E-mail and Photos

Hola!  Well it was a pretty good week here in the office, haha.  We were able to get out to our sector once for an hour.  Pretty cool how the Lord blesses us as office elders when we are able to get out to the sector.  We only had about 20 minutes, so we decided to go do some contacts.  We knocked on a few doors but no one wanted anything, and it got time to start heading home, so we were walking back and after a while we heard someone yelling "hey gringos" from a ways behind us. We just thought it was someone messing with us like usual, but we both had the feeling to stop and turn around and go talk to him, so we did, and turns out he just wanted to know about the Church.  He heard a little and his wife almost got baptized a few years ago but then they moved - anyway it was pretty sweet.  They are really awesome people and really interested - just got to find the time to go teach them now!!  It has been really crazy in the office this week cause we have been going on a mission tour with President and his wife.  They want to go see all the houses in the mission where the missionaries live.  It is a good idea but just takes a really long time!  So that is pretty much all I have been doing all week - just driving around with President!  It is fun to get to know him and his wife better though - they really are pretty cool people.  I also got to go into the richest apartment I have ever seen in my life to sign a contract with a guy - it was crazy!!  He lives in the top floor of a big apartment building in Santiago, and his apartment is the whole top floor, haha.  Wishing I woulda brought my camera that day!!  But everything is pretty good here.  I am liking it a lot here in the office.  I am used to it now so everything is good!  Ya, I received an e-mail from Kaden saying he would have to go home for a while - pretty sad about that.  I hope everything goes good there!  That has got to be tough!  Sounds like you guys are gonna have a pretty good trip in Colorado this week if the rain slows down a little bit.  Now more than ever I just want to get out and go on a hike!!  I feel like I just have not been outside very much lately- always in an office or car! Good to hear about BYU!  Elder Lewis was in the office looking at game scores and he got up and started shouting cause he was so happy when he saw it, haha.  That was pretty funny, and we always get the update on the games from him, haha.  He is a pretty big BYU fan!

Well thanks for the letter and pictures and stuff - always enjoy it!!  I hope everyone is doing good!!  Have a great week this week!

Elder Moser

Reminds me of Star Valley

My international driver's license

and my space in the office.

E-mail and Photos

Hola!!  Ya, sorry about not sending a short email earlier in the week last week.  I kinda forgot to do that, haha.. And the Sister Lewis that you got the pictures from is one of the  married couples that are serving here.  Here in the office there are 8 of us.  4 missionaries and 2 married couples.  The Lewis' are from Pocatello - Elder Lewis served his mission here in Chile a long time ago and then the other couple is the Bertagna's.  They just arrived here a week before I got to the office, and they don't speak a lick of Spanish, so it has been kinda fun watching them, haha.  There aren't too many jobs a person can do here without Spanish.  I think they just write their family all day long, haha.  But they are both really awesome and I have made pretty good friends with them. It has definitely been a huge change for me here in the office, but I have gotten used to it a lot though.  We still have not had the time to go out to our sector yet, but we should be able to tonight.  It has just been super crazy the last two weeks, and we still have a ton to do.  There are a bunch of new missionaries coming in next change - a bigger group than has ever come in before, so there is a lot to prepare for!!  But like you said dad, we are trying to schedule some time in to go out and work - I miss that part of it quite a bit!!  I live in an apartment complex with the other three office elders - it is about a 5 minute walk, so that has been nice being that close..  Here in the office we do only eat with members on Sunday, so that has been a weird change.  I am used to eating with them every day!  So I have eaten a lot of fast food lately - good thing KFC has some pretty good salads, haha..  This week I also learned how to drive stick, haha...  The first time was pretty sketchy - the Plaza de Maipu is not the best place to learn, but I am sure I learned faster that way!  Lots of honking at me, haha..  But now I pretty much got the handle on it - makes driving pretty fun :)  Yesterday we got to go to the President's house for a big leadership council - that was a pretty cool experience.  He lives in a super nice house over in the east side of Santiago.  I feel like I went back to America when I went over there - it was weird!  I just got the picture of all the girls in Salt Lake - looks pretty fun!!  Looks like the same picture they have taken for the last ten years, haha..   You're gonna have quite the collection of those!  And thanks for sending the package!  I am looking forward to it!  We do get mail faster here, cause we get it right when it comes in, so that is nice..  Well thanks for the email and pictures and stuff dad, it was great to see all the family pics.  I hope everyone is doing great!!  Have a good week this week!

Elder Moser

Visit back to the coast.

 Apalonia's Baptism!! :)

This lady was the first door I knocked in Llo Lleo.. 

I was pretty excited to see her baptism!! :)

E-mail and Photos

Hey!!!!  Sorry about not getting a letter earlier on in the week this week!  It has been a crazy week, and the busiest week of my mission for sure!  A lot has happened this week!  Saturday night last week I got a call from the zone leaders and they said I was leaving my sector.  I was kinda confused because I had not been there very long at all, but anyway, about half hour later I got a call from President.  He told me that I was being called to serve in the office as the pensionist of the mission!!  I really did not understand what that meant at the time, but now I get it, haha.  So anyway I came into the office and started working on Monday!  My comp is Elder Stewert, and I have been friends with him for a while.  He is training me right now as the pensionist and then next change he will leave and I will be on my own.  I know it sounds kinda nerdy but it is sweet!!  My mission changed a lot for sure though.  Went from full time preaching to full time real estate agent for the church, slash repair man.  Right now with the huge rush of missionaries it is super crazy.  We have been opening up a lot of sectors, so that means getting a lot more houses.  I do everything - go search for the house, write contracts and sign them, get the house all set up, agree on pricing, and pay the people that own the house.  Never thought the church would trust a twenty year old kid with so much money and responsibility like that, haha.  President does not look at the houses or anything, so it is all me and Elder Stewert right now, haha.  So anyway I pretty much have a full time job right now.  We have not been to our sector to do missionary work once yet, and probably won't.   We have to find about 14 houses to rent in the next 5 weeks - it is gonna be crazy!  But I am loving it a lot.  It is super fun what we do, and we are also in charge of maintaining the 60 houses that we already have in the mission.  President said that since I was from Wyoming I probably knew how to fix stuff, haha,  I sure hope so!  We will see!!  I am also in charge of putting all the numbers together from the mission and making power points for the assistants with those and also of all referencias in the mission.  We come into the office at about 10 every day and we get home usually after 11:30 at night.  This week has been super crazy because of the changes and stuff so it should slow down a little, but we still have a lot of work to do!  But the cool part of all this is I get to drive!!!  I am pretty excited for that.  Shoulda taught me how to drive a stick though Dad, haha.  Maybe should of bought that Camero a few years ago :) haha.  But looks like I am just gonna have to learn here, haha..  So anyway my mission has changed a whole bunch for the next 6 months - completely different focus now!  It has been weird but I am kinda getting used to it.  It should be pretty fun!! Also it has some perks working in the same place as President.  We had an interview last week on the coast, but then I got transferred to the office.  But President gave me permission to go out to it today, so that is gonna be awesome! we are leaving here in just a bit to go out for that - pretty excited!  Man, looks like you guys had a sweet hike this week!!  That is awesome!  You guys are gonna have to take me back to all of these places when I get back!!  That is awesome Megan got some new exchange students!! That should be a lot of fun!!  And Tyler Jenkins home from his mission????  When I first read that I wondered why he came home early!!!  Man that went by so fast!!  Crazy stuff!!!  Well, I got to get going!!  I did get your email after you resent it.  I am not sure what happened the first time..  But I hope everyone is doing great!!!  Have a great week this week!!! 

Elder Moser

Ward Mission Leader family 

 Josefina and sister and cousin

Grandma Gatica 

Family Soto 

Family Castro 

My new job in the office!!!

Hey, so, I am not sure if I mentioned it but my p-day
 is on Saturdays now that I am in the office!

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