Highland Games Festival

Hey all!

Happy Fathers Day dad!!! Hope you had a good Sunday, sorry you have to wait till Christmas to hear me again. Although, that might be the best gift you could ask for. Far, far away, not asking for money, not eating your food, not driving your car, etc...

Sorry to hear you suffered this week mom! You need to take care of yourself!!! Despite you having a rough time, we had a really good, busy week. Also, I didn't even know that there was an Ocean's 8. Shows you how much you miss on a mission, haha!

Probably the highlight of the week was the Highland Games Festival. On Saturday we had a booth pretty much all day for family history. A senior couple serving in Saint Stephan came up and helped us out with it, the De Vaneys. There were a lot of people who were there, it was pretty cool! There was one lady in particular who was pretty cool. She came up to me, and said, "Aww, just the people I was looking for!" (Did a double take over that one, I've never heard someone come to me and say that before!) This lady came all the way from Halifax for the Games. She was looking for information about her Great Grandmother, she had no information about her. I was able to log her into Familysearch, and there was 3 records ready to go, including the birth record, which is what she was looking for! She said that it was such a miracle for her, she wants to learn more, and we gave the Halifax Elders information, and said she would talk to them more. It really was super cool to actually see something like that happen! There were a couple others who were interested, but no big miracles like that!

Of course, I knew if I went to that and didn't take photos, I'd be crucified in the airport when I got back, so I got a bunch. I also got some videos of all the piping bands playing together, which was pretty cool. It doesn't have anything on the tattoo, but it's about the best you'll see in Canada!

We did a lot of finding this week, which was pretty fun. Some good ole' knocking. We've been doing a lot of digital finding too, which is really fun, and pretty successful! We also taught Eli and Philippe, they're both from Africa (There are a lot of people from Africa here for work or school) and I taught Marceline with Elder Sawa-Sawa. It was pretty good! Don't have much more time, so I'll try to send pictures.

Love you all!

Elder Marsh

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