[Mom note: This week was harder to guess which notes went with which pics, but I did my best]
Boa tarde todos! Como vocês estão? Hoje é dia dos presidentes né? Não vou mentir, completamente esqueci sobre este dia😅 meu mal!
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| Boys in the rain |
Hey guys, what's up!? As always, another week has gone by and here I am to let you know about the week of a "Fisherman" and his pet fish, "Salmon":
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| Lunch with Leonaldo |
Monday - Transfers! Sadly Elder Cardoso has left Palmeira🥺 But no worries, he is going to work in the office after this transfer so I will probably see him again very soon! We ended up recieving a new Elder, Elder Abreu! He is from Venezuela and he speaks both really good Spanish and Portugues. He is also learning English because he hopes to attend BYU Provo after the mish so I think I can help him learn english. It was also my first day as a District Leader and I led our district counsel and practices. It was awesome!
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| Rosa and family |
Tuesday - I first need to give some context before I talk about this week. This last week, Brasil had a holiday called "Carnaval". From what I know, it is where a lot of people have a lot of parties, drink a lot, and celebrate a lot! (we found someone who told us the origin of Carnaval but I don't remember so if anyone knows, let me know!) A lot of people in the small town of Palmeira don't celebrate Carnaval but a lot of them go to the beach during this time so a lot of our day was spent knocking doors or walking in a desert town cause no one was home! We did end up helping some of our recent converts make "family trees" and it was an awesome experience to see them prepare to visit the temple! We also visited our friends Edilani, Eduardo, and Sydney and of course, Zeus the dog! Zeus ended up jumping on Elder Salmon and kept on licking him. We had a good "Q&A" lesson since they had some questions about the Church and it's history.
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| Vinicius |
Wednesday - A LOT OF RAIN TODAY!🌊 The highlight of today was finding a random family that let us enter their house to get out of the rain. We got to know them and asked if we could share a message with him and they accepted. We presented the Book of Mormon to them and told them how this book has answers to our questions of the souls and we read a little with them. Afterwards they asked if we had lunch plans and they ended up giving us lunch! We don't really get member lunchs here in Palmeira so it was a very nice gesture from them. Thanks Bianca and family!
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| Luiz and family |
Thursday - Funny moment from today was when we had lunch at home and Elder Salmon started eating with 2 forks. It wasn't until 2 bites in that he realized he grabbed another fork and not a knife! 🤣 While finding people today we knocked this one house that has a glass front door. A young child appeared and I started talking with him with my face expressions! I ended up doing that for 2 minutes and the whole time the child was smiling and laughing. I think I made his day. But the highlight of the day was doing visits with our friend Cris! Elder Abreu and I visited people in our area with Cris and we confirmed Edilani and Eduardo for church and.... MARKED A DATE WITH LUIS! We listened to Luis's stories (he talks a lot) and got him marked for baptism this Sunday!
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| P-day lunch |
Friday - While doing my exercises today, I tried doing the shoe trick (shoutout to Sister Doss!) and I WAS ABLE TO DO IT! The goal is to place a shoe on your foot and turn yourself around on the floor without the shoe falling and I was able to do it now. So, if you want a fun challenge, try this one! Today I also did my first baptism interview! As a District Leader, I interview people before they are baptized to see if they have any questions and if they are ready and I performed my first interview. I recieved a call and quickly sat right next to a truck and performed the interview. It is remarkable to see how God is helping his children through me to help them prepare for baptism! Funny moment today is when we were walking back to our house and a runner appeared out of nowhere and scared Elder Salmon that he started speaking english because he was freaked out!
Saturday - Went to go clean the church today and found a pile of dead flowers on the ground! Not sure why but, I am glad we could clean it up before church! Today we visited people to confirm them for church and we actually went to a hotel to confirm someone and it was weird to be in a hotel again and ngl, it seems like hotels here are very similar to the States. Cool moment was when we were talking with Luis and for whatever reason, we talked about PANTS! Yep, pants. He explained to us why jeans have those buttons on them (safety when moving things) and how he bought some shoes for 800 reais (maybe like 150 dollars). It was a funny conversation for sure.
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| The horse looked funny |
Ngl, when I started this week as a District Leader, I felt very inadequate with my missionary experience and felt there are others who are WAY better than I. But I also came to realize, no where does it say I need to be perfect or be like another missionary. God called me here because I need to be here and someone needs what I can offer. So long as I offer what I can and follow the spirit, I will do what no other person can. I just need to do what Elder Fisher is called to do. Like as 2 Nephi 4:19-21 talks about, I know in whom I trust and i have a contrite spirit to learn.
I love you all and hope your doing well! Enjoy Presidents day and remember...1 + 1 = window 🤣 Tchau!
-Elder Fisher
