28th Week Guapiles, Limon - Pococi Ward

Family ~

Today we went up by the mountains to spend a day on a ranch and play volleyball and climb through the mountain/jungle! It was fun for sure! We saw a small snake and my companion got super scared along with a few sisters hahaha but it was awesome while we were playing volleyball it started raining and we ended up soaking wet! But a great day to enjoy for sure!

I don't have much time because we have to run to an appointment but I just want you all to know I love you!!!! I can't wait to see you all on Skype in about 2 weeks!!!!



LOVE YOU

Elder Moss

27th Week Guapiles, Limon - Pococi Ward

Family ~

This week we were able to go on divisions with the Elders from Cariari. It was great because I was able to go with Juan (He got baptized in San Miguel with Elder Rivadenira and I). An amazing experience to see his progress and see him teaching investigators instead of being the investigator! We visited a few families this week who are planning their weddings and baptisms for May. They are really excited and have a strong testimony of the restored Gospel.

Costa Rica is treating me well! Lots of rice and beans and the weather has been great! I love you all and hope you have a great week!!!

LOVE Elder Moss

Photos from a river where we always take time to enjoy life

26th Week Guapiles, Limon - Pococi Ward

Family ~

An eventful week with baptisms, divisiones, and more! 

One of the Elders in our zone had to leave early because he had an injury on the mission. So we needed a mini missionary for the rest of the change. We called Juan (Young man from San Miguel who got baptized with Elder Rivandeira and I). So now he is serving with Elder Ruiz for the rest of this change! I can't wait to see him and take some pictures with them. (Elder Ruiz, Rivandeira, and Juan are serving in the same branch and living in the same house).

It's amazing to see the work hastening here in Costa Rica! There are great families that are wanting to find Heavenly Fathers plan and make a change in their lives. 

I love you all so much!

Elder Moss

25th Week Guapiles, Limon - Pococi Ward

Family ~

An amazing week for sure! We were able to go to the temple this week and it was awesome to take the time out and be able to feel the spirit and reflect on life. 

Then to be able to listen and watch general conference was great! A week full of spiritual enlightment and joy!

From Rosa Robles Herrera - she is from his last area - went
to visit dad for Easter and saw Elder Moss at Church.

I love to remember who we are and this conference taught a lot about that. We are children of God and He sent us here to learn and grow. A lot of times we forget about that and we forget who we are! I will always remember leaving the house as a teenager and my parents telling me! "Remember who you are!" 

We need to always remember that we are children of God and that He loves us and wants us to return to Him someday!

I love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Elder Moss

Congrats Jacob and Mikaela! Can't wait to see your wedding!!

6th Week San Miguel, San Jose

Family ~

Well today starts the first day of rainy season! As we left to go write it started pouring and coming down super hard! We were waiting under a bus stop for the rain to go when all of a sudden I see a flash and a hear a huge crack! It was a lightning bolt and I sincerely felt it in my body ha ha but it was like 30 yards away! Definitely a great moment in my life! Right when we got to Internet Cafe the power went out and I walked in and everyone looked at me. I stopped walking and just stared because for a moment I thought it was my fault that all the computers stopped working ha ha

It's going great here in San Miguel and I can't wait to see how everything goes these next few months. The other week we were walking down the street when we decided to talk to a family. It ends up that part of the family are members and have been inactive for a little over a year and they have twins who still haven't been baptized! It was a great miracle because the mother was in time of trouble and whenever life just doesn't go right the missionaries show up at her door!

 

The twins are super funny and asked me to baptize them this week! It was great to see the family come back to church and be able to have the joy of the Gospel in there life!

One of my favorite pictures is when Jesus was ministering to the little children. In the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 17 it talks about this picture.

21 And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.
22 And when he had done this he wept again;
23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones.
24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them.
25 And the multitude did see and hear and bear record; and they know that their record is true for they all of them did see and hear, every man for himself; and they were in number about two thousand and five hundred souls; and they did consist of men, women, and children.

I love this story because it just shows how much love Christ has for everyone of God's children here. He went one by one and blessed and prayed for the Children and wept for them. This is one of my favorite parts of the ministry of Jesus Christ among the Nephites.

I also love the analogy of how we should be born again and become as little children. They are so pure and innocent and so willing to do the Will of the Father. Children are such a great example to me and I love being able to hear prayers of children because they just make my day!

I love you all

Elder Moss

5th Week San Miguel, San Jose

Family ~

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!!!!!!!!! A LA MEJOR MAMA EN TODO EL MUNDO!!!!!!

This week has been an awesome week! I´ve met some great people here and the work has been going super well! Loving it more and more everyday!  

San Jose Nightline.

This week I tried to focus on serving others and it was amazing how it changed my week! From cleaning a house to washing a car to building a wall! I´ve never had so much fun doing chores! But it was great and I really felt the love for each person/family that I was able to serve! I was able to apply the scripture Mosiah 2:17 and really see how it was to serve others/the Lord.

Miracles from this week were amazing but I want to tell you about one of them. Elder Ruiz and I. (new Elder that lives in my little cottage). We went out to go talk to some people and try to contact someone. Well we went and we talked to a man and gave him a card. We didn´t talk long because he had to go pick up his kid from school so we went our ways then about 10 minutes later a car was honking at me and waving so I went to go see what happened and it was that same man. He chased us down and said that he was grateful for the opportunity to meet us because he has problems with his family and marriage and he doesn´t know what to do. And it ends up that we gave him a card that said ¨How can I have a happy marriage?¨ and it was a great miracle to see how the Lord works so that people can be able to hear the message of the restoration that brings peace and happiness into their lives!

Nightlife with Elder Moss

I am so grateful for this opportunity to be a missionary and to serve others and be a messenger of truth. I know that if we serve others we will find a deeper love. A love of Christ for them. That we can be changed by service and that there are still Miracles here on Earth. 

I love you all and hope you have a great week full of service!

Love Elder Moss

PS Jacob ~ Have some regrets because you broke your knee on your mission. 

(To our family this was hilarious and most definitely Jeremy humor.  Jacob would sign his emails home "No Regrets" every single week.  We just found out that he has to have surgery on his knee and the injury could have formed from the Turkey Bowl - Football Game while on his mission.)

(Jacob's response - What an idiot!!)

Thank you YW for the pillowcase.

Can´t see it to well but a kid put a Honda sign on these bikes. Thought it was super funny because everyone here has honda civics

4th Week San Miguel, San Jose

Family ~

Waiting on Our Road to Damascus (click here for video)

The story of Saul who persecuted the church and after seeing Jesus was converted unto Christ and was baptized and went about preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all that would listen to him.

Acts 9:
1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

Acts 13
2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Yesterday I went out with a Father of a Family who got baptized a few years ago. It was great to see his conversion story and how he was able to make changes in his life. The man went and showed me all of his friends that he wants to share this wonderful gift that he has. Not having fear or nothing to share this Gospel with others we went from one friends house to the other as he introduced the missionaries that bring the Gospel into peoples lives.

As I thought about this man he really showed characteristics of being converted. That he found his road to damascus. He has a desire to do good (Mosiah 5:2). Or rebel against the Lord (Alma 23:6-7). Is filled with love (4 Nephi 1:2). And like the sons of Mosiah, Enos, and Alma the younger. Shared the Gospel with others. (Enos 1:26, Mosiah 18:1, Alma 15:12).

I hope that we all too can be on our own personal road to damascus and that we can witness this change in our lives and become new persons. I hope that we all including myself can start to develop our Christ-like attribute and become more like Him.

Begin to share the gift of the Gospel with others. It is the greatest gift that you have and can give to someone here on the Earth. President Howard W. Hunter once said ¨What does the atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others... A great indicator of one´s personal conversion is the desire to share the Gospel with others.¨¨

I hope we all can do better and become converted becoming as a little kid. I love you all and hope you have a terrific week!

Love Elder Moss

3rd Week San Miguel, San Jose

Family ~

What a great conference/Easter weekend! Funny how much I loved the talks! I remember just over a year ago when I didn´t even watch a full talk. I tried to but fell asleep in the middle of the talk and never started it again! To now where I watched the talks with focus and about 8 pages of notes.

I loved all of the talks and felt like there was a big impression on families and gaining a better conversion. Something that I just absolutely love is the importance of families in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In a family we can grow together on the pathway of God helping and lifting others to come unto him. And in families we can find happiness that we can´t find in any other place. That reminds me of scriptures I read the other day about how we can find happiness.

In 2 Nephi 5 it talks about many points on how we can find happiness and I love it a ton!

6 Wherefore, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did take my family, and also Zoram and his family, and Sam, mine elder brother and his family, and Jacob and Joseph, my younger brethren, and also my sisters, and all those who would go with me. And all those who would go with me were those who believed in the warnings and the revelations of God; wherefore, they did hearken unto my words.

10 And we did observe to keep the judgments, and the statutes, and the commandments of the Lord in all things, according to the law of Moses.

12 And I, Nephi, had also brought the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass; and also the ball, or compass, which was prepared for my father by the hand of the Lord, according to that which is written.

16 And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon’s temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.

27 And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.

First Nephi was with his family and in the family we can find happiness and love where we can be sealed in a temple of God for time and all eternity. Then they kept the commandments. EVERY commandment and were obedient to them, knowing that God would bless them if they kept the commandments. Then they had the scriptures and the Liahonna. (Liahonna can be words of living Prophets). Always reading them and abiding by there precepts. Then at last Nephi built a temple. I loved the talk by President Monson about the temples and how we can feel the spirit there in no other way and how we should always go to the temple to be able to grow spiritually. I know this to be true that we can receive so many blessings by just going to the temple. As a missionary we can´t go to the temple everyday and it makes me realize how much I just want to go to the temple to feel God´s spirit and to help others with there convenios con Dios. Then finally we read that they all lived after the manner of happiness. By doing these things the Nephites were able to live in happiness and receive many blessings. 

During the conference all of the prophets and apostles talked about one of these aspects and how we can better strengthen our testimonies. It was great to hear from general conference and I hope you all had the chance to listen intently and put this practice in your own lives!


With much love
Elder Moss

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