We went to the temple!

So first of all the highlight of my day was that we got permision to go to the Temple this morning. We went cause Elder Rodriguez and Elder Hernandez are going home on Monday. So we went as the office and I really enjoyed it. It was pretty great. I got alot of revelation about what I need to be doing and who I need to work with. I am excited to see what I can do. It was also fun cause I saw an former Zone Leader from Quito that was in the session as a surprise.
The World Cup was the big news this week. They lost to Switzerland and then they beat Honduras so it all depends on what happens against France. France is extremely good so I am kinda scared. They should have tied against Switzerland but they lost cause the other team got a goal as time expired. I heard that it was pretty crazy to watch.
We are trying to get some great work done right now but we have a few that are finishing the mission this week so we had to deal with that. But the good news is that I was able to help Elder Hernandez and Elder Murillo have a baptism today. She is a great lady and i was honored to do the interview. Elder Hernandez goes home on Monday so he really needed it. And Elder Murillo has been in the office for over a year and hasn't had many baptisms in that time either so it's a great boost for both.
The new Assistant came and I'm excited. I get along with him well and so it should be great. Also the new materials secretary came and it's an elder that I have been with on and off for about a year so I already imagine how that is going to go.
Overall things are well and I have 4 months in the office and I'm getting hungry to go and work in the field like a normal missionary. But we will see when that happens.




Elder Moore

Goodbye Elder Mejia

So the saddest thing happened this week. Elder Mejia, my comp for 4 months when I was ZL, one of the best missionaries to ever serve, and my favorite comp so far, finished his mission on Tuesday. I seriously almost cried hearing his last testimony in the district meeting and as we said good bye in the airport. I don't cry! I was so sad. The mission will never be the same. Seriously. I guess i need to go so Honduras to meet up with him again. Getting up at 2 in the morning to take him to the airport was tough. Aaron got baptized last week. It is like baptizing Cody Perry. I was super excited. He even had me baptize him. Then on Sunday he got confirmed, interviewed to get the priesthood and then he came with us for 3 hours to visit people and then he went to a meeting to start seminary. He is great.
His cousin was going to get baptized today but she started avoiding us after she passed her interview. Seriously it happens so much! It looks like she is afraid of everyone seeing her and talking about the fact that she is going to church. It's such a petty thing but she won't let us help her solve it!
I'm excited to talk to the family tomorrow. Its gonna be great.
This week we had what was called "the worst storm in 15 years" in Guayaquil. I don't know if that's true but it was pretty bad. We took a taxi to get to interview for Andrea at 5:30. It normaly takes 5-10 minutes to get there so it costs like 1.50. But then we took a taxi and traffic was horrible there were cars that were flooded on the sides of the road and no one was going anywhere fast. We got to know our taxi driver really pretty well. He has traveled the world a bit but doesn't want to get married because he says he's not done yet but hes 38. He's a good guy. He didn't even charge us more for the fact that the drive took forever. We gave him more but he was a good guy. In total it took us 2 and a half HOURS to get there. That's right 2.5 hours when it's normally 8 minutes. How crazy. Then as were were getting out of the taxi Elder Hernandez lost his name tag that he has had for 23 months and didn't notice until the taxi left. So that was gone. He used black tape and whiteout to put his name on one of mine until he got the new one 2 days later. The irony is that he is the one who makes the name tags for the mission and always says "Elder, I've had my name tag for 23 months and have never lost it. You have been here for 5 months. Don't lose your name tag." Oh what irony.
So that pretty much sums up my week. I'm excited for the coming days and know that good things are going to happen. We just gotta keep working.



Elder Mooree