So instead of doing a spiritual thought at the end of this email, the whole thing is going to be one big spiritual thought. At least that's the idea, we'll see how it turns out.
So this week was a little bit rough. For those of you that follow Canadian weather, it's been cold. I knew I couldn't escape the winter forever. The beginning of the week wasn't bad at all, but then it got cold. Really cold. For the past few days it's been hanging out around -10 to -20 Celsius. That's about 14 to -4 Fahrenheit, and it felt a little bit colder with the wind chill. We didn't have the car this week, so we've been putting in some solid miles on foot. One day in particular, we were on exchanges, so one of my zone leaders, Elder Condie, was with me, and things just did not go according to plan. We had a pretty good day planned out with about 3 appointments with less actives set up. We head out to our first appointment which is about an hour walk from our apartment, and when the guy answered the door, he basically cancelled our appointment with him right there, and told us maybe we could come back another time. So there went one appointment. We walked over to our next one which was about 30 minutes away, and worked in that area for a little bit before our next lesson. We we knocked on the door for our next lesson, and nobody answered. We ended up calling the guy and he still didn't answer, so we just walked back to the apartment for lunch. There went our second appointment. While we're eating lunch, our appointment for later in the afternoon called us and cancelled. And there went our only other appointment for the day. So here we are with no appointments left for the day besides dinner.
So there was the depressing portion of the day. Now before I keep going, I want to take a look at the story of Nephi in the Book of Mormon. Nephi and his family struggled a lot as they were wandering through the wilderness after leaving Jerusalem. They suffered many things, "Even so much that [they] cannot write them all" (1 Nephi 17:6). But before Nephi even really begins to make his record, he says, "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." (1 Nephi 1:20). Because of Nephi's faith in the Lord, he was able to see past all of the hardships, accept that they were for his growth and benefit, and focus on all of the blessings that the Lord gave unto them. He is constantly talking about how blessed he and his family were.
So with that story in mind, I was able to reflect on our day and focus on the good things. While working in the area before our second appointment, we were able to talk with a part member family and hopefully we'll be able to see them again soon. We tracted into Mona. She's muslim, but we were able to have a really good conversation with her and talk about the calling of modern day prophets and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and it's purpose in our lives. She accepted a copy and said she'd read some of it! During lunch, a member family called and said they were free that night for us to come over and share a discussion with them! We were also able to meet another less active lady in the ward and we have an appointment for next week! So if I wanted to, I could focus on all of the negative things that happened that day, but if I really took a good look I could see how the Lord had blessed us. So that's the invitation I want to leave with you guys. Focus on the blessings, not the things that go wrong in life. If we do this, we'll be able to grow closer to our father in heaven and begin to feel his love stronger in our lives.
So now for some funnier and more lighthearted moments of the week!
So I told Elder Coe that he should only use chopsticks for meals this week. He's actually doing it! He got a set of chopsticks and he's been using them at our dinners! I'll have to send some pictures next week, I'm excited haha. My eyebrows and eyelashes froze while we were walking around! It was pretty cool. We went to a Filipino birthday party, and they had a whole roasted pig on the table! That one I do have a picture of. Emmi I thought of you the whole time, it was like your dream come true!
Welp, that's all I've got for this week. Love you guys!
-Elder Moffitt
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