Unfortunately, our car was taken in for repair yesterday, so we've been trying to figure out how to use the Edmonton Transit System. I never really enjoyed Bussing, it limits the work we can get done by a lot, but it will only be until Thursday or Friday. The companion and I are having fun though! It's quite the ride trying to get from one place to the next. We missed one of our stops coming home last night and had to run a kilometer through the mud and snow to catch a bus that would get us home. We arrived at our pad at 15 seconds to 9:00. Crazy awesome miracle! So we'll do our best for the next couple days. Not easy covering the whole stake and we have no car. Good memories though.
Oh, I haven't told you much about my companion. Elder Randeep Singh Ranu is from Quezon City Philippines. His father came from India to start a business over there and married a Filipino. He is a convert to the church and was baptized just 3 weeks after starting the missionary discussions. He's a really sensitive guy, but he has a big heart and I like him.
I was able to go on exchanges this week over in Stony Plain with Elder Odicta. He was a Tagalog missionary before but was a assigned to English temporarily. We spent a couple hours tracting, meeting with very limited success. We then went to stop by a couple Filipinos and got in with an older couple and their grand-daughter. They seemed to be interesting in meeting with us and accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon. After that we went to check out the Filipino Store to contact people and purchase some Balut for district meeting haha. Unfortunately, they were out of Balut, but we did find a lost sheep! We started talking with some of the employee's and I was talking to this guy in Tagalog and getting no response. Turns out he was Hispanic! Not only him, but the 4 other guys too! everyone but the Main lady who was running the operation hahaha. Mexicans working in a Filipino store, go figure. But we started talking with this guy and it turns out he was a convert to the church back in Mexico! He hadn't been attending for years but he said to us "Some day I'll come back. I know that the church is true." He was such a nice man, We got his info, so well get his records the the ward. Tender mercies for sure.
On Tuesday we were able to meet with one of our more solid investigators, Randy, out in Stony Plain. He's really a great guy and he cooks for us every time we go out to see him! We just did a bit of Book of Mormon follow up and encouraged him to get going on it, because he hasn't read yet. Seems to be a problem with most of the people we teach, but especially in Tagalog. Try as we may to get it across that ang taning paraan - the only way for anyone to really know and gain a testimony of what we teach is through reading, pondering and praying about The Book of Mormon. And if you really don't have 5 minutes in the day to read, you need to wake up 5 minutes earlier! We really do love the investigators we have though and we're glad that a few of them are up to meet at least once a week. Randy agreed to come take a tour of the church today, so we are looking forward to that. Teaching opportunities are a sacred privilege, So I'm going to try to treat them as such for the rest of my mission. Really think about the people we are meeting with in the morning and prepare myself to teach according to the promptings of the Holy Ghost.
I hope you all have a wonderful week! Never let anything keep you from being happy!
Love,
Elder Higginson
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