CHAMA GALERA! FELIZ PÁSCOA!!! Espero que tudo mundo conseguiu celebrar essa Páscoa em uma maneira especial e tambem relembrar o sacrifício expiatório de nosso Salvador Jesus Cristo!! [CALLING EVERYONE! HAPPY EASTER!!! I hope everyone was able to celebrate this Easter in a special way and also remember the atoning sacrifice of our Savior Jesus Christ!!]
Hey guys! How was Easter?! Did anyone do an Easter eggs hunt? Paint eggs? Crack eggs over someone's head?😉😂
This week was incredible to help our friends come unto Christ and remember his sacrifice for each one of us. Jesus Christ truly lives and he arose again on the 3rd day and invites all to come unto Him so he can heal you and your pains.
But as you are all waiting for, here is week 99 in Brasil and week 99 of the adventures of Élder Fisher:
Monday - In the words of Donkey, "Like donuts and.......DIABETES!!!"🍩 Yep! Donuts! And let's just say, I may have gotten a sugar rush😅 But the cool experience was being able to get a blessing from our bishop. When we were working at night, we had an unexpected experience with a family of macumberos (black magic). Feel the lack of the Holy Ghost with us, we went to go ask for a blessing from Bishop and, that spirit came right back!
Donuts
Tuesday - Guess what!?! We are back to the cartório AGAIN! This time it was for our friends Kelly and Neymar! They had told me the day before that if we passed today, we could mark the marriage for this Saturday even though with the holiday on Friday they could process the marriage and... it worked! We got the marriage marked! In the middle of our work day, we recieved a reference for a Luciano. We entered in contact and at first I couldn't tell if this man was trying to scam us. He sounded distressed but also fake. But trusting the spirit we went to go visit him and turns out, he has a cousin that is a member and living in Utah and the he, Luciano, recently separated from his wife and fell into drinking. We explained how Christ understands his situation and has the power to change him. He is now reading the Book of Mormon and stopping to drink!
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Avacados
Thursday - Division with Elder Braga! I went to go work with him in his area and it was really remarkable to see him work. Elder Braga had already served 5 months in another mission but finally got his vice to come here. We actually found one of my friends, João Vitor, from Jardim Verona and now he is helping us out in Dalcol. I did also have another in-grown toenail visit (yeah 1 more😅) but at the end of the day I had a nice talk with Elder Braga and got to share some of my experience with him and he seemed pretty appreciative. He is a pretty cool guy!
The elders from Dalcol LONG BUS RIDE
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Friday - TEMPLE TRIP & ZONE CONFERENCE!! Big take away: "Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost want to bless you more than you want to be blessed!". The awkward part about today was Easter traffic! We left Curitiba for Ponta Grossa at 12. It is less than a 2 hour drive. And we arrived at Ponta Grossa at.... 4:30pm🤣. Traffic was really bad! But at least I had time to read some conference talks! We also did a little "divison" with the Zone Leaders so I could do interviews for them and them for us so I worked with Elder Eyring again! What actually ended up happening, we went to the area of the Sisters of Princesa to acompany someone they were teaching. His name is Gabriel. He was wanting to get baptized but needed to be taught the law of chastity and word of wisdom so, Elder Eyring and I came by and talked to him. He has a girlfriend with whom he wants to have a family with and we promised him that if he truly wants that family, he needs to keep these commandments and receive the Holy Ghost so that he can show "all things" that Gabriel needs to do (2 Nephi 32:5). He talked to his girlfriend and she understood and... GABRIEL WAS BAPTIZED! (Your welcome sisters de Princesa!)
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| CRIS!! |
Saturday - KELLY AND NEYMAR GOT MARRIED!!!!! ...yeah that's about it. I also had a cool talk with Cris as well!
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| Wedding 1 |
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| Wedding 2 |
Sunday - With Kelly and Neymars marriage, then came their baptism and the baptism or Luana! We had planned everything except... for the baptismal jumpsuits! I had asked other missionarys for them the day before but... no one answered🤦♂️ So after Vilmar "kindly reminding us of doing things beforehand and in order" we got some jumpsuits from the zone leaders and... it all worked out! We then spent that afternoon eating 2 churrasco lunches (I felt so sick afterwards) and finding a random fake dead body on the ground. Apparently it is part of some weird tradition here in Brazil!
Vinicius and Jhonny at Kelly and Neymar baptism
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| Luana baptism |
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| Fake dead man doll? |
This week in the spirit of Easter, I was reading from 3 Nephi and Mosiah 14. I love chapter 14 of Mosiah as it says how Christ was "wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; and with his stripes we are healed". Jesus Christ is our salvation and cure. He knows you. He can help you. Search for him and his sacrifice.
Love you all!
Até o próximo!
- Elder Fisher
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