Farewell to Fiji. I have become a better person because of these 2 years.

My Friends and Family,

It's been an adventure in the least. My time is winding down as a missionary and it kills me to think about. Over the past two years I have come to know the Beautiful people of Viti, (way to go, i'm crying), There is no way you could find a more loving and giving people, I have loved serving with them, Helping them, Learning from them and growing with them, Because of these People I have become a better person.

Coming out here on a mission was the best decision (so far) of my life. I have seen the blessings that have come from it. I would say that I am currently on my way to true conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I want to thank you all for your support and strengthening me along the way, I am so grateful that God has placed each and everyone of you into my life,

May God bless you.

Loloma Yani,

               Elder Moulton

Coming home and it's killing me!

My Friends and Family,

Its been an adventure in the least, my time is winding down as a missionary and it kills me to think about. Over the past two years I have come to know the Beautiful people of Viti, (way to go, I'm crying), There is no way you could find a more loving and giving people, I have loved serving with them, Helping them, learning from them and growing with them, Because of these People I have become a better person.

Coming out here on a mission was the best decision (so far) of my life. I have seen the blessings that have come from it. I would say that I am currently on my way to true conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I want to thank you all for your support and strengthening me along the way, I am so grateful that God has placed each and everyone of you into my life,

May god bless you.

Loloma Yani,

               Elder Moulton

How weird is this?

Alot of missionaries would be so pumped to finish their missions, but not me. I'm so sad to be leaving this beautiful country, Fiji has done so much for me, I can't really notice how much I have changes but I believe I have and for the better. I have such a desire to do things right, get the job done, Complete the task that is ahead of me, I know that god has really blessed me. I have tried to give as much back as I could to him, no way would it ever be enough. 

I ask a few things from you, Please keep me involved with your spiritual life. Let us have family home evenings and discussions. Help me understand better the B.O.M and the Bible, the Church and its history, the Doctrine and Covenants... that is the only book i did not get through. 

Keep me motivated, Mom, I need your input in my life... corrections, encouragement, love, I never want to be distant from my parents again. I'm sorry mom, your never getting rid of me..

I hope that when I get home we can be best friends like we were before our missions..

I love you,

Elder Moulton 

Elder Moulton and the Ark... The church gives the gift of a boat to the mountain people

Oct.5, 2014 

Hello this is Elder Moulton

Saying, Bula vinaka America

The church paid a lot of money to have this boat built for the village to open up to us..

its a brand new village with so much potential and I am so excited to see what the out come of it will bring.

These people couldn't leave there village if it was raining because the river would be too high and there is not way that the people could buy themselves a boat.

This is not an island. Its up in the mountain, where the church is brand spankin new.

Most of the people are not members here. We presented the boat to about 70 non member and gave them all Book of Mormons(ivola i momani). What an awesome experience it was.

But there was a lot of members that came to the ceremony. They had to take an hour bus ride just to come support us.

This whole ceremony was to hasten the work for us to missionaries in the area.

What a good week

Love Elder Moulton

 A picture of the (bolabola) tent we sat under to do the ceremony, an hour before the ceremony

                 One of the units we cover, they feed us after our little sacrament meeting

 picture of the Aluminium boat that was presented  to the people

Waterfalls and YSA missionaries

Hello my beautiful mother,  I miss you so much.. Everyone of my friends that were on missions is off now.. Its a little weird.. It kind of makes it a little hard to be out still but hey whats 3 months.. I cant believe that I come home last.. I want to apologize, I know I said I would write a huge email, but all of the internet shops are closed and there are 6 missionaries waiting to use this one.. But we did have an amazing week.. W We are bringing the less actives back, it is working.. One of our investigators just yesterday also said yes to baptism.. so we are preparing him for baptism.. I love you very much mom.. We went to the Waterfalls today.. Your son me

I had a few more minutes..

Today we brought one of our investigators to the water falls, so he spend the day with missionaries.. it should help solidify his schedule of listening to us..

We also this week had this huge farewell party for four prospective missionaries.. they will all be going around the world within the next two months.

Thats one thing that i have realized about my purpose in being in this area. is to help these YSA go on missions.. so right now in this branch in taveuni, we have 13 missionaries on a mission right now.. its amazing..

Im so happy that lauren is having a baby wow.. i thought i might have been home for it but thats okay..

Things are really going well here, Im super happy..

I love you my beautiful Mother i will talk to you next week..

There is one problem..

Next week we are going to be taking a boat all monday so we might not be able to email.. I might have to be on another day but momma i love you so much..

Bye bye

Reactivating and Volleyball

Dear Mom,

I cannot believe how wonderful life is.. I am so proud of you guys.. Mom you are officially an RM.. ahaha I cannot believe that wow..

This week we received word that our mission has a different focus, and its not baptisms, its to focus on the Less actives there are alot of members who have received the gospel, but just no longer see the light.. Me and my companion have decided to put most of our focus on the YSA, Last weekend we prepared an activity for them and filled up a whole bucket of water balloons and they brought towels and they launched the water balloons over the volley ball net, (waterballoon volleyball) give it ten years and it will be in the Olympics. After the baptism three of the older men that came talked to eachother and decided to take care of all of the Less actives in the village which is alot so they are really doing quite a huge favor..

I cant believe that Parker is home now.. how wonderful is that.? I go home in 3 transfers from now..

Not to much else happened..

I am completely happy with my now tahitian companion.. He is probably one of the funniest people that I have ever met im my life..

I will definately send pictures..

I love you Elder Moulton

the fat man on the left is the District President(stake president)

My new comp

Hi peeps...

Yup im loving my mission...

This ladies name is Toakasa rabo Bautarua..

She was lost and now she is on the path to eternal life..

It is amazing what simple things to turn into miracles..

She was running from us and she finally let me teach her the first lesson,

her and her husband started crying and felt sick after the lesson, they looked at each other and asked each other for forgiveness. She then picked up the book of mormon and started reading and good took the wheel..

She is a true angel

Peace out A-Town!!

Elder Moulton

Taveuni

Rats and Mold but all is great!

Dear Family.

Mom I' cant tell you how much I miss you.. you should see my wall in front of my desk.I think I have four pictures of you on my wall! haha... and there are only five total.. I'm such a mommas boy!!

This week was a really good week.  Elder Bennett and I are working hard and getting our task accomplished. At first it was a rough start with him. We butted heads alot but now we are working really well with each other. 

We keep getting blessed with great investigators and I hope that before I get transferred off this island that I can get about three more baptisms.. that would be lovely.

How is landon?

I saw so many pictures.  I loved it so much! It should be so interesting getting home..

But don't you worry about me... I will finish strong and things will be great!

President Klingler leaves this next week which is crazy and President Layton comes in.

I got the g's that you sent me thank you so much... I'm actually afraid to wear them because they are so clean. My old ones have tons of mold on them. It's way gross but it is kind of like battle scars... you don't want to give them up.

Everything else is great, I am happy.

We have a huge rat problem at our flat.. its way funny how scared my comp is. ahah!!!

All my love,

Elder Moulton

April 20,2014

This week was really good.. 

I really love my district. I have to go on splits this week because one of the elders in the other area dislocated his knee cap, and he is in the bushiest area in the mission so we will switch for a few days. Plus I need to meet some of there investigators for me to interview them..

I love this island very much. I am really thinking of buying a little time share down here and living in it. It's so beautiful.. it will blow your mind!! The only thing not so good is that they don't have the sandy sandy beaches like california..  but it's ten times more pretty..

My current companion finishes in four weeks so our goal is to get six people baptized by the 17th of next month.. We will see what happens. Last week we started from scratch, so that awesome ahah..

But all together I am way happy.

I love you,, keep me updated on the wedding..

Love you son,

Elder Moulton

Recent pics

Hindi family

Mission Conference

P Day Travel

Hello My Friends and Family (MOM)

Oh how I miss you all.   It has been such an adventure being in indian territory... but transfers came and I am off to Fijian territory, The Little Island of Taveuni, or the Garden Island. Currently I am in Nadi with two other elders I got here about ten O'clock last night... lots of buses.. I hated it.. but that makes the adventure.

We had worked so hard with our investigators.. They will be getting married this week.. Because we helped them raise the funds to do so.. The family came down to the bus stop to say goodbye to me. The Husband, Meli Vesi, will be getting baptized in a week and a half.  I'm sad I have to miss it but, taveuni Is waiting for me.. 

I have to take an hour flight and a half flight there today.. then from then on I have to ride the boat to the big island which should be interesting haha.. Im so excited..

We have a lovo again..

its an underground oven i ate the the jaw of the pig it was delicious.

The plane was way nice there was only two passengers in the hole thing..

This place is incredible and i love my District...

Arriving in Tavenuvi... 7 months to go!

Nap Time Feb 2014

Sister Waqasokonibogi, walking across the flooded river speaking Hindi.

Dallin Moulton	4:13 PM (6 hours ago)
to me

Hello my dear mother..

This week was a very interesting one.
Sorry, I took money out of the account.    We were warned by our mission president to go stock up our flats with two week supply of food just in case. There was a hurricane that came through Fiji but it didnt really effect us. It messed up the road really bad on the other side of the country though.  But now it is just extra hot and extra humid..

The work..

This week was great when it came to the work. We have really been focusing on the less actives in the area and finding them and bringing them back to church. 

We were walking in the village and it is the biggest village in the country so you can't just ask people where others live.., but we tried. There was this lady who was walking in front of us. and I had the feeling I should ask her where someone lived.. so I did.  She didn't know so we were about to go a different way than she was but I asked her if we could walk her home and she said yes. She said her name was Sister Waqasokonibogi and that she was a member twenty years ago. She was so afraid to talk to us. She told God, as she was walking in front of us, that if we went to talk to her she would invite us into her home and talk to us so we sat with her and she bore her testimony of the church for about 20 minutes,  She has so much faith. Now all we have to do is get her to come to church again.

There is this family that i always talk about, Their name is the Wedlock family and they are Rotuman. They are my pride and joy.  One of the men in the family is 29 and his name is William. He is extremely addicted to cigarettes. We were talking to him about getting the preisthood and as soon as he said he wants the priesthood I told him to turn around and I gave him a blessing. I hope and pray that he will be strong..

This week we had to cross a flooded river. The water was up to my waist and way powerful and about 40 yards wide. We were trying to get up to the mans home and share a message with him to come back to church. We taught him about the temple and eternal marriage. There was this lady there and she looks wealthy and she looked about the same age as you mom..(so way hot).. but at the end of the lesson she complimented me on my Hindi and  asked me about what I said about eternal marriage. We gave her a quick ten minute review on that. Her husband had died and she thought that was it. She is so interested. It was great!

We are going to Nadi today which is pretty much on the other side of the island. I'm excited that I get to celebrate my birthday down there with the zone.

Love Elder Moulton

Rev Run and the Hindi language Oct 27, 2013

Her name Is Frances and she is brilliant,
and she is the newest member of the church in Tavua, Fiji

This week was great! We set a new record in our area for the most people
OYMed,..or most people contacted, because people only speak hindi here, and no one
wants to talk with the Elders..

 The number was 28. I'ts not that much but its the most in a
long long time.
I was way happy and the district leader was freaking out..
We are going to beat that this week as well.

Time is flying by so fast.. I've realized the harder you work the faster
time goes..so I think I'm gonna slack off a little bit, so it can slow down. Ahah just
kidding,

I've realized my Hindi sucks, because I can barely understand these people,
Thats okay because i've only been studying it for about two or three
months on and off..

Since I have been in Tavua my Hindi vocabulary has more than doubled..

Welp, life is good. God really does bless us when we do his will and we are all
in his good graces..

There is  no Halloween or thanksgiving here.

The biggest holiday of the year is next week. Nov 1,

Diwali..

It is in remembrance of when there god Ram was being guided back to India after being imprisoned in Siberia. He was led home by some power or something..
So people just make a ton of Indian sweets and get wasted..  I'm looking forward to it.. a member invited us over to her house..

God is love...
 Rev Run..
& Elder Moulton

Teaching in Hindi

Hello my mother..      October, 20.2013

This week was amazing..

I got called last sunday at midnight saying that im going to the other side of the island to the indian side..
and to pack my bags because I would be leaving at 6 a.m the next day so I only slept about 3 hours that night..

not because I was packing but because I was so pumped..

I get on a bus and it was an eight hour bus ride.. it was the worst..

At least there was A.C.

My companion is a stud his name is elder Motuliki,

He is from New Zealand but he is a bug soft Tongan..
and i am his mother..

He didn't say it, but president sent me over here so I can get fluent in Hindi..

Just in this past weed my hindi vocabulary has more than doubled, its crazy...
and  I am contacting everyone in hindi,,

I'm going to change this area.. Its a ward but there are only about fifty active..

There are not many Indian people that are active  because elders haven't been giving them much love..

Not many elders actually try to learn hindi..

My companion is great, he is so opened to learning from me and he talks so much..

He doesn't have an off switch..but he is awesome..

We had a baptism last weekend and it went so well,

The ladies name is Mele and she is 28 and she was so happy when I came because she

could finally understand what the elders are saying::: ahah.. Fijian is a hard language..

I started talking and after like ten seconds she complemented me on my Fijian..

I was way happy because most missionaries here don't end up getting the language fluently and I;m gonna be the one to do that.

I love you, God Bless

Elder Moulton

Welcome home dinner in Fiji

August 4, 2013 Splitting the mission and Samu

Hey Beautiful,

This week was great.

We have another baptism, his name is Samu. He is my favorite investigator on the mission. He studies the lesson before we teach them. Ahah!  We ended the lesson the other day, and before we bore testimony of it he said "wait.. I would like to bear my testimony.. Pause.. is that  alright?... He  then bore his testimony.  It was such a wonderful experience! Then Kamenielli, the guy we baptized last week, blessed the sacrament and I was so proud. He is such and awesome guy.

Jesus the Chris is the best book I have ever read.  I'm so fascinated with it.  As soon as I finished it I went to the first page and started reading again. I'm also reading an old teaching manual from the old prophet George Albert Smith and it is incredible. I shared a story from it last night at a lesson and I started bawling. The story is about this little orphan boy who had to get surgery and all he wanted was for the Lord to help him. He stopped the doctors and asked them to pray for him, they all said no.. so he knelt on the surgery table and prayed and all the doctors started crying. It is such a great story.

Lots of changes.. I got word that we are splitting my area because it is so big. There are 25 more missionaries coming from America next month.. I think that I am training... we will see.

I'm sorry that life isn't always peaches Momma,  Work will get better.Just think, you could be a Fijian lady, who can't take naps because she is to busy working, then comes home and slaves for her family and isn't even aloud to eat with them. She eats alone in the kitchen. It's horrible but we cant correct their culture. I would love to but I can't.

Eating on the floor really murders my knees, but houses here don't have couches or chairs. its because we are on the other side of the world, the bottom side, so we would be sitting on the ceiling.

This work is so hard, but so rewarding.  I love being a missionary but I think I am gonna die of old age before I get home. haha

Love 

Elder Moulton

July 28.2013 Back in Suva and walking 5 hours a day

Dear Mamma,

This week was good. I officially got permission from my mission president to learn Hindi, to study full on.. which will be good. We had a baptism this week and that was cool. His name is Kamenielli, Its crazy how important a ward is to missionary work. I could never be a great missionary if I didn't have great members behind me. I wish that every missionary could realize that... we are not just all that matters. The ward is the main cause for conversion.

The little boy is that is holding up a one finger in the picture is the funniest kid ever. His name is Peniasi, which is Benjamin. The girl right next to me is Dilo, and she is so adorable.She loves to dance, and it is so cute.

So I just got into this area (nasinu) and it was my first day. I am just clueless to whats going on and we go to this guys house and I'm thinking that the elders have previously taught him all of the lessons and given him a baptismal date but he hadn't even been taught the first lesson yet. He and I got along really well and I asked if he was excited to be baptized and he said that the elders haven't talked about it. So i asked him if he wanted to be baptized and he said yes.  He was baptized last weekend.He is such and awesome man and is going to serve a mission in a year.

Its really hard in this area to learn Hindi. I have no help here at all because I am in a straight fijian ward, but that just makes me want to try harder. We have three solid baptisms this next month.

The ward is so great here, this is the most christian country in the world, people aren't afraid to show their religion., The ward loves to help and there is a reason I am here... to get the ward to help out way more. This is the first ward I've been in on my mission. It is way nice. 

 This is by far my slowest area...So much walking... about five hours a day..

I love you momma, I will talk to you more some other day..

I love you so much. God bless you..

Til next week..

Elder Moulton

Suva July 2013

July 14,2013

Hello my Beautiful.

It has been another week gone by.

I hit a year in like 100 days.

Time is flying,

I'm in my new area right by Suva. I'ts the outskirts like the Herriman of Suva,

It's pretty dang ghetto. Its good because there are like eight people in the ward with cars, so that is nice.

I've realized how important a healthy strong ward is. I've been working really hard here.  I have done lots of walking and I haven't really had any problems with my feet. So thats good! Lots of Fijian here. I am the senior companion so that is pretty cool as well and I love it.

 My companion thinks he knows as much Fijian as me but he is constantly asking me meanings of words and how to say stuff. but he is a good guy we get along really well. He is funny too. You would like him. My new area is smothered in mud and it literally rains here everyday. 

I have never really cared about a ward before, but I have noticed how important the relief society is now. They are the key to conversion. Someone said that missionaries are the most important but I know the women in the wards are.

My companion's name Elder Grotepas. He is from Syracuse Utah. He is 19 and a good guy..

Here is a picture of us.

That's me on the right in case you forgot what i look like..

We have a way sweet flat..

We live in the sister's old flat.. They moved out because there were some problems and they got sent home.
 It's a way nice place and I am happy to be here.  There are tons of members and I am in a fijian ward.. WARD,WARD,, its so nice!!

I haven't met too many people yet.  I threw out the baptism question to a young man and he excepted before we even taught the first lesson, I didn't know where he was at but we clicked way fast, and he said yes.. so there will be a baptism on the 27th of this month.  He he is from a member family,, he is so strong fifth time going to church,, its great, he wants to serve a mission

 I spent 20 bucks today on mexican food, I just had to because it was incredible.. I miss good food so much..

There apparently is a lot of delicious food here, but it is definately not as good as yours, or the Terrys..

Love,

Elder Moulton