Happy Halloween!!

Top of the morning!

So we've had a great couple of weeks recently! Last week I mentioned that we picked up a new investigator, and we have another lesson with her on Sunday, we're really looking forward to that! We got another new investigator this week! His name is Mike Madsen, and his wife is an active member of the church. We had dinner with them the other night, and after we shared our message on eternal families, we asked if we could set up a time to have an official lesson with him and he accepted! He's been taught by missionaries before, but we're hoping that we can find our whats holding him back from making his baptismal covenants. He attends sacrament meeting fairly regularly, and knows a lot of the member in the ward, so we're really optimistic about teaching him!

We have also been doing a lot of walking around town (and even rode bikes once, I felt like such a classic missionary it was great!) and have had some great opportunities to talk with people that we pass. It's so neat to be able to learn about different people and their stories. If the weather continues to hold out for us, we'll keep walking around and hopefully continue to see tender mercies come out of it!

So last week I was short on email time because we were going on a hike with our district leader and his companion in Crowsnest pass. It was so much fun! It was nice to be up in the mountains and see that part of Canada. We hiked up to a plane crash site from WWII. The tail of the plane is still up there. It was a tough hike, but we made it!

We also got to carve jack-o-lanterns at district meeting! One of the sisters in our district really wanted to so she made it into an object lesson for part of her training. It was tons of fun!

So for the spiritual thought I'd like to leave with you this week, I want to simply express my gratitude for the knowledge I have of eternal families. The Family: A Proclamation to the World states:

IN THE PREMORTAL REALM, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life. The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.

I'm so grateful to know that I'll have the opportunity to be with my family forever. I love them and miss them like crazy, and to know that I'll be able to be with them after this life is over fills me with such joy!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

Me gettin' prepped for winter!

MTC friends!

#BasicMissionary

Crownsnest Pass!

Plane wreck!

New Investigator!

Hey everyone!

I don't have much time to email today, so I'm going to give the super condensed version of my week.

We had retrainers meeting in Calgary this week, which was great! We also took that opportunity to go shopping for winter clothes so we hopefully don't freeze this winter. (pictures to come next week)

We also picked up a new investigator! Her name is Cassie and she was a member referral. We had our first lesson with her, and she accepted our invitation to read from the Book of Mormon and to pray to see if it was true! We have another lesson with her in a couple weeks. We're excited to see how she progresses!

There's a lot more potential in this area. We have a couple people we want to begin teaching, and a whole list of less active members that we want to start working with. The work is really moving forward!

Spiritual thought! So this week in church we learned about scripture study. We related it to the Children of Israel and how they received manna from heaven for food each day. The Lord made it so that they had to go out each day and collect the manna to get the nourishment they needed. Scripture study is the same way. We must feast on the scriptures daily to receive our spiritual food. I encourage all of you to get into the habit of daily scripture study. I know that as we do this, we will be able to receive the spiritual nourishment each day, and we will grow closer to our Heavenly Father.

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Cardston Temple

Afternoon everyone!

So Canadian Thanksgiving is today, celebrate accordingly!

Well let's get to it shall we?

So we spent a lot of time in Cardston this week. We had Zone Pday there on Monday, then interviews with president there on Tuesday, and then Zone Training Meeting there on Wednesday. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time driving this week.

We had our final official lesson with the Lenzs this week. I've loved getting to teach them, and It'll be sad to not get to teach them each week. We have, however, found a good number of people to start working with.

So to start it off, we stopped by a less active family's house this week, and they accepted a return appointment, so we'll get to start teaching them this week or the next! We set up an appointment with Cassie and Billy, a member referral that we recieved, and will be teaching them this Saturday! We got back together with the Vosburghs, recent members in the ward, to teach them the new member lessons, and will be seeing them each week now! We attended a funeral a couple weeks ago for a member of the community here, and we stopped by Fran, the wife of the deceased to check up on her and see how she is doing, and got a return appointment to go back and see her. So the work is really moving forward here!

We also had a lot of service opportunities this week! I got to dig potatoes for the first time in my life, we got to move a gigantic doghouse, and a big tin shed, and, probably the most random of all, we got to take some family photos for people this morning haha. I was the designated dancer that had to get the kids to smile, that's a tough job.

So for the spiritual thought this week, may I direct you to Matthew chapter 6 verses 19-20.

19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

So I've been learning a lot about service lately, and I think that these verses can apply to that really well. So many people seek after riches, thinking that they will bring happiness. Though it may provide temporary happiness, it does not provide us with everlasting joy. Instead of thinking so much about ourselves and stuff that we can do or get for us, we should instead think about what we can do for others. As we strive to be more like Christ by serving others, we will be able to find true happiness.

Love you all, and hope that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

Me celebrating my four month birthday at DQ! If you haven't tried the pumpkin pie blizzard yet, I highly recommend it. 

The True North Strong and Free

A picture of what most of my area looks like

Hello my beautiful friends and family!

So this weeks email will be short on account of our Zone Pday today, and the fact that it takes an hour to drive down to where the rest of the zone actually is.

Great week! Lots of miracles! We got to visit some members and got to know them better, and we saw a less active family that actually let us in and talked with us for a while! We found one person who has accepted to hear our message, and another who wants to, but doesn't feel quite ready. We will keep working with him and helping him through his current struggles for the time being.

General Conference was great! I love having the opportunity to hear from our Prophet, Apostles, and General Authorities of the church! There were many beautiful messages shared, and I encourage all of you to watch all the sessions if you haven't, and if you have, to re-watch or listen too the talks that were shared. I know that as we do this, we will be able to find answers to questions that we seek, and feel the spirit testify of the truthfulness of the words that were shared. Linda came to both sessions of Conference on Saturday which was great! And Grant (The other guy we're working with) came to the Sunday Morning session! The work is progressing, and the gospel is touching lives here in Claresholm!

Spiritual though. A big focus in this general conference was self-improvement. Our ultimate goal is perfection, but we know that we can't achieve that in this life. We can, however, progress on the road to perfection. We all need to ask the Lord, "What lack I yet?" and honestly listen for an answer with intent to act on it when it comes. I know that as we strive to improve, and use the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives to heal and strengthen us, we can become better people, and better disciples of Jesus Christ.

I love all you guys, and hope that you have simply glorious weeks!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

This is me with our oven that I love. The bottom is the oven and the microwave. I'm not sure what the top thing is but I think it's another oven. Sadly we got rid of it for a new and more modern oven. Saying goodbye to it almost brought me to tears. May it rest in peace.

This is me making time for fun at a local park.