#59 - "EFY/FSY sandwich song"🥪 (7/1/24)

E aí Galera! Como está indo? Na verdade, neste momento estou vendo meus amigos brasileiros comer comida americana. Parece que eles gostam de Goldfish de verdade🤣[What's up guys! How is it going? In fact, right now I'm watching my Brazilian friends eat American food. It seems like they really like Goldfish]

 

What's up guys! How's it going? Not gonna lie, it's funny to be a missionary with how many times I think I know what I am doing but then I learn something new and realize, "I have a lot to learn!".

Crazy face

But in other news, here are the updates, adventures, and discoveries of Fish Beans:

Monday - SHOPPING TRIP.... for grociers! Elder Lima and I bought a lot of food to cook and try and ended up spening more than 400 reais! Let's just say... budgeting is important

Rain jackets

Tuesday - Don't remember much of our work today besides rain and lowkey calling a man a "senhora".... whoops😅

Avacado? (Random kid gave us it)

Elder Platt

Wednesday - ZONE CONFERENCE (sadly, we didn't take a picture) but something we talked about was the importance of using "inspired questions" to truly find a need of the person but also, help the person we are teaching find a need they may not have even realized was there. I got to put this in practice today when I did a division with my boy, Elder Platt! We went over to his area today and I worked with Platt while Elder Lima worked with Elder Cirilo. They work in a branch so I felt that I was back in Palmeira again! It was awesome to use more inspiring questions and see the results of the people we found! I found the Holy Ghost helped me to connect their needs to the gospel of Christ and the importance and blessings of recieving the Holy Ghost! (Also during Zone Conference, one of the Sisters said that bc I sing, I should be one of the people from High School musical, maybe I can be part of HSMTMTS)

The boys

Bocaiuva do sul at night

Thursday -  Today I found out the difference between hymns in Portuguese and English. It turns out some songs have different rythms also! Let's just say, old habits die hard. Today we had our ward activity and we brought our friends Deivid, Ana, Taila, and Everson. We did this quiz with 3 teams trying to answer questions about the gospel of christ and lets just say... my team won!😁 I also got my MINION BOX TODAY!!!! (thanks mom!) [Mom note: I've sent each of my missionaries a "You're One in a Minion" box for their missions, full of Minion snacks and stuff]

Minion box!

[Mom note: His favorite treat in the box was actually some instant pistachio pudding!]

Friday - Today I did a division with our zone leader Elder Gonzalvez! While walking around, we found someone taking care of some sheep and found a kid named Israel that is truly looking to follow Christ. We talked about the gospel of Christ and invited him to be baptized and he accepted! We are now helping him prepare for the 21st of July. While we were walking around we also heard the "Crazy frog" song or as I like to say, "THE EFY SANDWICH SONG!!!". (I may or may not have stopped in the middle of the road to dance a little😅0

Elder Gonzalvez [Mom note: check the name tag for correct spelling!]

Saturday - We woke up early and helped out a recent convert with a service project. We made ciment and made a brick wall. It is awesome to see how handy Brazilians are with these things and it was cool to learn! Later that day we had a lesson with our friend Adriele and her family. We ended up staying there long than I liked and what I thought was taking up our time turned out to be a blessing! Adrieles father in law offered to drive us around to confirm people for church! (Thanks Vanildo) 

Elder quorum service

Sunday - Today we brought a lot of friends to church and helped our friend Kienner follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized! It is awesome to see how a reference from a member turned into finding a young man who was looking to follow Christ and find a place where he felt more at home after moving to Brazil from Venezuela. I look forward to seeing his family take this step also and come closer to Christ!

 Batism of Keinner

Keinners family

Big take aways from this week was focusing on the blessings God promises us and how essential the Holy Ghost is in our lives. As the verses in 2 Nephi 32:5 and Moroni 10:5 say, by the way of recieving the Holy Ghost, we can know all that we must do and the truth of all things! I think at times we forget how essential it is to have the Holy Ghost and why it is we take the sacrament each week to "have the spirit to be with them". I want to invite everyone to truly come to understand what the sacrament prayer says and why we have it in our lives.

Domingo deleitoso

I know Christ lives. I know this is his true church restored on the Church again in these days and it will never leave again. I know that the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ and teachs us his divine mission in our life and has a fulness of the gospel of Christ. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet that helped bring about the restoration of Christs church and that we have a prophet that lives and recieves revelation from God today. You to can know this, by asking God with a sincere heart and with faith in Christ.

Love you all! 

Ate o proximo!

-Elder Fisher