Fala Galera!! Sim, mais uma semana passou e mais uma vez, sim eu tenho só 10 semanas mais na missão! Tempo passa rápido né? Eu ainda imagino que estou começando a missão em Almirante Tamandaré! Que loucura. [Hello Guys!! Yes, another week has passed and once again, yes I only have 10 more weeks on the mission! Time flies, doesn't it? I still imagine that I'm starting the mission in Almirante Tamandaré! How crazy.]
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| Nice Pic (is this good mom?) [Mom note: I LOVE this pic!] |
Hey guys!!! How is everyone from missionary to cowboy, to mom from dad, from baby to slightly smaller babies. How was the week for you guys?!
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| Elder Eyring sun protection |
Overall it was a pretty chill week with a lot of random but spirit guided experiences and here I am to relate them:
Monday - HAIRCUT!!! ....that's honestly all we did. The barber also lowkey didn't understand my portuguese but, that's okay. At least I got a decent cheap haircut!
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| Volleyball night |
Tuesday - After an early morning of district councils, we got to work. Some of the highlights for today were finding someone who thought we were German (I think because of our short haircuts) and started to talk to us in German. (Wished that I had my friend Elder Heap to translate for me!) Later thar night, we were heading back home in the dark and for whatever reason, Elder Eyring and I are walking on the train tracks. To make it easier we did a little trust exercise to walk on the rails which supporting one another. #trustexercise
Wednesday - Divison with Elder Pavez! First thing we did was visit an investigator in the Sisters area because they wanted us to give him a blessing. The incredible part was how the Lord planned all this that they asked us to visit him this day when I was with Elder Pavez, so off we went to visit Luis. He is actually from Peru so Elder Pavez could speak Spanish with him. He had been to church a lot but never understood why he needed to get baptized to receive the Holy Ghost. We explained it to him and after a phone call to the Sisters and their bishop... LUIS WAS BAPTIZED! Afterwards Elder Pavez and I worked in his area with what time we had before the baptism of our friend Ruan. Right before the baptism though, Elder Pavezs companion, Elder Souza, threw up so we had to get some medicine for him. But then our friend Ruan was baptized and his sister was there to support him!
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| Luis baptism with Sisters |
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| Ruan baptism with Sister Raira |
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| Group Pic of Ruan baptism |
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| Augusto e Beatris |
Friday - TEMPLE TRIP AND ZONE CONFERENCE! I actually saw my friend Elder Brown today and discovered that he is using my lululemon pants that I left in Jardim Osasco. I left them because they were pretty worn out and I had to sew into them to patch up the holes and I had got 2 new pairs but I was happy to see them put to good use. Take away from zone conference: our temple preparation begins way before we starting driving to the temple and that the temple is a tool to become like our Heavenly Father, not a reward. We should always go when we can! But to talk about the title of this email, someone did in fact kick us. We were walking in the neighborhood at about 7:30pm when out of nowhere this car stopped in front of us and a man came out. He asked if we had a problem and we were just confused. Then in a very firm and bold voice he told us to get lost and started to kick us. From his smell, I could tell he was a little drugged but we just left. Even though we were "attacked" the recommarkable part was that we didn't feel scared. We trusted in the Lord and knew that Satan was just trying to test us but that he didn't win this fight.
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| Temple |
Saturday - Today we confirmed our friends for church and finally we were able to find our friend Reni who had such a bright smile and HASN'T SMOKED SINCE GETTING BAPTIZED!! WOOHOO RENI!! We then accompanied Vinícius today and he shared more of his story and how great he is for us. Everytime this happens though, I think how people's lives don't change bc of us, but that the Lord planned all this through the Holy Ghost and we are just companions of the Holy Ghost!
Sunday - Sadly we didn't get as many people to church as we wanted but we were content with the miracles the Lord provided us.
My spiritual take away from the week is the quote from President Nelson from 2023 "Peacemakers Needed"
"One of the easiest ways to identify a true follower of Jesus Christ is how compassionately that person treats other people."
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| MOTH |
Amo vocês!! Até a proxima!
- Elder Fisher