Just another one of those things that made me love being a missionary!

I had to get a picture with my English Companion in front of the TARDIS!

Afternoon everyone!

Well I felt like we were running all over this week. We've kept busy, that's for sure.

We had a lesson with Hayden again this week. This one did not go as well as before. Seeing as he his only 10, it's hard to keep his focus during lessons with him. We're going to have to get a lot more creative I think. His little brother Allen is fantastic though. Always well behaved during our lessons, and wants to answer every question, even though his answer is always the Holy Ghost haha.

We had a lesson with Sister Coates this week, and that went really well. She's a less active that's very open to having us over. We talked with her about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and when we asked her if she'd ever felt the power of the Atonement in her life, she really opened up. She said that she had felt that strongly in her life, and knew that Christ had helped her and given her strength in times of need. It was really neat to see her bear testimony like that. We then asked her what was holding her back from being fully active and receiving all of the blessings of the gospel. She had apparently had a rougher time growing up, and not a lot of support from her family and just fell away from the church. However, recently she's really felt a desire to come back. After our first appointment with her, she had pulled out her Book of Mormon and began to read from it. It was so neat to see that desire in her. That seems to be the hardest part about being a missionary, helping people find that desire. We can teach them, we can invite them to act, we can show them the path to take, but ultimately, if they lack that desire, it becomes very difficult for us to help them. That's the heartbreaking part of missionary work. I've seen many people who could use the gospel so badly in their lives, who could use the Atonement provided by our Savior Jesus Christ, and who could benefit by coming to know and understand that they are a child of God, but that don't accept it because of one reason or another, or don't have any desire to really find out if its true or not. Thankfully Sister Coates isn't one of those people! She really seems to have a desire to draw closer to Heavenly Father, and follow Him! Having lessons like that just fill me with such joy and remind me why I'm out here serving a mission. I'm so grateful for these wonderful people that my Heavenly Father has given me the privilege to meet and to help.

Another cool experience! We were trying to contact a part member family, and as we were walking away from the door, the neighbors invited us in for cupcakes! They're members, and their son had just gotten baptized! So we got to know them, got some delicious cupcakes, and then got to leave them with a fitting object lesson that just about knocked everyone's socks off! It was just another one of those things that made me love being a missionary!

And finally, we had another wonderful lesson with Brother Lorne. This great man is 79 years old, so we have to go over things a couple times until they sink in and he can remember them. However, he seems to have made a lot of progress. He's been reading his scriptures, and studying a lot. He's also just the most kind hearted and genuine man ever. And because he's english, he loves football (soccer) and always updates Elder Hawkins on how Manchester United is doing haha. He has a little shrine to Manchester that seems to grow each week haha. At first there was a book about them, then the next week there was the book and a hat, and then the next week there was the book the had and a scarf haha. We love getting to see him each week, it's the best way to end our Sundays.

So some other fun things happened. We went on exchanges, tracted into a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses (who were quite nice), ran into the same drunk guy on the street two days in a row (who we'll probably stop by sometime soon, he needs help) got asked to join the Blackfoot religion, and found a Mexican restaurant!

Well I'd like to leave you guys with a verse from Galatians to ponder. It's Galatians 2:20:

20. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I could tell you what I think this verse means, but instead, I want to leave you each with the invitation to ponder it and find what it means to you. The more I read it, the more meaning I find.

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Moffitt