Fala Galera!!! Como vai?
I'm gonna make my email a little shorter today because we are doing a DEEP CLEANING of our house (#heritagehallscleaninginspections)😆
But here is a quick run down from the week with a LOT of rain
Monday - Chácara!! (Cabin!) We went to a members cabin and played frisbee, went fishing, had a churrasco, relaxed, and weirdly each elders somehow fell in mud in some way or another. 10/10
Tuesday - Today was a rough day but also really funny. We were searching for new people and basically no one wanted to talk to us😅 I remember saying hi to someone while passing by and they immediately just turned away and left. I guess people don't like gingers😆
Wednesday - Divison with Elder Bueno! Elder Bueno is actually a recent convert who was baptized about 7 years ago. It was cool to work with him and get to know his story. Highlights of the day were having a bird poop on me out of no where and finding a way to get a investigators birth certificate! Please pray for João and Andressa to get married!!
Thursday - Divison with Elder Silva! Elder Silva already served in my area before and it was cool for him to come back. We visited a lot of people he knew and even found a reference he tried bringing to church, Soraia. We actually passed by and invited them to church and... THEY DID! (I'll get back to that in a sec)
Friday - "Rain rain go away, come again another day". Let's just say there was a lot of puddle jumping done today (bc a friend of mine always tells me to do so 😉🤣) But today we were able to ask for João birth certificate to come in and we are just waiting for it to arrive! (Thx Cris for the help with the restoration!)
Saturday - Today we went about confirming people for church and this is when the Lord started to humble me. Overall this week I felt like nothing was going right. Everyone was busy, problems were happening, no one wanted to talk to us and all the people we invited fell through. We had started our fast and I was expecting so much more but that isn't trusting in the Lord. So we had only 1 family confirmed to go (Soraia and family). But right before going home, we felt like trying one last family we already invited for the last 3 weeks and guess what.....
Sunday - THEY CAME TO CHURCH! We had a total of 12 investigators at church! I truly have come to realize that faith is to keep doing all that is in your power and trust the Lord will do the rest. We then went to visit these families afterwards and, THEY ACCEPTED TO BE BAPTIZED! Some of the people we need to help get married or fulfill other commitments but please keep Soraias family and Andressas family in your prayers.
I'll be ending this here bc I got less than an hour before I need to get back out to the road. I'll just leave this thought here, sometimes the greatest blessings are unanswered prayers. God will always answer but in the right way. Trust in him and align your will with his!!
Amo vocês!!
-Elder Fisher 🐟