[Mom note: no notes about the pics this week, so take your best guess!]
Hey guys!! Transfers today and guess what....... I'M STAYING IN PARADISE!! That's right, I am staying in my area for the last transfer and I will have a new companion: Elder Collins. I am supposed to show him the area and prepare him to be the next District Leader for after I leave. The Zone Leader area needed to change so Elder Eyring went there and I stayed and became a Districr Leader. I'm still super excited and I know we will have many miracles here still!!
Speaking of miracles, let's go ahead and jump right in to see which miracles happen:
Monday - STAKE CHURRASCO!! The stake president and his wife invited us to have a churrasco for all the missionaries of the stake. It was great! And I learned to play skull king (10/10)
Tuesday - We spent majority of the day invited people to watch conference and 2 "miracles" happened. 1. I had the Holy Ghost tell me to take off my hat and low and behold, I found a cockroach there! Thanks Holy Ghost for that! 2. We found this wild "apple" and I was about to eat it but then we decided to ask someone about if it was poisonous or not. One of our friends said it was fine and bit into it... 5 seconds later they spit it out and went to wash their mouth🤣 (dont worry it was just bitter, not poisonous)
Wednesday - Divison in Nova Esperança! This is actually a Sisters area so Elder Eyring and I went there together to visit some people the Sisters were teaching. We found this one lady who was really going through a lot of challenges and he marked a baptismal date with her and gave her a book of mormon. Later we talked with Leandro who speaks english but is impossible to tell if he is drunk or no😅. He is progressing little by little
Thursday - All I remember from today was visiting Fernando, the husband of a member. He told us about the company he works for called "Mars". When he told us it was the mark for candy's like snickers, I said I had never heard of it. Sure enough, if you look at the packages, Mars is a brand that is put on it! You learn something new every day🍫
Friday - Division with Elder Bueno! The first division with him was right when he started the mission so it was awesome to see how much he has grown and changed! He lead us around and guided through each lesson. Like how President Nelson talked about confidence before the Lord, I know he has grown that confidence in the Lords work. And then when we traded that night, Elder Eyring and Elder Glauser appeared with 2 plates of cake. Sadly... I didn't get a slice 🥲
Saturday - Conference day 1 = The start of the Marathon 🏃♂️. We actually started the conference in the best fashion... with 2 lunches! We had lunch with members first but then a SECOND time with some investigators and let me just say, I did not feel so good in the Tummy afterwards🤣 I also learned about a type of orange that doesn't have any flavor, it honestly decieved me for being a normal orange. And once again, I sat on Coffee and stained my clothes😅 but shoutout to the young men for the pizza conference watch party!
Sunday - We were able to help a lot of people watch conference and after all of our efforts we officially helped 31 people watch conference and 29 recent converts to watch as well!! To end it all, we had the baptism of our friend Manu. She had been wanting to be baptized a year ago but her parents didn't let her. After members leading us to pass by there, the family having a confirmation from the spirit that this is Christs church, and Manu bearing her testimony and desire to follow Jesus, she was baptized and began the path for her family also!
Ether 12:4
Até o próximo!
- Elder Fisher