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| Nice pic |
Chama galera!! Como vocês estão hoje? Está esquentando lá nos Estados Unidos? Aqui em Brazil....não 😅 Estamos no calorzão e estou aqui bebendo água. [Hey guys!! How are you today? Is it getting hot in the United States? Here in Brazil... no 😅 It's really hot and I'm here drinking water.]
Hey guys!! How is everyone? What's the biggest miracle you saw this week?
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| Nice pic with Elder Eyring |
Also, is everyone getting excited for General Conference!? It is just about a month away! I'm just getting myself physically prepared to run around and help people watch😆
But to keep it short this week (cause im a l ittle bit sick) here is the day by day here in Paradise:
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| I was hungry... |
Monday - Transfers! I'm still in Paradise with Elder Eyring but a lot of people in our zone changed. Highlight for the day was staying at the chapel helping with uber and finding whatever luggage was forgotten😅 (and also buying country swing dance boots! For all my friends, we going country swing dancing when I get back!)
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| English connect with friends |
Tuesday - After our first District counsel for the transfer we got right to work! We actually went to a facebook reference we recieved who ended up being the bishops sister! I always saw her at church so I wondered why she requested a visit. We passed by and she told us she wanted us to teach her step son who isn't a member so... one more person to teach! The highlight of the night was visiting another reference: Rogério. Rogério really wants to change his life and be closer to God so we talked to him about baptism and invited him as well. He accepted! The first step though is helping him stop smoking. So after talking, we left his house with a full box of 20 cigarettes. And once again I found myself asking, "I've never smoked. How are you supposed to dispose of cigarettes?😅" if anyone knows, please tell me😂
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| Rogério!! |
Wednesday - We went to visit our friend Ruan who is the brother of a recent convert in our ward. He has a lot of good questions and things very practical. He ended up asking, "where is Jesus christs true church?". We were able to tell him that he went there last Sunday and we invited him to be a member and he accepted! He should be baptized this coming week. Pray for Ruan!
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| Ruan lesson under the umbrella |
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| Dog |
Thursday - Early morning CLM in PERSON! We discussed about what to discuss during our zone conferences but there are 3 things I'd like to address. 1. Never forget to call a general authority by his title of "President" or "Elder" (President Bikman might have caught me slacking and gave me a reminder 😅) 2. An elite person is someone who fulfills commitments and allows God to prevail in their life. 3. We should truly just focus on Jesus Christ and not present ourselves as "Elder" or "Sister" so and so but as representatives of Christ. He is what everyone needs
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| Cris and pizza with the boys! |
Friday - MOVING DAY!!! Not for us but for a member of the church. Alejandra was planning on changing houses for a while but that day the owner said she had to leave so... we came running! We thought it was just going to be an hour thing but, it took majority of our day. We met some cool people helping with the move who were from Arabia! The worst part is that the borrachuros were active so right now my legs are Red🤣
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| Moving! |
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| New hat |
Saturday - MARRIAGE IS WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER TODAY... pt 7. We had the wedding of Gustavo and Keri! Gustavo is a friend of Edison (first counselor in the bishopric) and today he got married and baptized! The funny part, we needed to push back the baptism because the lid was stuck in the baptismal fonte so we couldn't clean it. We tried getting it out and then we gave up and called Edison. As soon as he arrived, he got a screwdriver and popped off the lid. How many Elders does it take to take off a lid? We will never know cause it just takes 1 Edison😂
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| Gustavo wedding |
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| Gustavo baptism |
Sunday - I woke up this morning with some stomach pain (I still have some today). Luckly, the Lord provides and Sadrak came in clutch to help bring our friends Valdo, Marlon, and José to church early to talk to bishop and recieve the priesthood and then get everyone else. After church, Elder Eyring and I ran after our friend Reni to talk to her about baptism but she disappeared! I swear she is a ninja! We ended up finding her, talking to her and.... SHE GOT BAPTIZED! She had been going to church for a while but couldn't be baptized until she stopped smoking and she was finally able to. The amazing part was that a lot of members showed up to support her and something I won't forget is her bright happy smile she had. I had never seen her smile like that before🥹
For the first week of the transfer, I know the Lord was guiding us in all things. Besides being sick or tired, we decided to act rather than be acted upon (2 Nephi 2:26) and the Lord used our faith to act to bless us!
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Breaking in on seminary  |
But now, I'm gonna lie down and rest up. Thanks to everyone for your support and now that I am always praying for ya (Moroni 8:3)
Até o próximo!
-Elder Fisher