Food Coma

Captain's chair in the Vulcan town information center!

Morning everyone! Hope everybody's food comas were as good as mine this week, that's how you know you had a successful thanksgiving!

We had a pretty busy week which was awesome! We stopped by and got to talk to a lot of people. I'll try to keep this email short and just cover the high points. 

On Tuesday we stopped by the youth activity again, and they were having another self defense night. Only this time, no young men showed up, so I got to be the practice dummy for Brother Vosburgh who was teaching. I got thrown to the ground a few times, put in an armbar, smashed in the face, kicked in the head, and all sorts of other fun things. All in dress clothes too!

We got to do some service shoveling snow this week, it was one of my first times doing that! Perks of growing up in Texas haha. It hasn't snowed in a while, but there is still a good amount on the ground. It actually hasn't been that cold here for a Canadian winter, it's really weird. I've even worn short sleeves a few times this week! 

We taught a lot of less active members this week. The highlight, as always, was our lesson with Sister Carlson. She's so sweet, and you can tell that she has a strong testimony of our Savior. The spirit was so strong in that lesson, and I was able to feel it guiding me on what to say, which was a very neat experience. We invited her to come to church, but she had a wedding reception in Cardston to go to, so we're hoping for next Sunday. 

We had another lesson with Cassie this week, and it went really well! We taught her about the plan of salvation. She seemed to understand and accept everything we shared with her! And she's been reading the Book of Mormon, and can definitely feel the spirit when she does that. We asked her about baptism again, and it's still something that she wants to do, she just has concerns about going to church every Sunday and keeping other commitments. The member that we brought with us shared with her the importance of taking it one step at a time. The Lord doesn't expect us to become perfect all at once, it's a lifelong pursuit. We asked her to just keep reading the scriptures and to keep praying and asking for a witness that this gospel is true. We told her that as she focuses on that, and builds her faith in Jesus Christ, then the other things will come. They won't always be easy, but they will be possible. 

Some other things happened this week, but those were the most important. Plus I only have about 8 minutes left on this computer and I don't know if I can get more time or not. So lets get right into that spiritual thought!

I wanted to talk a little about repentance today. We got to go over this in one of our lessons this week, and it really stuck out to me. The purpose of repentance is change. Our goal in this life is to continually strive to become better and live worthily so we can return to live with our Father in Heaven. As we repent, we turn away from our sins, and turn toward Christ. It's the process by which we allow ourselves to change into the person that our Heavenly Father wants us to become. 

I love you guys and hope that you all have a fantastic week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

Picture with the Enterprise in Vulcan! What a strange town haha

This is my zone at our zone Pday. They're basically the best ever

One of the members we ate with shot some coyotes the other day, and my comp loves hunting and had to get a pic with them, so I decided that I had to as well