#39 - "I'd Take a Selfie with Christ!"📸🤣(2/12/24)

Boa tarde tudo mundo! Como que tá? Como está escola? Faz tempo que eu fazia escola😅 Espero que vocês estejam bem e têm planos ótimos pela semana! [Good afternoon everyone! How are you? How is school? It's been a while since I went to school😅 I hope you're doing well and have great plans for the week!]

Watermelon

Hey everyone! How are you guys? What did you guys do this last week? This last week was awesome and a lot has happened! Here is my week in review:

Late night hike!

Monday - During our p-day today, we went on a hike to a farm at night! Our friend Juliana told us about this man who does these hikes and we decided to go. It was really weird cause during the hike, some parts reminded me of hiking in Utah and hiking timp (shoutout to those who hiked timp with me until 3 in the morning with injured ankles🤣). During the hike we met this cool dog who didn't have a name so we named him "Mormon". He's honestly really cool!

 
Mormon the dog at night!

Tuesday - Today Elder Salmon tried a fruit that looked like a pear mixed with an apple (idk know the name) and he said he fruit tastes like the fruit on the tree of life so, it was pretty good! Today we were focusing on finding new people and we found some awesome people! We first ran into these kids who called me "Tio" (I am now certain that every child calls me "Tio" or "Uncle" now so.... I'M AN UNCLE! 🤣) and later the family of Suzani. We just walked up to their door and they were cleaning and we started talking with them. They then told us it was time for ice cream and invited us in and gave us ice cream! WOOHOO! We then taught about The Book of Mormon and started trading beliefs (we had a lot in common!) Other highlights included the Sisters using our Facebook post for our daily post and beating Cardoso at Pokemon the Card game (He told me that I now need to buy a deck😅)

Wednesday - Now to talk about the Title of this email. We went to go visit Mayra who we are helping to change her life. She is a single mom with a daughter and she would like to stop smoking before being baptized. So when we went to visit her, we found her other friends and famiy there and started to introduce ourselves. We ended up sharing a message with like 8 people and the cool part was I felt like Alma preaching to a crowd! I explained The Book of Mormon to them and then asked, "If Jesus Christ was with us right now and you could ask him for anything, what would it be?". One of the women there, Raissa, immediately responded: "I'd like to take a selfie with him!". Everyone started laughing but honestly, it was a really good answer! We ended up giving them each a Book of Mormon and inviting them to church.

Thursday - While knocking doors today we found a lady named Nilza who said she had special gifts such as prophecy, gift of tongues, and was also a Prophet! We started talking about religion and what she does as a Prophet. After she explained her beliefs we talked about what we believed as well and we asked if we could talk with her again another time and she said yes! Later that day we also visited our friend Sebastion who says he is also a Prophet so, I saw 2 Prophets in 1 day! We also tried to find an american named Kevin in the downtown area but couldn't find him so instead we enjoyed the late night down town vibes and got some Acai.

The boys, and Elder hogge

Friday - We woke up at 5 today to go to the Temple! We tried using a van this time instead of leaving a day earlier with a bus. The temple is always an awesome experience and to anyone that lives next to a temple, I recommend you go do a session right now because the temple is awesome! When we got back from the temple we found Fisher the Bird in our yard again! I think he now just lives in our backyard. Cool moment from today is when we were teaching Edilani and her family. We had talked to them earlier in the week and invited them all to be baptized and Edilani explained to us today that she had been thinking of talking to her son, Eduardo, about baptism on the day we arrive earlier that week. Let's just say, God plans for his children!

MY DAD!! [His trainer, Elder Hall, on right]

Saturday - While having lunch with the Elders today, we somehow talked about tv shows and it turns out the Elders know "Lazy Town" and "Jackie Chan"! (If anyone knows these shows, let me know!) We went around confirming people for church and with our van today and this dog, Carmel, kept following us. While walking, I am pretty sure he was sniffing me the entire time😆 But he is a really gentle dog

Carmel liked me

Sunday - Today was a whirlpool of events! Beatriz was baptized today and I got to perform the confirmation! IT WAS SO COOL! I am glad to see how much her faith has helped her follow Christ for so long to finally be baptized. We also visited Arianne (who broke her toes a few weeks ago) and met her mom who cooked this authentic Amazon food and it was delicious! After visiting Arianne, we did some visits with Elder Cardoso so that he could say goodbye to people because he got transferred to Curitiba. Not going to lie, I am going to miss him! I also got a call from President today saying that I would still train Elder Salmon but that I would take Elder Cardosos place and be: DISTRICT LEADER! Not sure if I am ready but if I have learned anything on the mission, "It isn't a matter if your ready, but if your willing" and God loves work, so good luck to me!

Beatriz baptism 

Today officially starts my 6th transfer out of 16 transfers in the field. I honestly look forward to seeing what is in store for me and how much I will learn and grow              this transfer. Thought for this week: 1 Nephi 11:16-17. We know not the condescension of God but we still move forward because we know God loves us and does what is good for us.

The boys and hats

Love you all and as always, let me know if there is anything I can do for you guys! As always D&C 66:6 and Moroni 8:3

-Elder Fisher!