June 25th, 2019

Hobo Van

Hello friends and family

This week was fun. We moved a lot of stuff.

There is a member in our ward who is homeless right now. He is a beach bum at heart. He used to live in a boat in Hawaii. Now he lives here in Needles because he lives close to a few temples. He lived in a low I come house that he got kicked out of because he has too much money. So he called us and we helped him move his stuff to a storage shed and so he lives in a van right now. Here is a picture of me in the back of it after we helped him move. He was super awesome. We met approximately 3 hobo people who live in RVs and cars and whatnot that my companion noted, I really got along with.

So if I can claim anything, it is that hobos are my friends.

We also got a call this week from some members who live in a house that is slightly over 100 years old. The house is slanted. They needed help moving out a fridge. Inside the house there are about 6-7 cats in there that live on the shelves and a bunch of tunnels in the walls. It was dark and muggy inside the house. All of the windows were blocked shut with wooden planks and old paintings. One member who lived there was blind. We had to knock the fridge doors off so it could fit through the slanted doorways. There was so much hair in that house. If you have have ever seen the waves of the sea, it was like waves of the sea on the carpet. Cat hair. Clumps everywhere. I might burn the shirt I wore. I got many questionable Grimes and slimes on my hands from moving the fridge through the house. And do not confuse my description of the house for displeasure. It was an adventure, and those particular members are very nice people!

We went to someone's house the other day and there was a  lady that was drinking some hard whiskey and vodka. I have never met anyone so drunk in my life. She went from telling us that she was drinking herself to death and then insisted that we watch an interview of the local biker church pastor in Needles. We left and decided to come back later, hopefully when she was sober.

I will get to see a wedding in August (if I am still here). We are baptizing a guy and then he is going to marry s member of the church. He asked me to Baptize him, so hopefully I will still be around. I love needles and the people in it. I hope I finish my mission here. It is the bestest place in the Colorado river tri-state area. We met a bunch of less active members on the streets who just walk up to us and start talking and so we invite them to church and we give them copies of the Book of Mormon. It has been fun.

The Gospel is incredibly true. I have been studying the Book of Mormon. That book is true. I have felt closer to God than ever before because of it. Every time I desire to feel the spirit and to feel closer to God and my savior, I read and study it. If you want to know God, pray to Him, and then read this book. I know without a shadow of a doubt that it is true. A significant amount of peace has entered my heart, even this very day, because of it. And by these things I know that God has called a prophet today and that we are indeed the Children of a Loving God.

So don't you ever forget it.

-Elder Moore