March 14, 2011

Hello Family!

This was one busy, busy week! So I will highlight the best parts of the week which all happened this week end. First things first, the weather has finally started to turn warm! I am done with the -20 weather, hopefully it doesn't come back. But most importantly, this was probably one of the most spiritual and fun weeks of the mission so far....

On Saturday, we got up at the early hour of 3am to drive to Lethbridge and hop on a bus to drive to Calgary to see Elder D. Todd Christofferson. The bus ride up was fun. It was everyone who is serving south of Calgary and it was a blast to see others who I haven't seen in 6 months to a year. We got to Calgary at about 7:30 and sang music till 8 when he arrived. What was also so cool about this experience was that we where together as a mission, only the second time that has happened. The last time was a year ago when E. Bednar came to the mission. E. Christofferson was awesome! At the beginning of the program we all got to shake his hand, then he started his instruction on faith and repentance and how we need to really get our investigators to repent and understand the importance of it. Some of the scriptures that he had us read before hand, and then taught from, were Matthew 4:17, 2Nephi 30:2 and D&C 6:9. What I loved most about it was that he was real with us and wasn't just a serious guy because he joked around a lot too. It was an awesome experience. The most powerful moment was when he bore his testimony and gave us an apostolic blessing. It was powerful stuff, especially when he bore his witness of Christ.... wow.

Sunday was an amazing day! We had the wonderful opportunity to lead two of our investigators down into the waters of baptism. The first was at 630 in Raymond and the spirit was so strong. Satan worked hard to try and change her mind and have other forces working against it, but he did not succeed. Her countenance was glowing the whole time and tears where flowing when she was baptized. I was blessed with the opportunity to confirm her a member of the church and conferring the gift of the Holy Ghost...Awesome experience. Right after the baptism was over we had to rush up to Lethbridge to be there for the second baptism. He is 10 years old and has had a crazy family situation over the past two years, but he was so happy to be baptized. It was chaos when we first got there because the Dad was a no show at first and we were all frantically trying to find out where he was, but it turned out he was at a different building... so we got on with the program once he got there and it was really nice.

I wish I had more time write down the rest of the events and other miracles that happened this week but that will have to happen when I'm home, I love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Love,
Elder Hayden Moore