November 2013

Hola!! (I guess I can say Hi now that I teach both languages, but oh well.)

Ya, we haven't been getting fed at all, but this week we should get some more. 
Our new area is crazy! There is so much work to do. With both English and Spanish, we have enough work for 3 separate companionships. But it is fun :) We have a ton of work and we have been booked! It has been really good though. We are almost done getting everything ready so that we can just get to work. This next week will be really good :) 
The english ward is crazy!! They are on top of everything and get stuff done. It was weird singing hymns in english. :) That was really weird. It was like being home :P Haha It was amazing though. We are going to have so much help with our work :) It is going to be awesome!! 
                                           
The sister missionaries were kicked out. I mean exactly that. The entire companionship got moved to a different area. They did nothing wrong there just wasn't enough work, and now we have overloads :P It is awesome though :)
Love,
Elder Moyes
Ya I can kind of play guitar :P Kind of like I am with piano. I can play and read basically anything, I just need to practice it :P And those are the Santos'. Jesus and Julian are the two little kids there. Neftally is the big one with long hair. He is 15. Alex is the one with our hands together doing the thumbs up. He is 19. Junior is the other one. He is 21 :P Haha they are awesome!! They are recent converts and I love them! I miss them. They are in our old area though :/ But we will see them at church still :)
I get to see Josh on WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!!! He is now in my zone!!!! I am excited!!! I'll send a picture next week!!!  Tell his parents because I don't think he knows yet :P

Hola!!! 

This week has been very long, but very good. The new area is difficult, but it is coming along. We barely have any Spanish work so the majority is English. My Spanish is not improving very well. Hopefully we find more people to teach in Spanish. 
Sarasota is just below my area. We have a small part of our area in Sarasota, but the majority is not.
The ward is awesome. They help us out a lot. It is definitely different than Spanish. Haha 
We have a couple meals set up, but not much. Hopefully that picks up. We are doing fine though :P 
We have had a couple lessons. Not a lot, but it is working. We are getting a lot of work done though, just doesn't show on the numbers which is frustrating. But that's okay.
I feel okay. A little worn down, but not too bad. I haven't gotten sick or anything, just tired :) 
Okay, we are getting IPADS!!! The zone leaders already have FB profiles and get on every day for 1 hour to use it. The IPads have been ordered and we are getting them soon. We don't know when normal missionaries will get them, but it is coming!! :D It's awesome!!
Well, I guess that Taylor and Dad are just going to be watching movies together until they heal :P Haha Jk. But get better guys!! 
Okay, well, this week was very long, but not a lot happened. We had exchanges with the ZL's and that was really good. Otherwise not much happened. We have been doing To The Rescue every day so that is keeping us busy. We are just working with Less Actives. It has been really good. We have gotten a lot of stuff done, but there aren't a lot of stories from it. Hopefully I'll have some good stories next week :)
Love,
Elder Moyes

It was really good seeing Josh. It was nice being able to talk to someone I know. It gets kind of lonely when everyone you know is so far away so it was nice. We haven't had too many new trainings, but they have been good.For Thanksgiving we are eating at a Spanish Members house. It should be really good. :) We are excited.

We had a really awesome miracle. I don't think I told you guys about it, but if I have then I'm sorry. We were doing service for a less active family and they were really nice. If you look at a map of Bradenton, there is a small island on the west side of it. That is where they live. Our plan for the day was to bike to the top of the island and do some To The Rescue after doing the service. We finished helping and started biking. Elder James got a flat tire. We pumped it up and kept going. Then, it got flat again. Every quarter mile it would get flat again. We decided to turn around and go home and just do To The Rescue on the way home. The top of the island is about 12 miles from our house so we didn't think we would make it there and back without trashing his bike. So we headed back. We were looking for one lady who was on our roster as less active. We had to continue pumping up his tire every quarter mile. We couldn't find anywhere that said the address we were looking for so we knocked on the house where it should have been. This lady answered the door and simply said: "Hey, you guys are mormons!" We looked at each other and told her we were. She then said, "Me too!!" Turns out, the lady that we were looking for was this lady's mom. Tina is the lady who answered the door. Her mom is Judith, and Tina wasn't even on the roster. So we found someone new!! She then invited us over for dinner. After we left her house we started biking home again. After we left that house, Elder James' tire never got flat. It hasn't gotten flat since! It was so awesome! Because without his tire getting flat we would never have stopped by her house and would not have found her. It was really cool. That was our Miracle for the week.That is everything for this week. Keep up the good work back home :)

Thanksgiving was good. We ate 3 times. 2 English and 1 Spanish. It was all just regular thanksgiving food :) It was really good!! :) Haha That is all we did. 

Scripture of the day is going to be my missionary scripture. D&C 4:3. This week has been rough and I just need to remember why I am here :) We all chose to come down here and follow this plan. So we have been called to the work. Every single one of us has been called at this time. We all wanted to come down. So here we are. Now let's get to work. :)

I love you all. :) I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!