Dear Elder Moore: November 6th, 2017

Iron Sharpens Iron

This past week has been pretty great! We have a Baptism coming up this weekend and we managed to get a few more people dedicated to a baptismal date. So that's exciting. This time around I haven't knocked anyone out. I did manage to skid down a hill and wreck one of my tire tubes. It was pretty cool because I basically drifted to a stop.... but I didn't mean to do it because one of my breaks loosened while riding somehow. So that was... neat.

Here is something kinda cool. There is this sweet old lady in one of our wards who got baptized roughly 4 or 5 years ago. She always forgets names so she gives the missionaries nicknames. Mine is Moose. I think it's great!

We went to the more ghetto side of town today for my companions haircut. It was more like a decrepit version of St. Anthony. Every building has some form of gambling machine. What a waste. You could easily put a fridge of chocolate milk in place of those machines.

We carved pumpkins in our apartment on Halloween. We had to be in early so that was kinda lame. The members keep giving us candy. Too much candy...Not enough chocolate anyways.

We saw a black widow spider the other day. I'll send some pictures of this stuff...and the spider.

There isn't a whole lot to say. We're getting Facebook this week instead. Or later. I don't know for sure.

We had a broadcast on this side of the states with Christopherson. It was pretty cool! We sat next to an investigator who said he felt the spirit pretty strongly and heard things that he needed to hear that applied to him.

I did something unspeakable though...something I never thought would happen. I made a weird decision.... one that may require a higher authority to confess to.......I bought salad. I bought the materials for salad, and carrots, and apples. I don't know who to talk to about this because its such an alien experience for me to willingly buy something healthy.....

I made up for it with hot dogs, a beef sandwich, and ginger ale though.

We have some different missionaries in this area. They're all super good at basketball. I would rather go on a hike but my companion hates hiking, and it hasn't been organized...

Yesterday we had a lesson....with a deaf person. We had to Skype in a temple square missionary who could sign. It was pretty neat! It was very basic and we had to teach slowly. We're going to show him how to use the ASL Book of Mormon online next time we meet.

That's about all there is. Nothing much else has gone on other than missionary work. I"ll send a few pictures I took.

In my personal time in the mornings or at night I read the Book of Mormon. That book is powerful. I find myself wanting to be like the prophets inside who testify to kings and fought valiantly for Christ. I think I have been doing similar things in my own way out here in the mission field.

Alma 5
45 And this is not all. Do ye not suppose that I know of these things myself? Behold I testify unto you that I do know that these things whereof I have spoken are true. And how do ye suppose that I know of their surety?
46 Behold I say unto you they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God. Behold I have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me.

I strongly encourage any and all of you to read the Book of Mormon if you are not already. Reading it every day is like putting on armor before battle. Blessings are poured out on the exercising of faith and there is no easier exercising of faith than saying a prayer and reading the scriptures. Faith like a seed, requires nourishment, or else it withers and dies. (Read Alma 32) So never forget to nourish that seed.

Don't let that spiritual edge become dulled.

I Love you guys!
Have faith that the Lord can do what He says He can do!

-Elder Moore