July 11th to July 17th 2016--- Transfer Week!

Last Monday we went to Alicante for the greatly awaited Elche vs. Alicante fútbol game! We won except for the key players on our team were actually from Alicante. Hahaha. It was SUPER hot and we played right during mediodia (duh. The HOTTEST part of the day) so that was silly of us. Those of us from Elche bought Spain headbands and face paint. I think that's why we won.

On Tuesday we had the last district meeting and the last meeting with Elder Weenig! 20 minutes before Elder Weenig called us and assigned Hermana DeBoard and I a taller (workshop). We gave one last district meeting and in zone meeting! But we agreed and crammed to prepare it. We ended up not even giving it because we ran out of time in the meeting but it was cool how fast we pulled it together. As a district we had breakfast together during the meeting. We had already made some  killer banana bread and an egg bake and the elders make pancakes and sausages. It was nice to eat all together. :)

Wednesday was the day of transfers and even thought Hermana DeBoard and I are staying here in Elche it was still a crazy day for us. We woke up at 7 so we could go say goodbye to Elder Rivero who is going to be a zone leader. Then we walked to say goodbye to Elder Weenig at the bus station because he's finishing his mission! After mediodia we went back to the bus station with popsicles and waited for Elder Pesce to come in with his trainee Elder Stark. It was nice to meet and talk with them a bit. Elder Stark is from Colorado and he'll be have a fun elder to have in our district.

Wednesday night we had English class and taught our students animals and Old McDonald and it was pretty entertaining. Afterwards, I was talking to Elder Stark and he asks, "uhhh do you sleep with sheets on your bed?" Uh. Yes. Apparently, because they just moved to their new apartment they are missing a lot of things that were part of the old apartment. So they took the bus home with us and we ran upstairs and got them some extra sheets we had. The next day they called us and asked us if we had an extra mattress and a clothes drying rack. Haha. Oh elders. Luckily we do have extra things to give them. We made Elder Pesce promise to make us sopaipillas soon to pay us back.

Hermana DeBoard and I made a goal this week to speak only Spanish from 4:30 to 8 every day and soon we'll add in an all day Spanish day of the week. So that's been helping me a lot. I could talk all day in Spanish about religious things but I need practice on the common conversation.

This week I learned how to play the mission hymn and will be playing it tomorrow for district meeting! Sunday was quite the day. We had ward council meeting and so were at the church 45 minutes before church started. I gave a talk about missionary work in Sacrament meeting. It went okay... When I get nervous, I talk really fast and kind talk in circles. So I'm not surehow much sense I actually made in Spanish but I'm trying my best. Haha :). And then we had the three hours of church. We went home to eat, then went back to the church building for and hour and a half choir practice. And then were there for another 2 hours for a baptism service for the other ward. So it was a pretty exhausting day!

It's been a pretty average week in terms of missionary work. No extraordinary happenings or anything but that's how it is. :) God knows exactly where the people we need to teach are and it's just our job to find them. We've been knocking a lot of doors and passing by a lot of people from the ward member list.


We take the city buses A LOT here--so much in fact that the bus drivers basically know all of our normal stops. One especially crazy day when we were helping the elders out with their piso we took the bus several times and ended up with the same bus driver for at least three of the trips. The bus drivers smile at us when they see us in the streets and motion to us to see if we need their bus or not.Hahaha. So we have friends here.

Have a great week!


Love, Hermana Moore


Team Elche!

Fans are used so much here and we always have them in our bags.













Elx is a Elche I'm Valencian. Valencian is a dialect of Spanish used here in the region I'm in. I don't speak it but some older people do. It's also taught in all the schools and most of the street signs are written in Valencian.

This is the transfer board. This week is the second week of the transfer.

Transfer board in the mission home.

Jamón serrano is super popular here. People buy these big legs and carve off thin slices of ham.

It's like a huggable cactus!

The elders went and got their eyebrows waxed at a member's house and didn't invite us...