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Hey everyone!

We heard from past North Shore missionaries that there was a man that taught them Farsi every week... so we called him and now Sister Horton and I are learning Farsi! It's so hard haha I don't remember anything he taught us last night
We're learning it because everybody we are teaching right now is from Iran and we teach an English class twice a week to a bunch of Iranians. They are the best people ever!

We've been teaching Eli a lot this week and it has been really great with her, but she won't be able to be baptized as soon as she hoped. For Iranians to be baptized, our church requires that they have a Permanent Residence (basically a green card) in Canada. It is just to make sure that they won't be deported or have to go back to Iran for any reason because if they go back as a Christian they will be killed. It's a really tough and sad situation because so many Iranians are so ready to be baptized and have very strong desires to follow Christ, but the process just takes a lot longer for them.

We had a church tour with a man named Salar earlier this week (he's also from Iran). We just showed him the rooms, talked about the organization of the church, then ended in the chapel and bore our testimonies. He expressed to us that he doesnt just believe in Jesus Christ, but he loves Jesus Christ! The Spirit was so strong as he tried to find the words to express his testimony, so we invited him to be baptized and he said yes! Obviously we don't know when because of the PR thing, but we are all so excited. He told us of how when he first walked through the doors of our church, he knew that he would find his family here and he would raise his family here. It was so sweet!

Other than the amazing Iranians, we got to go visit the Squamish branch yesterday! It was BEAUTIFUL! I didn't ever want to leave. The branch was so good. Really tiny, but really great. There were only 7 regulars and 10 visitors haha. But we had a lunch right after church and some of the visitors stayed and we made a lot of new friends! We also met a cute 9 year old girl that wants to take the lessons from us, she just has to get permission from her mom and then we will teach her over skype!

Another great week in the most amazing place in the entire world  (besides St. George, of course)

Love you all!
Sister Rigby