This week was just the best thing ever!

Well this week was just the best thing ever!

We had a lesson with our investigator Hayden! He's 10 years old, and his mom has decided to start coming back to church. She's working towards the temple, and he's working towards baptism. Our lesson with them went really well! Our goal was to really get a feel for how much he knew, and how much he remembered from the previous missionaries. We ended up trying to get creative, and played an LDS version of the game head bands that we made. It went really well, and Hayden got really into it! He even wanted to play it again after we finished! It ended up being a really good way of gauging how much he knew. He was answering all sorts of questions about gospel principles from the first few discussions, it was great! We then invited him and his family to pray about the Book of Mormon that night. We're both so excited to keep working with them and see how the Lord works in their lives!

We also got to go to a relief society dinner this week. I've always wondered what went on at those activities. It was awesome! We were the only guys that were actually there eating haha, but we had a great time. We got to sit at the old folks table! We have a wide variety of members in our ward, from newly weds, all the way to nearly deads (not my own words, can't take credit). Anyways, the food was great, and we got to learn all about the history of the relief society! We also got to enjoy a couple of very well done musical numbers. And the best part of the night was when Gerra, a lady who is not a member of the church, got up and bore her testimony on the relief society and thanked everyone for all of the love that they had shown to her and her family. It was so powerful! We had the opportunity later in the week to meet Gerra more officially, and her husband Alex. They're from Ethiopia, but have been here for a number of years. They've been meeting with missionaries for the past 8 years or so, but I think that Alex is not to keen on joining the church. However, we got to leave them with a message, and we'll be seeing them again this week!

And now I've got to give a shout-out to the Toone family for really making my week! They showed up Friday night to drop off a cake for my birthday, and it was just the best thing ever! Then they took us out for lunch on Saturday! It was so great getting to see them and catch up. I loved getting to hear about how Claresholm is doing as well. Just as an update, the investigator I got to start teaching there, Grant, is married now! He and his wife are investigating the church still, and I believe he's on date to be baptized! They've got great fellowship in the ward, and really love coming!

And now a little about my companion. I realized that I never really talk about my companions in my emails, so here it goes! Elder Hawkins is just the best! He's all english and says things that I don't quite understand all the time. Like lou-roll instead of toilet paper, and satnav instead of GPS just to name a couple. He loves football (soccer) and now has me calling soccer football. I've also gotten a lesson on how cricket is played so that's great! And I've gotten to ask all those questions about England that I've wondered forever. In case you're wondering, they don't live off of a steady diet of english muffins and butter beer. Who knew? So not only is he English, but he's also a great missionary. He's out for all of the right reasons, and just has such a powerful testimony of the gospel.

For the spiritual thought this week, I want to quote C.S. Lewis. "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." I just love this quote so much. I've met so many people who just treat the gospel as moderately important, but that's the one thing we shouldn't do. If we are truly Christians, and have a testimony of our savior, Jesus Christ, then we must allow that to effect everything that we do. We must do all that we can to be worthy to return to our Father in Heaven one day. We must give it our all, everything that we have. If we don't, will we be able to say that we have been truly valiant in our testimony of Jesus Christ?

Well that's all for this week folks. Love you all and I hope that you are all doing well!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

* All photos were taken by Sister Toone and sent to the Moffitt family to enjoy.