Candy Coma!

Hey everyone! Hope you guys had a great Halloween!

So we had a couple really neat experiences this week. We were walking over to a lesson with Connie and Bary, and Linda stopped us and talked with us for a bit. She was telling us about how she wants to come back to church, but she doesn't really know what to do. We offered to give her a blessing and she accepted. It was a really neat and spiritual experience. She was very appreciative, and it was the first blessing she had received in a while. She came to sacrament this Sunday too! We've gotten to know her husband Ken a lot better, and I think this is the most he's ever talked with missionaries which is a really good sign!

We've also been getting to know the Jensen's really well. They're a less active family, but they are super nice and really willing to have us over. We helped them move some couches this week and they seemed really grateful for that. They even gave us some homemade salsa! That was a blessing for sure, Elder Ajeman and I sure do miss Mexican food.

Halloween was fun! We raked some leaves for Linda in the morning, and we stopped by John, he's the director for the community choir here. John just had surgery so we wanted to stop by him and see how he was doing. He had an organ set up in his home to play phantom of the opera as kids came trick-or-treating, it was awesome! We had to be back in our home by 6, but the Hamons let us hand out candy, so that was fun!

Some of our other appointments fell through or got pushed back this week, but we still had an awesome week full of miracles!

Spiritual thought for the week. We got to teach a lesson in church this Sunday about the Atonement, which is one of my favorite things to talk about. We read a passage from Doctrine and Covenants 19 that I loved:

16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;

17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;

18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—

19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men.

When we sin, it brings suffering, but Christ suffered through all of that so that we wouldn't have to. If we turn to him and use that Atonement in our lives, we can become free from sin, and from the suffering that comes along with that. I'm so grateful for Jesus Christ and for what he did for us!

Hope you guys all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt