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Hey Everyone!

So my p-day keeps getting moved around. We went to the Cardstone temple today with some members, and so we had to make today our p-day. Next week we should be back to Mondays, but no promises.

This past week was good! The biggest thing I think was finding Connie and Bary. Connie had seen us walking around Claresholm a little bit ago, and told us that we should stop by her home. We did just that, and it was great! Her and her husband Bary have met with some of the past missionaries and really liked them. We're not sure just how much they know about the church though. They are both religious, and know the bible pretty well, so we were able to have a great conversation with them while we were over. We talked about the importance of Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice for us, and a little bit about his gospel. We left them with plenty of reading material because they kept asking for more! Our appointment with them for this week fell through, so we're going to try to meet with them next week and have an actual lesson with them! I'm very excited to get to know them better and teach them about the gospel!

We also met a man named Skipper Warrior from one of the reservations here. He was passing through town, and stopped us while we were walking back to our home. He said that he was a member of our church. We talked with him for a bit, and then he said, "Well I'm going to go get a beer now" looked at us for a second, and then followed up with, "Well Jesus drank wine, so I can drink beer." We explained how modern day revelation from the prophets councils us against drinking, but he told us that he was having a barbecue so he was going to have beer. So we pointed Skipper in the direction of the local liquor store and he was on his way haha.

We got to volunteer at a triathlon in Fort Macleod an Saturday. It was great! We handed water out to runners as they passed, and some of them didn't slow down to grab the cup, so water would go flying everywhere haha, not sure how effective that was. It was about 15 Celsius outside and I was freezing though. I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive a Canadian winter, I wasn't bred for this. Pretty sure I started to lose circulation in my hands. Regardless, it was a good time. I met lots of people, and I got a free shirt!

We had dinner with Ken and Linda this week! Linda is an inactive member who wants to come back to church and Ken isn't a member. They're a great couple! Dinner was great, and we got to share an awesome spiritual thought about overcoming trials through faith in Jesus Christ. Ken's friend was there too, and he just so happens to be a member! His name is Brother Fraiser and he is awesome. He always wears a cowboy hat around and knows how to play the harmonica and used to make knives and hitchhike. Yeah we find out some new interesting fact about him every time we see him. Plus he has a sweet mustache, I'm super jealous of it. But anyways, dinner was great, and we're hoping to get to know Ken and Linda better!

All in all a pretty good week. The work is hard sometimes, but definitely worth it. I feel like I've learned a lot being out here, but I definitely still have a long way to go. I love the gospel so much. It has blessed my life tremendously. I know that as we strive to point our lives to Christ and follow his example, we will be able to receive great joy not only in this life, but in that to come. That's not to say that we won't have trials, because we undoubtedly will. However, we can know that through Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice on our behalf, we can overcome any trial that we face. Matthew 11:28-30 -

28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

I love how Christ uses the example of a yoke in these verses. A yoke is designed so that two oxen can stand side by side and pull a load. The oxen both have to put in the same amount of effort or the yoke won't work properly. It's the same when we go through trials. We have to put in all of our effort to overcome them, and as we do, Christ will be next to us helping us to pull the load along.

In case you were wondering, yes that was the spiritual thought for the week, it kind of snuck up on us I know.

Hope everyone has a super-duper fantastic week!

Much love from up North!

Love,

Elder Moffitt


Oh and here's a pic of me on top of some of the hay we loaded up last week. It was a grand ole' time!