Life in the Hat

Hey eh!

So this week was a busy one!

On Monday we got to go on a bike ride with Gerald. He's the somewhat recent convert in our ward that's struggling a bit with his testimony. He's pretty much the nicest guy ever though. We got to ride with him and with Brother Hughes, another member of our ward, and went about 15km. It was fun! We went over by the worlds tallest teepee, and then down through the coulee. I'm a little out of shape, it's been a while since I've been on a bike haha.

That night we had dinner at our Bishop's house, with our investigators Don and Dianne. It was really fun! They're both great couples, and I think they hit it off! Elder Neulinger has spread a rumor around the ward that I don't like vegetables (which is mostly not true), so Sister Fleming (the bishop's wife) was giving me a hard time all through dinner about how I needed to eat my vegetables haha. Don and Dianne aren't super interested in joining the church, so we're just trying to help them meet some of the members of the ward that they can become friends with. They're an older couple, and I don't know how many fiends they have in Medicine Hat, so it might be nice for them to meet some more people. They're the best though, I love them!

We had a lesson with a former investigator, Kevin, this week. He's a nice guy, and he has a very extensive collection of movies and TV shows. He doesn't own a shelf, and so they're just lined all across the wall. He said that he doesn't buy shelves because then he has more money to spend on movies. I guess that makes sense. We did have an appointment with him, but I think he must have forgotten because we interrupted him and his friend Josh as they were playing Star Trek online. But we still had a short little message with them about faith. It was good! He doesn't have any real intent to know whether or not what we teach is true (which is why missionaries had stopped teaching him) buy every once in a while we'll drop by to see how he's doing. You never know when something will click in someones life and they'll be ready for the gospel.

We had a cool experience tracting this week! I was out on splits with another Elder in our area, and we got in to a couple doors! The first one answered the door, we said we were missionaries, and they let us right in! They were from Nepal, and half the family had been converted to Christianity, and half were still Buddhist. They accepted a Book of Mormon and were excited to learn more! There's a language barrier with some of the family members, but some of them speak pretty good English. We're ordering a Book of Mormon in Nepali for them (hopefully we can get one). They were awesome!

Spiritual thought for the week. I just read the first few chapters of Ether in the Book of Mormon this week, and I love the story of the Brother of Jared when he's building the Barges. It's in Ether 2:16-25 and Ether 3:1-5. The Brother of Jared is commanded to make barges to cross the sea, and he comes to the Lord with two questions; what should he do to have air in the barges, and what should he do to have light in the barges. The Lord gives him the answer to the first questions, but asks the Brother of Jared to find an answer to the second questions. He studies it out, and then takes his answer to the Lord, and as a result, he has an experience that grows his faith. Sometimes we'll have questions that the Lord will make us work to answer, and those are the times that our faith will grow the most.

Love ya'll!

-Elder Moffitt

We also got a new car!

Here's some pics of the bike ride, me and my buddy mike going into a birthday party, and me next to a picture of my favorite lunch!