We're Home But We're Stuck In The Car...

Hey everyone!!

It's been such a great week! We met the cutest Brazilian family and set baptismal dates with the parents for November! Earlier this week President and Sister Wahlen came up to interview for Hossein and Leila for their request for baptism. President Wahlen says that it is very likely they will be approved, so now we are just waiting to hear back from the Area Presidency! They should be able to be baptized this month. And also... I just got the news that I'm being transferred. So yeah, that's pretty awesome hahah.

I'm being transferred to Surrey and my new companion will be Sister Tanner. She's been my Sister Training Leader the past few transfers and so I've spent a lot of time with her on exchanges and splits. She's so much fun! I'm really excited to be her companion! But I am so sad to be leaving North Shore. It has been my favorite and I absolutely adore all the people I have met (especially the Persians).

A few nights ago, Sister Macfarlane and I were sitting in the car calling people before going in for the night and she looks up and just goes, "THERE'S A BEAR OUTSIDE OUR CAR!" I thought she was joking but I look up and right in front of us is a black bear just standing in the road!! By then it was 9pm and we needed to text our district leader that we made it home so we just said "We're home but we're stuck in the car because there's a bear outside." Then a car came and the bear ran into the neighbors yard so we sat in the car for like 10 minutes until we decided to make a run for it hahah. Luckily no one was mauled by the neighborhood bear.

I'm so excited for General Conference! I'm sure everyone is saying this, but go with a question and you will find an answer. I know that Heavenly Father will speak to you through His Prophets and Apostles.

I love you all!!
Love, Sister Rigby

1) My name in Farsi
2) Me and Sister Macfarlane
3) Vancouver
4) The picture I got of the bear as it was running away
5) me and Sister Hirschi forgot our rain jackets and got soaked while finding Downtown
6) Me and Sister Macfarlane again
7) Our District

The Twin Authority

Hey y'all!

It's been a pretty awesome week on the North Shore! Funny moment for the week- a guy came to church claiming he had the most important name in the universe, he is the chief of North America, he is the Twin Authority figure of the world, only twins will be saved in the end, and that he is "the unrecognized leader of the Mormon church". Hahah never a dull moment as a missionary.

This week we have Zone Conference with four zones combined because Elder Whiting from the Seventy is coming. I'm really excited. He is having all of us answer the question "What does the Book of Mormon mean to me?" and write it down. It has been so good to reflect on what the Book of Mormon means to me and how it has changed my life. In short, the Book of Mormon is what has brought me the most peace and happiness in my life. It has been a constant source of light and has drawn me nearer to Christ than anything else!

I'm sure some of you have heard, but two elders in this mission got in a bad accident on Friday and are in critical condition. Please pray for them! We have been praying for them and their families.

I hope you all have a great week!
Love, Sister Rigby

Swan lake
The city!
Knocking in the pouring rain
Cool fog in the mountains
Some flowers from a wedding

HAPPY

Hey everyone!

Sorry, I don't have tons of time to write a good email today! And sorry if I don't respond to personal emails you've sent me I swear I'll respond next week!

North Shore is amazing, all the Persians are amazing, and this gospel is the most amazing! The past few days I have come to know that the promise we get in our call letters that "more happiness that you have yet to experience await you as you... serve the Lord in this labor of love" is REAL!

Nothing will bring you greater happiness than doing what the Lord wants you to do. He wants you to do it because He knows that it is exactly what will bring you the most happiness!!

Love you all!

Love, Sister Rigby

                                                    

The Sistrict

Hey everyone!!

Sorry I didn't email last week. We got to go to the temple for pday! It was so amazing, it always is.

We started a new transfer and I'm staying here in North Shore! Sister Horton got transferred to Surrey, so I got a new companion. Her name is Sister Macfarlane and she's from Bright, Ontario. She's really, really fun!

We are expecting to hear back about Eli's request for baptism this week! We are praying so hard that she will be approved. I have grown to love Eli so much! It's crazy how people who were strangers 6 weeks ago are now people who I love. But that's the gospel of Jesus Christ! It's all about love

My district this transfer is kind of interesting... it's our district leader and his companion and then 3 sets of sisters! An entire district of sisters haha! It's gonna be so fun.

Well, I don't have much else to say so here's one of my favorite scriptures from the Book of Mormon!

"And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men." 1 Nephi 19:9

Love, Sister Rigby

Addictions Counselor

Hey everyone!

Tomorrow I hit my 6 month mark! I can't believe how fast 6 months have already flown by. I feel like I've already learned so much and I still have a year left! Missions are pretty amazing.

I can't even remember what happened this week... We did have a lady tell us she saw Jesus Christ for 2 days in the Spirit World and that He let her come back to earth to be an addictions counselor... as she was sitting on her front porch smoking the whole time we were there haha. It was an interesting conversation.

We also got to have President and Sister Wahlen come to our apartment to do companionship study with us! They are so amazing! I'm really grateful for them. President Wahlen is just the best and so in tune with the Spirit and Sister Wahlen is like our mom away from home

Here's my favorite quote from this week-

"It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become."

It's from Dallin H. Oaks talk "The Challenge to Become". If you haven't read it, go read it! It's soooo good. This life is the time to prepare to meet God. Not just by checking things off the list, but by becoming like His Son, Jesus Christ.

I love you all!

Love,
Sister Rigby

Too Many Emotions

Hey y'all!

Yet another great week in the CVM 🇨🇦 Also, Happy BC Day!! I'm not exactly sure what BC Day is but I know it's the reason we have p-day on Tuesday this week...

Anyway, this week was great for a lot of reasons. My favorite part of this week was a Japanese girl we met at a bus loop named Yuri who came to church with us this Sunday and wants to be baptized!!

She has no religious background but she came to church for the first time in her life and the first thing she said to us was "So how do I become Christian? Do I need to get baptized?" So now we are teaching her and preparing her for baptism!! It is so true that God will lead us to those who are prepared.

Another really great thing from this week was that President Wahlen invited us and our friend Eli to come to Richmond and watch the BYU Idaho choir perform. It was so amazing!! I literally cried the entire time... some girls from the choir came up to me after and hugged me and told me I was making them cry hahah oops.

Quick update on Eli- she just has a few more documents she needs to get to us and then we will send them in and wait to see if she gets approval to be baptized from the Area Presidency!

I love you all! I know that true happiness and peace comes when you center your life on Jesus Christ and His gospel, so DO IT! Do it by studying the Book of Mormon every single day, it will change your life! I promise:)

Love, Sister Rigby


Pictures!
1) Lunch with some amazing ward members
2) Our friend Echo who comes and visits us every morning
3) Deep Cove
4) Sister Horton and me
5) Me and some sailboats :)

                                                          

Just Like Old Times

Hi everyone!!

Not much to say this week, but the work has been moving along! A pipe exploded at our house earlier this week so we were without water for a day and a half. But we got to go stay the night with the other sisters in Vancouver! It was really weird staying in my old apartment with my old companion but so much fun.

Something I have been focusing more on this week has been daily repentance. One of my STL's challenged me to ask Heavenly Father every night in my prayers "Did I give you everything today?" When she first asked me to do that I was terrified because I thought I would just go to bed feeling guilty and chastised every night. But, as I have asked Heavenly Father, I have felt His love so strongly! I'm definitely not perfect and I haven't had a perfect day, but He does know that I am trying and I am repenting and when I do, I can feel of His perfect love and patience with His very imperfect daughter.

"Nothing is more liberating, more ennobling, or more crucial to our individual progression than is a regular, daily focus on repentance. Repentance is not an event; it is a process. It is the key to happiness and peace of mind." -President Nelson

I love you all!

Love, Sister Rigby