Elder Brinton Moe in the Salt Lake City East Mission: *Fist Pump* "Yessss!"

Hello family!

I love all the pictures and letters and videos! I wish I had enough time to send home as much good stuff. It looks like you guys are having a blast! That group of youth is so good. Preston and Becca are so lucky! So last night I think I slept walked for the first night. Watch the video where I look really tired. So, I am writing in my journal on my iPad and it is working out really well and it helps with sharing experiences with you guys. So they will be at the bottom.

This week Samantha was baptized and it was awesome! I love you guys so much. Thank you for the stuff you've sent me. I haven't gotten it yet, but I am really exited. I am running out of timmeeeeeeee ahhhhhhhh. We actually have to stay in on Halloween because of liability stuff. If we weren't in Wyoming, we would be going to the temple.

October 25, 2015 1:29 PM

Today Samantha was confirmed in church! She invited Elder Thomas and I to stand in the circle while brother Reynolds gave her a blessing. It was way cool I have never done that before. Today one of our potential investigators that we haven't even met yet came to church with his family. We were wanting to go see him, but when we stopped by yesterday no one was home. His wife and the kids came into church first and I was like, "sweet, we can set up an appointment after sacrament meeting." Then he walked in like a minute late and sat down. I was thinking, "no way..." Elder Thomas and I both looked at each other and I did a “Kipland Dynamite” fist pump. "Yessss" *fist pump* I was praying that I could stand up and introduce myself without him feeling like the missionaries were going in for the attack. It went well and we have an appointment with him at 6:00 tonight. We will see how it goes!

9:32 PM

The appointment went awesome. He is so cool! He is really fun and was super comfortable with us as missionaries. We just sat and talked and joked for a while and got to know the family and they are really cool! We got to talking about when missionaries first started meeting with them and why. She explained that she came from an active family but that she went less active for a while. While she was less active she met her husband and they ended up getting married. She became active again and all their kids were baptized but he never was. She told us that she had had visions of them in the temple together and that she knew he would come around. We talked a little about how the gospel has blessed their family and then we invited him to start meeting with us in preparation to be baptized and eventually be sealed to his family. He said that he wasn't ready, and when we asked why, he pretty much said, "my life is good" (reeal good) and that it wasn't his time. We promised that the gospel offers more than he knows now and we showed a video, "The Hope of God’s Light." We were planning on showing another one but I felt impressed to show that one and really focus on the line when he says that "spiritual light rarely comes to those who sit in darkness waiting for someone to flip on a switch. It takes an act of faith." We all discussed the video and then we invited him to take that step of faith and try it. We invited him to pray and ask Heavenly Father if his time was now. As soon as I invited him to pray and ask… *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* It sounded like the cops were at the door. It was two sisters from the ward and one of them was really loud and was "like sorry I promise I wasn't using a golf ball to knock" then she said "Hi elders get up!" We stood up from the couch... And she sat right down. The potential investigator’s daughter got us chairs and I was trying to figure out what the heck just happened. It turned out to be the Relief Society president and one of her councilors coming by to tell Sister ____ happy birthday. The really loud one was apparently a sister missionary at one point and it made a lot of sense looking back now. The other sister was the Relief Society president which was very nice and sweet and pretty embarrassed. It was really funny though; we were all laughing; it was just super unexpected. This possible investigator, amid all the confusion and tumult of laughter and disbelief, looked at me and said, "I will do it, I'll pray." His daughter kind of pulled it back together because I seriously didn't know what to do... She looked at us and said a comment about the message and we were able to end with the spirit and a closing prayer. He said we could come over whenever, and his wife said we could always come over if dinner fell through or if we needed anything. We are going to meet with them next Sunday! He is going to get baptized soon if he prays with real intent.

Sorry I’m so short on time! I love you all!

Elder Moe