If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye!

Greetings from Slave Lake. Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Firstly, we have been doing a lot of finding this week. The new mission President has put a lot of emphasis on going out and finding new people to teach. So, we've obediently begun to take the time to go knock more doors and talk to everybody. It is a strange change of pace; before the efforts of our finding would be indicated in actual results: New investigators, lessons taught, investigators at church, etc. But now, in addition to those key indicators we count the number of approaches we get each day. Approaches just means we tried to talk to someone or knocked on a door, regardless if no one answers or the people on the street ignore us - it still counts as an approach. So we've been doing a lot for that reason, though it seems like teaching is more effective in real life terms.We got 163 approaches this week and have no Idea if that is good or not. We are finally finding the more rude people it seems. We've been quite fortunate in the past here. But it mattereth not, I'll be transferred in two weeks haha!  Anyway, just a little bit about what is going on in the mission these da

We had a good lesson with Len this Saturday in the home of one of the members. It was a great lesson, we went over the baptismal interview questions and made sure everything was squared away. He has agreed at this point to have the baptism performed on Sunday, September 11th after sacrament meeting. I hope I didn't press him too hard to try and have it done before I was gone, but this is the outcome at this point, so it looks like I'll be here! Len is such a wonderful fellow and he'll make a fine addition to the branch. Pick and Flower of England I tell you! This branch could really use some more priesthood brethren.

Poor Lyle has been ill as of late and he took a fall down the stairs in the middle of the night this week. Seems he can never catch a break. a few cracked ribs and his neck was messed up as well. Lots of prayers going out to him in the branch; we hope to have him around for a few years yet! 

One of our Filipino investigators, Cris, watched the whole Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration movie we emailed to him last week! We didn't expect him to have time, seeing as he works some crazy hours. Cris really has some admiration for the prophet and he is getting a better understanding of the Book of Mormon. We will hopefully be committing him to baptism again in the next lesson or two. Hopefully we get to take him on a church tour this next week. We will hopefully be meeting with that really cool couple we found a couple weeks ago, this week. They got really busy after we left; Mike got a job and has been running ever since. We'll see what happens. 

That just about wraps everything up! 15 days until transfers, so we'll see what the Lord has in store for me. Time to really dig in and go out with a bang.

Elder Higginson

 

 Caterpillar!

 Len and Elder Miller preparing for baptism!