Como vai galera?!! Quais são os novidades da semana? Aprendemos que temos insetos ou bichinhos na casa😅 Não sei como mas estamos limpando e lavando. [How are you guys?!! What's new this week? We learned that we have insects or animals in the house😅 I don't know how but we are cleaning and washing.]
HEY GUYS?!?! Its finally "Blue skies, summer breeze, what a day. Sunshine and sweet harmonies, time to play. No more, complecations. From now on just, good vibrations!!!!!!
On my way feeling fine, I can see my reflection in my surfboard shine...."🎵🏄♂️ (shoutout to the people that know)
Not gonna lie, I forgot to take not of a lot of things this last week🤦♂️ but it was still an incredible week of mission work from the roads to being at home working on a computer and phone. So let's go ahead and jump into it!
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| Sabrina drawing of us |
Monday - After a p-day of looking around at one of my favorite clothing stores, Balihai, we got to the streets to work a bit. While walking past a bus station, a kid almost got hit by a bus that was leaving. Elder Batista and I ended up grabbing him and pulling him back. (Safety zone helps!) We also found a less active member who wanted to come back to church. We got his information and marked a visit with him!
Tuesday - We had district counsel today but 3 of our companionships couldn't attend so... missionary counsel for the elders of Cachoeira😆. It was good to just speak with them and do some practices. Majority of our day was spent acomphanying recent converts and working with technology, breaking our record of references sent with 30 in one session!🤩
Wednesday - Mission Devotional! We studied Elder Hollands talk "I am He" which tells of Christ and his overall being. One of my biggest takeaways is that we CANNOT "dumb down" in any way the teachings, doctrine, or characteristics of Christ's. His gospel remains in force no matter what the world thinks or does.
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| Zone conference (last week) |
Thursday - Today while heading back home to work on tec, I felt the need to talk with a man who we passed that was smoking. We found out his name is Carlos and that he is wanting a new change of life. We explained how the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel of change. His father-in-law (who may have been drunk) appeared and said, "I don't wanna drink anymore" and broke his glass by throwing it against the ground and pour his beer out also. Just the presence of the missionaries helps people try to change😁
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| Na rua |
Friday - We ended up going to the temple today! This time we got to see even more changes that were done and I also saw Elder Esplin, my executive secretary from BYU! Today we went around contacting and one of the most notable experience was this random dude who came up to me and said, "You're an American right? Brazilians just like drugs, sex, and ROCK and ROLL!" It caught us so off guard that we just said thanks for his time, gave him a pamphlet, and left. I think he had 1 to many drinks😅
Saturday - We sent a message to our Zone leaders today about a possible baptism interview for our friend Moisés (or Moses in english!). We ended up trading companions for a bit so I could do an interview for them as well. They both ended up going well and the outcome...
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| Elders and Moisés! |
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| Moisés and Vinicius |
Overall, an incredible week.
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| Elder Batista gets tired |
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| Tattoo??!! |
Love you all! Hope your well and I love hearing from ya!
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| Toy story! |
Até a semana que vem
-Elder Fisher