I hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving week even though Thanksgiving was really over a month ago! We sure had a pleasant week!
Tuesday was quite busy for us. Elder Ajeman and I baked cookies for our district meeting because we're tired of the sisters always bringing treats and showing up us elders. So with some help from the Hamons (they made the cookies, we just put them in the oven) we pulled it off! Our chocolate chip rolo cookies were a hit! We have elders just begging to come to Claresholm now so that they can get more of those delicious treats haha.
We had a lesson with Sister Carlson again that night, a less active. She's wonderful! Our lesson went so well! The spirit was so strong, and she agreed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it this week! We're so excited to be working with her!
We stopped by mutual after our lesson. The youth had a self defense night, and so I kept getting attacked by their new found ninja skills. It hurt.
We had Zone conference this week as well. That was an awesome meeting. We learned a lot about missionary work, and really focused on Jesus Christ, and developing faith in Him. We had a testimony meeting at the end, and the spirit was so strong. As some of you may know, I'm not always the most eager to get up in testimony meetings, something about speaking in front of crowds just really doesn't appeal to me. However, the spirit was so strong in this meeting that I knew that I couldn't stay seated. As I bore testimony about my Savior, I really felt it grow. I'm so grateful for Jesus Christ and for what he did for me, and I'm so excited for these two years that I have to dedicate fully to Him and to sharing His gospel!
We had a ward dinner this week, and a lot of people came! Ken and Linda were there, and so was Sister Carlson! We had a great time there, and I think they did too. We stopped by Ken and Linda the next day, and had a good discussion with them. They accepted to have us over to share the lessons with them! It might be a while until we can get something scheduled with them, but we're so excited to start teaching them!
On Sunday we got to watch the re-dedication of the Montreal Quebec temple, that was a really neat experience! They broadcasted it to all of the churches in Canada I believe. Oh and funny story from Sunday. We got a phone call from an unknown number, and it turned out to be some guy that was really into conspiracy theories haha. He talked to us for like 45 minutes on the phone about all sorts of things, oh man it was awesome!
This email is getting a little long, so I think it's about time to wrap it up. So for the spiritual thought, I want to share something that hit me as I was sitting in our Zone testimony meeting. I was thinking about the parable of the talents in the New Testament, and found that it really related to testimonies. All of our testimonies are at different points. Some are stronger than others. If we hide our testimonies like the guy who hid his talent, it will never grow, and may in fact be taken away from us. If we use our testimonies and share them with others, they will grow and become stronger. This doesn't just have to be in a testimony meeting, we can share them with our friends and with our family, but we must share them.
I love you guys so much! Hope you all have glorious weeks!
Love,
Elder Moffitt
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