Ben's Baptism and Pete the Comedian

Hey everyone!

I hope ya'll are doing well! We had a wonderful week here in the Fish Creek Stake! I'm going to try a little bit different way of emailing today, so we'll see how it goes!

On Monday we had an awesome dinner at the Torrie's! They're such a great family, and they make some great food. Below is a picture of brother Torrie making said great food. The cool thing about this dinner was that they invited their friend Adam over. Adam's a nonmember, but has listened to some discussions before. The Torrie's son, John, is going on a mission to Perth Australia soon, so we had him teach the first discussion with Elder Stringam. It went really well! Hopefully it sparked some interest in Adam and he'll want to learn more in the future.

On Tuesday it was really stormy. Actually all weeks been really stormy. We've had hail a few times too. We think it's because the Calgary Stampede is going on downtown (AKA the great and abominable Stampede) and so the Lord sent some fierce tempests. Seriously though, the storm cleared up as soon as stampede ended. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!

We went on exchanges that night with the Spanish Elders. Elder Tate came with us. We got to hold some bunnies at dinner!

We had some good times in studies the next morning,

and then got to help out at a move later that day. 

This was actually a really cool move. We tracted into a lady a couple weeks ago, and when we offered to give some service, she said that her son and his family could actually use some help moving because they couldn't afford movers. So we rounded up the zone, and moved them! They were really appreciative, and couldn't believe that a group of 19 and 20 year old boys were willing to come and help them, expecting nothing in return. We told them that if anything, we would ask that they just come to church once and see what we're all about. They said they'd definitely come and see! They came to a ward stampede breakfast on Saturday and loved it! We are excited for them, they seem like an awesome family!

During the move though it started raining

So we had a little jam session in the garage

Then the hulk showed up and we finished up that move real fast!

Then we went to work the rest of the day

 had some delicious Italian dessert

and met a celebrity!

Well she was in the Ensign, so close enough!

On Saturday we met this interesting man named Pete. We were talking to this guy for like 30 minutes. He told us that he knew Elvis and grew up with Bruce Lee, and was a multi-millionaire, and used to ride with Hell's Angels, and is buddies with a bunch of police officers. He also told us that he was just a comedian, and could go for 46 hours straight with jokes haha. Thing was, none of his jokes were actually funny. But he was an interesting man, and we're pretty sure that he was high, so there's that.

On Sunday, we cooked dinner for the Vance's, and Chen was running all around their kitchen getting things ready haha.

It turned out pretty good!

Then we headed off to Ben's baptism!

It was an awesome experience! Ben was really excited. Everyone did great job's on their talks and everything, and the spirit was so strong. My heart was just burning the whole time with the spirit. It was so good! We're excited for Ben, and know that he's going to be a great member! It's been such a joy getting to teach him, and seeing him take this step in his life was so exciting!

Okay now for a spiritual thought!

This is from a talk by Lawrence E. Corbridge.

"There are two ways of evolving: deliberately and accidentally. You can either decide who you want to become and deliberately work toward that end, or you can just go with the flow and become whatever life makes of you. In that event, you will become whatever the fickle circumstances and forces of life and society will make of you; whatever is currently considered to be popular or in; whatever is easiest. But, whatever you become accidentally it will not be nearly the full measure of our potential. You will become just someone, somewhere in the middle."

"Every challenge you face, every hard thing you confront, every bad thing that happens to you, every unfairness, every conflict, every sadness, tragedy, every disappointment and heartache, every temptation and every opposition happens for one purpose only: to give you opportunity to respond by applying in your life the teachings of Jesus. As you do so you are changed to become more like Him."

I love those quotes. If we don't plan to become better, then we wont. If we don't plan to become more like Christ, then we won't. We have to decide who we want to be, and then make it happen. Everything that we face in life is either an opportunity to turn towards Christ, or turn away from him. It's up to us to decide what we do.

Love you all, and hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Moffitt