Elder Stringam enjoying the beautiful scenery on the way home from Rosemary
Hey everyone!
So this was a pretty solid week with some great experiences.
The highlight of the week was definitely teaching at Eston College. Our Mission President gave Elder Stringam and I the opportunity to go and teach a group of college students for their world religions class. They were all about our age, and had spent the past week in Calgary listening to representatives of other faiths explain their beliefs in a classroom setting, and Elder Stringam and I were invited to teach them about Mormonism! It was so cool! We were pretty excited about it but stressed at the same time because we weren't sure what to teach. They had given us 2 hours to speak, and we had no idea what to do with all that time. But we planned something out, and then right before we went over there we met with President Miles and went over it. He gave us some more direction and suggestions, and we basically ended up scrapping what we had 30 minutes before the class started. So we decided to go in there with a few topics to talk about that we thought they might be interested in, and then just follow the spirit. So we get in there, and it's about a class of 18 students, and we just kinda started going. We did a get to know you thing so we could get to know all of the students in the class, and then we started talking about who we were and what we did, and about our belief in Jesus Christ. From that point on, the spirit took over. These students were all pretty religious, and had a lot of really good questions for us, so we used our time to basically answer questions that they had, and teach to needs. The cool thing about this was that nobody was there to be contentious or try and disprove us (except for maybe one kid) but simply to learn. We were able to clear up a lot of misconceptions about who we are and what we believe which was really cool, and by answering their questions, we ended up teaching the first three discussions! Once we started getting into the grove of it, we were really just able to be ourselves. We were joking around and cracking jokes and having a ton of fun just being our goofy selves, and because of that we were really able to connect with everyone! We were able to be serious when we needed too, but we were all having a great time too! They told us that we were their favorite group yet just because of how much fun we had, and they said that they were really impressed with how we handled all of their questions. Because we were having so much fun, we ended up being there for 3 hours just answering questions and teaching doctrine! We were able to leave each of them with a Book of Mormon, a restoration pamphlet, and a pass along card for the Light the World initiative. It was so cool! Definitely an experience I'll remember forever.
This week we also went on two exchanges, one with the Elders in Medicine Hat, and the other with the Queensland Elders. I stayed in our area for both of them. We got to make the beautiful drive out to Rosemary Alberta two days in a row though! (It's actually not that pretty) We had some fun on exchanges! It's been hard to meet with our investigators recently, but we'll keep trying. We're working a lot on finding right now too, so we got a fair bit of tracting done this past week. It's also been really cold here. Winter is definitely upon us. We got a lot of snow in the past couple of days, like more than I've ever seen in my life. So we've also spent a good amount of time shoveling peoples walks for them! Oh and for those of you that aren't aware, ice is really slippery. I had to find that out the hard way.
The spiritual thought for today is a verse I came across in studies that goes along perfectly with the Light the World initiative that's going on. It's in 3 Nephi 18 and it's verse 24
Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do. Behold ye see that I have prayed unto the Father, and ye all have witnessed.
Christ is the light that we are to hold up! We do that by living a life like he did. We must do our best to keep the commandments, and to reach out and help others. I know that as we strive to hold up the light of Christ, he will make us the means by which he blesses his children.
Well, till next week!
Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Moffitt
So this was a pretty solid week with some great experiences.
The highlight of the week was definitely teaching at Eston College. Our Mission President gave Elder Stringam and I the opportunity to go and teach a group of college students for their world religions class. They were all about our age, and had spent the past week in Calgary listening to representatives of other faiths explain their beliefs in a classroom setting, and Elder Stringam and I were invited to teach them about Mormonism! It was so cool! We were pretty excited about it but stressed at the same time because we weren't sure what to teach. They had given us 2 hours to speak, and we had no idea what to do with all that time. But we planned something out, and then right before we went over there we met with President Miles and went over it. He gave us some more direction and suggestions, and we basically ended up scrapping what we had 30 minutes before the class started. So we decided to go in there with a few topics to talk about that we thought they might be interested in, and then just follow the spirit. So we get in there, and it's about a class of 18 students, and we just kinda started going. We did a get to know you thing so we could get to know all of the students in the class, and then we started talking about who we were and what we did, and about our belief in Jesus Christ. From that point on, the spirit took over. These students were all pretty religious, and had a lot of really good questions for us, so we used our time to basically answer questions that they had, and teach to needs. The cool thing about this was that nobody was there to be contentious or try and disprove us (except for maybe one kid) but simply to learn. We were able to clear up a lot of misconceptions about who we are and what we believe which was really cool, and by answering their questions, we ended up teaching the first three discussions! Once we started getting into the grove of it, we were really just able to be ourselves. We were joking around and cracking jokes and having a ton of fun just being our goofy selves, and because of that we were really able to connect with everyone! We were able to be serious when we needed too, but we were all having a great time too! They told us that we were their favorite group yet just because of how much fun we had, and they said that they were really impressed with how we handled all of their questions. Because we were having so much fun, we ended up being there for 3 hours just answering questions and teaching doctrine! We were able to leave each of them with a Book of Mormon, a restoration pamphlet, and a pass along card for the Light the World initiative. It was so cool! Definitely an experience I'll remember forever.
This week we also went on two exchanges, one with the Elders in Medicine Hat, and the other with the Queensland Elders. I stayed in our area for both of them. We got to make the beautiful drive out to Rosemary Alberta two days in a row though! (It's actually not that pretty) We had some fun on exchanges! It's been hard to meet with our investigators recently, but we'll keep trying. We're working a lot on finding right now too, so we got a fair bit of tracting done this past week. It's also been really cold here. Winter is definitely upon us. We got a lot of snow in the past couple of days, like more than I've ever seen in my life. So we've also spent a good amount of time shoveling peoples walks for them! Oh and for those of you that aren't aware, ice is really slippery. I had to find that out the hard way.
The spiritual thought for today is a verse I came across in studies that goes along perfectly with the Light the World initiative that's going on. It's in 3 Nephi 18 and it's verse 24
Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do. Behold ye see that I have prayed unto the Father, and ye all have witnessed.
Christ is the light that we are to hold up! We do that by living a life like he did. We must do our best to keep the commandments, and to reach out and help others. I know that as we strive to hold up the light of Christ, he will make us the means by which he blesses his children.
Well, till next week!
Love you guys!
Love,
Elder Moffitt
The class we got to teach!
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