“I may not have gone where I intended to go,
But I think I’ve
ended up
where I
needed
to be.”
-Doctor Who
The Final Report
Of
Elder R. Austin Moe
Email: austi.moe@gmail.com
3856 S Spinnaker Bay Dr
Saratoga Springs UT, 84045
(:Author’s Note:)
So, this is a poem, that I will go show ‘em When I from this mission deploy.
This is my first ever, and it’s hard to be clever, But I still hope that you will enjoy!
Where I Intended to Go:
Two Years ago, in the midst of home, I lived without much care;
More concerned to play throughout the day,
Convinced that life was fair
But my time for submission to the mission
Was what my parents had sought
So, eager to please and their worries to ease,
I accepted without much thought
To the temple we dart, then set me apart Oh, what an exciting day!
But reality did bite when on that same night
My Dad took my laptop away ):
I wanted to be good, cause I thought that I should,
So I continued as much as I dared. To the MTC we got, but that’s when I thought
‘Crap, I really am not prepared!’
My first intention in serving a mission Was to get it out of the way But I now discovered the time that it covered
Included many, many a day
Obedient as ever, but not a whit clever,
I worked at the problems that came. Very soon we flew to somewhere else new,
But never to return the same
The moment we touched down and then drove into town,
I knew I was out of my scene: Baristas galore, marijuana stores,
And an absurd amount of green
The first months were rough as I was not tough
Enough to stand on my own
For I was ashamed of mistakes left unnamed, Which almost brought me back home
But in the midst of my woes, battling these unseen foes
Did strike in me a dusty chord. And with nowhere to flee, I was prompted to see
That I must rely on the Lord
With only my skill, I’d get myself killed,
So the Lord showed me the way: Simply do your best, and don’t sweat the rest
Then you’ll bless someone today
I listened to God and held to ‘the Rod’;
My heart increasingly yearned
That through these two years, while conquering fears, That many lessons would be learned
What I Learned:
I learned that patience is more than just silence
And waiting for things to get better When a problem is shown, calmly make it known,
And start working at it together
And when you wrong a brother, you forgive one another,
Then depart, and continue to live. But if regret is still there, and you feel in despair,
It’s yourself who you need to forgive
And Joy isn’t based on status or place Or buying all you could afford. It’s when the focus of life, amid all worries and strife,
Is centered on Joy’s source: Our Lord.
And pain must needs be to make us happy,
So remember and please stand tall, that when all your trials, stretch on for miles,
There is One who suffered them all.
Of when He was weary, and His blood ran dreary
No words can adequately speak Of the love of His mission, His selfless submission
The thought of which makes me weep
How could this be? This man in agony! He died that my life could be saved. At where His blood pooled, justice was overruled.
And our Savior conquered the grave.
And now He lives! His direction He gives
To us, that our joy may be full. The church is true, the book is blue, And Moroni is on the ball! (LOL)
So, His example we follow, and pride we need swallow,
To return to our home above For all would be vain, and nothing be gained,
If not for His motive of love
Where I Am Now:
These two years are past, and it’s been a blast
Serving in the field of the Lord; It truly was white. I served with my might,
With the spirit, His mighty sword
Now I am changed, my values rearranged,
In ways I could never have guessed. This is a reward for serving the Lord, While sincerely trying my best
Every missionary a member, I’ll serve Him forever,
And go where He wants me to go. His gospel I’ll share to those He has prepared,
And those who are wanting to know
My family’s been blessed, and now I can rest
As I return to my home at ‘the U’ For my faith has grown, and the spirit has shown
To me, that all of this work is true.
My Testimony:
This work is true. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t be sending immature teenagers out into the world to tell everyone about it. (#bysmallandsimplemeans) It all really is God’s plan of happiness, because here in His service is where I learned how to truly be happy. I have joy in my life, not because I’m going home, but because I really tried my best to serve the Lord, and He is the source of all joy. I know that everything has a purpose behind it, and that in the end all will be well. The Book of Mormon is true, and all this opposition against it just strengthens my testimony of its divinity, for why else would it be so viciously attacked? I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and the Redeemer and Savior of the world, because it was through his grace that I was able to change and become more like who He wants me to be. And I know that He loves everyone, and is calling everyone home. In His name, I close. Amen.
#1-2 10/27/15 - 1/19/16 | Key Center, Gig Harbor | Cody Hansen (Mi Dad) | First time meeting ward… @ Halloween Party; Ward Mission Leader Shotgun Prank; Fish Food Truck; The Wheats!; Mission Christmas Party!; The Browns!; Maelstrom and Kendrias; literally, dogs ate my 12-week manual; The Olivers!; Blake Edgar’s Baptism!; Living in Small’s garage; “Church is true ‘cause I have a scarf”; “I like this song. It makes me feel… dark inside.”; Sketchy boonie knocking in the dark!; “Happy New Year! KA-BOOM!”; Charlotte Kelly on date, later baptized; Sniper pool @ Price’s |
#3 1/19/16 - 2/29/16 | Gravelly Lake, Lakewood | Danilo Alvarez (4 wks) Kyler Bosshardt (2 wks) | “Elder Moe, you’re going to Lakewood… Lol, Nope!”; Bentley Baby Blessing @ Hospital; The Van Woerkoms!; McNaughton Manor; 19th Birthday… kinda boring; Our top investigator went to jail; Brother Foley!; Dog snuck up on Bosshardt! LOL! |
#4 2/29/16 4/19/16 | Lakewood, Lakewood | Rhett Clark, Treyden Ellis, Braden Evans | 7-week transfer… longest transfer ever in more ways than one; General Conference; Bro. Ely!; sick of what-are-the-odds; almost had a baptism; 50 mg melatonin @ weekly planning |
#5-6 4/19/16 - 7/12/16 | Mountain View, Centralia | Casey Jensen | Finally! A Nerdy Companion!; Cowlitz Falls? Why’d they name it that?; Move out of Toledo Appartment/Pigshack; *It doesn’t say that anywhere*; Baby Boston Terriers; “What should you not leave in a car?” “Baby!” “Sandwiches!”; The Mcleans!; Temple Trip/ Family Discovery Center; 3rd hour lesson all about drugs; Zion’s Camp!; The Beals!; President Smith condones crotch kicks!; Churchie?; Magic The Gathering on exchanges; Resident Evil Deck Building game! |
#7 7/12/16 - 8/23/16 | Ocean Shores, Elma | Connor Hansen | Insanity workouts!; Love the Wikan’s!; Beach contacting; I love this branch!; feed all the deer!; cut down the Randallman’s tree in the canal; dead tree trampoline; seagull attack; Sully the Seagull!; The Mcara’s!; One gassy companionship; … whoa, wait, it’s the end of the transfer already?! |
#8-9 8/23/16 - 11/15/16 | Ocean Shores, Elma | Scott MacQueen | Best Companion Ever! My Brother in just about everything!; Netrunner!; #crushin’it; Designated driver finally!; The Gerous!; Mission Tour W/ Elder Uceda & Elder Clayton; Churchie… again; D&D @ The Chism’s; General Conference #2; The crazy storm that never happened; The Gile’s! Wendy’s opened in Aberdeen!!! “Children unattended will be sold as slaves”; talking about Anime, video games, movies, etc.; “MacQueen, do you have a waifu?” “Yeah, my wife!” LOL!; The Davis’! It actually rains sideways here! |
#10 11/15/16 - 12/27/16 | Ocean Shores, Elma | Jordan Devenburg | Ocean Shores is dead in the winter; It’s fetchin’ cold!; Storytime with Devenburg (Spent 3 weeks of 5-7’s telling the story of One Piece); Munchkin!; Thanksgiving & Christmas, last on the mission!; Got car stuck in sand ditch, oops…; Storks in Ocean Shores?!; 2Ne 9:39 (Smile!); Elder Knapp!; Branch Christmas Social!!!; Fixed Spearman’s sink!; Got found out that I can play the piano; Christmas with the Emry’s!!! XD |
#11 12/27/16 - 2/7/17 | Silverdale 1st/ Brownsville, Silverdale | Klint Simkins, Camden Pisciotta, Owen Gerber | New Years!; Back in a foursome; Trapper’s sushi; IcyHot on nuts; Worldwide Broadcast; Gerber can’t tell jokes; Bro. Fry!; Silverdale Mall! Anime World!; Grandpa & Grandma Knowles; Buffalo Wild Wings on P-Days; Sunday night conference call by fireplace; Freak Blizzard |
#12 2/7/17 - 3/21/17 | Silverdale 1st/ Brownsville, Silverdale | Klint Simkins, Camden Pisciotta, Amon Kido | “Kido! You need to talk more!”; Learning about Japan; The Schassers!; Pranking Simkins and Pisciotta… we got them good; Free-for-all weekly planning dodgeball!; Hockey P-Days; I’m an epic, shrieking goalie; Exploding orange |
#13-14 3/21/17 - 6/13/17 | Belfair, Gig Harbor | Jordan Stuart | Hiking 5-7’s; Betrayal at the House on the Hill; Sis Russell & the Airport Cafe; Liberal Rednecks… Wut?; Pokemon Cards!; The Martins!; Zone Activity under the Narrows Bridge; Butchering rabbits at the Mill’s; Discussing topics w/ Stuart; Elder’s Quorum Basketball; The Staley’s move in!; Final P-Day: 3vs3 pokemon league; Collier’s cats like old spice; saved a cat out of a tree; Sis Russell’s camping stories “There’s a bear!!!!”; Zion’s Camp! |
#15 6/13/17 - 7/25/17 | Belfair, Gig Harbor | Quin Stewart | Crazy lady doing prostitute dance to a pooh bear pillow (true story); hobo dragging a dead raccoon down the road gets hit by a car and shot twice the leg (Also a true story); Belfair is so weird!!; 4th of July Fireworks on Hood Canal; Constipated squirrel; Pterodactyl Game; Baptism of Jennifer Djordjevic; “I want to ride that!”; Stewart’s bear cry; “Why I [Burp] Fireside” XD |
#16 7/25/17 - 9/5/17 | Olympia 3rd(6 wks)/ Olympia 4th(4.5 wks), Olympia | Amon Kido (Again!) Threesome w/ Cameron Carling (5wks) | First Bike area… get a car a week into it; Snipping Spider-webs; Crazy ET into a threesome; How many cats pet?; “Gay color, rainbow” -Kido; Hottest days of the year; Kido learns what incest is; mission 9-9; learning D&D; “Not my fault, Satan made me do it.”; Workout gas heard from the bottom floor; motorcyclist crash; bats in the chimney; Gordon Prates; Carling gets flipped off by 4-year-old |
#17 9/5/17 - 10/17/17 | Olympia 3rd, Olympia | Helaman Scow | Last transfer, and they made me a DL; Sis Belcher, “Huh, it doesn’t seem too dark in here to me.”; Scow’s awesome jokes; Feel like ‘death incarnate’; Treading in Deep Waters…; Poor Elder Carling; Zelda Talks with Scow; Getting papers of trunky!; Chip & Michael; Scow crashed in a bush; “Oh, she’s a She-It!” “Don’t say that too quickly.”; General Conference!; “Why did the Lamanites only eat with their hands?” “Because they didn’t have any feet!”; Member-“I’ve only lived in Washington for two years” Me-”Oh, same here!” LOL; 2 Temple trips for me!; Trunky!!!!!; God Be With You ‘Till We Meet Again, WA-TAC! |
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