lots of appointments with his doctor lately because he just had laser surgery on his eyes like 1 month ago, right before we met him. But he is doing awesome and is progressing super fast. We taught him the word of wisdom after conference last week and he was totally down to just stop drinking coffee. It was so awesome his example of just doing what God asks, and not asking questions. He hasn't drank any coffee since, and says he is having no problems! Such a good example.

Helen is going to get baptized TOMORROW!!! After many questions and doubts, and many times of feeling the spirit, she finally decided that she already knew that it was true and that she needed to be baptized! It was so awesome to see her progression over time. The spirit trying and trying to enter into her heart many times. Her heart getting softer and softer each time until finally it got in and she had a change of heart! I won't forget the first day we visited and all she wanted to do was ask a ton of questions like why we don't drink coffee, why we believe in polygamy, and all sorts of things like that. But she has come a loooong way! :)

This last conference weekend was awesome!! And I felt sooo good listening to the profet and the authorities in Spanish. I understood sooo much better than I did in October. So I actually learned a lot and was very uplifted by the messages. We have to go to the stake center to watch it, which is about 20 minutes away by car, or like 1 hour walking I would guess (I have never walked) so getting our investigators there was tricky. But I will forever be in debt to Luis Sarantes, for helping us with his car, and coming to ALL 5 sessions of conference. He seriously helped us so much taking investigators on Sunday morning and afternoon, and taking us on Saturday to all three sessions. So yeah, we were able to bring several people to the conference in the stake center.

I think that the common topic of families and marriage was great and all, but I will have to take it as more of new teaching material rather than personal application because...I'm a missionary... and right now I am not with my family...haha! I think one of my personal favorites from that theme of talks was Boyd K. Packer's talk! He was so direct and sincere about the sacred power and responsibility of procreation, and the blessing it is in our lives. The power it has to bring us closer to God, when we align ourselves with what he has asked us. But I think that one of my favorite talks of all was Elder Dale G. Renlund, and his talk about how the Latter-day saints keep trying. I loved 2 main points that he talked about. 1 that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying. It is so true! There are two types of people in the world. Sinners and sinners! The first type is the type that doesn't do anything about it and just continues in their way, and the second are the people who are trying to be better, and use the atonement of Jesus Christ to become better and keep trying. The second point I really liked is that we have to have patience with others. It is interesting how really we are all the same, like he said about the missionary that looked back and his comp was off his bike just walking. To God, we all seem really alike. We are people trying to become better and better and we have to have patience and respect for others when they, just like us, aren't perfect. I love how he closed with the statement:
If we don’t try, we’re just latter-day sinners; if we don’t persevere, we’re latter-day quitters; and if we don’t allow others to try, we’re just latter-day hypocrites.10 As we try, persevere, and help others to do the same, we are true Latter-day Saints.
It is such true and powerful statement! And it just makes me want to be an even more patient person! And keep making an effort to be a true Latter-day Saint!

I could go on for days about all of the talks of conference, but I really liked that one, so for now I will leave it with that! haha And with that thought I will close.

Love, Elder Moser

The new Monday night tradition in the office. Factory pizza and Frescuva