Retrainers!

So some great things happened this week!

We went on exchanges this week, and that night had a dinner with the ward mission leader for Fort Macleod. They had our whole district (all four of us) over for dinner and we exchanged back afterwards. Their youngest son wanted to have a drawing contest with me, so we started drawing, I drew a ninja turtle, some of my best work might I add, and he drew a zombie. He got mad that I was taking so long to draw and so I stopped and started teaching him how to make an origami bird instead. He loved it! He carried that bird around with him all night. I knew that all that origami would come in handy some day!

Our appointment with Tayson and Jaidah fell through this week. We're going to stop by again tomorrow, so hopefully we'll catch them then and be able to have another lesson. We also followed up with a girl we tracted into a couple weeks ago, and have a lesson set for tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that! We have a few other people to contact this week as well, so I'm hoping we see some success from that!

So the high point of my week was definitely retrainers meeting! I got to see everyone from my MTC district again, it was glorious! I felt like Ammon when he met Alma on the way to Zarahemla! They all seem to be doing really well, and even though I didn't get to spend long with them, it was great seeing them all! We went to buffalo wild wings after the meeting for lunch, and a lot of the missionaries did the flaming challenge there. You have to eat 10 of the hottest wings in under 5 minutes. I didn't do it, but it was sure fun to watch! They have a slideshow with pictures of all of the people who have done the challenge, and I'm pretty sure that half of the pictures were of missionaries, I guess it's a big thing to do here haha.

So funny story from this Sunday. For priesthood meeting we met with the teachers deacons and priests, and were having a lesson on families. The teacher handed out a paper for us to fill out about ways that we could serve our families. I looked over at the deacon sitting next to me as I was filling out the paper, and saw that he had already crumpled it up and there were big wet spots on it that he was poking his finger through. When I looked back again, he had the whole paper shoved in his mouth. It was super weird. Good ole deacons.

Spiritual thought of the week! We downloaded a lot of talks from conference to listen to on our long drives, and recently we've been listening to a lot of Uchtdorf. I love a talk that he gave titled "Pride and the Priesthood". In it he states that:
Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.
I love that. It's so important that we learn to follow the example of the Savior and turn out. We need to constantly strive to serve those around us and think less about ourselves. As we do this, we will find greater happiness!

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt


P.S. here's a pic we took after retrainers meeting. That's downtown Calgary.