Spring Fling

Happy Easter everyone!

We had another great week! We started this new thing in the mission called spring fling. It lasts until the end of the month, and the idea is that we get points for doing certain things, like teaching lessons, tracting, finding new investigators etc. and as a mission we're trying to reach a total of 15,000. If we do, then we all get to go the temple as a mission! It's been a fun way to really push us and focus our efforts!

I don't have much time today, so I'll just share a couple of cool experiences from the week.

First off, our investigator Robert came to church! This is the first time I've seen him at church since I've been here. He seemed to enjoy it, and we're hoping we can start making this a regular thing. He's an interesting case. He seems to have a testimony that what we teach is true, and he's read the Book of Mormon twice, but he says that the only thing keeping him from being baptized is his job. He works at the Catholic church near his house as a handy man. So we're not too sure how to help him there. His wife is an active member, and he's taken the discussions a few times. Funny thing was, his wife wasn't at church yesterday, but Robert still came without her, which was pretty cool.

We met a guy named Allah while tracting this week, and he let us right in! He and his family are from Syria, and so his English isn't super good yet. But we still had a nice conversation with him, and he said we could come back. We went back once this week but he wasn't available, so we left him with some pamphlets in Arabic that we found in our apartment. His kids seemed to like us! Every time we're in that area now they're playing outside and want to play with us haha.

We tracted into this guy named Jim a couple weeks ago, and went back to visit him this week. He let us in, and we had a nice conversation about religion, and shared beliefs. The Lord has been preparing him! He's said that the restoration of the gospel makes sense to him, and he has a lot of personal beliefs that coincide with what we teach! He said we're welcome anytime, so we'll definitely be going back!

At the end of our dinner on Sunday, we asked, as always, who the family knew that could benefit from a message about Jesus Christ. I sang a song in Sacrament meeting on Sunday, and then again for the Meldrum family at dinner, and Sister Meldrum said she knew of a lady that I could go sing too! I guess that counts as a referral right? She actually called this lady, Loretta, up right then and asked if we could go over. We realized that Loretta was actually a potential investigator that we had on our records and had met just a few days ago. She wasn't interested in meeting, but told Sister Meldrum that we could go over. So we hopped on our bikes and rode over to Loretta's house! We just sang to her, and then had a nice chat, and left. It was a pretty cool experience!

It also snowed this week. Come on Canada, it's April, get your act together.

Spiritual thought! This is John 14:27

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Christ is the Prince of Peace! Through Him we can find peace in our lives. No matter what we're going through, He has already gone through it, and is there reaching out to help. I know that as we let Christ into our lives, he will help us through our struggles and challenges. Only He can grant us lasting peace in this life, and in the life to come!

Love ya'll! Hope this week is super!

Love,

Elder Moffitt

1. WE FOUND THE EASTER BUNNY
2. My feelings about it snowing in April
3. Riding the good old bike!
4. We found Elder Crawley in one of our pamphlets!