Lot's of stuff is
happening in our area and elsewhere and I'm exited about the future! So
first off, Thank you all for fasting and praying for Mercedes over the
past couple of weeks! Those prayers must be helping because she agreed
to be baptized on the 23 of May!!!!
We were planning on inviting her to be baptized on the 30th but the
spirit directed otherwise haha! so now we have to figure out how to
teach her 20 principals from lesson 4 and 5 within the next couple of
weeks. Thank goodness her friends have been preparing her for the last
year or so, and she already knows a lot! She is the golden investigator:
We've taught her 3 great lessons and we will be meeting with her twice
next week!
We are doing a great deal of
finding lately. We walked about halfway across our area and back
yesterday and we talked to just about everyone in our path. A couple
people agreed to meet with us. Others wanted to bash. One guy told us to
get off his porch. It was a good time. We found a lady from the
Philippines who said she'd be willing to meet, so we referred her over
to the Tagalog speaking missionaries. Edmonton is a very diverse place
and so there are language missionaries who cover entire zones and work
with the people from those areas who speak a different language. We have
Spanish missionaries, Tagalog Missionaries and Mandarin Missionaries.
We have been referring lots of folks lately.
In
other news, We had Stake conference yesterday and Elder Renlund of the
first quorum of the 70 and Elder Evanson of the 6th quorum of the 70
came to speak. They focused on the importance of ward council, and the
importance of family Sabbath day observance. It was a really good
experience and a recent convert from our ward was able to attend. His
name is Philip and he just moved here, so we started teaching him the
new member lessons last Friday.
I really liked
a quote from Elder Renlund: He said that "The Church is an Atonement
Delivery system." People make mistake in their live's and many are
encircled by the chains of sin. The only way that anyone can be made
clean is through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. As a missionary I am a
gate-keeper of the Atonement and I should be actively extending the
invitation to be baptized to as many people as possible. What a
marvelous work this is.
I love you all tons! I hope this email finds you all in good health and in good spirits! God bless you every one!
Love,
Elder Higginson
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