Happy New Year!

Happy New Year guys!

We had some cool experiences this week! We had a lesson with Ty Ho again this week. He and his daughter Kathrine really want to be baptized! They love learning about the gospel, and feel that it just makes so much sense, probably because it does! Brother Ho even got up in sacrament this Sunday to bear his testimony, it was awesome! He said that he's been searching for eternal happiness, and that he finally found it! He and his daughter have a baptismal date set for February! Sadly, because he's not in our area (or our zone), we don't get to teach them the lessons, and had to pass them on to the missionaries in their area. But we're super excited for them to get baptized!

We spent a lot of time this week stopping by less active members of the ward. We've been working with a lot of them, and a couple came to church this Sunday! In our gospel principles class, we were talking about Heavenly Father, and they shared their experiences of when they've felt their Heavenly Father's love! It was so cool to hear their testimonies and see how knowing that they have a loving Heavenly Father has affected their lives.

For New Years, our mission president invited our zone to come over to his home to meet some of his family and have a dinner with them. It was really cool! It was a fun way to celebrate the New Year, and feel a little bit more at home.

Spiritual Thought of the week!

During our first lesson with Brother Ho, he asked a question something along the lines of, "So you believe that if we pray in faith we can get whatever we ask for?". I had to ponder that question a lot. I know that many people with great faith pray and ask for things that they don't get. I know that I haven't gotten everything that I've asked my Heavenly Father for. During one of our gospel principle lessons, we read that we must pray in faith, willing to accept the answer we receive, even if that answer is no. As I thought more about this, I thought of the Savior. When Jesus Christ was suffering for the sins and pains of the world in Gethsemane, he prayed and asked the Father to let that cup pass from him so that he would not have to suffer, but added, "nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." The answer was no for him. He still had to perform the Atonement, but he trusted in his Father in Heaven, just as we should.

Hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt