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The Ho Family!

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I hope that everybody is doing just wonderful this brisk February morning. It looks like the winter is finally catching up to us. We've had quite the unusual run of warmer weather here in Alberta this winter, and it's been fantastic! There were a few days this week where we could go out in short sleeves! Alas, all good things must come to an end, and we awoke to a nice dusting of snow and some very chilly weather. It was bound to happen eventually I guess.

Well this week went really well for us! We were able to see Brother Alexander, our wonderful Jamaican friend. We're in the process of helping him return to church. He has expressed a number of concerns that we're working with right now. One of which is that he doesn't have a testimony of the Book of Mormon. He also admitted he's never read it. Well of course you don't have a testimony of something you haven't read! It's like when Jaiden (shout out to my little sis) says she doesn't like a food that she's never even tried, how is that even possible?! Love you J, thanks for letting me use you as an example <3. So we retaught him the restoration, and now we want to begin reading through the Book of Mormon with him as well as addressing some of his other hold-ups.

We got to teach the Plan of Salvation to Shannon, another awesome less active that has decided to come back to church! Our lesson went really well (probably because we used a lot of visuals) and it just reaffirmed my testimony of the Plan of Salvation. I'm so grateful for the knowledge that we have of our Heavenly Father's plan for our lives. It truly is a perfect plan, and I love getting to share it with people!

In other great news, Thai and Katie Ho got baptized this Saturday along with Thai's two other kids, Ken and Kim! For those of you just tuning in, Elder Coe and I had the opportunity to teach Thai and Katie the first two discussions, but then had to pass them off to another set of elders because we found out that they weren't in our area. Or even in our stake. However, it was really neat to be able to watch them enter the waters of baptism and make those covenants with our Heavenly Father. The spirit was so strong at their service, it was such an amazing experience! And even more exciting, Katie's mom, who originally didn't express much interest in learning about the gospel, now wants to be taught and baptized as well! We're so excited for their family and the path they they have started on!

And now to wrap it all up with a spiritual thought. I wanted to share a verse out of 2 Nephi chapter 2 verse 25:

25. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.

I love this little one line sermon from the Book of Mormon. Our Heavenly Father's ultimate goal for us is to be happy. That's the point of providing us with this beautiful plan where we have the opportunity to come down to earth and receive a body so that we can experience life, and strive to live worthily so that we can return to live with him one day. It's all for our happiness. Wherever we are in our lives, we can find this happiness if we turn to the Lord and to our Savior, Jesus Christ, and strive to follow them.

Love you guys!

Love,

Elder Moffitt