The end of the long road

This week is good and I am having fun. Guyana is beautiful as always. Wow Claresholm is good at making national news. Sounds crazy. I am happy Baxter is feeling better and barking at the deer again. 
Lots of people do evangelism here. Especially the Jehovah Witnesses and the 7th Day Adventists. Sometimes they like to argue with us but I don't like it so I just don't talk. Some missionaries are really good at bible bashing and our mission president had to tell us to stop because its not Christ like. We are here to invite others to Christ not argue over doctrine. 
Its good to hear from everyone. To answer your question on the main reason we loose contact with people is because a lot of people don't own a phone and live with family so sometimes they just randomly move with other family and we have no way of contacting them. Or they just disappear and we can't find them. Or they tell us they went into the interior. Its really difficult to get contact with anyone in the interior and when people go to the interior it is for anywhere from 2 months to 8 months. Most people stay for 6 months. Sister Allison is getting really close to baptism but her work won't give her Saturday nights off so she can come to church Sundays. She works from 11 at night to 9 in the morning and doesn't get home until after 10. We started teaching Brother Dreadman. He says people call him dreadman because when he was younger he had dreadlocks and the name stuck. He had to cut them for his job and hasn't grown them back since. He told us his whole life story how he changed from Hindu to Christian when he was in the army. After the army was when he grew his dreads. He told us "If I hadn't made a change I wouldn't be where I am today. God has helped me be where I am" He's pretty cool. We are also getting close to Sister Ackleema's baptism. We were struggling getting her to church but we were finally able to arrange for a member to pick her up Sunday. She said if she walks she gets really bad nose bleeds and gets really tired. She really wants to be baptized though. That's how my week went. 

Today we decided to bike to the end of our area because we had never done that before. We biked all the way to the end of New Forest. We had to bike through some jungle to get there and some cane fields. I wish I took more pictures on the way up 

This was what was at the end of the long ride. The road ended here and the river went on.

We met a man fishing who took our picture. His name was Bi-ee I don't really know how to spell it but thats how it sounded. Bi - ee said that this is the Canje creek and that if we would have come earlier we would have seen some monkeys but once it gets hot they leave. 

Elder Fisher

Jumbie Dog called Plop

Hi

This week has been good. This week has been lots of fun. We have been biking here there and everywhere. We keep running into former investigators from when I first got here and we are having more success re-teaching them now the second time then the first time. 

We are re-teaching a lady named Anike and a lady named Mandy. Mandy just got married the day before we re-found her and Anike is a single mother of two. They were both taught by missionaries a long time before we ever taught them and they don't remember too much. We did't get too far with them the last time because we lost contact with them. We will see how this goes. 

We had zone conference on Friday and after conference President Egbert came teaching with us. He said he was very impressed with our teaching. Elder Gibson, my MTC companion, his companion in Bath got his Visa to the USA and so he is with us in a trio until his new companion gets into the country. Probably Wednesday. His new companion is from Holland or something like that. 

We got news on Trinidad and president Egbert's visa runs out in March and also by December there will be no missionaries in Trinidad because they haven't given out any OMP's (overseas missionary permit) They will be moving the mission home to Curacoa but the mission name will stay the same. Looks like I'll be staying in Guyana unless things change in the Trinidad government but I'm not complaining! Guyana is the best!

This is what we call a jumbie dog. We call him Plop. He's our friend. 

Also a picture with the district before it all changed with transfers. 

Elder Fisher and President Egbert at the Berbice Zone conference

Oh and something I forgot with the last email, I got Grandma and Grandpa Baker's and Brandon's letters and also i got  the youths care package and Brother and sister Cooks Christmas letter! Tell them I say thank you very much and I enjoyed them a lot!

Elder Fisher

District Leader

Hey this week was really good again. I am enjoying my time here. I don't have too much time here since all of the computers are down and we have to now share computer time. Hopefully they will have it fixed by next week. I forgot to tell you last week but we had transfer calls and I'm staying in Canje for a 5th transfer with Elder Hanni. I am also the district leader. On Thursday I conducted an exchange with the New Amsterdam Elders and I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Sister Ann for baptism. Unfortunately we were not able to attend the baptism  on Saturday but I hear it went very well. We are trying to clean up our teaching pool and see who is really progressing towards baptism. We want to also find more new people. We are working still with Prakesh and Its really cool watching his testimony grow. He is a really good kid. 

Elder Fisher

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

I know I am looking forward to 2018 a lot. Its going to be a good year I can just feel it!

Hey this week been good

Lots of fall through lessons and finding a whole lot of kind but not interested people. At least for Guyana. I'm sure the missionaries in Claresholm would be in paradise if they could meet as many people as we do. Its kinda nice when people tell you they are not interested at the start, that way you don't get 4 or 5 lessons in and they decided they just want to be friends and not progress. We are still working with the same people. Its been hard meeting with people lately due to the holidays but I hope that will change now its over and not raining so much. Lots of Funerals and weddings and celebrations but it should be better now. 

Our branch is doing really well the last two weeks with attendance of 55 and 52. Hopefully we will keep it above 50 all year! Its hard to meet with people but they are coming to church. We are teaching an 11 year old boy named Prakesh. He has been coming to church a lot and is so interested and  is understanding the doctrine. He is making steady progression towards baptism. The only problem is his mom thinks he doesn't understand what baptism is. She keeps telling us he is too young and wants to play to much. We were helping her see how much he learned but she wouldn't budge. His sister is a less active member and so she is confident he will go less active too. We asked Prakesh how he liked church and he said he liked it a lot. That he felt clean at church. We will keep working with him. His mom has no problem with anything else but the baptism. 

That's what I got for you this week!

A nice picture of the street with a pig in the trench.

Elder fisher

Plans for sacrament

Hey

Wow that sounds like it has been pretty cold back home. 

Just more rain here but we have been good lately. Only a few light sprinkles the last two days. 

The work is going really well. On Saturday we went to sister Allison's home. We went into the lesson with the plans on making a plan on how she can come to church on Sundays. We started to mention church when she interrupted us and said, "I have talked to the person who takes the security shift after me and have arranged for her to come a little early so I can go home earlier and prepare to be at church on time. I am defiantly going to be there tomorrow." We waited for her at church and sacrament meeting went by and still no Sister Allison. We were a little sad when just before Gospel Principles class starts she walks in. She was wearing her nicest clothes and apologized for being so late. She told us how here neighbor who was a close friend died that night so she took that time in the morning to mourn with her neighbors and then came to church. She probably one of my most favorite investigators! 

Elder Fisher