Monday, September 16, 2024

#70 - Cachoeira... Back to the Start🛤 (9/16/24)

Tudo bem Galera? Como está sendo o dia para vocês? Estamos aqui ficando na casa com chuva. Sim, a chuva voltou🤦‍♂️[How are you guys? How is the day going for you? We are here staying in the house in the rain. Yes, the rain is back]

   

Hey guys! Elder Fisher here! We were playing soccer in the rain today so right now, my hands are freezing cold😆

This was my first week in my new area, and here are the highlights of the week:

Elder Ferreira!

Monday - Transferred back to my first District... but different area! To get to know the district, we met up in Almirante Tamandaré where I got to see old converts and members! We ended up playing spikeball as well! (Turns out someone brought it to Brazil. Tenho saudades de spikeball!)

  
Oreo coca cola?

Tuesday - FIRST DAY AND FIRST BAPTISM! The other dupla of Elderes needed me to do a baptism interview for their friend Norton so he could be baptized and of course... He passed! Majority of the day was getting to know the area and recent converts. While walking alongside the highway, i ended up trying to get the trucks to blow their horn. I was 3/5!😁😂

Batism of Norton

Wednesday - I got to know more of the area today and we also got a call from the Sisters of technology asking if we wanted to work with technology and now, we are officially technology secretarias! We also went to seminary and I ended up teaching these younger kids who came and werent old enough for seminary. But thr weirdest part of the day was going back to our house and having a drunk uber guy ask us if we needed a ride. We ended up talking him and then out of nowhere he started playing mama mia music and started twerking next to his car.. ...lets just say we invited him to church and then left

Cooking with Elder Ferreira!

Thursday - Contacting day! We focused on finding new people today and while we were next to the bus station here, I found like 5 people who remembered me from a year ago and I remembered like 2 of them!😅 It was cool to reconnect with them and see how we are still friends and have grown in a year. Today was also our first day of technology and... we couldnt do it for at least an hour. We had to wait to get the computer, then login, and finally, we were able to send out 3 referals. The miracle though was the Sisters being able to find a reference and bring a book of mormon to the person within 20 minutes. WOOHOO!!

The boys

Friday - Today we had a cool experience with our friend Oseias. He was a facebook reference 8 months ago and we decided to pass by. We found him and learned he was in need of help physically and spiritually. He wants to know the truth and we talked to him about how he could know by the Book of mormon and the Holy ghost. I felt the need to invite him to be baptized and now we are helping him prepare to take this step. When we asked him to pray, i was already imagining him entering the temple one day. 

BLUE CHAIR

Saturday - Cleaning the church. I have learned that truly being a missionary prepares you to also be a good person and know how to clean your house and bathroom😅 But the cool thing was finding the BLUR CHAIR! I think my church friends from Naperville 6th ward remember the special blue chair that we would fight over and I found one here! I also did a division with Elder Borjas today to help out in his area and one of the weirdest moments was talking to this lady that said "Nossas palavras são o chiclete de nossa bunda" (our words are the gum of our butts). We sat their confused and then just continued on

Clean the church ("with stick figure elders")

Sunday - RAIN, out of no where! Sadly none of our friends made it to church but it was really cool to be in a branch again. The rest of the day we went around visiting members and my socks were literally puddles of water🤣

Umbrella fort

Honestly this week was really nice to see how the spirit was guiding us. We tried talking to everyone and we found a lot of people God was preparing for us. I know that God is mindful of his people in any place and that he offers ways for his children to hear his voice. One of the best ways I hear his voice is through the Book of Mormon. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and is the word of God, prepared for us in these days to prepare us for the Second Coming of Christ. Any question you have in your soul, the Book of Mormon has a answer. And as the Prophet says: "The full power of the gospel of Jesus Christ is contained in the Book of Mormon. Period."

This book of mormon has some lost pages😅

 Indiana Jones and the Book of Mormon

This is a Great work that we have been given, and I am excited to be a part of it!

"Elder Fisher, where are we?"  "The street...ahhh!"

Love you all! Ate mais!


- Elder Fisher