It's too cold to think of a witty subject today

Hey!

Last time I wrote it was nice and warm up here (kind of), but that all changed a few days ago. It's back down to -21 Celsius today, and we've gotten about a foot or so of snow. It's been crazy. Luckily the Dodge Grand Caravan handles winter like a champ! Unless it's snowing, then it's pretty bad. On the bright side, we were able to get out of our neighborhood today without Elder Stringam pushing us up the big hill outside of our house! Tender Mercies!

This week was a pretty good one! We were on exchanges with BC this week, and so they both came to our area. I went with Elder Austin, and Elder Stringam went with Elder Ajeman. On exchanges, Elder Austin and I had a dinner with a part member family, the mom is an active member of the ward, but her 11 year old daughter was never baptized because she'd never gotten permission from her less active dad. The parents are divorced, but the dad still lives close by, and discourages his kids from going to church. The daughter, Amelia Kelbert, lives with her mom, and goes to church quite often. Well she's finally gotten permission from her dad to be baptized, so now we're getting to teach her! She knows quite a bit about the church already because she's pretty much grown up in it. She's on date for February 19th! It's pretty soon, but we've already got a lot of appointments scheduled out with them so that she can be prepared to be baptized by that date. We're excited for her!

We had exchanges with the Calgary West Elders too, and I went with Elder MacJanet. We had a good time, and contacted some strong potentials! We went out snow shoveling in the morning because we'd gotten a pretty good dumping the night before. We were trying to help whoever we could. We met a guy named Gian who really appreciated the help. We talked with him a little about what we do as missionaries, and he said that we could come over next Saturday to share a message with him! He has a belief in God, and a great love for his family, but he doesn't really associate himself with any religion. He seemed very willing to listen though!

We also went out tracting a lot this week, and found a street that was not very nice. At one of the doors we knocked, an older guy came out and told us that every one who went to our church deserved to be in prison, and then was yelling at us to get off his porch. We kinda just stood there and stared at him. At first I thought he was joking, but I guess he was serious. We tried to talk with him a little, but he wouldn't listen to us at all. I feel so bad for those people. The gospel brings such great blessings into our lives, and some people's hearts are just so hard, that they won't even give it a chance. Many of the other doors we knocked on were super nice though, and we found some people that might be willing to have us over again.

Those were pretty much the highlights of this week. We've still been doing a lot of personal finding, and have been trying to work with the members as well.

Spiritual thought time!

I read Alma 5 in my personal study recently, and I just love this chapter. It really calls each of us to do a self reflection of where we're at in our lives. I love verses 12-14

12 And according to his faith there was a mighty change wrought in his heart. Behold I say unto you that this is all true.
13 And behold, he preached the word unto your fathers, and a mighty change was also wrought in their hearts, and they humbled themselves and put their trust in the true and living God. And behold, they were faithful until the end; therefore they were saved.
14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?

Haven't we all experienced a change of heart through Jesus Christ? This change of heart should change the way that we live our lives. It causes us to repent when we make mistakes, and try harder to be disciples of our Savior. These are great questions to reflect on in our lives.

Love ya'll! Hope it's warmer where you are!

Love,

Elder Moffitt