Real Taber Corn!

Howdy!

Hope everyone had a great week last week, we definitely did!

So Tuesday we pretty much did service all day and it was great! We helped a new family move into the ward, and then after that we went straight to another move. The second move was for a non-member family who are good friends with some members in our ward, so we got a big group of youth together and went and helped them move. The move went really well, and Sister Perry told us that Cassie, the lady we helped move, said she'd be open to learning more about religion! We're going to drop by her house this week and see how she's doing and then see if she'd be willing to take the discussions!

I did Tim-Tam slams for the first time this week. I don't know if they have Tim-Tam's in the States, but it's basically a chocolate cookie thing. For Tim-Tam slams, you bite off the corners, and then drink hot chocolate through it, and when the hot chocolate reaches your mouth you quickly throw the whole cookie in your mouth and then it just melts. It's quite delicious, and I highly recommend trying it if you get the chance. While i'm on the topic of food, I may have mentioned before that my companion and I go through phases with different food. At first it was chips and salsa. We went through so many jars of salsa and bags of chips. We now consider ourselves salsa connoisseurs, sadly there are not many salsa brands here that are really good, we did however find one we liked. After the salsa phase, we went through a juice phase, and bought a ton of juice. We drank about 10 liters in a week and then decided that we had a problem and needed to kick that habit. So naturally we moved on to something else, Jello. So we bought a ton of jello, and have been eating jello every night before bed. Anyways, back to actual missionary work.

Now the reasoning for the subject line of this email, it's Taber Corn season. Everyone here always talks about how delicious Taber corn is. It's grown in Taber, which is pretty close to Claresholm, and so every summer trucks with Taber Corn come and spread the joy of Taber corn to the citizens of southern Alberta. They love it so much that we had a ward activity centered around Taber corn, they call it a Corn bust. So Elder Stone and I had the privilege of helping shuck some 200 ears of corn for this shindig. The activity went really well! Linda came with her husband, Ken, and they really seemed to enjoy themselves! They got to meet a lot of the people in the ward too which was awesome! And I must say, that Taber peaches and cream corn is quite good stuff.

Our sacrament meeting this Sunday was great! Ken and Linda weren't able to come, but Bary was. He's a non-member that we ran into a while ago, and he wanted to come to fast and testimony meeting with us. The testimonies that were given were all very good, and the spirit was very strong in that meeting. Bary said that he really enjoyed it, and that we could stop by Tuesday and see them again. We're excited to see how he progresses!

Spiritual thought! This week I want to talk about love, and how central it is to the gospel of Jesus Christ. We read in John 14:15

15. If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Now this verse is pretty cut and dry. If we truly love Christ, and want to follow him, we must keep his commandments. Elder Holland said, the crowning characteristic of love is loyalty. Just as faith without works is dead, love without works is dead. Love must be shown though our actions. Furthermore, in John 13:34 we read:

34. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

If we love Christ, we will keep his commandments, one of which is that we love everyone. How do we show this love? Through charity, which we learn from the Book of Mormon is "the pure love of Christ" (Moroni 7:47) and that "if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth" (Moroni 7:46). We must remember to always be charitable, be willing to give of ourselves to other to help lift them up when they are in need. Just as Elder Bednar talks about in Character of Christ, we must turn outward, and begin to think more of others than we do of ourselves, this is how we start to become like Jesus Christ, and find true happiness in this life.

Love you guys and hope everyone has a magnificent week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt