Coisa interessante, a palavra "pickle" em português é pepino azeido mas nós ensinamos nosso amigo Vinicius a falar "pickles" e agora é todo que ele fala.😆[Interesting thing, the word "pickle" in Portuguese is pimenta azeido but we taught our friend Vinicius to say "pickles" and now that's all he says.]
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Nice Pic (is this good mom? ) |
GOOD MORNING TUDO MUNDO! (Or afternoon.... or even good night?😅)
After doing some early morning basketball (im still not great but I scored a bit) we are now at it with the weekly email. Ngl, it was a bit of a rough week and not too much happened but there are the highlights and miracles I saw:
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| White shirt cleaning experiment |
Monday - Gorillão restaurant.... again! I'm just saying the burgers are really good! The rest of the day we stayed home bc Elder Eyring wasn't feeling so good so it was a pretty chill day.
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| Pday with the boys |
Tuesday - Divison with Elder Aviz! After our district counsel I went back to Elder Aviz area to do a divison with him. It was honestly pretty funny bc we had lunch with a member from Venezuela that doesn't speak any English. So, using the gift of tounges (and my limited high school spanish) I talked with her in Spanish! Good thing that Elder Bueno was also with us to speak Spanish bc I got some work to do🤣 Afterwards Elder Aviz and I went around finding new people and by accident, I stepped in drying cement so... my footprint will always be a part of brazil now if anybody wants to go do R. João da Silva in Dalcol🤣
Wednesday - Mission Devotional! We talked a lot about working with members and having a mindset of working like an escalator instead of an elevator. At times missionarys may focus on just one person at a time and only them so they progress like an elevator but we should think like an escalator helping a lot more people progress and always looking for more people. But today we had the miracle of getting João birth certificate for him to get married!!! WOOHOO RESTORATION OF DOCUMENTS! We also accompanied a batismal date for Princesa named Rubens! This guy is awesome! He told his story about finding the church, feeling he needed to get baptized and he stopped smoking, works as a carpenter and all. He is awesome! (And now baptized!) We then ended the night with an "english connect" class... that "sorta" happened
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| Rubens! |
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| Elder Da Silva |
Friday - EARLY MORNING TEMPLE TRIP! When we were trying to leave, we were all on the bus except for a service missionary that came with us and I ran back in to find him. Turns out a lady had asked him to help with sealings and he lost track of time😅 We then had a family night where Vinícius (our recent convert) taught us some brazilian slang such as:
- Está comendo abelha
- O pai chegou
- se liga na ideia
- está mascando
Idk what they mean but, were practicing!
Saturday - SERIVCE! We went to help out Reni, a lady we are helping to be baptized, with her yard. She had a lot of tall grass and weeds so our boys Vinícius and Yuri pulled up and helped us out. Afterwards we did the same thing in Vinícius house!
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| The boys and Reni |
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| Yuri and the truck |
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| Working with the boys |
Sunday - We went to Renis house to bring her to church and sadly, we found her smoking. She had stopped the day before to be baptized but she smoked so we had to reschedule the baptism for next week. Please pray for Reni to stop smoking. The highlight of today was going to a Stake leadership meeting where we talked a lot about missionary work and working with members also. It was cool to be around the stake President here and the bishops and being involved in the work a little more.
Something that Elder Eyring and I were talking about was the importance and meaning of the commandments. Like 2 nephi 4:4 says, when we keep the commandments, we prosper, but when we dont, we cut ourselves from the presence of God and allow the enemy to have room in our lives. Its honestly remarkable that we have these commandments in our lives to guide us and give us conselho when we need it.
Overall, a very memorable week but I'm super excited for this next one!
Amo vocês! Até a semana que vem!
- Brasilianboy, Elder Fisher