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| Elder Batista |
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| Hats in the road |
Hey guys! How is it going? It is such a beautiful day right now after a week of random rain and wind but it was a really remarkable week working with my new companion, Elder Batista! He is from Fortaleza and is the same age as me. He has 13 months on the mission and is a really cool guy. We have a lot in common and he are some of the events we had from this last week:
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| Caught in the rain |
Monday - Transfers! Elder Ferreira went off to Telemaco Borba with my friend Elder Filetti and I got Elder Batista! During our p-day we cleaned up the house a little and we went to go get lunch realizing that it was only 9:30 in the morning! Bc of waking up early for transfers we thought it was a lot later in the day. Later at night we went to visit some less active members and we ended up talking with a former missionary from our mission, Elder Lobo! He gave us a lot of advice of putting aside our pride and remembering that we are here not for our own welling being, but for others and we should focus in the Lord, his gospel, and his church. It was really cool!
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| Elder Batista |
Tuesday - WE MET THE PRESIDENT!!! PRESIDENT LINCOLN!!! We were contacting people and we met someone whose name was Lincoln and he president himself as Abraham Lincoln and made a joke about it. We talked to him about what we do as missionaries and even though he didn't have interest in learning more, it was still cool to talk to him and connect to him in that way.
Wednesday - We visited a Facebook reference today, Luis! I had already known him for a few weeks but it was cool to be able to pass by and read more of the BOM with him and he offered us his own home made soda.... it was... okay 😵💫. He also ended up offering us free razors.... thanks? Later in the day it started raining and at one point I decided to try and catch the rain in my mouth like with snow and the first rain drop went right down my throat and almost killed me! Note to self: try to catch snow, not rain 😂
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| Friends and horses |
Thursday - To all the people who know the phrase "The devil is meeting his wife" (when it is raining but sunny) this happened all day! We ended up running to another Facebook reference in the rain and we found Alaine! She asked for a BOM and we gave one to her. She also runs a thrift store and told us that she doesn't do this a lot but she gave us each a free tie because she said God touched her heart (Aww!) I also had my second removing of a demon on my mission. A neighbor of our recent converts Pedro, Esteffany, said that she had been seeing a person from the other world and showed us some videos she took. I definitely felt a weird prescence when we were there and so we dedicated her house to call the spirit out. For now, we are praying. While leaving, these random kids ran at me and hugged me out of no where! I kept to mission rules and just lightly tapped them on the back😆
Friday - Temple trip 2 weeks in a row! The "rose" for the day was working with technology and calling a referral who immediately started singing a song about Jesus loving us and talked to me in english. It caught me so off guard. Thanks Pedro!
Saturday - 2025 YOUTH ALBUM MUSIC!!! (Shoutout to the song Doubt Not) Normal going around and confirming people for church but also finding a ladybug here! (Idk they existed)(shoutout to also finding fireflies at night🤩🤩)
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| Ladybug! |
Sunday - We got Leandro and his family to church again (we are now helping him and his wife to get married and become members of Christ's church) and my boy Moseias! Yesterday was pretty chill, not to much happened.
Something we talked about in Elders Quórum yesterday was the idea of pride getting in the way of the will of the Lord. If we truly want to do the Lords will, we must strip ourselves of the pride that hinders the spirit from guiding us (Alma 5:28)
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| EDWARD THE BIG CAT! |
Overall an awesome first week with Elder Batista here and I look forward to the coming weeks as well.
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| Cat |
Até o proximo!
Elder Fisher