One week more

So first of all, I need to give mad respect to the sister missionaries. In this month, they were nearly the only ones who baptized in our zone. The Assistants saved us and have 1. So in the zone we had 13. We are really thinking we need to step our game up. Lets see what we can do.
As for us, we are no longer in trio. Elder Castillo got his companion and well... we will keep working with them at times. But we are doing a lot of intercambios to try and lift of up the zone. We have great opportunities here we just need to take advantage of them.
We have 4 really great people preparing to be baptized. One is the daughter of an inactive family who we found following the guidance of Pres. Dennis and Pres. Monson in looking for less active people to active them. The blessings are already coming. And the other 3 are Teenagers who are super interested. The mother of one of them is even a bit interested we just need to help her focus in the gospel.
Random story. Apparently I offended someone for knocking on their door. Yup. Not even hard or that much. Just a good knock.
We had interviews with Pres. Dennis this week and it went well. Things are great. Just trying to help so that he doesn't have to worry about our zone at all.
We had a Area wide training last night. It was cool. All the the ward councils went and we learned alot. Tenemos que trabajar juntos. Its was funny cause the Area 70 kinda ripped a few people apart. No one specifically, but he clearly had someone in mind.
We have a zone conference this week so that will be great. I'm pretty excited.


Elder Moore

You Raise Me Up

This title is what the zone is doing. This is the goal for me and Elder Mejia right now. We are doing alot better. We nearly doubled a lot of the numbers and we are doing great. We just need to keep on suring things up and we are going to finish the month strong and keep on going strong through out December. It's wierd that we are already thinking about December.
Today we had a leadership council and it went really well. I felt great and it was good seeing some old friends (old as in like 6 months ago jaja). Things are really great and I know that things will only get better.
The Mission Work does not exist anymore. It is now the Work of Salvation. Our emphasis is not just baptisms anymore. But in less actives and converts. Way more than before. President Dennis doesn't even want us knocking doors- just activating people and the promise from the leaders is that the baptisms will follow and will be more and of better quality. I'm really excited to see how we can finally fix the problem of 200 attending and 700 members in the ward. We can easily have 2 wards there.
We have quite a few investigadores that are progressing very well. We just need to make sure that we can get them some great conversion. Prayer, Book of Mormon, and Church Attendence. That's how the Lord has commanded us and that is how we will do it. I know that we will have it all done right and they will stay here strong.
Random fact, The mosquitos are driving me crazy. I'm in the middle of the city and they are eating me in my sleep. Both me and my comp are having problems sleeping cause of how much the bites itch. But we are going to try like 3 different solutions this week. So no worries.
I'm feeling alot more confident and I know this is going to be some great success that we will have. I'm super excited.


Elder Moore

One Week. Three Comps

This week we had transfers. Our old ZL finished his mission Wednesday and the new people came on Friday so it wasn't much of a surprise that on Friday we had transfers. I did get transfered. The surprise was that I stayed in the zone. And not just that but I became the companion of Elder Rojas, from Chile. He trained Elder Costello from my CCM group. But right after training he became the zone leader in our zone. So then I became his companion. So if you were able to follow that train to logic town, I am the new Zone Leader in our zone. Not what I expected. But I guess its all good.
Then last night we got the call from the assistants that there were more transfers. And Elder Rojas had the transfer. So I had 3 days with him. And one was an intercambio trying to help another sector. So I don't really know our sector that well. But there are quite a few people here.
My new companion is Elder Mejia. He is from Honduras and is excellent. He has had a lot of success lifting up zones and so we know what we need to do right now. It's going to be great to see the way that we can really get to work.
As for finishing my time with Elder Arias, things went well. We had seemed to have everything understood and working well when I got transfered. But I guess thats the way life goes.
So this week well keep working and try and find the best that we can to lift up the zone to be the best in the mission, in the Ecuador and in the world.


Elder Moore