#75 - Reopenings and Closings👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🥹 (10/21/24)

Boa tarde Galera! Como está sendo essa semana para vocês? Está indo bem? Na verdade está bem tranquilo por aí, tivemos transferências e agora estou na mesma área com Elder Batista!! [Good afternoon guys! How has this week been for you? Is it going well? It's actually quite calm there, we had transfers and now I'm in the same area with Elder Batista!!]

Horse

Hey guys! How's it going? I've been up and at it since 6am this morning and I felt that more time had passed so Elder Batista (my new companion) and I went to get lunch but when we got there and we ordered, they said, "It's only 9:30am, we don't open until 11:30". I guess the early bird doesn't get the worm XD. 

Elder Ferreira and I

But in other news, here is an update from this last week:

Monday - We ate too much pizza again!😆 But we ended up playing soccer with some members and their friends!!

Caterpillar

Popsicles and friends

Tuesday - While visiting our recent convert, Rosimery, they offered us popsicles while we watched a General Confernce talk. Afterwords we were talking about what we learned when out of no where I found a bug on my shoulder and freaked! It looked like a caterpillar that we have in the States but I didn't realize it at the time and totally screamed out of no where. It was a pretty laugh. During our tecnology time today we actually had a few references that were members of the church who were looking for chapels that were close to them. It was cool to see them looking to come back to church. And to end the day, Elder Ferreira and I passed a drunk man doing interpretted dance (10/10) and I may or may not have tried to kiss a frog to see if it would turn into a princesses instead of a prince 

Princess and the frog?

Wednesday - We found our friend Moseias today while contacting people on the road. He is honestly a really cool dude and said we could pass by the next day and share a message with his family. We also got brownies from another recent convert, Nicole, It was pretty fire! When we went to go visit Kemilly and Sabrina (who were baptized last week), their dad came to great us first and out of no where, their dog came over and pulled his pants down!😬😵 The 3 of us couldn't help but laugh! It ended up being a great message about the Restoration of Christ's church. 

Drawing by Sabrina

Thursday - Mission Devocional! We talked about the Prophet's talk from the last general conference. Some of my take aways were: 1. Every sincere seeker of Jesus Christ will find Him in the Temple, 2. To whom or to what will I give my life?, 3. Ether 13 prophesy about the New and Old Jerusalem. We went to also visit our friend Moseias and found out that his mom had already known the missionaries and the church a little. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ to them and Moseias accepted to be baptized! We are now helping him to make his first covenant with God.

Brownie!

Friday - We woke up early and mission impossible ran to irmã Dhully to go to the Temple with her (THE TEMPLE REOPENED!!!) (and when I say we ran, I mean we ran in suits and everything 🥵) After the temple session I said my finally goodbyes to my dad Elder Hall and a Sister that arrived with me, Sister Anderson. It is insane to think about but they both have finished their missions! 🥹🥹 I will miss you guys!! We also asked an inactive member if we could use his internet to work with tecnology and after we finished he started talking to us about his workout routine and then took of his shirt and asked me to do push-ups with him! I love our members!

Temple with Dhully

Saturday - Today we had an interesting experience with someone named Fernanda. We were heading to lunch when this lady named Fernanda stopped near us and asked for help. She had seperated with her husband the day before and was heading back to his mom's to live with her but she lost her passage. She asked us if we could help but I told her about our mission rules to not give money to people. We ended up calling a member close by who could help. We then walked with her to the members who offered 10 reais for her to get a new passage. She was very greatful and we also ended up giving her a Book of Mormon. I don't know where she is now but I hope that she is well and remembers God has a plan for her.

The squad!

Sunday - Sadly, many of our friends fell through coming to church today but that's okay, we had Leandro and Mateus there! Elder Borjas asked me if I could go with him to visit someone who has been going to church for a while to help invite her to be baptized and I went. After getting to know Emilly a bit (the person attending church) she showed desire to be baptized but was waiting for a confirmation. I asked her to pray aloud for us and after she did we just sat there for 2 minutes. I asked how everyone felt and told everyone that was the spirit. I asked if Emilly wanted these feelings to stay with her and she said yes. I told her this is possible by recieving the Holy Ghost and she is now on date for this coming Sunday! To end the day, Elder Ferreira and I went to our chapel, which is being remodeled, to work with tec. While working, a random drunk dude appeared out of no where! We found out that he was living in the basement with his dog and so we just slowly slipped out, locked the gate we had opened to get in, and called the branch president. I think that was my Halloween scare for the season!

All in all, it was a remarkable week. I am looking forward to working with Elder Batista here. To all who are in need of something, take heart in the promise of Mormon 9:21. Whatever you ask of Heavenly Father, with faith in Christ, will be granted unto you.

Duck and phone juice?

 

Duck!!!

Amo vocês! Até o próximo!!

- Elder Fisher