Afternoon
my wonderful friends and family!
I'm
going to flip things around today and start off with the spiritual thought. So
last week I asked ya'll to read and ponder Matthew 22:36-40. Did you do it?
Well I hope you did because it makes this next part more meaningful! In these
verses, Christ is telling the people about the first great commandments. The
first one is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Why is this commandment so
important? Well that one is pretty easy to answer, John 14:15 tells us,
"If ye love me, keep my commandments." So if we keep this first great
commandment, then we will keep all of the other commandments and follow God.
Now that we've got that first one figured out, lets take a look at the next
commandment he gives us, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
This takes on more meaning when we read John 13:34, "A new commandment I
give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another." So we're supposed to love others as Christ has loved us. How
did Christ show his love to us? Well I think that he showed it most by teaching
us the gospel, and by performing the Atonement. So what does that teach us
about how we should love our neighbor? Well we best show our love for them by
sharing with them the gospel, and helping them to experience the Atonement in
their lives. How cool is that?! Well sorry for the long spiritual thought, but
that hit me last week and I thought it was pretty neat.
Now
onto the week!
So
this week we had a pretty awesome Zone Training meeting. We talked all about
how we as missionaries can raise our desire to do the work. It was a great
meeting, and we focused a lot on the Atonement. After that meeting we got to
meet with a less active guy in our ward, Brother Pantherbone. He hasn't been
following the standards of the church recently, but he recognized that the
things he was doing didn't bring happiness, and he's decided that he needs to make
a change. It's really neat to teach him and see how the gospel has affected his
life, and see how it brings peace to him and answers questions that he has. We
taught him the first part of the Plan of Salvation, and he said that somehow we
always taught just what he needed to hear at the right moment. It's great to
see the spirit working in peoples lives! Later that night, we also had a lesson
with the Romo family, and officially started teaching the Dad and their 16 year
old son. We taught the message of the restoration, and about the Book of
Mormon. Brother Romo seemed really engaged through the whole lesson, and seemed
like he had tons of real intent, and a desire to know if what we taught is
true! We're so excited to be teaching their whole family, and we should have
another lesson with them tonight!
We
also saw Bala and Smita this week! They're both doing well. We taught them
about the Plan of Salvation, and then invited them to baptism. They expressed
some concerns because being baptized would mean that they have to give up all
of their Hindu traditions, which could possibly alienate them from their
family. They still seem to have a lot of desire to learn, and said that it
would just take a lot of prayer and pondering.
We've
also been doing a lot of personal finding lately, and have found some good
potential investigators! Elder Lee actually street contacted a kid named Daniel
while we were on exchanges, and we got to teach him the first discussion on
Saturday! He seems like a great kid. He's from Columbia, and he doesn't have
much of a religious background. He really seemed like he wanted to learn
though! He's 20, so right now we're working on passing him off to the YSA
sisters so that they can teach him. But miracles are happening everywhere, and
people are being prepared by the Lord!
We
also got to go on exchanges with the Calgary West Elders this week! I was with
Elder Reynolds up in their area. We had a blast! We got to do some service with
the zone for a park in the community. They people there are really appreciative
of the help that the missionaries have offered this past year. It's opened more
people up to the gospel! We also had a lesson with some members, the Alvares
family,and Brother Alvares knew Ben Friend from back home! They served in the
same mission. Crazy! It was a super fun day. I got to see a lot of old
missionary friends too which is always a blessing!
Oh
and one last thing. Our passenger seat in our truck had been broken for the
past week or so, and is stuck in recline. It's been a real burden
#FirstWorldProbs But we finally got it fixed! Blessings!
Well
I love ya'll and hope that everything is just dandy back home!
Love,
Elder
Moffitt
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