Photos

We did not receive an e-mail from Elder Moser this week,

 so we were happy to see his smile on these two photos 

we received in an e-mail from a Sister Lewis.

Jared E-mail and Photos

Hola everyone!!  Well it was a great week here in Chile!!  I didn't get a letter from you this week Dad.  Wasn't sure if you just didn't get the time or if it did not go through or what, but just thought I would let you know!!  I sent some pictures, so hopefully those were able to get through!  This week was great because it was a baptism week!  We had the baptism of Josefina Berrios Meza.  It was a super good baptism, the spirit was really strong there and it was awesome because we got over thirty of her inactive family members to come to church and then the baptism!!  It was crazy!!  I have never seen that chapel so full!  All the family liked it a lot and all promised they would come next week for the confirmation!  So hopefully that all happens!  But it was a really good experience.  She reminds me a lot of Hannah - she is exactly the same age and acts really similar - it is pretty funny!  But anyway after the baptism we were able to go to the house of Josefina and eat with all of her family and stuff.  It reminded me a lot of the big family dinners we have - there were a ton of people there!!  So that was an awesome experience that we had this week.  We also had a baptism with the sister missionaries in our ward who baptized a 91 year old woman - that was pretty cool to see - that does not happen very often!  So we were able to have a great weekend here in Llo Lleo!!

Today we went as a zone to one of the families that live in our ward to have a grill and play football and stuff and that was pretty fun!  Didn't leave me with a whole ton of time to write letters though!!  But it is all good!!!  I hope everyone is doing great back home!!  I love and miss you all!!  Have a great week this week!!! 

Elder Moser

(Note - I did send four e-mails with photos and one with a letter.  Jared's sisters got the copies.)

E-mail and Photos

Hola!  Well it sounds like everyone is doing great back home!!  Thanks for the pictures Dad.  I really cannot believe how big Cayden is!!  Man, he is growing up a ton!!  And those were some sweet costumes they used haha..  And those are awesome pictures of Mason! haha.  Good to know my nephew is a super hero!!  Hey Dad.. I've got a new project for you - you should get like a photo album thing and put a bunch of pictures of all the families and all my nieces and nephews and of you guys in it.. People are always asking for pictures to see and I don't really have any good ones, so that would be sweet if you could do that!!  I need to show people how happy my family is so they start listening to the message haha..  That is actually a part of the new way to teach what President was telling us.  Like there is not a big change, just a couple little things that help a lot, like using the pamphlets more in our teaching and showing our families and the blessings we have received from it and stuff, and leaving them with a baptismal fecha (date) on the first lesson just stuff like that!  And just those little changes have actually been helping a ton!  It is pretty sweet.. Our President changed our baptismal meta (goal) for the month as a mission from 42 to105 because that is how many companionships we have in the mission.  He said to pray for miracles and we will get the goal - well we are actually well on our way for the goal.  It is pretty cool, this guy is super excited about the work and it has been helping a lot.  It is pretty sweet to see all the changes that have been happening for the good!

Well my week this week was pretty good!!  One of our recent converts did have a fight with one of our fechas that was super strong and she said she won't receive the Church anymore in her life - that was pretty sad - not sure why she blamed it on the church but that is how people are sometimes, I guess!  We have definitely been praying a lot for her.  I hope everything turns out alright and she changes her mind - she was way good! But miracles happen haha, so we are just hoping! 

Me and Elder Buckhannon have still been doing great together - wish I could stay with this kid my whole mission haha... We are seriously just dominating it here!  We get along super good and have been having a ton of fun.  The mission life is pretty great right now!!  Our baptism for this week fell through because her mom was not gonna be able to be there, but we are doing it this Sunday for sure, so we are pretty excited about that!  Hopefully everything goes good there!!  This week we found a huge hill that had a couple of houses on top and we felt that we should go up it.  It took us a good hour to get to the top and there was no one home at any of the houses, so I thought my adventure bone made us lose a lot of time, but then when we were walking back down about 5 minutes later we saw a house that we had missed so we yelled and a guy came out. Anyway, he is golden - it was super awesome!!  But he lives in Santiago a lot of the time so that is the problem, but it was just really cool cause he said he had talked to missionaries a long time ago but then lost contact with them but that he liked the Church a lot. so we were able to have a good lesson with him.  Hopefully we can keep in contact with that guy - never had anybody so interested at our first lesson -  it was awesome :) 

Anyway!  Things are going great here!!  I am loving the mission for sure right now!  Really starting to be able to teach better and stuff, which makes it super nice!!

I hope everyone is doing great back home!  Thanks for all the support and prayers! Have a great week this week everyone!  And good luck with your new calling Dad and Mom - sweet, we are really in the same work now, haha.. 

les quiero mucho!

Elder Moser

E-mail and Photos

Well, it was another great week here in Llo Lleo!  I am loving being here on the coast a ton! And it looks like the weather in Colorado is a lot worse than here in Chile!!  This week the weather was great!  Like it never got too cold.  Me and my comp bought some sweet new sweaters so we have just been using those a lot - not even a jacket or anything, pretty dang nice for winter!!

That was great to hear about Gracie's baptism!!  Crazy that she is already 8 - that went super fast!  And that Hannah is in Young Womens??  Wow!!  I still feel like I should be in the Deacons Quorum! haha.  And man I don't know what I am gonna do when I get home.  I really can't spell anymore!!  Spanish has messed my English up a ton!  I am gonna have to take some basic spelling classes I guess!! 

Ward Mission Leader huh!!  That is what I'm talking about!  Wow, that is crazy that you were in Young Mens for 6 and a half years!  That went by way fast too!  Feels like just 2 or 3!  But that is awesome about the Ward Mission Leader..  I didn't really realize the importance of one of those until I got here to Llo Lleo.  Our Ward Mission Leader actually works a lot with us and that makes life so much easier!  It really does make all the difference!  At least in this part of the world!  And I am sure it is just as important there!  That will be great to see you working as Ward Mission Leader haha.

That is too bad you guys weren't able to do your hike on your birthday!  I was telling my comp that my parents are climbing a big mountain for my Dad's 60th birthday, and I think he got a little worried about you, haha.  I guess you guys ain't the normal 60 year-olds!  which is a good thing! :)

Man that is too bad about Megan!  That has got to stink a little bit!  I hope everything is going good now though!  Looked pretty good in the pic!  Doesn't look like you just had surgery!!  But I hope you are good now!!

Well, as far as the missionary work this week everything was really good!  Me and my comp are still working super good together and seeing lots of success!  We have a baptism this Sunday, so I hope that all goes good!  Should be sweet!  And we have been able to put dates with a lot of other people.  As a district this week, it was crazy, we went from having 3 as a district to 14! That is how the whole Mission has been doing!  We had a meeting with President about a new way to teach the first lesson and well, I guess it works haha.  The Mission is doing awesome right now!  So that is pretty sweet to see!  Hopefully everybody goes through!

Yesterday we went with our ward Mission Leader to give his dad a blessing.  He lives way out in the campo in our sector, and he takes care of this big mansion that some rich guy owns - he even has his own private Catholic Church there, haha.  It was pretty sweet!  I will send some pics of it!  It was really pretty. It is weird going from the average Chilean house into one of those.  It really is not anything too special compared to an American house, but for here it is just weird!!  But that was really cool to see and we were able to talk to his dad and a lot of his family about the church and stuff.  He is the only member in his family of 15 brothers and sisters, or something like that!  So he has got a lot of work to do with them haha..

Well today for p-day I think that we are gonna go head to the beach and just have a nice relaxing day!  It is nice and warm today so it should be pretty fun! 

I hope everyone is doing great back home!  Thanks for all the prayers!  They are definitely helping :) 

Les quiero mucho!  Tengan una buena semana!! :)

Elder Moser 

 New Sweaters

Lili, recent convert 

 Mansion

 Private Catholic Church at Mansion

E-mail and Photos

Hola! Well it was a pretty dang good week in Chile!  I am really enjoying the mission now!  I am definitely getting to the point where Spanish really is not a factor, like speaking Spanish ain't really a big deal now so that is pretty nice!  I have been waiting a long time for that moment, haha, so I am pretty happy about that!  Man things are just going pretty good right now here for me in the mission.  I am really liking my new comp -  he is an awesome kid!  We are becoming pretty good friends now.  We don't have very much time together but I will be super sad when I have to leave this kid!  I haven't had this much success my whole mission.  We are pretty much dominating it out here in Llo Lleo, haha.  We have really just been relying on the Spirit and it has been helping for sure!!  Yesterday we were just finishing writing down our numbers for the week, and we were super surprised.  We really just put everything aside this week and just worked as hard as we could and it was great.  I definitely learned how I need to be working every week on my mission!  So anyways, I am doing great here.  Thanks a ton for the package Dad!  It was great!  I will not run out of cake and chocolate for a while now :) One of the young men in our ward is having a birthday this week so we are gonna make a "Better than Book of Mormon" cake for that - should be pretty good, a little taste from the States!

Me and my comp started a workout program this week, so that has been pretty sweet.  I have been pretty sore, but I think we are gonna be pretty ripped here in a while, haha.. It has been great just having a comp that I can have lots of fun with - just feel like I am working harder and enjoying this mission a lot more now.  I hope I can keep it up like this for the next half of the mission!

I did not take a whole bunch of pictures this week, but one of them is from this week with Elder Buckhannon and Elder Reyes, just having fun in the pension haha,  And the other one is from today making guacamole!  It actually turned out pretty good!  Super stuffed right now!  Palta (avocado) is pretty cheap down here right now so we are taking advantage of that! 

Yesterday we went to San Juan again which is the campo just outside of the town where I almost turned into Sister Moser.  This time a dog ran towards me and jumped up on me.  I was pretty scared at that moment but he just gave me a big old kiss instead!  Turned out to be a pretty good contact with his owner.  The people are really tranquillo out there so it makes contacting and finding new investigators pretty easy.  A couple guys invited us in and then they started drinking and singing gospel songs, haha. I didn't think they were ever gonna let us leave, they liked showing  their voices to the gringos haha.. but we finally got out of there and ended up having a really good day there in San Juan! 

Anyways, everything is going great here!  We have got a few baptisms planned for the next couple of weeks so hopefully all those go through! 

Man, when I saw the pictures of Ryan I did not recognize him at all!  He looks way different!  Nathan too!  They are growing up a bunch!  Pretty crazy!  Looks like everyone is doing good back home!  Looks like you guys had a pretty sweet hike this week Mom and Dad!  Man, that was ten years ago when you hiked Wyoming Peak!?  That went by so fast!  I remember you doing that and it seems like it was way more recent than that!  I hope everything goes great for you up on Cabin Creek!!!  Happy 60th birthday!!!!!!!!!!! Hope it is a great one!  You should feel pretty good!  Here in Chile people look a lot older when they hit 60, haha.  Doing pretty good Dad!  Have a great birthday!  I hope everyone has a great week this week!!

Elder Moser

E-mail and Photos

July 22, 2013

Hola!!  Well it was a pretty sweet week here in Llo Lleo!!  I am loving my new comp.  We get a long way good and I had better numbers than I did all of last change.  We are doing pretty dang good here!  I am guessing we will be together for two changes so I am pretty pumped for that.  We have tons of similarities and are at about the same level with our Spanish.  His mom is from Chile so he got a head start haha, but we work really good together, and we are getting to know the members a lot better too, and that definitely helps a lot!!  We have become really good friends with our ward mission leader over the last few weeks, which is awesome cause now he calls us to go out and work with us and stuff.  He is a single guy that lives alone and gets off work at 4:30 so we have been putting him to work!!  And he is related to half of Llo Lleo too, which makes things easy.  Every person he talks to is his cousin!  His dad has 16 brothers and sisters and he has 13 and they all live in this area haha.  It is pretty sweet!  Yesterday, we decided to head out into the campo a little bit, it is called San Juan, and it is a little town a little outside of Llo Lloe on the inland side of the river - you could probably find it on the map.  We had a couple of scares with dogs though.  My comp almost got attacked by three German Shepherds, and I, being from Wyoming decided to use the bathroom alongside the road.  There weren't any houses or any people around so I thought it would be alright, but I guess it was not!  I was doing my business alongside a row of bushes, and a dog sneaked up on me cause I couldn't see it through the bushes. Anyway, to get to the point, he jumped at me and almost made Elder Moser into Sister Moser!!!  It was a close call.  I think someone was there pulling me back or something. I have never moved that fast in my life!  My comp got a good laugh out of that one haha..      Anyway today we went for two hours in a bus over to a beach called Tonquen or something like that.  It was super pretty and we were able to play some soccer and explore a little bit.  I will try to send a few pics of that... it kinda killed our p-day though - it was a long way over there!!  But I think it was worth the drive! 

This week we were in a lesson reading 2 Nephi 31 with a lady and it was supper cool.  Right when we finished and explained a little bit we paused and she was like.. well... now I know this is the right church.  When can I get baptized??  so that was pretty sweet, the spirit definitely works pretty dang good!!!

Well, I am doing great out here, lovin life!  Hope everyone is doing good!!!!!  I am glad you guys were able to find the cave - we will have to go there for sure!!  Looks pretty sweet!!  Have a great week this week!!  Oh, and I did get the pen - it is awesome!!!  Thanks a ton for that!!!  Thanks for all the pics also - it was great to see them all!

Elder Moser

Distrcit Leader