Bom dia Galera!!! Como está as coisas? Não sei se alguém conhece aquele jogo de celular mas literalmente essa semana foi como aquele jogo e vou explicar...[Good morning guys!!! How are things? I don't know if anyone knows that mobile game but literally this week was like that game and I'll explain...]
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| Acordian (maybe already sent but I found it today) [Mom note: Elder Fisher's grandmother played the accordion] |
Hey guys!! How's it going? I hate to say it but this last week I passed my 22 month mark and now, I have less than 2 months left😬 It is crazy how time is flying by. But to not focus on that, how's life in the state? Germany? Canada? Brazil? Argentina? Wherever you may be!
This week was honestly pretty special and here are the reasons why...
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| Bus the st. Bernard |
Monday - Chácara pt 2!! This time we went down with the AP's and Elderes from Dalcol with Edison from our ward! It was great to chill with them and a HUGE saint Bernard like the one in Peter Pan. We ended up playing a lot of spikeball (I won't lie, Elder Eduards and I had a winning streak of 6 games in a row against the other teams) We also went fishing and I caught 3 fish! (Gotta live up to the name right😉) The other cool part was thar Edison had been trying to buy some land to build a chácara and guess what, the owner of the land (a former bishop) was selling and after 5 years of looking, Edison bought the land! Miracles I guess!
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| Fishing |
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| The boys and Edison |
Tuesday - Zone Meeting! We divided into 3 groups and did a rotation. I conducted one of the rooms where we focused on teaching towards the baptismal interview questions and how we can use the Book of Mormon to do so. Afterwards, many missionaries commented on how they liked the change and that our little classes helped a lot! Later we went to visit our friend Ana at work and found out she had just left by the time we arrived at work. So, we ran after here. We eventually found what we thought was her and we were running. Not sure if it was her I just D&C 66:6 it and yelled "ANA". Sure enough it was her! Then to end the day some person said that my first name (Devin) means devil in portuguese... I guess that's what happens when your a ginger and don't have a soul🤣
Wednesday - As the title says, "Where's my water?". Turns out Ponta Grossa is trying to make a new reserve of water and by doing so many people have been without water, today being the first day we didn't have any so... I had to pass on the shower today😮💨 But we still worked and had our english class as well! To end the day we talked with Artemis, a return missionary who feels very overwhelmed rn and away from God. It was nice to share Joseph Smiths experience with her in D&C 122 and we are slowly helping her on her way back. [Mom note: Elder Fisher said he didn't get to shower for 3 days since they didn't have enough water!]
Thursday - Divison with Elder Lytle! We worked in my área but I wanted to commented first on a part of my personal study when I read this passage in Alma 28:14 which reads "we see the great call of diligence of men to labor in the vineyards of the Lord". I thought this was cool to see the importance of us as priesthood holders to serve missions. But it was a pretty chill day overall. The funny part was lunch with members when a member gave us water with Gas and went to have some when she offered lime and sugar and I said yes. When she put the two in, it started to explode and to stop it from leaking over, I just started chuging it!😂 lets just say, I got a Tummy ache
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| Elder Lytle and Elder Silva |
Friday - I did a division with Elder Glauser today! We found a lot of cool people and participated in our games night but the weird part is we ran into the same crazy lady 5 times! I think she may like us or something😅
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| Youth volleyball |
Baptism of Luisa
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| Early morning suits |
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| Sunday afternoon tiredness |
Another cool thing, we met this missionary who returned from his mission this last week, Jhony, and he gave us some cool advice. He told us that in the last 4 months, it is common for missionarys to rely more on their abilities bc they have been through so much that they don't rely so much on their faith. And I started to see how that is true. I think at times we get in a consistent routine that we rely more on our ability than our faith, but our faith should always be bigger and growing while our ability does to. As 2 Nephi 26:13 says, the Lord will perform miracles depending on our faith. This is his work, so his miracles must come to pass, so we must have faith and always have it growing!
But that's all for this week!
Amo vocês! Até semana que vem!
- Elder Fisher