Boa tarde tudo mundo! Como vocês estão? Espero que está semana passada foi incrível e que cada um de vocês viram muito milagres em sua vida!
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| P-day breakfast |
First things first: I FINALLY LISTENED TO ALL THE CONFERENCE TALKS FROM LAST CONFERENCE! WOOHOO! ONLY A MONTH LATE🤣🤣
In other news, I just hit 5 months on the mission and my comp just hit 1 year! ...only a 7 month difference!😆 We are going to have a churrasco tonight to celebrate his 1 year and we are also going to experiment with peach cobbler so, boa sorte pra nos! (Good luck to us)
[Mom note: here are pics Elder Fisher sent later of the churrasco on their back patio ]
In other news, here is a review of this past week in the life of Elder Fisher:
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| chocolate tea? |
Monday - The Zone Leaders came over today so that they could join us for a division on Tuesday. It was awesome to have Elder Jenkins and Elder Araújo over. We actually ended up visiting a member family and all 6 of us went! Marilda was a little shocked at first but was happy to see all of us! I also got my second haircut of the mission and I gotta say, Im liking the brazilian cut! I think I need to find a barber after the mission (if anyone knows how to do hair, hit me up and also I would love to learn how to cut hair!)
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| 6 missionaries, 1 house |
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| Elder Araújo and Cris |
Wednesday - For our mission devocional, we talked about prayer. We talked how prayers shouldn't be "robatic" and the same. Discussing 2 Nephi 32, we learn that we should pray before everything and act upon the promptings or things we desire to recieve. Before prayer, we should think about what our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ did for us and even when our prayers are answered or they aren't, always REMEMBER Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ (shoutout to my dad's favorite word!). We then met up with a member of the church for lunch who speaks english! His name is Tyrone and he asked for a gospel thought in english. So all 4 of us gave a lesson in english and let me say, english teaching is harder than portuguese for me! Later that night we had Institute and I taught about how personal revelation comes to us after feasting upon the words of Christ (2 Nephi 32) and then taught everyone how to play "Ninja" (I got out second😅)
Thursday - 2024 YOUTH ALBUM SONG CAME OUT! The song "Disciple of Christ" I believe is based on the scripture 3 Nephi 5:13 and I LOVE IT! Today I did a division with Elder Loertscher in his area. This time, we had a plan and knew the area better so we were able to visit a lot of people and invited Gabriela to be baptized and she accepted! (Please pray for her and her family) We were also knocking some doors when this truck full of pineapples passed by and this random person from the truck came up to us while we were talking with someone and they gave us pineapple. IT WAS REALLY GOOD and it helped us talk more with the person and plan a lesson for another day! Thanks pineapples!
Friday - Honestly today was a usual workday but the funny thing about today was the bathroom smelled like pipoca! (popcorn) Elder Hogge had some popcorn and threw away the bag in the bathroom trash. So now when I go to the bathroom, I smell popcorn!
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| Desert for lunch? |
Saturday - Saturday morning I was singing "Disciple of Christ" but trying to translate it to Portuguese. I then added a part while speaking portuguese saying "I will invite everyone in the world to be baptized!" right as a man was passing by on his bike. (I hope my portuguese was bad enough that he didn't understand😆) We also helped with a young mens activity by running in the rain to bring young men to the church to play some FIFA. Don't worry, as missionaries we weren't playing... I will confess I watched a little. We also had some really good pastels!
Sunday - Sunday was busy! I got up and immediately got ready to leave because I was going to work the van. We have a van to bring people to church and we have to give directions to the driver. For my first time though, it wasn't bad! I navegated the driver and got completely soaked because of the rain! We did arrive to the church a little late so we missed class but we made it on time for sacrament where I was immediately asked to play piano! Let's just say, playing piano with cold hands and wet clothes isn't easy🥶😆. Afterwords, we had the baptism of Renan and I got to help witness and confirm Renan a member of the Church and helped him recieve the Holy Ghost, a moment I will never forget!
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| Renan baptism (Renan in blue) |
This last week was honestly full of lots of miracles and I feel like at times, we miss a lot of miracles in our lives. I like what my sister Chelsey told me, to write the miracles that happen because then I won't forget them! I hope everyone hear can do that to!
Scriptures:
D&C 66:6 (FULL SEND)
Helaman 15:5-6 (In the path of their duty)
Thought: Our mission presidents and their wives are here to help us become who our patriarchal blessing speaks of
This is all for now! I love you all and I hope you all know how great worth you have. You are a son or daughter of God with infinite potential and worth.
Ate mais!
-Elder Fisher (or 🐟er)