#72 - Yo no hablo espannol (9/30/24)

Olá amigos! Como vocês estão? Como sempre, estamos com os Elders, fazendo um churrasco. Na verdade hoje tivemos uma reunião da zona e fiz um trainamento pela zona. Foi legal! [Hello friends! How are you? As always, we are with the Elders, having a barbecue. In fact, today we had a meeting in the area and I did some training in the area. It was cool!]

Nice photo for mom

Hey friends and family from the US, to Brazil, China, Japan, Canadá, Germany, México, and everything in between (that includes the penguins in Antártica also!) What's new this week? Any new music or movies I should watch or listen (when I get back that is😆) If só... let me know and I will add it to my list!

As always, a week of miracles has come and gone, and I am here to tell the experiences of a Fisher of men:

Monday - Churrasco and soccer! Turns out my companion Elder Ferreira is an incredible chef and knows how to make delicious pico de gallo!

River

Tuesday - Today we focused in visiting recent converts and we went to visit Joaquim and his mother Marcia. She offered us some crackers and while I was teaching, this dog next to me kept growling. I lowkey thought he was gonna eat me! But as we were leaving, they showed us their pet cricket (who was dead). They thought it was still alive so they put him on a tree but he just fell. Sorry Mr. Cricket!!😬

Pastel

Wednesday - Division with Elder Kirchner! Elder Kirchner reminds me of me a year ago. He also went to BYU Provo for a year so we bonded pretty quick about BYU and swing dancing and mens chorus. We actually visited some recent converts and showed some Mens chorus videos we are in (shoutout to "a poor wayfaring man of grief"😉) The cool event of the day was finding a reference. We knocked the house and called and she answered! She said she saw us passing só we found her at an outdoor bar (dont worry we just got Coca-Cola) but she offered us a pastel and it was the first one for Elder Kirchner! Turns out the reference was dating a member of the church and wanted to know more. It was pretty cool!

Elder Kirchner 

Elders and Sisters with Miguel

Thursday - We had interviews with President today! We arrived to the church before him and found trash all over, só the elders and I cleaned up before Pres arrived. We talked about teaching the simple stuff and focusing on it and have the confidence and drive to work and invite. Later in the day we had the baptism of our friend Miguel who lives in our area but works in another area. So we were teaching him along with a companionship of Sisters! (He also wants to serve a mission!)

Baptism of Miguel

Friday - Note to self: read the instructions and measurements for koolaid or else you might drink something disgusting🤢 Today Elder Ferreira and I had a zoom call with the missionary department to talk about the app we use as missionaries: Preach My Gospel. We gave our feedback on its updates and we got to try a prototype for the next update. It was pretty cool!

Rapazes

Saturday - The only major thing I remember today was finding an army of Dogs descending this hill and making all the people stop for a good 3 minutos while 15 dogs descended.

 Im not like most people vid...

Sunday - I learned more about the law of the fast today! What I thought was back luck of not bringing anyone to church was a miracle to bring our friend Jean to church who then talked to us that he felt good in the Church of Jesus Christ and felt that he needs to be baptized in the church! We are now helping him to be baptized this coming Sunday! I know that because of Elder Ferreira and I's sacrifices, the spirit touched his heart. Later in the day we went to visit a FPM and guess what?! They speak Spanish! Elder Ferreira speaks Spanish but I got to put my Spanish to work and present the Book of mormon! ....lets just say, I may have spoke more in portuguese than spanish😆

I know that as we sacrifice our time and talents to the Lord, he provides miracles that would be impossible by our own efforts and carnal knowledge. When we trust in the Lord and make these sacrifices, we can trust in him and his timing and know he is aware of us (Alma 26:37)

Zone conference (a few weeks ago)

I hope everyone enjoys General Conference this coming week! I look forward to hearing everyones thoughts and impressions of the Prophet and his Apostles (3 Nephi 12:1-2)

Pizza

Até o próximo!

- Elder Fisher