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| Me and the temple |
Bom dia todos! E aí? Pessoas Nos Estados Unidos, primavera já chegou? Estamos entrando inverno novamente aqui em Brazil e estou vestindo com uma chaqeta todos os dias! [
Good morning everyone! And there? People In the United States, has spring already arrived? We're entering winter again here in Brazil and I'm wearing a chaqeta every day!] |
| Last pic with Elder Salmon |
Good morning guys!! How are ya? Im writing this while in an Ônibus heading towards Curitiba! Thats right, IM BEING TRANSFERED! All i know is that I will work close to my first area, Almirante Tamandaré, and will be training a new american missionary, Elder Black, in a new area! (There is a missionary word for when the President changes the companionship completely in an area, if anybody knows, please let me know cause I forgot!) But in other news, heres the update on this past week:
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| Elder Black!! |
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| Last district counsel call! |
Monday - Last District Council of the Transfer! We ended up taking a group selfie (photo below). Today we also had a churrasco with our investigator Juliana! She has a HUGE house and is super smart not only in life but the Bible also (só she asks a lot of deep questions to me😅) but she offered a barbeque for us and it was SUPER good!
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| Juliana and the Elders |
Tuesday - Woke up today with an upset something (I think i ate too much from the churrasco) so Elder Salmon and I worked on tech until lunch and then left after lunch. We ended up visiting our friend Luiz who said he wasnt able to watch the "Joseph Smith" vídeo we sent him só i helped him access it on his phone and then he just started watching! Só while he was watching that we sat there quietly and may or may not have watched "The proposal" that was on the TV in portuguese 🤣 Later that night we got back home and found ANTS on our wall! It was disgusting and i ended up sweeping them out
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| Ants on the wall |
Wednesday - We went to go visit our recent convert, Vinicius, and instead of giving a lesson about Christ, we ended up giving and english lesson and helped him with his english class hmwk. Ngl, I didn't even know majority of the questions about the history of England! We then went to go visit this family who showed interest in the church and when I asked to use the bathroom, I passed a bed room with what I thought was 2 babies on the bed. When I looked again it was just 2 baby dolls but it was the only thing in the room, it kinda scared me. We then ended our day visiting a couple that went to church, Neiri and Amadeu. Neiri was baptized as a 15 year old but never went back to church and they both ended up going to church last sunday so we passed by to talk about baptism with Neiris husband. When I was about to do the invite, Neiri ended up doing it for me and Amadeu accepted! Neiri also had us help with an english massager machine she got and when Amadeu tried it, he yelled "YOOWW!" and scared all of us! I love how Amadeu acts like an old, funny grandpa!
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| Vinicius and Italo |
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| YOUNG MEN! {Mom note: This is the class at church for the youth] |
Thursday - (I actually don't have much written for today other than inviting Pablo to be baptized. He wants to but one of his parents doesn't so we are trying to talk to them, please pray for Pablo)
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| Pablo! |
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| Elder Salmon, Eva, and I at the temple |
Friday - Today we went to the Temple... WITH OUR RECENT CONVERT EVA!! I was so happy to finally go to the temple with her and see her come to the Lord's house!
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| Temple group |
Saturday - To all of my "Avatar the Last Airbender Fans", I found someone today who had a trunk full of cabbages and immediately thought of the cabbage dude, "MY CABBAGES!". Got a good laugh out of that! We ended up having an activity today as a branch with ice cream, tag, and some fun games. It was sweet to see everyone together
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| Luiz, Elayne, and Noah |
Sunday - My last Sunday and day in Palmeira. I know that it was a blessed day because we brought 10 investigators to church! I was also asked to give a final testimony to everyone and when I got up to share my testimony, I immediately choked up and started to cry. I remember looking out at everyone who I had met and those who I had helped come unto Christ (it also didn't help that everyone was crying as well). I could tell the spirit was among us and that I had fulfilled Gods purposes for me in Palmeira. Right after church, everyone got up to say goodbye to me, give me hugs, and the phrase I kept hearing is that "you will not be forgotten in Palmeira". Palmeira holds a special place in my heart and I know my time there was well spent. I ended up spending the rest of the day saying bye to all my friends, crying a lot, and also administring the sacrament to someone with a chocolate bar😅
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| Elouise e Presidente John |
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| CRIS! |
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| Luis (blue suit) |
After about 6 months in Palmeira (a fourth of my mission) I am now training again in Boa Vista Jardim Osasco with Elder Black! The adventures of A Fisher and his Fish are done for now but I look forwad to seeing what God has in store for us here. To all those who are looking for a little more strength or guidance, the best place you can go is to the Lord. Counsel with him (Alma 37:37)
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| Book of mormon power! |
Ate o proximo!
-Elder Fisher