May 28th, 2019

Neatles

Twas a good week

Hey everybody!
It rained a but here. It was quite refreshing. We have been teaching a lot of people. There is plenty of work to do here. We had zone Conference this week. Everyone in our zone and also the Kingman zone met at Lake Havasu. It was a good meeting. There were a few missionaries there that I actually know. Most of them are young and I don't k oe them. I have been blessed to have older companions who I know for the most part.

There are a few pictures here. One of them is an old apartment or motel building that got condemned because of bed bugs. Too many bed bugs I guess.
Las tweek we went on exchanges and so I was out of the area for about 3 days altogether. By the time I got back a few more houses burned down. We leave for a few days and havoc gets wreaked...

The on picture of Elder Taylor knocking on the door is a haunted house door. The other one is just the door, but the house is missing.

I also took some random photos of Needles because it looks neat.

We have a few Baptisms we have to prepare the next few weeks. We are teaching a few people who are getting Baptized this mo th. This ward does not have a ward mission leader so we will have to set it up ourselves I guess. It will be fun!

I have a story.
Yesterday we were hitting the streets and we were going around the Letter streets. If you know anything about letter streets, it means they are super old streets and have probably deteriorated over time, so they are the ghetto streets now. We have them in old Henderson, in Las Vegas, and also in Needles. Well we went down a street and we were looking for an older contact in our areabook. When we found the door, it may have been the most ghettoest little apartment ever. The door was wide open, all the glass was cracked, the wood looked rotted away... it was super awesome! Anyways, there was a guy in there and when he saw us, he lit up and he shouted something very loudly. He invited us inside. There were a lot of fun smells inside this guys apartment. He wasn't alone and he had a wife there with him. They were an older couple. Well after speaking with them, they were super not sober at all, and let's just say that only 3 of the 4 substances they were on are legal in the State of California. They had a large print copy of the Book of Mormon and they started showing us all of their different bibles, and the wife who was more sober than the husband told us that we needed to come by and read the scriptures with him so that the "Devils liquor" didn't pull him away anymore. We obliged. This was by far the greatest little contact I have ever had because of all the wild things that were going on here. I felt super privileged to experience this. Boy oh boy they sure need the Gospel. So we are teaching this couple now! I'm glad we found them. They were fun.

Here is a more spiritual story that happened on Sunday night. Elder Taylor and I had been busy doing other stuff and so we didn't get out to proselytize until 8 o clock that night. We had a goal to start teaching a certain number of people that week and we were short of our goal. So we prayed for help and hit the dark Needles Streets. We went to a particular neighborhood that people always sit outside and talk even at night so we went there. We talked to quite a few people but nobody was giving us the time of day. We would start teaching and then they would look at their phone or their watch and then they would run away and tell us to stop by later (even though we didn't know which houses were theres, because they always hang out with neighbors at different houses).  Eventually we were walking at it was getting close for the time to go in and we start walking in a different direction. We saw a man walking across the street. He was walking fast and was on his way home. We started talking to him and I offered him a little picture of Jesus Christ. He said he needed it, and we both saw that he was crying. We asked him how he was doing and he informed us that his best friend had died and so he was mourning. We expressed our sorrows for him and with s good amount of symphony we shared a small portion of the plan of Salvation with him. He wanted us to come back and so we are going to teach him later this week.
If there is one thing I have learned it is that the Lord answers prayers. I have learned for myself that if we get on our knees, pray, and then get on our feet and work, the Lord will work wonderful miracles to show us His power and His strength. It was a spiritual experience that lit another fire for missionary work in my heart. I love this Work.

Well I hope you all enjoyed this email because that is all I have to say.
Love you byeeeeee
-Elder Moore