The
church has begun with the new #Hallelujah initiative as of the 13th and
it's becoming a wonderful finding and teaching tool! We are giving out
the Cards for it all over the place, from Rocky Mountain House to
Jasper! We have gotten such a positive response from almost everyone we
talk to, even if they aren't really interested in taking the lessons.
With the exception of the first guy we talked to about it. He said he'd
knock me in the head if I didn't stop talking. Your loss gramps! Anyways
we had a good week of lots of finding and this week we hope to do a
fair bit of teaching! We think this is my last week here so we've been
giving people a sense of urgency to meet with us this week. I think it's
working.
I went on exchanges last Wednesday
with Elder Pollard. He's from Australia! we had a good time and went out
to find people out in Nordegg. We ran into one of the leaders in the
community who gave us a heads up about where most of the houses were
across the highway. Also he'll keep us in the loop if there are
community service opportunities out there. Might be useful for holidays
in the future. At the end of the exchange we had a really good lesson
with our recent convert about teaching and learning in the church. She
has been teaching gospel principles and it's been a little rough but
she's been getting better. We helped her to realize that she is teaching
by the spirit. When we pointed some good experiences that had been had
in her lessons we helped to build her confidence in herself and perhaps
encourage her to put in more preparation in order to have better
lessons.
And of course, Jasper was awesome. We left Rocky a little after 8:00
and drove through a beautiful stretch of mountains to get to the main
sites in the Park. The road we took goes over the Alberta line so I've
officially been to British Columbia haha. And the norther park
boundaries of Banf. The McBride drove about 750 kilometers that day.
These mountains make the Wasatch Front look like foot hills. The
pictures I sent wont quite do it justice. Evidently it was Gay pride
week in Jasper, hence the rainbow flags in the pictures. Not too many
actual gay people that we saw though so thank goodness. We met a lady
who was there for the festivities in a gift shop and we talked with her
for a bit. We shared a #HALLELUJAH card with her and she said she'd
watch it and was very positive. We checked out the Columbia Ice fields,
Maligne canyon, Maligne lake and everything in between. The McBrides
also fed us like kings. I felt ashamed to be a Higginson after the
restaurants and after eating all the goodies. It's just what the members
do for us up here.
I hope you all have a fantastic week! Have fun in California and wherever you may be roaming!
Impossible 
Love,
Elder Higginson
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