August 22nd-August 28th, 2017

Hola friends and family! Woah woah woah. It's the sixth and final week
of the transfer and that's just cRaZy! But don't worry, Hermana Bailey
and I still have one more awesome week together.

Hermana Bailey and I had a week full of miracles, a heartbreak and
snails. But overall, it's been a good week to reflect on all the
little miracles we've been seeing together. Here's a rundown of the
week!

On Tuesday we had district meeting in the morning and then had our
typical Tuesday night wth correlation, English class and ward family
home evening. This last week my family has been together on a family
vacation and I've been getting cute little updates randomly.
Naturally, it's bittersweet to see pictures of your family all happy
together. On Tuesday I was feeling a little bit down and it was kind
of a long day and I just asked God to give me a pick me up. And when I
got to English class, He let me know He's aware of me by sending me
Samantha. Samantha is a 7 year old girl and she and her mom and
brother always come to English class. Well, you can pretty much say
I'm one of her favorites. She saved me a seat in the family home
evening and held my hand most of the night. :) Just a little tender
mercy.

On Wednesday we had a PACKED day. We did all of our studies in the
morning and then ate with Arlex and Edelia for lunch. Wednesday night
we taught Manuela (a really sweet less active member). We met with
Victor too and figured out a lot of his doubts. He has a sincere
desire to know if God knows him and we taught him a little about the
Plan of Salvation. That's what I'm here to do: help people realize
that they are children of God.

After that lesson, we taught Santiago. When he sat down, he just said
"I'm not coming back." We sat and talked with him and he said that he
knows that God out us in his path and he loves us like his daughters,
he loves the church and the doctrine of Christ has been changing his
life, he loves the Book of Mormon and knows it's true, and he loves
being at church around the members. Then he started sobbing and told
us that he is never going to come back to church and that he doesn't
want to meet anymore. It was such a sad lesson! It was frustrating
because he never even told us WHY. So we cried and said good bye and
watched our vest investigator walk out the door for the last time. I
think he'll come back but I'm not sure when that'll be. So that left
Hermana Bailey and I heartbroken and that night we sat on the couch
and ate ice cream. :( But, it must not be Santiago's time yet. God is
in control and I'm grateful to be an instrument in His perfect hands.

On Thursday we did weekly planning and in the afternoon we had two
visits with members. We are putting into action a plan to help the
active members have family home evenings every week with less active
members and us and our investigators. Then, as they all get
comfortable, they will want to invite their friends too! We had really
positive reactions to this plan and we are excited to get it rolling!

On Thursday afternoon we had a family home evening in Allison's house
with our investigator Brenda. We had a really good lesson about the
Restoration with her and discovered some of her doubts. Alison's dad
works for a radio station and he had us record a few phrases for
advertisement. He likes our gringo accents. :) hahaha.

On Saturday, a family of four got baptized. Hermana Lopez and Hermana
Swartzberg have been teaching them and the baptism was so nice! Also,
Sandra came with Samantha and Justin. I think I've written about her.
She is from Colombia and lived right next to elders for 8 years. She
was nice to them but only ever went to a few family home evenings.
Hermana Simpson and I contacted her a few months ago and she started
to coming to English class. Her heart has softened and now she is
coming to English, 3 family home evenings a week, church on Sunday and
baptisms! Last week she started listening to the lessons with the
elders! God softens people's hearts and prepares them to receive the
Gospel.

Well, this one is getting a little long so I'm going to finish up.
Today for pday we went out and ate snails. 🐌 They really weren't that
good...

Have a happy week! Look for the little miracles!

Love, Hermana Moore

I'm radio famous. :)

 We're pretty tight.

My little friend Samantha! ❤️ 

A video of me eating a snail!

August 15th- August 21st, 2017

Holllaaaa friends! Wow has it been a good, packed week.

Today Hermana Bailey and I went to make lunch and eat with the Arias
family so we don't have a ton of emailing time. But this week was
awesome and I want to write about a few highlights. So here we go!

Tuesday was a normal Tuesday filled with meeting with our ward mission
leader and discussing the needs of investigators, teaching English
class and going to the ward family home evening. Elder Weenig, my
first district leader from when I was in Elche came to visit with his
family and when he saw me he said, "Hermana Moore?! You're still
here?!" "Yep, still here." :)

This Thursday we had zone conference and interviews with President
Andersen. In zone conference the zone leaders and Hermana Bailey and I
taught a lesson about how we can work with the youth more. Conference
was really uplifting and I'm excited to apply what I've learned.

Exchanges. We had exchanges with our favorite Albacete Hermanas,
Hermana Dos Santos and Aasee. We had a lot of cool finding miracles
and we felt God's guidance.

Santiago. Santiago is our wonderful investigator from Colombia. He is
progressing really well and is praying about baptism! He is really
intent on gaining his own testimony and we are so excited to help him
develop one! He comes to the ward FHE, Rosanna's FHE, English class,
church, AND he meets with us twice a week. He's awesome.

Domestic hour. A few weeks ago, Hermana Bailey and I started a joke
that sisters have an extra hour every day to learn home-making skills.
Sewing, scrap booking, baking, etc. We started it with a few Elche
elders and then it spread to the Alicante elders too. They bought it
for a little until we got too obvious about it. But we still kept it
going as this big joke. We drop little comments like, "oh, do you have
a recipe I can turn out during domestic hour?" As week ago, we started
making jokes about how overwhelmed we are with all the ties we have to
make for some conference. They knew it was a joke, but they still
said, "wellll we want ties too!"  So we took one of my old skirts and
cut it into strips and made them ties! Bahaha. Hermana Bailey and I
keep things fun. :)

Hermana Bailey and I are trying to work with members more and during
weekly planning we made a lot of plans to do it. We prayed that the
hearts of the members would soften and that they would let us into
their homes. As soon as we said amen, a member called and invited us
to eat! She was a member on our list to work with! God is aware of His
children. :)

Have a wonderful week everyone! I love you all!

Love, Hermana Moore

Hermana Aasee and Hermana Dos Santos.

 Allison is an incredible member and she helped us out in our lesson during zone conference! 

 Domestic hour. :). When we made the ties. 

The elders with their ties. Bahaha. 

August 8th-August 14th, 2017

It has been a looonnnggg week. But lots of miracles, so it was all worth it!

We had a district meeting in Elche and got to see some hermanas we don't see too often. Tuesday night is always fun because we have correlation, English class and then the ward family home evening. Hermana Hauber came to visit! She was my first sister training leader and now I'm in her old area! So that was fun to see her again. 

On Wednesday morning we did weekly planning and a miracle happened! We were calli a few futures as last chance calls before we dropped them. I called Rosa, an awesome woman who came to church and loved it, one last time. I've been calling for three weeks and she hasn't picked up. She didn't pick up so I dropped her. But ten minutes later she called back and said that the elders contacted her a few minutes after I called her and she took it as a sign she needed to call back and meet again! God is completely aware of each of His children. 

Wednesday night and Thursday morning we had exchanges with Hermana May and Hermana Hargis. At night Hermana May and I taught two really good lessons about that Restoration and found a few cool people on the street who want to learn more. Hermana Hargis and I had a nice lesson with a less active family.

Once the Hermanas left, Hermana Bailey and I got to work together again! We had an awesome family home evening with a family in our ward and we are starting to teach Allison (18 year old daughter)'s friend Brenda! We are super excited to keep teaching her. 

On Friday to Saturday we had exchanges with Hermana Woods and Hermana Lindley. They are both so sweet and I made a really thorough language plan with Hermana Lindley. 

On Saturday we taught Patricio! He's an Ecuadorian man I met with Hermana May who was really excited to meet with us. We had an incredible lesson about the Restoration. That has become my favorite lesson to teach. He understood everything well and by the end he said, "I'm attending another church but ever since meeting you, I feel like God is guiding me to this church."

I love bringing this gospel to the hearts of the people here in Spain. ️

Have a wonderful week!

Love, Hermana Moore 

 The district. 

Hermana Lindley and Hermana Woods!

Hermana May and Hermana Hargis exchanges!

Sunday night treat! 

Hermana Hauber!

August 1st-August 7th, 2017

Well it's the end of week two with Hermana Bailey! And boy, oh, boy
had it been a crazy one. Here's what happened!

Last Monday and Tuesday we had a wonderful session of mission council
and it was neat to analyze the needs of the mission. We're going to
put a big emphasis on Preach My Gospel and strive to learn and apply
the doctrine of Christ it lays down.  I'm excited to put it into
practice!

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges with Hermana Burt annndddd
Hermana Gentry! I got to know Hermana Burt and had a really nice night
working with her. Then in the morning I got to be back with Hermana
Gentry. It was like we were back in Granada as companions but we could
also see that we have both changed so much.

On Wednesday night late Hermana Bailey and I were finally back in
Alicante in time to get a few things ready for intercambios Friday
afternoon.

Thursday was a busy day but it was nice to be back working in Alicante
with Hermana Bailey. We had district meeting on Thursday morning and
in the afternoon we taught Santiago again. The problem with him is
that he's planning on leaving for a 3 month backpacking trip.... BUT.
Our prayers were answered and he called us today and said that he got
a job! Which means that he CAN'T leave and that we can still teach
him!! He's cool and he's starting to make friends at church. Another
miracle happened when we met with Victor! Let me just take a second to
explain about him.

***In the first few days with Hermana Bailey here we were walking and
contacting. We were walking on a certain sidewalk (Hermana Simpson, I
know you're wondering, so it's the sidewalk by the auditorium by the
parking lot security guard) and we contacted four or five different
people and got four or five really rude rejections! So Hermana Bailey
turned to me and we decided that we would always contact every single
person on the oath, no matter how much of a rush we are in. Hermana
Bailey has so much faith and so she looked me dead in the eyes and
said, "someone we contact on this is is going to be baptized." It
started out as kind of a joke, but then we kept talking about it and
started believing in it. Last week we contacted Victor on the end of
this sidewalk! He's Brazilian, 30 years old and believes in God, but
he doesn't know if God loves him or knows him personally. We have
taught him twice and he is awesome! We promised him that through the
Book of Mormon and our message, he could find out how much God loves
him.***

After Victor's lesson, we taught English class and had a really good turn out.

On Friday afternoon we had exchanges with Hermana Lake and Hermana
Grover and it was nice to get to know them better.

We've been making lots of plans to work with members and this past
week we started a 40 day fast with our ward and they are all really
excited about it. We also have been putting into practice a plan that
our stake has for us to reteach the members the first few lessons and
ask for references from them. We have already received a reference
from a member! We picked up a few solid investigators this week and we
are really excited to help them progress.

I think that's about it for now. Today all the missionaries in
Alicante climbed the Santa Barbara Castle.

Enjoy a few pictures! Love you all! Read your scriptures and do
something to grow closer to God and your Savior.

❤️ Hermana Moore