January 18, 2013
Hola!! Hey thanks
for the weather forecast Dad - I liked it a little better this week - you
should just send me that one every week so I feel better, haha. That
should be fun going to the Draper Temple and stuff. One of the kids that is in the office with me
lives right by the temple, and says it is pretty sweet, so that should be cool!
Landon is probably gettin to be quite the stud in hockey. That would be pretty sweet to watch too! The
new office is on the street Gorbea with Republica. En Santiago Centro. Not sure the number of the building, but you
should be able to find it with that! This
week has been a pretty interesting week! We found 3 of the 4 apartments that we need
right now, then we will get one more later on. But kinda had a cool experience with the three
that we got though. Me and my comp
worked super hard to find them - there is hardly anything there right now. Everything is chuck full, but we finally found
a couple but the next hard part was the realtors we had to deal with. One wasn't too bad but two had had bad
experiences doing business with the Church before. So they were pretty skeptical
in renting to us. But we convinced them
everything was good, got all the contracts ready and stuff, and in the office,
money only comes Fridays and you have to ask at least 2 days before and President
approves it and sends it to Salt Lake. Anyway, we sent it in but the finance guy forgot
to get it approved and signed by President. And the realtors were expecting the money in
cash Friday, so Thursday the finance guy told us the money didn't get approved
and we weren't gonna have it tell the next Friday. We were pretty bummed out about it cause we
had put so much work into it. So me and
my comp decided to pray and to ask that everything would turn out alright. We called the realtors and told them what was
going on and the two said we would have to drop the contracts if we did not
have the money. One said if we could
come up with 100,000 pesos (200 dollars) he would let us keep the apartment and
we could pay him the rest the next Friday. So me and my comp went to the ATM
and took out every peso we had on our debit cards from the Church - turns out
we had exactly 200 dollars. I had 42
pesos left over - about 8 cents, and he had 400 pesos - about 80 cents. So we paid the guy and told the other one we
were just gonna have to drop it. That
was Thursday evening when that happened. And the next morning, Friday, I got a call at
8 o'clock from the finance guy, Elder Lewis, one of the senior guys. I answered the phone and he started yelling Moser!
Moser!! We got the money! President never approved it but somehow the 4
thousand dollars we had asked for had come through. He had felt pretty bad about forgetting and
loosing the apartments, so he was a pretty happy man that morning. So we called up the realtors and the said it
was fine and we could keep that apartments and stuff. Just a pretty cool miracle that happened for
us. We went back to look and President
never approved the money but for some reason it had come through. God just knew we needed those apartments
pretty bad I guess! Just helped me learn
God is always watching out for us, and if we try our best he will do the rest! It has been different in the office cause I
haven't had a lot of spiritual experiences teaching people and stuff, but I
have definitely seen the Lords hand in the work. It has been fun seeing that from a different
perspective. It has taught me to just
trust in the Lord a lot. He knows what
is going on! :)
Tonight our investigator,
Abraham, is gonna have his baptism interview so we are pretty excited for that.
That guy is crazy. Never even heard of an investigator that good
before, haha. He calls us to plan the
lessons, he is just finishing the Book of Mormon, and has read most of the Gospel
Principles book, and he pretty much taught us all the commandments cause he
looked them up and read about them on the church website, haha. He is a pretty cool guy - gonna be a big help
for this ward I think. It has been
pretty weak lately - think he can be a spark to get them going again hopefully!
So hopefully everything goes good and we
are planning a baptism for next week!
I like the
poem about the temple thing Dad pretty good idea! This morning I was reading a book that has all
the stories told by President Monson and there was one about the Guatemalan
saints coming clear from Guatemala up through Mexico to make it to the Mesa Temple
cause that was the closest one, and just all the sacrifice they made to get to
the temple. Pretty much starving to
death when they got there. But they knew
the importance of it. We are gonna be pretty stinking lucky to have the
temple that close to home - I hope we don't make too many excuses not to go!
Well I've got
to get going, but I hope everyone is doing ok! Thanks for the letters and everything! I miss and love you all! Have a great week this week!
Elder Moser
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