Mosiah 2:17 - And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.
Boa tarde tudo mundo? Elder Pescador aqui com um outro e-mail por tudo mundo. Espero que vocês tiveram uma ótima semana e que vocês estejam bem está semana que vem. Não vou mentir, estes dias em Palmeira são quente de mais!😆 Estou queimando cada dia! [Good afternoon everyone? Elder Pescador here with another email for everyone. I hope you had a great week and that you are doing well next week. I'm not going to lie, these days in Palmeira are too hot!😆 I'm burning up every day!]
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| The Fisher and the Salmon |
What's up guys! First things first, I have heard that the United States has been very cold these last few days, in the negatives. So for everyone that is there, sorry, I hope your well. If any of you would like to trade climates, let me know and I will see if something can be arranged 🤣
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| Elder Salmon |
But in other words, here is the update from this week:
Monday - Went shopping with Elder Salmon today and we got him a new hat that makes him look like Indiana Jones. It's pretty sick! The only other thing I have written is this song that Elder Salmon showed me on the gospel music app. The song is "Simon of Cyrene" and all I can say is... WOW! I wish I had a voice like that. I highly recommend everyone give it a listen and really think about the meaning of the song when Christ is carrying his cross. [Link to Song]
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| ITALO BAPTISM |
Tuesday - This is going to sound a little weird but we had a baptism today! Yep, a baptism on Tuesday. Don't worry, we got permission from President Bikman! Italo was baptized today (a nephew of Rosa, slowly but surely we are helping everyone in Rosa's family come back into the embrace of God). The highlight of the baptism is that my son, Elder Salmon, PERFORMED HIS FIRST BAPTISM! (They grow up so fast!🥹) The other highlight is when Italo started to swim in the water because we don't have a baptism font, we have a pool! Later in the day, we got caught in a storm and took shelter with this family, Clayton, Edimara, and Davi. We met them one day and they asked a lot of questions about the church, baptism, life and with all the questions they asked, we basically taught all the lessons in one😅. So we visited them and since we were stuck in the storm they offered us dinner and while eating, Elder Salmon and I noticed hair sticking out of the meat... It was pig hair. Luckly, I think ours stomachs are fine.... for now😆
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| (another) Moth |
Wednesday - GIANT MOTH ON MY STUFF COUNTER: 3! Woke up to do personal study and there was a giant moth on my Book of Mormon! This time I found a way to make it fly towards and out the window. I guess moths like me or something cause this keep happenings. But today is what started my "WEEK OF SERVICE!". We went to visit people with THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND, CRIS! The first member family we visited didn't have enough food so we ran to the grocery store and did some shopping for them. It was weird to not be teaching or contacting people but just shopping. It's been a while since I just went shopping! We ended up buying the basics and delivered it to this family and said a prayer to bless them. It was awesome to then think about the verse in Mosiah 2:17 that even when we may not be doing our usual missionary routine, if we are serving others, we are serving God and fulfilling our purpose! Afterwards we ended up getting pastels with Cris and let me just say, "Choconana" is DELICIOUS!
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| Pastels with Cris |
Thursday - The other Elders had a baptism today for Agatha! It was also her birthday so we used our "interior designing skills" to decorate a little for her special day. The funny thing was Elder Cardoso mades letter to spell "feliz aniversário" and I spelled "aniversário" wrong because of the accent (sorry i still dont speak portuguese😅). Later that day we ended up leaving to Curitiba to visit the Temple the next day. We arrived at the office and Elder Araújo told me he needs to run back to the staff house to open the door for other Elders so he intrusted me and Elder Zamarron to lock up. We followed his directions exactly and when we were outside double checking we did everything right, I realized that through the glass door, my umbrella was still there. (I ended up getting it the next day but it was still funny to feel like we did everything right and then forget my umbrella!) At the staff house, Elder Luedke tried to teach me a special way to beatbox with clapping and all I will say, I have no idea how Brazilians do it!
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| Agatha baptism |
Friday - Went to the temple this morning and I remembered my temple recommend this time! After we were done with our session, we were about to call an uber to leave when President asked me if we could stay with an Elder whose companion went to the hospital. Elder Salmon and I stayed with this Elder until Elder Araújo finished his session in the temple which ended about an hour and a half after ours. While waiting, we found a recent convert who was waiting for other Elders to find him but they were already doing a temple session so I began to talk to him. His name was Lucas and he was baptized just a month ago and it was his first time at the temple! I got to really know him and I was glad that I could offer up my time to make sure he felt welcomed in the temple. SERVICE! We also ended up finding a Sister who served in our same mission just 4 months earlier and is now helping at the CTM. She asked how long Ive been a missionary and I told her 7 months and she complimented me on my portuguese! Since we were waiting at the temple, we didn't have time to explore much of Curitiba before our bus came but it was an awesome experience to be at the temple longer and meet more of Gods beloved children. Later that day we traveled back to Palmeira and spoke with our friend Olivir and his wife Erica. Olivir plays guitar and has been teaching me a little. His wife speaks in "Libris" (idk how to spell but sign language) so I have been learning a little. Gift of Tongues is real in whichever way of communication!
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Heading to the temple to be a model? |
| MTC COMP MORTENSON |
Saturday - Woke up this morning to go clean the church and found this old man zooming on his electric chair in the middle of the road. It was awesome! After cleaning the church, we ended up visiting some recent converts with Leonaldo that does Family History. Before we met with Eva, we got lunch at this one restaurant and the tv was on with a tv show that was watching ICARLY! I had a lot of memories flood back to my mind when this happened😆 Ended up talking with the other Elders about kim possible, zach and cody, and other shows we watched. We then went to visit Eva and make a "family tree" with her. While we were visiting her, she shared her conversion story with us of how one day I was passing by with Elder Cardoso and I said "boa tarde" and she responded. I was just about to passby when I heard a voice confirm my thought that I needed to talk to her. We ended up talking with her, inviting her to church, and then later inviting her to be baptized and she was! She was away from any church for a while but through me, God brought her back into his embrace! To all my missionary friends out there, talk to everyone because you never know who will accept our message and who is waiting for you! Later that night we had a cool lesson with Juliana at this park and we found out she speaks English! I ended up having Elder Salmon teach to help him practice and Juliana accepted a Book of Mormon and came to church with us the next day! ELITE!
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| Tree hug |
Sunday - Biggest highlight was having a giant lunch and meeting with the branch presidency in Palmeira! We decided to go visit some people and Elder Salmon and I went to go visit some people with the Presidents wife and Primary Counselor. Ngl, I felt like I was visiting people with my mom because we had two young men with 2 full grown adults. But it was awesome to just visit people and offer up any service we could wheather it was a prayer, a message, or just listening.
I think I realized this week the power and importance of service and ministering. The church has ministering to help its members grow their faith and connect to Christ and his church. Ministering is fundamental and something we as missionaries are doing everyday!
[Mom Note: We call this the broom toss and it was learned by Devin's mom as a child]
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| Food pics |
Welp sadly, I gotta get going to Curitiba now but I truly hope all of you are doing well and are able to identify a miracle everyday in your life because, trust me, they are happening in ways we may not realize. Love you all (listen to the new youth album especially "over mine")
Ate mais!
-Elder Fisher
