Week 24 - Leaving Salinas

Family and Friends!!!!!

Well as you all know transfers were Yesterday and I have some sad news, some happy news, and some amazing news!!!!

Happy News: Elder Robinson is coming to Salinas!

Sad News: I will not be District Leader and I will not see Elder Robinson!

Amazing News: I will be going to Pontezuela it is basically in Carolina. 

 

 

 

My new companion is Elder Ramirez and I don't know who that is, I guess that happens when you are old in the mission you don't know anyone anymore. 

I am sad to leave Salinas. it has been really good here and it feels a lot like home here. the weather is just right. I look forward to a new adventure in Pontezuela!

This last week I got sick but it passed by like normal and I feel better than ever!

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone that graduated this past week or these coming weeks!

Thank you everyone for the Birthday wishes it was a great day!

My birthday started different, first off my own companion forgot that it was my Birthday! Its okay I forgave him! But then we had a meeting with President Boucher, it was a good meeting, it was about the new rules about clothes for the missionaries! The missionaries in about half of the world can now use hats and Sunglasses as they are out working! That is awesome! 

After the meeting we went to Hermana de Jesus and surprisingly it was a surprise birthday party for me, I still have no Idea how you did that mom but thank you so much!!!!! We had Pizza and Cake!!!! It was a great day!!!!! 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 















I love you all and miss you tons, Sorry this letter isn't that great I am going to say goodbye to some people here before I leave tomorrow!!!!

Con Mucho Amor 

Elder Musgo  

 

Week 12 in Salinas

Family and Friends

I have been so grateful for this opportunity I had to be here with Elder Johnson I really learned a lot. He has really helped me to grow. I now know 2 really important things from these past 3 months here with him. The first one is that I need to learn how to handle stress and I got really good at it, also with the first one is that I need to learn how to love my companion no matter what, they are trying their best. The second thing was that I need to be more humble in everything I do. I had a lot of time to admire the way that Elder Johnson worked and it was really awesome to learn from him. I now understand the importance of being a humble missionary, because when we are more humble we are easier to teach and more willing to learn.

For our miracles this week there are a couple of them,

First off is that we had an appointment with someone who talked with the missionaries a lot and so we went to the house and sadly she wasn't there but her husband said but I can talk with you guys, so we sat down and asked about him and his family and he said he has 3 sons and one of them was there so he came out and we were able to share with these two. When we finished the lesson we invited them to be baptized and they both said yes. Then we invited them to Church and before I could even say the time they asked me where and when. They told us that they weren't able to make it yesterday but they will be there next week. SO FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!!!

The other one is that we were contacting last night and we were talking to everyone that we found and really trying to find the right person to teach, but we knocked on one door and and the vecino (neighbor) came out because he thought that we were talking to him so we went over and started to talk to him and then we asked if we could share our message with him and he said ok come on in, we started the lesson by singing "I am a Child of God" and he loved it, he could really feel the spirit. He was sharing with us that he just got divorced two years ago and was still hurting but we explained that its ok that we were going to be here to help him through this and then we invited him to be baptized and he said that yes he will be baptized.

I am so grateful for this amazing gospel that we have in our lives.

Family and friends as you can read, I will staying here in Salinas. my new companion will be Elder Morales from Guatemala. He has just a little bit more time than I do here in the mission. To answer your question mom yes I will still be district leader but there has been some changes with that. when I first started as District Leader I had 6 missionaries now I will have 10 missionaries we are putting two Districts together and the Lord has asked me to be the District Leader of all of us here now.

I want you to know I love you all and miss you tons, I am so grateful for all that you do for me. I have learned so much as a missionary and am grateful for all the support that I have from you guys.

I know this gospel to be true and that what I am doing here is what the Lord needs from me now.

I love you all!!!!!!!

Con Mucho Amor
Elder Musgo


Excerpt from a letter to Mom...

Hey mom as you have seen now with my weekly letter Elder Johnson is leaving Salinas and I am staying here also Elder Lopez is leaving!!!! This was a hard change for us in the house we all thought that E. Lopez would be staying here but the Lord had other plans for him! I am doing great always working hard! I have a secret for you!!!! I now weigh with all of my church clothes on 207 pounds! I WILL BE LESS THAN 200 BEFORE I COME HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 18 in Ponce 2 (Special Announcement)

Family and Friends

I don't know where to begin!!!

I am so grateful for this wonderful opportunity I had to be here in Ponce 2 I have learned so much about myself and how to be a better Missionary.My new companion is Elder Johnson he is from Jamaica I have been assigned to him as a special assignment from President Boucher, this Elder is having a hard time with Spanish and he can barley understand Gringo English, so I got a call from President Boucher and when he calls it is normally to be called as Zone Leaders but I got lucky he started to talk to me and explain the situation and I told him I would accept the new call and then right before he hung up he told me "Oh Elder Moss we would like to call you as the NEW DISTRICT LEADER over there in Salinas." 

 

 

But for my last week here in Ponce it was really good, Elder Robinson is a great Elder and a hard worker. We were really trying to find  sold investigators so that whoever was still here for the transfer would have people to go and visit. That's just what we did, we went and we found 5 new good looking investigators and they were interested in what we had to say. 

As of right now we only have 1 date here and she is looking good, the sad thing is, is she didn't make it to church. But she has friends in the Church and they are talking to her and trying to help her come to church. But her name is Rosa she is a great person and so willing, she reads what we ask her to and she does everything minus come to church.

Well someone also asked how I am doing so I might share a little about my feelings right about now!!!! I am so scared out of my mind, I was not expecting this call actually none of us were expecting this call. I want you all to know that the Lord calls people in their weaknesses and boy does this prove that statement, I don't feel qualified to be a District Leader but I know that the Lord has something  Special planned for me. I am so grateful for all that you guys do for me!!!!

Oh I also want to let you know how much I have really changed you can tell in the Pictures but I want to put some numbers with those Pictures.

Before my mission sadly I weighed almost 260 pounds 

Right now in my mission I am proud to say I weigh 215 pounds.

 

Moss - down 45 pounds from his beginning weight

I just want you to know that I feel great and I am so happy for this opportunity that I have to be a missionary and to Serve our Father which is in Heaven.

I love you all and miss you so much!!!!!!!!

Con Mucho Amor

Elder Musgo!!!!!!

 

Moss and Robinson - last week as comps

Never too old for Santa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6 in Ponce - There's a new trainer in town!

This week was a great week I am so grateful for all that I have learned!!!

This week is transfer week and I am happy to say that I will be staying in Ponce but I am sad to say that Elder Heward and Elder Lopez are not my companions but the stressful news is I actually don't know my new Companion - I will be training a new Elder straight from the MTC!!!!!!

This week was great!!!! We had a baptism!!!! John is a great guy and I am so happy he decided to come to the fold of our Father in Heaven.

I don't have much time my companion has to pack but I wanted to let you all know that I am doing great and I love you and I will be sending a lot of photos home next week with our baptism and our activity with the District.

I love you all and miss you so much!!!!

Love 

Elder Moss

 

Please send packages and letters to the mission office from now on. Sometimes people get letters and packages after transfers and it takes a lot of work to get them to the missionaries, so they have asked us to have all letters and packages sent to the office and then when we have meetings with the Zone we will get them!!!!!

 

Week 6 in Cabo Rojo and Week 1 in Ponce

I love you all and miss you so much!!!!!!

I am here in Ponce now and I love it. I love it here!!!!! I am speaking a lot of Spanish but in the house there is an Elder From Arizona as well so we talk in English it is nice to get to know him. His name is Heward he is from Gilbert he is really cool!!!!

My new companion is from my MTC group so we knew each other before hand.

Ponce is really hot but I am grateful for this opportunity to serve here in Ponce we have been blessed with rain for the past couple of days.

I love you all and  miss you so much. I have to go - really short on time. I love you 

Elder Moss


Elder Moss sent this to his little sister:

"You are never taller than when you are on your knees. if you need help, pray to the Heavenly Father. He is there for you!!!!!"

Elder Moss on the beach with a storm in the background

Elder Moss cutting the grass with a machete.

Elders Moss and Noble

Moss and Noble on two different paths - Moss in Ponce and Noble CR

Moss and Stinchfield on intercambios (splits)

Moss painting a house

Moss and Stinchfield on intercambios (splits)

   

 

 

My very last week in Juncos

What a week!!! This is also was my very last week here in Juncos, I am being transferred to Cabo Rojo. My new companion's name is Elder Noble. He's from the Dominican Republic. 

My new area

I am so sad but happy to leave. I am ready to see the other parts of the Island but I am going to miss Juncos, this is my home. I started here and I don't want to leave but I know that the Lord has different plans for me. 

This week was great we are getting new people to teach we are having different things going for us and I am going to miss them all. 

I had to pack today for the first time since the MTC and packing for me today felt as if I was packing when I left Arizona. I almost started to cry, it was bad but I am ready for a new adventure!!! 

All packed up and ready to go

People here are so awesome and so respectful to us!!!! 

I love you all but I have to go. I am so sorry that this is such a short letter but I want to share with you my testimony:

I know that this gospel is true, I know that we all have purposes in this life, I know that we don't why things happen to us but I know that the Lord knows and he will never ever leave our side he will always be there for us no matter how hard it is he will be there to help us. I know that there are people that we might not get along with but if you truly try to get a long the Lord will bless us much.

I love you all and miss you all. I will send my new address next week. 

Love Elder Musgo

Elders Rasmussen and Moss

Elders Blain and Moss

Cool clouds over Juncos

Another transfer - Another 6 weeks in Juncos!

Family and Friends

First off with some great news I am staying in Juncos for another 6 weeks. Not so good news Elder Stinchfield will be leaving me this transfer, I will be getting another companion named Elder Fox.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now onto my weekly letter.

I want to apologize for the short letter last week. But I wanted to start off this letter with thanking my mom for everything she has done for me. 

Mom I love you so much and I am so grateful for the opportunity to be able to call you mom, you mean the world to me and I couldn't have asked for a better mother in the world.

Grandma I also wanted to thank you for everything that you have done for em and all you love you have shown me. I love you so much and I miss you. 

I also want to thank all of my aunts because you ladies have basically been another mother to me and have really helped me become the man I am today. I love you all and I am grateful for all of you.

I don't know where I would be with out these amazing ladies in my life.

Ok now onto my letter about my work:

This past week was great we got a new investigator named C.

C is a referral from a member and he believes in nothing. But its ok. I am ready for this I am so grateful for this opportunity to be able to teach him and work with him.

D: We called her up and she said this past week wasn't good but she said we could come sometime this week. I am excited to meet her.

M is still doing good and he is really interested in the gospel.

This past week we had a conference with Elder Cornish from the Seventy. I got to shake his hand too ;) I love the mission life!

But he talked to us about how to work with members better and how to use them in our teaching. He is a great speaker and he gives great analogies!

This conference was also our Zone Conference and we always celebrate birthdays with a specific time frame and guess what mine was one of them. 

 

This is what President and Sister Boucher gave me for my birthday!!!!!

 

 

 

 I love you all so much and miss you all.

Con Mucho Amor

Elder Musgo

 

My District

 

Elders in my district

 

 

 

A new companion and another 6 weeks in Juncos!

Well I did it. I made it through my training and survived my first 12 weeks in the field.

I am happy to announce that I will be staying here in Juncos for another 6 weeks!!!!! I am so happy to have this opportunity to work with the ward and help it grow and really be strong in the gospel.

This week was a difficult week with La Semana Santa. Everyone is out of town and is really busy. So it was hard to find people to share this amazing gospel with. As Easter Sunday just passed I want to quickly share my testimony about that I know that the Savior lives and I know he was resurrected on the third day. I love the Savior and everything he did for us. 

Now on to the Investigators

J: We have not been able to teach him this week because he was with his family. He is still wanting to go to church and still hear from us. He has really changed since talking with us. 

J: Has kind of stopped talking to us, we have tried multiple times to get into his house and talk but he is never there, or he is always busy and has no time. But I know that if he doesn't get baptized with us that he will sometime down the road with other missionaries all we have done is plant a seed in his heart and it is his job to continue to make it grow.

L: is still with us he is a great man who is trying so hard to provide for his family. He has 6 kids and loves them all. His wife is less active and really loves the kids too. They both work and are growing as a couple when we teach them.

M: Now where to begin with this kid. He is 18 and knows a lot about the church already!!! He asked us to come by again. I know that I am supposed to be speaking Spanish but he prefers us to speak in English I love it. He really wants to know if this is true before he gets baptized. He is a blessing to us and we are so grateful to be able to help him.

P: He is another amazing man. He is engaged to a member in our ward and he wants to live up to the girls standards at first we thought that he was just doing this for her and being pressured but as we began to teach him he is really doing this for himself he really wants to change his life around and be a disciple of Christ. 

That is all of our investigators right now but we are going to find more this next transfer.

Oh Elder Boggess is Leaving and will be working in Aguadilla with Elder Grimmer!!!! [Elder Grimmer was Elder Moss's companion in the CCM.] What a coincidence those two are going to get so much done.

What did you guys think about conference???

Boy did I love it!!!! It is so different watching conference as a missionary. Oh and yes I got to watch it in English. When watching you aren't just thinking for yourself but also for the ward, less actives and investigators and how to help everyone. There is one talk that really stood out to me and it was given by Larry M Gibson and if I am right he just got released as a counselor in the General Young Men Presidency. Here's a link to Elder Gibson's Conference Talk

I love you all and I am so grateful to have you apart of my life. I want you to know I pray for you guys everyday and I always see what I can to help you guys grow. I am so grateful for all the support from you guys and I love and miss you guys!!!!

Con Mucho Amor;

 

Elder Musgo!!!!!!