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Hola!!  Wow Dad, thanks for all the  photos and it looks like you did take a "few" pictures of those flowers!  You didn't  burn out my computer but it looks like you might have burnt out the flowers, haha.  They were good pictures.  Looks like the area you were in was very pretty as well!  We need to go skiing there for sure!!  And it looks like I should be arriving into Salt Lake Tuesday morning (August 26th ?).  It is not for sure yet, but that is what they said normally happens for the gringos, so you should be able to plan on that! Sounds like you guys have been keeping busy with Grandma's house and stuff!  And good luck sleeping in the truck Saturday!  Looks like you are becoming quite the photographer!  Taking some sacrifices to get the good pictures!  I am excited to see how they turn out! And have fun in Colorado this week Mom!  And thanks for sending the names to do baptisms!  Looks like we are gonna go here in a couple of weeks because Winston is finishing all his finals and stuff right now in college.  But I will let you know how it all goes when we go!  Wow, looks like the work is going pretty good there in the Bedford Ward!  That is awesome that you guys have some investigators coming and stuff, looks like the ward mission leader is doing a pretty good job!!  And thanks for writing about the hermana here.  We will just try to help her feel the spirit and realize the importance of it all.  I think that has been one of the hardest parts of the mission for me. It is just frustrating when the people don't understand the importance of it all - especially the ones that are endowed and sealed.  Just got to have a lot of patience and love them I guess, and let the Spirit do the work!  We are getting very close with some menos activos familias - just need a little push!  So me and my comp have been planning a "noche de visitas" with the ward, or a "night of visits" I guess, and we had been getting all the members excited about it and last night we were able to do it.  We had really good support from the Bishop and it turned out that a lot of the members came. Had about 50 - super good for an activity like that.  We split up and visited a bunch of inactive and less active families and it turned out really good.  We were able to reach a lot of people and it helped a lot for sure, so that was our miracle for the week.  Never thought it would work out as good as it did so we were very happy about that!  The work here in our sector is going pretty good.  We were able to set a baptismal date with a family Saturday and they came to church Sunday so that was great!  So things are going pretty good!  Glad that I am gonna be able to finish out here in this ward!!  I hope that you are all doing good!!  Have a great week this week!  I love and miss you all! 

Elder Moser

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June 23, 2014

Hola!!  Wow, sounds like you guys had quite the adventure this last week!!  They have a saying here in Chile, "caminé mas que un Mormón" or in English, "I walked more than a Mormon."  The people use this a lot actually when they have walked a really long ways or something and they always say we walk a ton.  But even though we do walk a ton down here, I think you guys are gonna be in way better shape than me for hiking!  You guys are crazy! :)  Those were some pretty crazy hikes that you guys were explaining about, and I think only you guys would hike to the top of a ski resort and then ride the ski lift back up after you were done, haha.  And I am down for a ski trip up there this winter :)

     I enjoyed reading the part of your letter about the parables and stuff.  I think about 90 percent of menos activos are form the lost coin part.  That is at least what they say anyway.  This week we have heard quite a few stories though, some of them make me think about the story of the one lady who went inactive over the cream off the milk, back in Joseph Smith's story.  Pretty sad when the people lose all those blessings from something that little, but it has opened my eyes a lot and helped me learn.  One story we heard this week was pretty sad.  We were visiting a lady last night and her four kids and she was telling us she stopped going to church because they told her that she would not be able to get sealed to her kids because her husband cheated on her and they got a divorce when they were young and she has not had the chance to get married again.  So she said if she cannot get sealed to her kids, there is no point of going to church cause that is the one goal that she had.  What exactly is the rule about getting sealed in situations like that??

     We did have some pretty cool miracles going this week though that we were pretty happy about!  We are visiting two part member families where in both cases the dad is the only member and the rest of the family is not.  They are both not married but they want to get married and they and their whole family are all very interested.  One is a family of 6 and the other is a family of 4.  They were both scared to go to church this week, but we prayed really hard for them and both of the families came!!  And we had a couple of other people come for the first time, so we had 12 people in the church for the first time!!  That is the most that have come for the first time in any of my sectors, so we were very happy about that.  Miracle for sure that both of the families came!  They both liked the church a lot and are excited to come back so we are just gonna work real hard with them these next couple of weeks so that they can get a marriage date with the government.  That is a big challenge for missionaries down here - hardly anyone is married, so it makes it tough and it takes a while for the people to be able to get married but we will keep praying and fasting and see what happens so they can get married and baptized!

     Well the world cup of soccer is going on right now so that has been pretty interesting. Futbol is huge down here - never have seen anything like it.  For the games when Chile is playing, it is a law that everyone goes home from work to watch the game.  So during the games it is crazy - everyone drinks and parties and so we cannot go out and work during the games, and if they win we cannot go out after cause it is so crazy.  Everyone watches the games - even the people that don't like futbol watch it, haha.  Chile has won two games so far so they have been going crazy down here.  That has been quite the experience for sure.  Has been a challenge cause everybody watches all the other games too so it is hard to get them to turn it off!  But it has been fun seeing how crazy everyone goes for futbol! :)

     Well I hope everyone is doing good up there and enjoying the summer!  It has been getting pretty cold down here!  An electric blanket has saved my life for sure this winter!! I love and miss you all!

Elder Moser

 Homemade pizza

 and Nuttie Buddies.

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Hola!!  Happy Father's Day Dad!!  Thanks for all the pictures you sent of Grandpa and stuff - it is always great to see him.  I hope you had a good day!!  They had a lunch after church here on Sunday for Father's Day, but since the Priesthood is pretty weak here there are not very many fathers that attend.  So they had us missionaries celebrate an early Father's Day, haha.  The ward does not lack Relief Society though, so the luncheon was pretty good :)  We had transfers this week and to my surprise l am still here in the ward, and with my same companion.  We almost have 9 months together now and we will be finishing together for sure now, so we will end with 11 months together.  Pretty crazy to be with a companion that long - President talked to us after and said, "Well this never happens but for some reason it had to happen this time."  So looks like there is still some stuff that we need to do here in this ward!  We are excited though - we get along very good and we have the whole teaching thing down.  Lessons have been going pretty smoothly, haha.  That makes life nice though - it is always nice to have a companion you can teach well with, and that you can get along with well. So this change we decided that we are really going to push hard and see what we can do.  We have made some pretty good relationships with ward members too, so I think it should be a good couple of months to finish out the mission!  We have been finding lots of new investigators through working with the menos activos lately so that  has been great and we are excited about that - lots of part member families that are really receptive so we are working hard with them and things have been looking pretty good! 

     Thanks for your idea about the temple Dad.  I think we as missionaries do lose sight about what is the real goal for the people and focus too much on just getting them back to church or getting the people baptized, so I think if we do focus a lot more on the temple it will help a lot.  Help the people realize the importance of the temple and help get the people that have already gone back.  We will be sure to start focusing on that some more!!  We are getting some of the recent converts ready with a lot of family names so that they can go to the temple and be baptized for them - it is fun with these recent converts cause they are the only members - no one else in their family - so they sure do have lot of names to take to the temple!!  We are planning a day here in a couple of weeks so that should be fun!  I am excited for  that!!  I will let you know if we need some more names to do work for Mom :)

     Pretty crazy that Blake is home and working already.  I have been talking to him still and he says he is saving those mountains for me, so I am excited for that, haha.  It has snowed a ton here on the mountains so it has been really pretty, but shoot, sure does make me trunky for snow and mountains!!  I think I am gonna have to get a season pass for Targhee this year!

     I will try to send some pictures for you guys too - the computer is kinda slow but I will see what I can do.  I hope that you are all doing well!!  I miss and love you all!!  Have a great week this week!!

Elder Moser

Cutting the grass at our house. 

 Birthday party for Felpie.

Snow on the mountains.

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Wow Dad, those are some pretty sweet pictures of the Tetons!  They get better and better every week!  You should get a nice Nikon or Cannon and break it in for me, haha :)  I bet those pictures would look real nice then! haha.  And  good job in the triathlon McDonald family!!  Looks pretty sweet!!  And South Carolina, wo that should be interesting :)  Good luck with everything!

     Well this week here in Santiago was a great week.  Had some nice rain and cool temperatures!  So that was nice.  The problem is in the stake the attendance went down by half because it was raining - sure hope the Lord does not come on a day it is raining!  I don't think anybody will come out of their houses down here!  It was pretty interesting never have seen this capilla that empty before. We got lots of work to do I guess!  Yesterday night we had a sweet meeting up in the area office building that is right by the temple.  Elder Viñas and Elder Jimenez of the Seventy came and we had a meeting with all the stake presidents and zone leaders that are in the Santiago South and West Missions - it was quite the experience!  It was just a big consejo that we talked about the pilot plan we are doing here in these two missions about working with the menos activos and stuff.  Kinda disappointing that our stake president did not come though.  So we are gonna have to work extra hard in this stake!  But we learned lots of good stuff and it was a great experience for us!  We have transfers this week so we will see what happens to me.  I have one and a half transfers left so I am guessing he will leave me here until the end, but we will see.  Might end up in a new ward - hoping to finish it out here though - we have seen lots of cool stuff.

     Saw lots of miracles this week again.  It is crazy how many miracles I am seeing here in this ward.  The other day we walked into a little almacen, like a little store thing and a lady grabbed my arm and started to cry.  I was kinda confused, haha, but then she started to talk and she says that she talked to us about 4 months ago when I first got to this sector and said that she had asked us to pray for her granddaughter that was in a coma from cancer surgeries.  Anyway she told us that her granddaughter was alright - she died for a little bit actually, but then came back to life.  And she told us, thank you for praying for my granddaughter, and then she said her son was a member inactive of our church but that he wants to go back and the family wants to listen to our message because now they all believe in God.  So the next day we stopped by their house.  We had an awesome lesson with them - the spirit was super strong and it looks like things are going pretty good with them.  It is the dad, Jose, who is a member inactive.  His wife Marcela, and his daughters Nicole and Marta and he also live with his mom, Marta. They are all pretty excited about the church and want to learn all they can. Pretty cool experience for us.  It is crazy how the Lord prepares people to listen to the gospel.

     Well I gotta get going here soon, but it was great to hear from you.  Thanks for registering for my classes Dad - everything looks good!!  And Mom, I got your letters that had some stories of our ancestors, and that was really interesting!!  I would love to hear more if you have any!!  Have a great week this week!  I love and miss you all!

Elder Moser

Home evening with recent converts.

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Hola!  Wow, those are some pretty sweet pictures of Bedford.  I think those pictures just made me hit another level of trunkiness, haha.  And the fact that Blake is gonna be home this week too. Shoot!  I am gonna have to focus!! :)  And Cayden is driving?!?! Well if he drives the car anything likes he drives the four wheeler I will have to think about getting in with him!!  But I think he will be alright :)  Sounds like you guys had another pretty busy week going to get things taken care of and stuff.  And I know how you feel about the chairs being all set up in the church, haha.  I remember that was never fun wanting to play basketball and walking into a chapel with the chairs set up!

     Well it looks like I need to take an English class when I get back to school.  Today we walked into the office and when President saw me he started to laugh a little bit and told me to come look at something.  When I was in the office, I made some maps that we sent into the First Presidency to organize some stakes and stuff down here in our mission, and in all the maps I had Chaple written in big bold letters next to all the churches.  Anyways, he got a big kick out of that.  I spelt Chapel, Chaple, haha.  He told me I should take a spelling class at BYUI - maybe it would be a good idea.  The sad part is that I did not even get his joke because I really thought it was spelled Chaple!!, so I am in some trouble I think!!

     Hey Dad, I am gonna get all my classes that I want ready so you can sign up for me next week.  I will send you a list with the class and the teacher and the time, so it would be awesome if you could get on as soon as it opens up to register for me!!  Thankyou!!

     Well it was a pretty good week here in our sector.  Kinda lost touch with Armando.  Not sure what happened - he is never home and his cell phone does not work!  So maybe he decided to go back a little early to Colombia, but we will see!!  It was good in our Stake this week though.  The attendance went up quite a bit - we were worried cause it has been so low lately but things are looking better now.  All the missionaries are bringing lots of less actives to church with this new pilot plan we are doing, so that is really  good, and we have been able to meet a bunch that we are starting to work with and several have been coming the last few weeks so that has been really good. Things are a little slow with investigators, but at least we have lots of good menos acitvos to work with.  One family is la familia Gomez.  The parents and 7 children are all members but don't attend church.  They are sealed and everything - just have to come to church!!  We are really close with them, so hopefully things go good.  They are a great family, just got their feelings hurt like all the other 900 members that are inactive in our ward, haha.  That is seriously the only reason people say they don't attend - just cause someone looked at them bad or said something kinda mean.  Pretty interesting, but lots of work for us to do I guess!!

      Well I have to get goin so that I can send that list of classes to you!  I love and miss you all!

Elder Moser

(At the beginning of this blog, I explained that Jared had authorized me to make some minor corrections in the spelling, grammer and punctuation of his e-mails because he is typing them fast.  I felt I needed to include his original e-mail with this post, to make his account of misspelling Chapel more meaningful.  Jared comes from a long line of misspellers.)

Hola! Wow, those are some pretty sweet pictures of Bedford. I think those pictures just made me hit another level of trunkiness haha. And the fact tha blake is gonna be home this week too. Shoot! i am gonna have to focus!! :) And Cayden is driving?!?! Well if he dirves the car anything likes he drives the four i will have to thinking about getting in with him!! but i think he will be alright :)  Sounds like you guys had another pretty busy week going to get things taken care of and stuff. And i know how you feel about the chairs being all set up in the church haha. i remember that was never fun wanting to play basketball and walkin into a chapel with the chairs set up!

   Well looks like i need to take a english class when i get back to school. Today. we walked into the office and when president saw me he started to laugh a little bit and told me to come look at something. When i was in the office i made some maps that we sent into the first presidency to orginize some stakes and stuff down here in our mision and in all the maps i had Chaple written in big bold letters next to all the churches, anyways he got a big kick out of that i spelt Chapel, Chaple, haha. He told me i should take a spelling class at byui maybe it would be a good idea, the said part i did not even get his joke because i really thought it was spelled chaple!! so i am in some trouble i think!!

 Hey dad, i am gonna get all my classes that i wan`t ready so you can sign up for me next week. i will send you a list with the class and the teacher and the time, so it would be awesome if you could get on as soon as it opens up to register for me!! Thankyou!!

  Well it was a pretty Good week here in our sector, kinda lost touch with armando, not sure what happened he is never home and his cell phone does not work! so maybe he decided to go back a little early to colombia but we will see!! It was good in our stake this week though the assistence went up quite a bit, we were worried casue it has been so ow lately but things are looking better now, all the missionarys are bringing lots of less actives to church with this new pilot plan we are doing so that is really  good, and we have been able to meet a bunch that we are starting to work with and several have been coming the last few weeks so that has been really good. Things are a little slow with investagatores, but at least we got lots of good menos acitvos to work with.  One Family is la familia Gomez the parents and 7 children that are all members but don`t asist they are sealed and everything, just have to come to church!! we are really close with them, so hopefully things go good. They are a great family, just got there feelings hurt like all the other 900 members that are inactive in our ward haha. That is seriously the only reason people say they don`t assist just cause someone looked at them bad or said something kinda mean, Pretty interesting, but lots of work for us to do i guess!!

 Well i got to get goin so that i can send that list of classe to you! I love and miss you all!

Elder Moser

 Doing service and eating lunch with a member!

 Yes, those are ribs and that is strawberry lemonade.

 Wow, that was some good stuff. Good p-day!