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| Elder Batista medicine |
E aí Galera! Como vai hoje? Estou numa barbearia agora assistindo meu companheiro pegar um corto do cabelo. Espero que ele não vai verar calvo😂 [Hey guys! How are you today? I'm in a barbershop right now watching my partner get a haircut. I hope he won't go bald]
Hey world! How goes it in China? How goes it in Utah? How goes it in Germany and Chile? Where ever you are, I hope that your well and that you excited to learn what Elder Batisita and I have been up to this week:
Monday - Flobby day. (For those who don't know what a flobby day is, it is basically a day of staying at home in your pajamas and doing nothing😆) We did end up going to a barbor shop so I could get a haircut and it turns out that they had a class that night and so I got a free haircut from someone learning. Thanks Maiara! We then went out to work and visited Norma who is looking to be closer to God and so we invited her to do so through baptism! Pray for her that she will be able to follow Christs example🙏
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| Dog |
Tuesday - Today was a day full of laughter😆 First, we ran into someone who didn't have a shoulder angel... but a shoulder dog! He had this small dog that was on his shoulder. Pretty cool! I also found out that my companion also cooks and Elder Batista made this lemonade that was really good! The last few hours of the day, we tried some other references we received from Facebook and with each one I tried talking with the person and they didnt understand me. Then Elder Batista would talk to them and not understand him🤣 We ended up trying our best to talk with these people but I guess it's hard when you talk to old people or drunk people. I asked Elder Batista, "do I know how to speak portuguese?" And he responded "what" just to joke with me😅
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| Hills with Elder Brown! |
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| Cat (pinko) |
Wednesday - DIVISION WITH ELDER BROWN!! I went to his area to acomphany some people who were ready for baptism. One of which was Renan. Renan has been having a rough time with his marriage and family and we are trying to help him recieve the Holy Ghost through baptism (please pray for Renan also!) And as always, we ended the day with pizza!
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| Pizza night |
Thursday - Zone Conference! Some of my biggest take aways were that we cant have fear to invite people to do something and that our family time and time to be a disciple of Christ should be the same time! (Im making a note of this now for when im older😁) At night we worked with sending out references to missionaries and I actually got to send a reference to my friend Elder Esplin! (Miss you brother!) He ended up sending me a message on WhatsApp to say hi and ask more about the reference. The funny part was we heard a loud crash then... DARKNESS. We had a blackout!! Elder Batista and I ended up working on the balcony of our apartment working until the lights came back in 30 minutes
Friday - Bible Bash counter: +1. We recieved a reference that wanted to meet so we ended up passing by. When we arrived at the house, I already knew the people that lived there. Turns out the person who sent the reference was the wife of someone I had already met that likes to Bible bash. He asked his wife to send a reference so that we could pass by. As soon as I entered, I already knew this wouldn't go well😑 What ended up happening was he kept going on, asking questions about the church and what we believe and we tried to show scriptures to him but he rebuttled everything. Elder Batista and I both knew it wasn't worth our time so we just marked some scriptures for them and asked them to pray.
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| Working in the rain |
Saturday - So we have this shortcut that we use to get around our area and while passing today, a brown spider jumped out of no where!! Luckly we avoided it but it was HUGE! Ever time we use that path now, we run and jump like crazy just to make sure the spider doesn't get us😆 But now for the title of this email. We went to confirm a recent convert for church, Rosimary, and we were talking to her and her family outside her house when she asked "vocês querem um beijinho?". Beijo in portuguese means "kiss" and beijinho would mean "small kiss". I looked to Elder Batista like "WHAT THE?!". Turns out she meant beijinho as in a small candy🤭 We also met her cousin who is called "Mary Jane" and so we asked if she had a spiderman and Rosimarys younger brother came out in his spiderman costume🕷🕸
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| Beijinho |
Sunday - We woke up this morning to find out that none of our church friends could offer a car for our investigators! BUT, our friend Irmão Nunes came in clutch and saved us by offering a car! (Thanks Irmão Nunes!!) We ended up bringing Leandro and his family and his WIFE also! They are in the process of getting married to then get baptized!
Overall, this was a week was a test of faith! We had a lot of ups and downs but the big part of life and our character is what we do when we go through the downs in life and we have challenges. We aren't here to live a life with smooth sailing. We are here to be tested! As it says in the scriptures: "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad." (2 Nephi 2:11) Truly, when we have love for others, we will not fear them but "perfect love casteth out all fear" (Moroni 8:16)
Someone has a little coldThat's all for now folks!! Ate o próximo!!
- Elder Fisher
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| Sabrina drawing |