Beach Baptisms

Well this was quite the week!! We actually managed to have a little Thanksgiving celebration! On Thursday, we got together with our district and we made Crepes and potatoes and smoothies!! It was super awesome because we got to celebrate in our own little way! And we all had a lot of fun! Elder Walker put on his pilas pants and made a bunch of crepes (40) so that we could all stuff our faces and have a good time. So it was a Thanksgiving to remember!!

Our Thanksgiving day crepe making! Super fun and super good! Riquísimo

Us making the crepes.

Our Thanksgiving "feast!"

We are officially blue collar workers now! We had a sweet little service project on Saturday! We helped out the Watson family! They are reconstructing a part of their house so we helped them set the foundation and put in some bricks! It was a lot of fun and I actually broke like 15 sweats! They are an awesome family and they are also helping us a lot with some of our investigators!! But it turned out to be a super fun little project! Elders Walker and Sherle helped us out as well!

We had baptisms in the ocean this week! There has not been water in Puerto for like 9 days now, so all of the tanks in the church are sucked dry and we could not fill the baptismal font. Luckily we are blessed with a nice "plan b" and we could take them down to the ocean!! The normal service went alright, but then there was a companionship that wanted to baptize in the evening so we stayed down there and helped them out! I got to be a witness in the ocean! :) It was awesome and really tempting just to swim but I didn't...haha

A little beach baptism flex going on! 

 When I was a witness for the baptism at 7 at night! :)

So I have been working on being more patient and this week in particular I have noticed that I have been much more patient in general! I have not gotten angry or frustrated at all! I just feel a lot happier! So my challenge is...try to be patient and you will be happier!! Christlike attributes! they work :)

Love You !!
Elder Moser

Other pics this week...

They finally decided that we walked too much so they got us a much more efficient mode of transportation!

My new bike to get around to my appointments! ;)

I am thankful for the mission!

Well here comes Thanksgiving! Even though I am not going to do anything for it, I am really thankful for my chance to be here! So yeah, for Thanksgiving without turkey and gravy and stuffing and potatoes! Anyway, enough of that stuff! Thank you to everyone that is supporting me always and praying for me. I am grateful for you guys!

So it rained every day again this week and I had to wear boots again all week! Apparently there is some sort of storm coming in. Not a hurricane or anything, but just a big storm. They say that the rainy season is over but that this storm is here. So yay for rain!!!

Here we are, the suits with boots crew!

Elder Monson got a pretty sweet dog bite this week! It was pretty lame how it happened. All we did was just walk in the street and it was resting and out of no where it jumped out and grabbed Monson by the pants and a little of his leg! It ripped his pants from his mid shin all the way up to his mid thigh! Luckily the dog wasn't sick or anything.

This was quite the week!! We had district conference! That was actually pretty stressful but also pretty exciting! Andres showed up very well dressed! He looks great in a shirt and tie! Elder Compton left a shirt and tie for him and he started using them now!! They look nice!! He is super awesome!

With Andres at the district conference.

I really feel like this week, I learned the importance of something. We have so many things in life that we complain about and that we can complain about. It is the same in the mission. Elder Monson told me this week that the mission is like walking through a field of roses. As we are going through, all we feel are the thorns and the pains. It hurts, it is hard. The beauty of the situation seems small. But as we take a look back to see what we have gone through, all we see are the beautiful roses, the wonderful blessings that we have received, the awesome testimony builders. All is so beautiful! It 's the same with life! It may hurt as we are going through, but if we just push through doing our best we can look back and have wonderful memories.

Love you all! Have a great week and a happy Thanksgiving!

Other pics this week...

At the house of Andres!

Teaching Hilario. That pile of stuff on the deck is turtle shell!

The turtle shells.

At the barber shop.

I just threw away all of my skirts! I'm not a sister anymore!

Hola familia!

So there is a joke in the mission that when you hit 18 months, you are no longer a sister because all of the sisters that came with you are home! And now I am living that! haha That is so freaking crazy! I just threw away all of my skirts mom. I might need you to send me some pants! ;) haha It just means that now I have to work even harder! It is that time that I just gotta kick it into gear and work!

This was a pretty great week! I named a baby. That is a pretty common thing here that I hadn't done before! Elder Monson has done it 7 times now. But we named the baby Benjamin Maxwell Seymore Viciente. He will grow to be a great person someday. Sadly the people weren't very receptive to the Gospel.

I got pooped on by a pigeon this week. We were just casually teaching a lesson and upon sharing about the first vision I felt a warm "rain drop". It wasn't rain...so I just toughed it out............ anyway. I got it cleaned up, and we finished the lesson.

I played a little bit of soccer on Thursday with a convert. Just like 3 minutes, and then they complained that I was too good! ;) But the important fact being that my goalie was a 20 year old drunk kid. He was drunk out of his mind but he made a pretty good goalie. He was not afraid at all to dive and drag his face on the ground. We saw him the next day and he was pretty scraped up. Good times!

At points of the mission, it can be discouraging the amount of people that pretend to want to hear, but in the end just don't change. I got a little discouraged this week, but then this member shared with me Alma 29. Alma wished that he could preach as if he were an angel. But he couldn't so he had to be satisfied with being a man. And that he always felt great joy when even one person would be receptive and repent. That helped me to get motivated again and keep up the good work!

Love you all,

Elder Moser

This was a pretty good week! I will just let the rest of the pictures talk for me! ;)

Taking out the trash...

It rained all week, it was flooded all week and I wore my rain boots all week!

More of the flooding!!

Still more!

Got ready for the day. Just in case we come across some ROUSs. Gotta be prepared always!

Nicaraguan cemetery...so many crosses

Killing Miracles!

Its official! I am a murderer! I killed Elder Compton!! He is no longer with me. And we make it a wonderful finish! This was such a great week!!!

Well, there he went..... goodbye Elder Compton!

So just to start off, I had the opportunity to work in another area on divisions and we worked with a member named Anthony! He is an awesome guy that just talked to everyone as we passed them in the street! As we got to talking so that we could get to know him, Elder Alvarado (my comp from Managua) and I found out that he was baptized by Elder Champayne!!! Nice work Sawyer! haha Everyone has been asking me about Sawyer this week. The hermana Jenny says hello! hahah So that was pretty cool!

With the Hermano Antonio that I talked about in the email

We had a wonderful miracle this week! We met this couple that is so nice and cute! And they were just so ready to be baptized!! It was such a miracle! We were walking by our convert Olympia´s house, and some little girls that are neighbors told us that we needed to go over there to look at something. So we went over and we met Snayder and Xiomara! They literally asked us if we could help baptized them and of course we said yes. So we put a goal that they could be baptized in 3 weeks and they seemed slightly disappointed. We asked some more questions and they told us that they had already visited the church several times and heard a lot about the doctrine and wanted to be baptized and follow in the church. We checked their knowledge of the doctrina, y sabian bastante! We didn't even have to really teach them anything. They asked if they could be married and baptized a lot sooner. So we helped them do it this weekend! Crazy!! Ah, they are so awesome! When we went to go to church with them on Sunday, they were already half way there! He was asking about how long it would take to have a calling in the church. So we are going to help them get some callings pretty soon!

The marriage and baptism of Snayder and Xiomara!

They are so awesome! And they were a huge miracle in this last week that we had together! Elder Compton and I had been praying for miracles and we found a family that was way prepared desde antes!

My new comp now is Elder Monson! He is the same one that I have mentioned antes. He is super awesome and I know that our time together is going to be great! He is from Salt Lake City and he has a twin! That is so cool! I think it would be awesome to have a twin. He has 3 months less than me in the mission, but like 4 months more than me in Puerto! But we are companions now! And we are going to do work! If there is anything more you would like to know about him let me know!

This week, a missionary shared a really cool example to me. He said that we need to imagine two paths in life. The first is more or less like this: <>. this is the path of satan. As you can see (it is really small, but follow here with me) the path starts out really big and gets bigger! We have so much "freedom", we can cheat, break the word of wisdom, save time by not going to church or reading scriptures and just do everything wrong. But as we go farther, the path gets smaller. We get addictions, we don't learn in life, we can't get a good job, we maybe have a child before planned. All depending on the sin to be "free" After these consequences, we no longer have the "freedom" that we had before! The path gets a lot smaller and we get trapped!
The path of Got looks like this: ><. It starts a little big, but gets smaller and smaller! We have to be more careful. More strict with the things we watch, our thoughts and actions to live according to the commandments. But in the end, we are smarter, we get a better job, we have a wonderful and healthy family, we don't have any addictions. We are happy and truly free. The path becomes much wider! So choose the straight and narrow because it will be larger at the end of the road! :)

Love Elder Moser

More pics this week...

In the district meeting!

 A cool part that we found in the area.

Studying by candle light with Gabriel!

Yes, I eat fish now! :)

We went out to the dock! They were constructing so we got to help them out. 

More of the last P-day activities!

Rat Hunting, Iguana Catching, and the other stuff!

Well this week was actually pretty eventful! YAYAYA haha We had to go to Managua as we normally do at the beginning of the month so that happened! It was actually a pretty interesting meeting. President pulled out some things that some disobedient missionaries had in their possession like personal phones, headphones and what not, and we all got a turn to smash the stuff with a hammer! hahah that was pretty awesome.

We got back from Managua and on Thursday we were winding down for bed and I saw a rat run into one of the rooms. So we shut the door and went rat hunting. To avoid gross details, we caught it and killed it and we sacrificed it! :) hahaha no more rat in the house! Unless...there was more than one.

The rat that we destroyed.

Then on Friday night, Elder Monson comes running in with a giant iguana that he had caught! haha that was a little surprise as well.

The iguana we found!

It bit Elder Compton's hand! Haha

We baptized Gabriel this week!! His family are members, but through a confusion in the past, he was not baptized and not married either, so we helped them get out of that messy situation. He is really awesome! He had lots of problems with drinking in the past, but he is going really well now!! He was super excited to change his life! On Sunday, we went to his house to go with him to church and he was not home. He even beat us to church!! haha pretty pilas!

Gabriel's baptism day Oct. 31, 2015

Pictures from Gabriel's baptism.

This week, I wanted to share the importance of the commandment that we have to feed Jesus´ sheep! There is a great talk from Elder Holland where he talks about the part in the bible where Jesus asks Peter to feed his sheep. If we truly love the Lord, we need to dedicate ourselves to feed his sheep! There are many ways to feed his sheep such as service to others, inviting to church, being an example, sharing the gospel, being a missionary at all times! Everyone needs this gospel.  Do not think that there is someone that doesn't need the gospel.  EVERYONE needs to hear it, and when we don't share it when there is an opportunity, we will be held responsible for them! So Feed his sheep!
The First and Greatest Commandment
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/the-first-great-commandment?lang=eng

That is my challenge to you all!

Have a great week!
Love Elder Moser

Other pics this week...

Took some pics while we were teaching lessons.

Us with Julio. This is a typical Puerto child. He is such a cutie!

A quick division with Elder Baltimore and we passed by the ocean!