Just Call Me Iz...

Hello my wonderful family and friends!

We had a lot of fun this week! We talked to a lot of people, and tried to keep it interesting. Quick shout out to the Mandin Family for giving us a Ukulele! We've used it to sing some songs in our dinner appointments this week, and even went music tracting! We'd do our usual door approach, and then if they weren't interested, we'd ask if we could sing them a song! We walked up to this one guy named Bill who was sitting on his porch and sang him I Am a Child of God, which led perfectly into the Restoration. So we taught him the first lesson! He wasn't interested in learning more, but he was super nice and we had a good conversation!

This week we also got to meet a lot of the members in the Chaparral ward. We met some really cool families, and we're excited to start working more with them! We met one family, the Lawlors, who basically own a zoo. They have 11 pets. It was great! We got to play with their sugar gliders, it was so much fun! 

So the tripanionship is still going strong! We've been having fun together, and we've eaten fried rice pretty much every day! Though Elder Chen has been playing the same song on the Uke for the past week and it's starting to drive all of us a little crazy. But we still love that big ole Chinese Canadian!

Spiritual thought for the week:

With the gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the strength of heaven to help us, we can improve, and the great thing about the gospel is we get credit for trying, even if we don’t always succeed.

When there was a controversy in the early Church regarding who was entitled to heaven’s blessings and who wasn’t, the Lord declared to the Prophet Joseph Smith, “Verily I say unto you, [the gifts of God] are given for the benefit of those who love me and keep … my commandments, and [for them] that seeketh so to do.” Boy, aren’t we all thankful for that added provision “and … seeketh so to do”! That has been a lifesaver because sometimes that is all we can offer! We take some solace in the fact that if God were to reward only the perfectly faithful, He wouldn’t have much of a distribution list.

Please remember tomorrow, and all the days after that, that the Lord blesses those who want to improve, who accept the need for commandments and try to keep them, who cherish Christlike virtues and strive to the best of their ability to acquire them. If you stumble in that pursuit, so does everyone; the Savior is there to help you keep going. If you fall, summon His strength. Call out like Alma, “O Jesus, … have mercy on me.” He will help you get back up. He will help you repent, repair, fix whatever you have to fix, and keep going. Soon enough you will have the success you seek.  

This is from Jeffrey R. Holland's talk last conference, and I love it! It's an awesome talk and I encourage all of you to go back and read it!

Love you guys!

-Elder Moffitt