Hello everyone!

Hello everyone! 

Well, we had a pretty good week here in Alberta Canada. We worked hard and got some stuff done. my memory is a little sparse on the particulars but here's some stuff I remember.

We taught our main investigator brother Christian twice this week in members homes. There are a lot of folks from various wards supporting him which is great. We have moved his baptism date to the first Saturday in September to make everything compatible with his work, but he is progressing along very well and he is absorbing everything that is being taught. We've just started working out the details with the YSA ward where he lives and we are on scheduled to have everything prepared for the baptism.  I'm not sure how many people will attend, just because of the circumstances but we will make sure it is announced in the wards.

We were able to meet with Richard this week and he had read all of the introduction to the Book of Mormon and reported everything he learned at our visit. He's not the fastest or most proficient reader, but he's defiantly making an effort, bless his heart. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon in English and Tagalog. There is a lot of deep Tagalog in the Book of Mormon that hardly any Filipinos know how to use haha, The normal dialect is called Taglish, or Tagalog supplemented with English words.

We met with a number of other people this week, but no tremendous progress to report. Most Filipinos will let you in, but not near as many are totally interested in joining the church, they just want to talk about Jesus. It's a pain trying to get people to understand the purpose of our visits are to help them understand the message and give it a shot so they can gain a testimony of it for themselves. It's frustrating. One of our other investigators who is not progressing, but comes to church, - she just played on her phone during sacrament meeting!! This isn't the Catholic Church! Put that away! The Filipino members are a little frustrated with her too. She doesn't keep commitments, despite our efforts to explain the purpose of our visits, so we are dropping her. It's funny how many of these people say "yes Lord" or "Haleluja" when you are praying during a lesson. A lady asked when an appropriate time to pray would be during the day, so I invited her to read Alma 37:37 and every few words she would say "yes Lord" and "Yes Lord Jesus, Hallelujah!" Elder Pring and myself get a kick out of it haha.

Anyways, I'm glad to hear that Trek went well and it was a good experience for the ward. You guys do a good job of sending me pictures and info on the life back home, and I appreciate it. I may be getting transferred in a couple weeks, or getting a new companion but we will see.

Love, 

Elder Higginson