Very fast week.

  Well, this week flew by and we didn´t get as much accomplished as I would have liked! But I do have 2 funny stories for you that I´ll write at the end of this email. First of all, we only had 2 people at church this Sunday. That sucked. It was fathers day here in Brasil for this past Sunday, so we are just hoping that a lot of people went out of town or were doing family things! We worked alot this week, but Soares (the man with the baptismal date) wanted more time and his baptism is rescheduled for this coming Saturday! He thinks that he isn´t ready, but he really is. Here are the funny stories from this week!

First of all, this past tuesday I had my first bad food experience. We went to this old couples house for lunch on the way over Elder Pires and I were talking and decided we both werent really hungry at all. Then we got to their house and they were eating what I can best decribe as ´fish goop´ it was very interesting, but I managed not to throw up. We both didn´t take a lot and that is a sign to members that we are nice missionaries and we don´t want to be rude and take a lot. They use this as a reason to ´plop´ more food onto our plates and say EAT MORE! It was pretty disgusting, and the man just kept plopping it on to our plates. We finished the whole pot that they had made and had a good laugh about it the rest of the day.

Second story. We are teaching this lady named Roseanglea and she is wonderful. She doesn´t have very good eye-sight so she can´t see to read the Book of Mormon, but she has her sister read it to her! This story isn´t very long, but it packs a punch I promise. When we were teaching her Wednesday night, it was going great and everything was SO good, so I decided to invite her to be baptised. I just opened my mouth to invite her when her little girl that she was holding pulled up her shirt and started brestfeeding. Yup. That just happened. I felt super awkward but apparently that´s not too weird for Brasil. I stumbled my way through the words while looking slightly at the ceiling. It was great.

Well, that´s a little bit of how my week went! Hope everything is going wonderfully at home! I love and miss everyone sooo much!

Com amor, Elder Moore

Our First Letter from the Mission Field from Elder Moore. He writes:

The food is great. We eat with a member every day and it is ALWAYS rice, beans, chicken, (sometimes noodles too), and juice. I love it.

The language is coming faster than expected and the american who lives with us (one of the LZ´s) tells me by the end of this transfer I should be about where he was a 6 months :). That makes me way happy.

He is cool and only has 3 months left. His name is Elder Webb. I love my companion so much! He is way cool and such a great guy. Brazillians have so much faith and desire to serve the Lord. He´s been a member for 2 years now. When he started his mission he had been a member for a year and 2 months. He´s been on his mission 10 months now. Pretty crazy.

A Little Closer To Home!

Well, I´m finally here! We left Tuesday morning at 6:30 and got here about 1:15 pm yesterday. It is gorgeous here and I love it so much! I am in the farthest area in the mission so we slept at the Temple last night because it was going to take so long to get here. So yesterday (Tuesday August 2nd) we got here, had lunch at the presidents house, then went to the mission office to meet our companions and to get informed on all of the rules and whatnot. Then, like I said, my companion Elder Pires and I slept at the Temple. Elder Pires is from Rio Grande do Sol and is way cool. He says that I have good Portuguese and that he was worried that I wouldn´t! Ha. He is a great guy and I know that we will be great friends! Our house is...interesting. We live with the ZL´s, but we havent met them yet. Our P-Day is Monday, but I get to write to you guys today so that´s pretty cool. We did a session this morning in the Recife Temple and It was so good! I did the whole thing in Portuguese and that was definitely a different experience! Then we got on a bus (keep in mind that I still had all of my luggage) at about 10. Changed to the Metro at around 11 then got to where our last bus was going to take us at about 11:30. Our bus didn´t leave until 12:30, so we sat down and talked some more. Then our bus left at 12:30 and we had about a 3 hour bus ride to here. Then we got to walk for maybe a little over a mile until we got to our house. Our house is suuuupper old, doesn´t have lights and is pretty ghetto. I love it. :). It smells really bad and President is making us switch houses because ours is so bad! I´ve only been in my area for about 2 hours, but I love it so much already! We have a ward, but no chapel to meet in so we just meet in someones house. I have my first sunday this Sunday and it´ll be fast Sunday so I´m very excited! I think I answered all of your questions, but this e-mail is really just to let you know that I´m alive and doing well. I love you all and would love some mail! :)

- Elder Moore

Recife Bound!!!

  It´s finally here! The last P-Day in the CTM. Fun story for today. We went to a REAL  Brazillian Steakhouse today! About an hour ago actually! It was just like Rodizios, but I only payed 23 Reis. Pretty sweet I know. :) So, we went out and placed more copies of The Book of Mormon this past Friday! Except this time we wen´t downtown...waaayyyy more scary. We had the same amount of time, but we had 6 copies instead of 4 this time. Let me describe downtown São Paulo. Wall Street. We went to the Wall Street of São Paulo except bigger. With more people. Who were just as busy. It was so much fun!!! :) I loved it. Except I made a big mistake...in order to try and help Elder Bowden get over his fear of talking to people, I told him he was going to give out the 1st copy. He didn´t talk to ANYONE for an hour straight, so I started. I gave away my three in about 20 or 30 minutes, and then it was his turn again. He gave out 1...I was kind of really disappointed that we had to return with 2 copies. That means that 2 people didn´t get the chance that day to learn about Jesus Christ´s Church!!! I was upset, but now I´m over it! This time next week I´ll be in Recife and be a real missionary. I´m so excited for that. Well, not much new here. Just finishing up my time in the CTM! I love my District and will send a picture to you sometime :). Portuguese is still coming like always. I think I get a little better every day. I´m glad missionties is working now! How long did it take to get the letter I sent you? I´ll send another one today because I have all the time I want to write, but not to email...so this is the end of my email! Sorry it´s so short, but I´m not even really leaving anything out! We do the same thing day after day here in the CTM! Thanks for everything you all do! Love you all so much! - Elder Moore

Oi! July19th, 2011

This past week has been good! Not too much to report, but one good thing is that this coming Friday we are going downtown again and placing more copies of the Book of Mormon. More good news, I´m scheduled to finish the Book of Mormon for the first time since I´ve been a Missionary! I have really gotten soooo much more out of it then ever before. It is the best book in this world. 

! It´s hard when you sit in a classroom for 10 hours a day...but I´m trying. I know that I´ll be walking. Everywhere when I leave :). Cold is over and It´s starting to get hot again here! It´s nice though. Discussions are going good. It helps that we practice every day and I have my own little things that I always like to add in! I´m trying my hardest to think it Portuguese, but for now I´m just thinking in English and translating to Portuguese! I´m excited for y´all to have Bishop Dayhuff! That will be so great! Well, the Church is true! Have faith in Christ and all things are possible. Love you all, - Elder Moore

Real Missionary Work!!!

 So, every day here is EXACTLY the same, except for Friday. Friday was awesome, so I finally have something to put in my email home! On Friday we went out around the CTM (about a 2 mile radius) and each companionship was given 4 copies of The Book of Mormon to place. It was so awesome! We had an hour and a half and we made the best of it. We headed out and started placing them, and suprize...I got to do almost all of the talking! I´m totally okay with that though. It was a blast! We placed our first in about 10 minutes, but then we had a ton a rejections for about 45 minutes. We struck gold with our last three contacts though. They were all very nice and patient with our Portuguese, and it was so great! We committed 3 out of the 4 to go to church the following Sunday, but it stinks that I´ll never get to know what happened to them! It made me really sick of the CTM and all I want to do now is get to Recife and start doing work! Portuguese is still coming. I wouldn´t say that it´s easy, but it´s definitely fun! I love the language, but there is still SO much for me to learn. Other than Friday, every other day was the same. We wake up, shower, breakfast, personal study, class, lunch, more personal/comp study, dinner, class, bed. Pretty awesome, I know. It´s awesome to hear about the changes in the Ward! Congrads Bishop Dayhuff, and it was great to have Bishop Peterson! Well, questions are always good to have so that I can answer things and my emails will be longer! :) Love you all, and letters are always welcome! - Elder Moore