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Bom dia Galera!! Estamos indo a comemorar a missão de nosso amigo Elder Amaral! Vamos comemorar comendo numa restaurante tão chique 🤩!! [Good morning guys!! We are going to celebrate the mission of our friend Elder Amaral! Let's celebrate by eating in such a chic restaurant] |
| felt the spirit to enter and so we went to a Catholic church at Christmas |
Hey guys!
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| Christmas lunch |
I'm gonna make this email quick today because we got a lot to do to celebrate today so here is the week in review:
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| picnic after doing service |
Monday - We went and got a couple we are helping to marry and went to the cartório to mark the wedding for the 8th of january!! While walking around during our p-day hours we also found SPIDERMAN!!🕸🕷
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| Spider man (homen aranha) |
Tuesday - New years eve!! And with new years eve traditions.... comes random fireworks and bombs the entire day😆 We tried working but no one really attend to us so.... WE GOT DINNER WITH MEMBERS! AND by my surprise... ITALIAN CREME SODAS EXIST HERE!🤩🤩 Sadly they didn't have the cream but one of the members offered us Italian soda and it was delicious! Then to celebrate the new year, we had an orbee war with the elders 🔫
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| Orbee war |
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| Orbee war with Chris |
Wednesday - HAPPY NEW YEAR! The funniest part is that nothing is open on new years until the afternoon so literally NO ONE was outside the entire morning. I felt like we were in a deserted town😆 We ended up eating at a restaurant called "giraffes" (which was playing some interesting music in english that I had never heard before) The rest of day we did a divison with Dalcol and there was some really powerful rain that caused a lot of hours to be flooded so...
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| Giraffes restaurant |
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| Giraffe burger |
Thursday - We did service today helping fix the roofs of some members and neighbors. And of course, we couldn't climb up the ladders to help out😅🛠 But we had a cool lesson visit with a member who us away from the church, Ana, with a daughter, Layane, who never knew the church. We talked with them, shared a brief scripture and invited them to our activity the next day and they went!
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| Service |
Friday - Early morning temple trip! I was actually looking for some direction and comfort for some things on my mind about the mish and things afterwards and I was thinking I would get a scripture in my mind but actually, the Lord sent Sister Bikman to talk with me. It was incredible how she offered responses I was needing without even knowing. Afterwards, we went to McDonald's with some Elders and then brought people to our game night! It was great to see investigators connecting with members!
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| Zone @ temple |
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| Mcdonalds |
Saturday - Today we went around confirming people to church. While walking we passed by this poorer part of our area and I walked over a snake without even thinking about it. I knew it was some weird animal but it didn't even cross my mind it was a snake until someone passing by said, "ITS A SNAKE!!!". We then played a little soccer with an investigator at church and lost track of time BUT, the Lord blessed us with Elder Christakis parents. They needed a signature from Elder Christakis and they got permission to pass by and help us visit some people before we ran out of time!
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| Lucas and family |
Sunday - We tried bringing our investigators and recent converts to church but a lot of them didn't answer the door 😕. It's okay though can we found some investigators that members brought. Afterwards we had some lunch with members and maybe tried out the electric guitar and drumset they have. We also had a lesson with João and Alessandra who having been going to church for a bit and we marked them on date for baptism for the 19th of January! Please pray for them and their son Caio!!
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| Baptism of sirlene and Claudio |
The more that I serve and look for direction not only for the mish but for life, the more I realize the importance of the Holy Ghost. Not only the importance of recieving the Gift of the Holy Ghost after baptism but searching for him each day. He will show unto us everything we must do and speaks to us through certain feelings (2 Nephi 32:5 and Galatians 5:22)
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| Division with Elder Peterson and friends |
I'm looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings and what the Lord is doing to hasten his work |
| Brazilian fruit |
Amo vocês! Até a semana que vem!
- Elder Fisher
