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?

TRANSFER NEWS!

September 17, 2018

This week was pretty crazy. Last Monday was probably the worst day of our lives, because we literally walked about a million kilometers around Maseru. We somehow found ourselves in all the places that have been striking, and all so Ah Sam could buy some gummy snakes. At a KFC with a broken ice cream machine, we got a call from the zone leaders saying Elder Ntaka is going AP, so we had to get him across the border and get all his stuff sorted out immediately, so we didn't even get the chance to do any Pday things. We have had Elder Nielsen with us all week, which has been a lot of fun actually, but very crowded.

Transfer news got me shook. President Thompson called and we all put the phone on speaker. He told me I'm going to Ezekeni 2 with Elder Reay!!! But then he had to call back because there were 2 drunk Asians fighting really loudly, but when he called me back, he said he was just lying and that he is really sending me to open an area in Bluff. This area was open years ago but got shut down because of bogus missionaries. I understand that because it is right on the beach, so it's a good thing that I am not tempted by the beach. My new companion is Elder Atkinson. I'm super sad to leave Warner and I'm also scared to be starting literally from scratch, but I am up for the challenge. I just hope Presidents impression is right haha..... ha..

We had 105 people at church this week! That is a big improvement from our 55 last week. It is really too bad I am leaving now. We also have two baptisms next week that I won't be able to go to.:(

Well, I'm out of time. I got a haircut and the Pakistani dude gave me a fresh line haha. Didn't expect that but it happened. So. That is that.

Love you all!

-Elder Moser

Garbage

Cough, Cough........ Anddddddddddddd the Water is out AGAIN.

September 10, 2018

Well, Another week has passed. How crazy is it that I am almost done with my second transfer? I'm actually really scared for transfer news because we all think Elder Warner is going to get a new companion and go open a new area in TY, and I am going to be a trainer. We are getting 40 new missionaries in the next two transfers so the majority of the mission is going to be training. Ish.

All of us have been pretty sick this week and I don't know if it is from the change in seasons or just the dust flying around from the 40 mph wind, but we have been vegetables. Even on the days we tried to get out and work, it was really hard to focus on anything. or breathe even haha. Most days, Elder Warner was asleep on his bead trying to recover, but I couldn't sleep so I put together a 750 piece puzzle of Victoria falls:') hahahaaa.... so is life.

Yesterday we trekked up to the two towers from Lord of the Rings to try to find a man, Botsane, who has been coming to church but hasn't been visited by the missionaries. His house is literally at the top of the mountain, but it was Sunday so we took bikes. He started coming to our church because he heard something that he was looking for. He has been to every church in Maseru, but doesn't feel like he has learned how to achieve salvation and that is what he is most worried about. GOLDEN!! Super excited for the journey this guy is about to discover.

We found some Salt Lake City shirts for dirt cheap at mr. Price, and took some spicy squad pics. Enjoy!

Other than being sick, freezing, and watching the Book of Mormon animated classics, that is about all that happened this week! Until next time:)

Love you all!

-Elder Moser

And it came to pass....

September 4, 2018

Karabo!!!

I didn't know what to title my email but I felt like it needed one.

This whole email thing is really hard for me because as soon as i place my fingers on the keyboard, I forget everything that happened the past week.

I love pretty much everything about Lesotho. I mean, sure we had a hurricane last night, and sure our power and water are out, and sure people yell at us when we are in taxis because we are white, but There is still so much good. I love this place!

I got to go on an exchange this week with Elder Lowe, it was pretty sweet! We got to put some promising people on baptismal date! I got a call in the middle of the day from a ward member asking for a blessing, so we traveled into town so we could give her a blessing at her office haha. Turns out she was fine (even though she said she needed the blessing because she was dying) but she wanted comfort, because she kept getting in wrecks with her car haha. I think we should have given her car a blessing haha.

We have learned this week to not give up on people! Mpolokeng, a lady with very limited English read alma 7 this last week and wants to be baptized so bad. We thought she wasn't progressing because she never kept commitments, but she decided to read and miracles are happening now. She is  going to be baptized on October 7th which is perfect because that is her birthday! How crazy is that!

Bokang is someone we have been meeting with for a while. We had a lesson on the Plan of Salvation and It was very powerful and he gave us his honest thoughts with how he thought we were mad men when we first gave him the book of mormon, but now he knows it is true. He wants to be baptized now, but he wont commit to a date just yet because he wants his wife in on it too. PRECIOUS!

There was a day this week where me and my companion had a bad feeling about what was going to happen. We felt like we needed to go home and pray about what we should do. We aren't quite sure what the danger was but we are glad we listened to the spirit. We decided it was Okay to work in the area close to home. I wish listening to the spirit was easier though. We did have a cool experience with the spirit though, were we got bunked a couple of times and didn't know what was best to do with our time and so we decided to pray to find someone who is ready to receive the gospel. We did, and all I could picture in my mind was these houses that we have never gone to before. We went and found said houses and inside was two guys our age named Lehlohonolo and Moeketsi. They were super ready. They asked so many questions that it was a little sad that we couldn't spend 8 ours with them! But we will go back probably tomorrow to follow up.

On sunday we had a baptism! Karabo was the first convert I began teaching and got to see baptised as well. His mother was so happy, she never expected to see him a member of the church.

I love this little country of Lesotho!!!! Thank you everyone for the support! I hope the water turns back on soon so I can take a shower!

Love youz guyz! have a good week:)

-Elder Moser

Elder Warner overlooking Lakeside

Man fishing on a car hood. No big deal.

Zone conference and Zone comps

August 27, 2018

So I found a puppy this week! That is the most exciting news.

We had zone conference this week which means that President Thompson came down to Lesotho to boogie with us! Me and Elder Warner were asked to speak for 30 minutes on how to build good missionary habits. We did a pretty good job and had an Epic discussion. 

Me and Elder warner have not been companions much this week. I went on an exchange with one of the zone leaders, Elder Ntaka, and we went around as I led the area. The day after we had zone conference, and then the day after that, we had a double booked day with twice as many missionaries. So, me and Elder Johnson from Idaho falls (in my group) went around and did some good work. It has been a weird week.

We Had district Conference as well and I got to participate in the choir (p.s. I am famous on lesotho social media now lol). One of our investigators, Robert, walked in and I was really filled with the spirit for some reason. Robert is a guy who is sincerely looking for truth, and when he walked in it was something else. We didn't expect it because most sundays he is trying to track a guy to fix his car haha.

my computer is being a pain in the bootay and I am running out of time. I love you all SO MUCH! Also, my mission just started a 120 day book of mormon reading challenge! all of you should join!

Sala hantle!!!

Elder Moser

Da boys playing mahjong! Me, Elder lowe is the blonde one, Ah sam is the Samoan, and Warner has the glasses.

Me braiing

ALMOST GOT OUR HEADS CUT OFF?? And yellow pap..

August 20, 2018


SOOOOOOOO the factory strikes were pretty bad this week. We actually had to stay inside one day because the people were going nuts! They are looking for a 58% pay increase! One of our white friends told us that the last time that this happened, they were cutting off peoples heads and sticking them on poles.... that is enough to make a grown man sick.

I am going full indian. We make curry and Roti's most nights, and I get super full. I'm gonna have to cut back on my intake or I'm going to get super thick.

Elder Warner and I have been meeting lots of new people and having lots of powerful lessons this week. We traveled out to Tsenola which is out in the sticks, and did 3 sweet things. 

1.) We bought yellow pap.

2.) Found this cute puppy named Botlaki. She loves me and everytime we come by she runs to ME HAHAHA I love it so much.

3.) We had a lesson with a ward members brother and sister in law, Dlangamandla and Mathemba. We taught the plan of salvation and talked about how god loved us enough to send us to earth to go through challenges, even though sometimes it seems like he isn't there to help us. Testimony is so powerful though. It is called the plan of happiness for a reason and gives us so much hope. the lesson was straight power.

We were able to ride bikes out to Qoaling, which is even further than Tsenola. We got a call at the crack of dawn to travel out there to give a blessing to a lady. We rode out there and got lost but I had the feeling to turn down a random road and actually ended up in the exact spot I was searching for. The spirit works in amazing ways. There is no way that was luck.

Along with being indoors all day, we 4 missionaries created a deck of mahjong cards, and now we play on P-days. WOOT!

We have been running and eating a lot, so now I have to be really cautious to not do either of those two things or I'm going to be out of pants REAL quick. It is a good thing that I bought stretchy slacks. Best investment of my life.

So that is pretty much all that happened this week. Any questions from you guys?

Love you all! 

-Elder Moser

What the, Hail?

August 13, 2018

Behold, my prayers have been answered. Kinda. But let me back you up on some stuff.

Elder homer, my Baba, is dead. I killed him (R.I.P) and it was super sad, but man did that guy endure to the end. I was super lucky to have him. He taught me so much in such a short amount of time.

We just had transfers and for the 2 days that my new companion was traveling to me on the Durban Express, I was with Elder Huff from Pocatello, Except not really. The dude got food poisoning and was comatose the toilet for those 2 days. I had to do emergency transfers with the Khubetsoana elders so I could still get to some of the appointments that I had planned. Everything is Kosher now though, because my new companion, Elder Warner, is here and we are busting our butts to get this work done. It is a little tough because I am leading the area, so this is just a roller coaster of experience.

The first day that Me and elder Warner were out doing missionary stuff, we got a call from the zone leaders who told us to stay in our areas and just tract around there for the day because apparently there was some civil unrest and people getting shot by the police force or something like that, so we just stayed around home all day and met some cool new people. late at night, we were talking to this woman just outside and just as she went back inside and we were about to go home but we just got blasted by a micro burst, so I turned to elder Warner and told him something bad is about to happen, and then it hailed and blew a million miles per hour and we had to run a mile back home in that weather. It was INSANE but it is the probable the closest we will get to snow, so I'm gonna count that as a prayer answered. I even made a snowball out of it! :)

So anyways, that is the warm welcome that Elder Warner received from Lesotho. But we have also met some pretty sweet people. There was one lesson this week where we talked to 8 guys going to University, and they wanted to know about hte book of Mormon, so we went inside, all 10 of us, and we read out of it and described how we could be better people by listening to the BOM. Another guy walked in who was a bible preacher, and he was complaining and arguing about how we don't need the bible and he was talking to his friends about the bible, and they were acutally defending the BOM!!!! It was so cool. They were already feeling the powerrrrr. That is 8 potential priesthood holder right there.

Anways, we are keeping warm and eating lots of food! I'm getting fat! but I love all ya'll!:) until next week.

-Elder Lehlohonolo Teboho Mosa

From the Opposite end of the Earth

July 30, 2018

Weed is illegal but everyone smokes it here. Even the cops. There is a man who runs a truck shop that we run by every week and We stop to play chess with him on Pday if he meets the goal we give him to read in the book of Mormon. Whenever we pass him, he is reading the book, but he's also usually smoking a blunt. He Reeks of weed and he drinks a lot which makes him really slow in manner, but he is actually a really smart dude. Anyways, in sacrament mtg. yesterday, right before the prayer I looked around to see everyone who came, and he walked in and my eyes almost popped out of my head! I was so shocked but so happy! This gospel is about to change his life. What makes it better is the branch clerk who is also the nicest guy ever, was his classmate, so he showed him around the day. I sat by him in Gospel doctrines. I couldn't tell if I was high on the spirit or High from his scent lol.

We have been making Roti's a lot lately which is an Indian bread and we use it as a utensil to eat our Zebra meat and bean meals. This morning we woke up early to go teach a guy named Neo how to make them. He lost his job and is struggling now, so we are teaching him how to make a bunch of foods that he can make a food joint out of. 

There is a surprising amount of white people around here and whenever we see one we punch eat other, kinda like when you see a volkswagen beetle. Today at the mall we saw a bunch of white girls and I punched Elder Homer like 6 times. He is gonna have a sore arm tonight because we saw like 40 today.

A few days ago we went to traveled to Ha Pita which is SUPER far away from where we stay just to see a man, Thabang. We took a taxi there, I accidentally fell asleep because taxi drivers keep their windows up with no AC and then I woke up getting dropped off in the middle of nowhere. I was very lost as to where we were lol. We called the man we were supposed to see and He WASN'T EVEN HOME even ThO hE SAid He WouLD bE. Missionary work can be stressful sometimes. It worked out though because we knocked on a house and actually met a woman, Nthabaleng, who is gonna get baptized now.

On the way home from Ha Pita, we Stopped at a store to get some food and it was run by a Chinese couple. They thought we were really nice, and gave us free gum then talked to us for a while about religion. They thought we were Jehovah witnesses, but don't worry. We Gave them pamphlets and taught them a lil sutm sutm

My jaw has been killing me but I'm pulling through! I love you all, and pray for you all the time:) I love this place, even though it is getting really hot! 

Khotso!

-Elder Moser