Hellooooooo. Well, it's been another full week around here. Full of paella, pancakes and contacting miracles. And today I'm writing you from Málaga. I'm here to renew my Spanish residency card because I've been here for a year!! Ive gotten to spent time with Hermana Lopez, Hermana George, and Hermana Mercado who all got here the same time as me! I left on Sunday and I'll get home to Alicante on Tuesday afternoon.
Here's what happened this week!
On Tuesday, I got to go to the motherland (a.k.a. Palm tree-y Elcheeeee!) for a district meeting. The zone leaders and Hermana Simpson and I went. Elche is a little bit secluded from the Alicante zone so it was nice to see everyone over there. We had a really nice meeting about teaching by the Spirit and teaching to the needs of
people. Then we had a taco party! 🌮 It's been a while since I had tacos and it was fun to eat with the 12 missionaries in Elche. After lunch we got ok the train to go back to Alicante. Hermana Grover and Hermana Clark came with us and we had exchanges with them! I worked with Hermana Grover for the afternoon and it was fun getting to know her. This is her first transfer in the mission and her very finest exchange! We contacted a bit, taught English class, and went to the ward family home evening. At night we all made s'mores together.
On Wednesday morning we made pancakes and celebrated Hermana Clark's birthday! Then she and I went out to have a lesson with Gregorio. He is from Colombia and he was baptized 10 months ago. He is by far the sweetest man I have ever met! He was so incredibly prepared to receive the restored gospel in his life and he loves the church and missionaries so much. He always calls us his girls. (Ehhh! Mis niñas! Qué pasa mis niñas!?) We had a nice lesson with him. For lunch we continued celebrating Hermana Clark's birthday with paella!
Wednesday afternoon Hermana Simpson and I were back together to have a lesson with Argenis. She and her husband (Edison) and her teenage son (JohnJarvis) are from Colombia as well and they are so good! They have
been kind of all over the board with their feelings about baptism lately. But JohnJarvis has decided that he's sick of waiting for Argenis and Edison to make up their minds and that he is going to get baptized in the middle of June!! We are so excited for him!! And I'm sure that Argenis and Edison will be close behind. This gospel changes
livessssss.
Hermana Wood and Hermana Solórzano from Crevillente (a town near Elche) came for exchanges on Wednesday night and they stayed with us all day Thursday. We had a blast together and got some good work done.
On Friday we had our district meeting here in Alicante. Friday afternoon we had a few lessons but nothing too exciting. Hermana Simpson and I are still at the zone conference next weekend and so on Friday afternoon we were debating going home 45 minutes early to work on it. As we were almost home, Hermana Simpson said, "I don't think we should go home. We need to contact for at least 10 minutes first. There's someone we need to find." And so we did. Two minutes later we met a lady named Yadia. She was in a rush but when we asked if we
could call her and meet next week she said "Yes! I'd love to!" We talked to a few other people and we decided once again that (now with 25 minutes left) it would be an efficient time use of time. We made our way back towards our house and once again, when we were a few streets away from home, we got the impression that we needed to keep contacting. So we did. We contacted and for the next 20 minutes all we got were rejections. But we kept going down at 10:10 (5 minutes before going home) we found a man named Oscar (not the one who wants to marry
me! 😂). He's from Alicante and didn't have a lot of time but he insisted that we write down his number so we can meet next week. It was so cool to see how God needed us to be in those two places to meet Yadia and Oscar. If we would've gone home early to work on the talk, it would've been a good thing and we would have been productive. But, we would not have met Yadia and Oscar. That taught me that not only does God know what's good for us, but He knows what's BEST for us. I am a witness of the perfect love of our loving Heavenly Father.
Saturday afternoon one of our lessons fell through, as well as our backups, and so we decided we would contact for the hour. As soon as we decided that, we turned onto a street that was empty. Well, empty except for one lady two blocks away. We walked towards her and started talking with her. Her name was Macarena and we set up a lesson for Sunday! It was a cool experience because God just cleared everyone out of the way just so we made sure to contact her!
Hermana Simpson is such a fun companion. She is so good at following impressions of the Holy Ghost without delay. I am learning a lot with her and I am really LOVING every second of my time here in Alicante. I
sure love being a missionary. Have a good week!
Love, Hermana Moore
Paella for Hermana Clark's birthday!
Fun with Hermana Clark and Hermana Grover!
Pancakes. 🥞 🍓 🍫
This is Málaga. ❤️ 
Hermana Wood and Hermana Solórzano!Love, Hermana Moore
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