Baptism

Hey my week went really well. This week we had the baptism of Kim and Vishal Datt and everything went perfect! The pump at the church is being fixed so it took over 5 hours to fill up the fount but we got it just high enough so they could perform the ordinance standing. Sunday they were confirmed and Brother Datt recieved the Aaronic priesthood because this week he leaves to work in the interior for two months. It was a very spiritual weekend. 

Kim and Vishal's baptism

Scenery 

Hey its great to hear the Cobras won! That's so awesome!

Elder Fisher

Early Transfers

Hey this week has been good. we are teaching too many people!!!! we have had to stop teaching some people because they weren't progressing and we hadn't seen them in a while and we are constantly finding new people everyday. We have been working with Kim and Vishal Datt for a very long time. They finally have gotten married which was on Sunday and they are being baptized Saturday the 25th. They are really cool and getting anyone legally married here is a challenge just because no one wants too. Kim and Vishal come from Hindu backgrounds and so Vishal's mom was not too supportive of them becoming Christian and wouldn't give him his birth certificate which is needed to be married so we had to wait forever for a new one to come but everything is in place and we are looking forward to Saturday. 

Today was our zone activity and we played basketball and passed a football. Then Elder Henriksen the only other Canadian in our zone pulled out two mini sticks and a ball so we decided to keep our Canadian heritage and play a game of mini stick hockey. It was fun. we got our transfer calls a week early. Elder Buxton is needed back in the islands. He is being transferred to Curacao and my new companion will be Elder Hanni. I believe he is from Colorado. We should be together around Sunday.

Guyana is very different from anything else. I hear there are some pretty cool bird watching tours here. Its not really a touristy place but it defiantly has plenty of different things to see.

Well Sorry for not sending any pictures the last couple of weeks. The last computer I used wouldn't read my card so here's what i have been doing the last few weeks. On Saturday we helped build a fence for a member. As you can see we had to pound some post with a tool called a monkey.

On November 11th we dug a big hole for a septic tank for brother Khan.

Here are some pictures I took when we rode over the Canje bridge on a horse cart coming back into our area from New Amsterdam after an exchange. That is the Canje river and me waving to some people we know. 

Elder Buxton giving a cow a Book of Mormon and a guy named Ravin who did some customization to his wheel chair. He seems pretty cool and we are planning on teaching him this week.

Elder Fisher

With tears in his eyes

We have been working really hard trying to visit and catch up to everyone. The amount of work to do here is unreal. There is always so much to do. So many people to see and not enough time to see them. We are doing our best though. 

This week was really good. We have been teaching this guy named Aubrey. He served 9 years in the Guyana special forces. He likes to tell us stories about how he jumped out of air planes and did survival courses in the jungle living off of Jaguar and anaconda meat. He lives right across from the church. He works 6 days a week from 5am to 7pm doing security work. Sunday is his day to take care of the house and look after his sick wife. His wife Bibi has been very sick. She used to sit in on the lessons but the past few weeks she hasn't felt too well and has been in bed when we come and visit. We went to visit him Monday night and we saw there were people over at his house. He came out and he told us that Bibi had passed away that afternoon. He told us to come back Friday night. On Friday we went back to teach him and had a very spiritual lesson. We have been teaching him about the plan of Salvation the last few lessons. We were on our life on earth when we visited him. We talked about life and repentance and how everyone has to die. He told us how he had found a church that he is going to go to. We asked him what church is that and he said "Burn bush" Burn bush is the street our church is on. We had a good little laugh. After we were able to give him a blessing of comfort. After the blessing the smile on his face with tears in his eyes was priceless. Unfortunately he didn't make it to church yesterday and when we went to visit him he said it wasn't a good time and to come back the next day. 

We also got to dig a big hole in the mud for a septic tank this week!

Love ya all 

Elder Fisher

Importance of Home teaching

I miss the cold every now and then. Its just so hot here all the time but its great! Glad to hear Halloween went so well. They don't have Halloween here so there was nothing too special going on. 

Hey this week was pretty good. We had zone conference with Elder Alonso of the seventy. He is pretty cool. He is the one who spoke in general conference about service with love. It was really good. We learned how to better use the Book of Mormon in our teachings. Mine and Elder Buxton's lesson went pretty well. Working this week was a little limited since we had to go up to Georgetown for that. Then Elder Buxton got really sick on Friday from some food he ate and we couldn't go out. 

Saturday we had international day of service. We planted palm trees around the Church yard. We were able to receive a lot of help from a returning member named Hilton. Hilton was born with a spine condition and is unable to walk. He was born into a Muslim home growing up but his family soon turned Christian. His mom is a very devout 7th Day Adventist and so ever since he joined the church two years ago he has lost much of her support and he needs her to survive. He attended church for a while after his baptism but he never was visited by any members or even anyone of the Branch Presidency. He said he would ask the branch President if he would visit him or send him home teachers or anything and the Branch President said he would and it just stayed at that. Soon Hilton found himself falling into his old habits and not going to church. Just recently he realized how what he  is doing isn't right. He has moved over to our branch's area with his mom in the time of his inactivity and is fully committed to living the Gospel. At church he has set a good example of why we need to visit members and in Elders quorum the six of us attending devised a plan to reach out to more members. It really built my testimony of the importance of home and visiting teaching. Please don't put it aside. There are so many members out their who need us. 

Elder Fisher