Letter Home

October 29, 2018

There was a time back in Maseru that I was eating Pap with some spicy chilli sauce, and the sauce was so spicy that It made my nose bleed all over my food. It is a terrible feeling haha.

There is some Legit power in the Book of Mormon. I've come to see that reading it in the mornings will make us more productive. The days that I forget or am caught up with something else are usually the days that are slow or miserable. Plus, our desire to share the gospel with others is directly reflected on how much effort we put into studying the Book. I am trying really hard in my studies and this copy of the book or mormon is beginning to be my pride and joy.

For breakfast, I usually have two eggs, two slices of toast and choccy milk. The past days have been a STRUGGLE though, let me tell ya. This morning I just ate rice with nothing, and yesterday I didn't have breakfast or lunch. We have a little community washing machine that we wash our clothes in, and we have a small drying rack in our bathroom that I can hang-dry my garments on.

I miss Idaho! That is truly the best place in the world. Being here has helped me to realize that. I wan't you to come here to experience this place. 

Looks like everything is good back at home. Seeing mom with that puppy sure does make me miss my Momma! It's good to know that the pupper isn't dead. 

Something I have thought about this week is how many people back at home told me mission is the best thing and how I am going to love it. What they didn't tell me is that the part that I will love is seeing people change, and seeing myself change. The rest of the things we go through honestly suck a lot sometimes, but that is how we grow. The lord will never let us get comfortable, because that is when we slack.

We got our transfer news on Saturday so me and my comp are staying another 6 weeks in Bluff! WOOT WOOT! We have 6 people getting ready to be baptised, two of which will be baptised in 2 weeks. Mikyle is doing really well but when we asked him the interview questions he admitted to some things that we need to get sorted out but at least he is improving and changing.

Have a good week! 

With love,
-Elder Moser

Whoopsie daisy...

October 22, 2018

Well, I can easily say that the last two weeks have been a TON better since the last time I did a weekly email. The words "come what may and love it" keep flooding my mind, so I am learning to look at everything with a happier perspective.

I want you to know that life is good. My card hasn't come yet, but I'm just learning to live without it. The work here is actually moving forward quite nicely, and we had 7 investigators at church this last sunday. We have 3 people getting ready to be baptized, all of them making sure that they are 100 percent ready, and knowing what they are getting themselves into. It makes me want to tear up sometimes.

My companion and I are still getting along really well. Sometimes I want to share my spiritual experiences or talk about things that really hit me, but he is not into that at all. In fact, we haven't done any companionship study this transfer, but we have made up for it in the work we have done I guess.

Two weeks ago we fasted with Mikyle to help him overcome his smoking addiction. It seemed impossible because he has been smoking since age 10 and he smoked like 12 cigs a day, but after we fasted he went cold turkey for like 4 days. He is back to smoking 1-4 a day, which is still a big improvement. Only problem is that now he is seeing demons in his home, and the stories and pictures he has drawn for us are way to specific for it to be fake, so I don't like that at all.

I went on another exchange with Elder Walker for two days. It was super rainy and our day full of appointments all canceled, but we still managed to find ways to fill our time with productive things.

We have a 16 year old living next door and her friend is super interested in the gospel. We gave her a book of Mormon and she reads it every day and even watches conference talks. She feels like our church leaders are called of God and she is still looking for an answer if all of this is really true. Cleo came with us to church yesterday and after showing her a picture of a temple she just looked blown away. Then, after church she told us she wants to be baptized and that she received the answer she needed. WOOHOO!!!

There are a couple words that have been added into my south African Vocabulary. One of them is "yo!" which you can say as many times as you want when something is even the slightest bit crazy. Another one is "Shame" which is fun to say when people explain why they don't come to church. It's not a rude thing to say, but actually, nothing is. People don't get offended here. We also say "Voetsek" To dogs or each other, which just means get out of here, but it is an Afrikanns things to say. So fun!

It has actually been really cold here, and wet, and crazy, but our stomachs are fed and we are working hard. We can feel your prayers working and we are praying for ya'll too.

Love you all c:

-Elder Moser

P.S. the lady living under us has been making us food trying to empty out her fridge because she is moving, but last night she asked if she could make us fish sandwiches while she was totally wasted! SO DRUNK haha. I said yes and then an hour later she came up while we were SLEEPING and gave us the sandwiches. I took a picture of them, I will upload it next week. It looked so funny to me haha

General Conference!

October 15, 2018

We finally got to listen to conference and I can proudly say that I genuinely enjoyed every minute of it. It is amazing how fast it goes by when you are actually listening to it, eh? I especially love the fire that Pres. Nelson gave about the name of the church. We have been talking with this 16 year old girl who is interested in learning more about the church and has asked both, "What is the difference between LDS and Christianity?" and "Are you guys Mormons?" It was like being put to the TEST! But, if it was a test from God, I passed.

My favourite talk was probably Uchtdorf. It was so sincere and didn't sound as robotic as the others, and the impression that I got from it was we are not baptising people merely so they can be saved, but we are Inviting them to be a part of God's army. To help us. I hope everyone we teach understands the divine responsibility. 

Another impression I got from all the talks is that we do not have room to judge. "Can't you see that everyone around you is sacred?" -Robert C. Gay  We really need to look through the lens of infinite worth. It is too easy to not talk to someone because they are Muslim or homeless or other things such as this, but we are working hard as of now to include everyone. 

Man there was so much about conference that was good, but maybe just to conclude, Elder Holland talking about forgiveness. We are required to forgive everyone no matter what has inflicted the wound. We HAVE to be healed, and if we hold on to wrongdoings then the Savior's atonement means nothing. 

Mikyle came and even brought a friend and they sat through all the sessions!

Life on mission is better. Last week was tough but this week is better. You and mom are the only ones that emailed me and it felt like the world was collapsing on my shoulders. Talk about anxiety, but it is all good now. Me and my comp got to sit outside of our boarding and just relax, talk and cool down. We are outweighing the negative things with more positive. There is no dark side when you got sunshine in yo soul. Today we went golfing! Well, we just went to the driving range but I didn't do so good, plus the water hazard had large mouth bass in it and they were super active so I was trying to figure out how I could catch one haha.

Amanda is getting so pretty! She is the only one who hasn't emailed me yet, so whoop her for that one.

It has actually been cold the last couple days. It has been a little rainy, so I actually wore my Sotho blanket jacket one day. It's not like that now though, the sun is out and very hot.

I gotta say, I am feeling a lot better. Maybe it is because I have some money in my pocket, but I think it is because I have been trying really hard this week to put myself out there and talk to people regardless the situation, and bear powerful testimony.

Love ya!

-Elder  Moser

Tough Week.

October 7, 2018

Eesh, this has been a tough week.

Coming from smiley and nice Lesotho straight to Durban has been really hard. Nobody smiles and waves, people tell us to to *swear word* off on the daily, and taxi drivers get more money out of us than they should. Yet, we push through to to the Lords work with the strength that we still have.

Mikyle is still doing good. We taught him in the park yesterday and read from the book of Mormon with him. He remembers everything he reads and keeps all the commitments we give him, but he says the weirdest things. Yesterday he told us we have superpowers, and then told us about the dreams he has had about us. Super awkward, but he has good intentions. He has had a rough past and struggles with being accepted by friends and family. This gospel is giving him more hope, but now he wants his family to experience this too and they are not receptive to it at all. At least we get to meet his parents tomorrow, so that's a start.

On Friday we received another elder! Elder Tracy, the legend. He was in the MTC an extra 2 weeks because he had surgery whilst being there. Why the AP's decided to send him to us? I don't know, but it probably has to do with elder Ntaka knowing I'm cursed with 3somes. We only had him for a day and a half however, because we walked him too much and his wound reopened. Woops. Now he is back at the mission office.

Sorry if this email is kinda lame, I am just really trying to harvest my positive energy. The guy who runs this email shop is being rude to me because I tried to upload some pictures. And there is a fly that keeps flying around me. I'm kinda tilted right now to be honest. Mission is hard sometimes, but you just gotta slow down and look at the positive things that you got going for you. Suffer through the bad because good is on the way. Always.

I went on an exchange with an elder this week who was from England who shared with me his whole mission experience about how he has been depressed and wants to go home so bad because he has too. It kinda has put a damper on me this past week. Plus I was leading in our area so it was up to me to go find people to talk to, and our area is very hilly so he complained about that a bit. I had to find ways to be happy so he let me talk about fishing haha.

We have been doing most of our work in Montclaire, which is a taxi or two away. Taking taxis really eats at my allotment money, and not having a home card doesnt help at all either. I don't have any money left now, so this week I will be living off of Flavorless rice. How funny is that? Funds are low these days.

It is getting really hot so it is hard for me to keep focused because I feel stressed all the time. You know when you are stressed and you get hot flashes? Imagine that but it is because it is really hot and nobody wants to talk or even wave back to you. this area is hard.

Although there is a lot of roughness, we are still able to find success. The difference of this ward compared to the branch in Lesotho is that The members are super excited about missionary work, so they are working on getting us referrals. We are also working a lot on reactivating Priesthood holders. There are a lot of women in the wards but men have trouble staying. Since we missionaries have been back though, People are starting to come back. 

-Elder  Moser

Hooray for another Late Email!

October 2, 2018

Heyyyyyyyy..... guyss,

Sorry to bum you all out again in thinking I'm sending no email on Monday. We were in a really lame email shop and my computer was hardly working, and then the internet shut off so we didn't get to do much. The whole day was actually quite hectic. We spent the morning moving in to our new boarding and getting everything situated. Sister Hampshire told us that we needed to stay at the boarding until our brand new mattresses got delivered, but they came like 2 hours later, so we didn't have anything to do. No toilet paper, no food. Nothing. But the mattresses came and then we went to do all our pday stuff. 

We had zone conference this week and my zone is really big. I also ate half of a chicken for lunch. That sounds impressive but the chickens are not as big here as they are in the US of A.

We don't have a car anymore! ha

We are teaching a white guy named Mikyle and he seems really promising. He sometimes says weird things like, "sometimes I think I'm an angel" but he really is trying to change. He is also our age so that makes teaching really nice. It is easier to connect. And did I mention he is white? White baptisms never happen here haha! 

I gave a talk in church this Sunday about Developing Christlike Attributes. Something I thought about which is really cool in my opinion, Is that when Christ taught people, he taught them by the same spirit that we teach by. think about that the next time you bear testimony of the Savior:)

Well, that's a wrap folks! Pray we don't get robbed by monkeys here! Love yous!

-Elder  Moser

I'm in the BLUFF!!

September 25, 2018


Welcome back. I'm in the Bluff now, after a very hectic couple of days.

It all started off with us missionaries leaving lesotho *tears* and then driving to Bloemfontein, where I stayed the night with Elders Walker and Whiting. The next morning, A load of missionaries got in the Ford Ranger with Elder Hicks (from Blackfoot) and drove down to Bethlehem to hitch a ride on the Durban Express. It is really nice not being new in the field, because it makes meeting missionaries a whole lot less awkward. We Got on the Durban express then headed to durban on a really long drive. There were one 4 of us in the Express, so we had lots of leg room. The GPS for some reason took us on a weird detour and we found ourselves on a dirt road, Meaning our bags on the trailer behind us got covered in dirt. NEXT, it started to rain, so the dirt on our bags turned into mud. now my bag is covered in mud so I am pretty happy about that.

When we got to Durban, I was taken to the Pinetown boarding to meet my companion Elder Atkinson, and also Elders Chen and Chiromo. This is not the boarding we are to stay in for the transfer, but we are staying here until our boarding in Bluff opens up later this week. President Thompson granted us with a car so that we don't have to buy a taxi everyday to get to our area, so that is a pretty big blessing.

The first day in Bluff we walked around for about 5 minutes and found ourselves on a giant staircase that led to the indian ocean, so I will give some pics with that.

The area is pretty cool. All walks of life, including these little monkeys that kinda just run around everywhere. The community around us is very rich, so nobody will let us in. It is a big change from Lesotho where it is almost like people are begging us to visit them haha. No matter, we will find a way. We are gonna depend a lot on our ward to give us referrals, which should be no problem because this ward is seriously on fire when it comes to member missionary work.

Things are starting to heat up here. Both the weather and the work. I just hope that the work gets hotter than the weather, or else we will be miserable. Stay tuned for how things go this week! Love youz guys!

-Elder Moser

Me and my boi Elder Hicks.

Me n' Elder Atkinson at the Indian Ocean
(but not on the sand because that is breaking mission rules

The crew! from L-R: Elder Chiromo, Chen, Mua, Atkinson.

Staircase to.... Heaven?