I finally have pictures for ya'll!

June 10, 2019

Hello associates. Howz been the week?

I have been sick for the past week. As I am composing this email, I am actually hacking a lung, and it hurts really bad. I don't want to go to the clinic, so I will take the Zulu remedy and eat plenty of oranges.

We met some pretty crazy people this week. The investigator who came to church and surprised us is still meeting with us. We want to meet with his friends as well but when we come to see them and they see us from afar, they run away really fast. In fact, when we came to see them, one guy didn't have a place to hide so he just spread eagle on the ground and pretended to be asleep. Haha, I hope they know we are quite harmless.

We had 3 baptisms yesterday, all kids under 15. The thing I love about kids getting baptized is when they bear their testimonies. They always say the most profound things. One of them, Sandile, said " If I could explain how I feel in one word, it would be clean. I;m going to go to all my friends and tell them I have no sins anymore"

I'm getting along well with my companion and we are working well together. He has surprised me. This week we are setting some good goals. We also have Zone conference. This will be President Thompson's last one, so it is going to be really different. Wish us the best with the preparations.

Ngi Thanda ya'll. Have a blessed week.

-Elder Moser

 

Hey mom! Sorry to hear that Luthia is gone. Just get another exchange student, right? Get one from south Africa. That would be cool. Then they could tell you about everything that I am experiencing right now:)

It feels good to have hit a year. I'm looking back at everything that happened in the past year and it feels like one, but went so fast. Now that I now what I'm doing I fear its gonna go by faster now.

This morning I got a call from one of my friends on mission. Last night President Thompson told him his father had passed on. I can tell he is hurting and I really want to help him with it. He is being strong and knowledge of the plan of salvation is really helping, I just wish I knew of a way that I could help him.

This week we ate chicken from a member family.... It still had some of the feathers on it and It wasn't cooked all the way... Also, I am still a zone leader, and I am going on an exchange to the Bluff tomorrow. Seems like I just can't get away from that place loll. Actually, the couple i got married finally got baptized yesterday! Just took extra time for the Baba to quit smoking, but when I interviewed him, he had stopped for 3 weeks!

Ngi Thanda wena!

-Elder Boopers

Us in Illovo!
The dark haired one is Bezerra. The other is elder Nichols from Idaho. 

This is chicken with Putu. I made the Putu. I offered the Gogo that I
make it for her. She was surprised a mlungu would offer that. haha

We were running at night and this crab dude ran across the road in front

 of us and Scared us to DEATH. We thought it was a rat! 

These are the kids that were baptized: Sphesihle, Kitty and Sandile.

Metanoeo

June 3 2019

Change has been coming in full force this week. I feel like with a new transfer it always gives you extra room to look at what you can improve on. I have been looking at a lot of the things I could be doing better and I have been doing my best. I read a Talk from president Nelson were he talks about the word "Metanoeo" and how it means changing our mind, Knowledge, spirit and breath. Christ wants us to change so much he even wants us to change the way that we breath! time to change just a bit.

This week has been really good and feels like fresh air. Me and my companion elder Bezerra have been doing a lot of finding this last week. We found % potential priesthood holders all in the same house, and I am already finding them as really close friends! One of them named Thabiso came with us to church on Sunday. He even stayed for the class afterwards and a baptism. I feel like the whole experience answered a lot of questions he had asked us a few days prior. It made me really happy to see.

Along with that, the whole zone has been having us come to do baptismal interviews for them. It is so cool to visit other areas of the mission and see their successes. Everyone wants to do exchanges tho, so I'm not too excited about that.

my calculator watch is still working so nobody worry about that. Use it on the daily because I am getting progressively worse at math haha.

We had a dinner appointment this week were my companion was so full that he couldn't finish the Putu on his plate. He didn't want to be disrespectful with not eating his food, but he was so full that he had to put some in his pocket hahaha.

This transfer is gonna be a good one and I hope to baptize like crazy! love you all!

-Elder Moser

BTW, there is a member in this ward named Wamke who was actually companions with Spencer Barbre. We talked about him a little bit yesterday after church.

You know, I am doing a lot better. There were a lot of hidden things I was kinda struggling with, but we had MLC on Tuesday and Wednesday and that actually answered a lot of questions for me and this week I have been really powerful. I am leading the area yet again, and it is just as fun as always. Elder Bezerra sometimes doesn't really contribute much sometimes and I feel like I'm doing things on my my own a lot. He is really quiet and doesn't say much, but EVERYTIME we are getting ready to go somewhere, it takes him a long time to follow. Those are the moments he becomes social for some reason haha. gotta help with that.

Today we went to the biggest mall in the mission called Gateway. Again I guess. We didn't really have anything to do but I wanted to do something. We got waffles for lunch. They made me really sick because it had ice cream and carmel on it. remember when I could have a lot of sweet stuff and you told me that one day I wouldn't be able to handle it anymore? That time has come hahahahaha. Shame.

I can't believe I am about a year now. Feels like just yesterday that I was in the bitter cold of Lesotho. I miss it, but it does get kinda cold here in the mornings. I actually fear that I am losing my immunity to the cold the longer I am here in Durban. It is super hot and I don't get sick from it.

May 28, 2019

May 28, 2019

I think I'm going to give up on this whole email shindig.

Transfers just happened, but we did transfers on Monday. Meaning, I got shafted and didn't get to email. I'm trying to make up for it today, but only have a short while because we have to go to MLC in like, 20 minutes. I want to give details, but sometimes I just can't.

You don't gotta stress though, we are tracting in safer areas. We put a great big map in our boarding and then color coded it to see the safe and not safe areas. We do have appointments in the not as safe areas, but I feel fine. I always check to see if I feel uneasy, and so far I have felt at peace with all of it.

I'm staying in Kwamashu another transfer, but elder Morales is going to Hillcrest to be ZL there. We just swapped companions and so I have the ex. Hillcrest Elder Bezerra. He is from Brazil and is half my age on mission. Speaking of which, can you believe I am going to hit a year in about a week????? That is crazy to me! I remember when Nathan hit that point in his mission. I actually had a Brazilian elder who I was in the MTC with come to me asking if I was still planning on going home early and how that made him sad, but I don't remember ever telling him I wanted to go home early haha. I am excited to see what me and my new companion can accomplish. He is a little quiet so I feel like I will have to open him up a bit. Break him in, if you know what I'm saying.

We attended a funeral last Saturday. It was my first African one. Holy cow, it literally took so long! It was at a Christian Church and a good portion was in Zulu. there was a band and people would go up and do, well, exactly what you would think they do in an African church. There were a couple times I forgot I was even at a funeral. Kinda like a concert. There was a lot of incense burners and I was scared I was gonna get a bloody nose haha. They also had a portion where you could come up and take the bread and Wine, actual wine mind you, but only if you were worthy... So that was interesting. They wanted my companion to perform at the funeral a song he wrote but he had to decline since we represent a church haha. And because it wasn't really fitting haha.

Hope you have a good week! Tell the youngins' I love them! 

-Elder Moser

Letter to Mom

May 20, 2019

Sorry for not posting any pictures.... Ever. I know a lot of you probably don't ever read this and just look at the pictures, but Honestly, I haven't even touched my camera in a long while because I fear it getting stolen. We have found ourselves in some pretty sketchy situations this week. 

First off, the week was a lot better and we got way more new people to teach. One of them was a man named Tony who was actually a white man who was married to a Zulu lady. He is super cool and we talked with him for a bit to see if he would be interested. But what was cool was this kid that was walking by the house and saw us in there and politely asked if he could listen to our message. He is our age and seems to be sincerely in search of truth with religion. We are going to teach him again this week.

My time with Morales is already coming to an end. He has been in this area for 5 transfers already so we are guessing that he is bout to head out. If that is the case, i'm nervous to who my next companion will be! I like this guy. He cool.He is just cool because of his talent with Music. He is also just a happy guy. His zulu name he was given is Jabulo, which means happy. We got along super well. I hope he comes to BYUI, but it depends on where music will take him in his country.

Love ya'll.

-Elder Moser

Hey mum!

I really like your Epiphany. So much that I am going to start using it for member visits. It is a little bit easier to visit members in Kwamashu. We were at a members house and the couple fed us dinner, which was mince and beans over rice, and chicken. I thought about home cooked meals and how we would never have 2 meat dishes in the same meal, but 2 is a small number in this country haha.

This week has been a lot better in terms of missionary work. On one day, we got 7 new investigators. That was really cool. And we didn't find out until after that we were in a dangerous section of our area. Found cool people though, and we also found a white man who married a Zulu girl and lives in the township, which is nothing I have ever seen before haha.

We went go-karting today at a HUGE mall called The Gateway. The go karts were super fast and fun. The whole time I thought back to all the times you called me "Dash" with my speed, and it propelled me to take first! I was flying. So fun.