Preparing for last transfer

Today was good! We have been working hard trying to see everyone.

 My companion got really sick on Thursday with the Caribbean thunder and throwing up so we had to spend all day inside, and for a missionary that is the worst thing ever. 

  The work seems to be going pretty well. We are just looking for more elect people to teach. We had our interviews with our new mission President, President Baird, on Saturday and he is awesome! He is really kind and very ready to work. He seems like a really hard worker and is really good at focusing on the individual. I could feel the spirit coming from this man as he taught and instructed us at zone conference yesterday. He's actually really similar to President Egbert. I mean I guess you have to be a hard worker when you are over a hundred missionaries in 6 countries. I am looking forward to the future of the Trinidad Port of Spain Mission I'm just sad I won't be here to witness it myself. Home will be really nice though. 

The Fortune Family is doing well. Sister Seeta is feeling better now she has seen a real doctor and they should be at church Sunday. 

We have been talking a lot with Mohamed and he is really excited to serve a mission in a year. He said that's the first thing he is going to work towards. Its really amazing to see his conversion. 

Things are going well and I'm preparing for my last transfer here. It starts next week!  I plan on working hard to the end!

Love Elder Fisher

chicken foot soup

So good to hear from you! 

One strange thing you see often here and if you want to see men in there underpants just come to Guyana and you will see it everyday! They don't care here! men and boys of all different ages. (Guyana Fact)

It sounds like you holiday to Vancouver was pretty nice. I'll have to check it out sometime! 

Well this weeks been really good! We have been working pretty hard and as a result we had two baptisms on Saturday! Brother Chu and Mohamed! The service went really well and we had a ton of Members show up! There was a little bit of a struggle with brother Chu since he doesn't have total use of his legs due to  a stroke he had a few years back and we had one of the oldest members, Brother Jacobs, in the branch baptized him but we ended up having them kneel in the font. It worked. 

We have been working with the Fortune family but they are having some struggle coming to church due to Sister Seeta being very sick. Sister Seeta had a miscarriage and they saw some fake christian herbal doctor on T.V. They took her there and the Herbal doctor did a blood test and left. When She came back she said the Lord told her that she needed to give her this herbal juice. When she showed it to us it looked like green juice in 3 empty 1 liter water bottle you buy at a store with painting tape on it to mark how often she needed to drink from it. It cost them $125,000 GYD or $625 USD. They didn't have that money so they borrowed the Money from there daughters boss and trusted the Doctor because she said it was from the Lord. Too say the least it didn't work and she is even more sick and now in debt. They are taking her by a real doctor on Tuesday at a private hospital and its going to only cost $ 40 000 GYD. She should be properly treated there. I just don't know where they are going to get the money from but not once have they asked for any financial help. They also promised to come to church once Seeta is feeling better. Guyana is a pretty crazy place!

We had the two baptism and then the other La Grange Elders had one the same time as well!

A picture of our Investigator Priya at her house with water all the way up to her steps. 

She has been taught everything we are just waiting for her to get a divorce from her previous marriage and be married to her new husband. The problem is she got a really bad foot infection and when she went to the hospital the doctors told her they needed to cut off all the dead flesh on her foot. They told her they couldn't give her anything to numb the pain because they needed her to tell them when they were no longer cutting dead flesh but actually cutting the live flesh. She showed us her foot and yup there is a big chunk missing from the bottom of her foot. She can't get it wet so that makes it difficult to leave her house and all of her money instead of going towards her divorce goes to getting her foot treated. Regardless of that she tries her best to be at church each week! She's awesome. We set a goal to be baptized by August 25 and so that's what we are praying for. 

Chicken foot soup

Elder Garner and I on a bridge in Belle West.

Love you all!

Six Fingers

The pictures you sent look great! I'm glad your enjoying your vacation. I am glad your having fun. 

This week has been fun and the Fortune family has fed us a ton of food!!! Its great and I love them. Just make sure your all practicing on your chicken curry and Roti cooking skills. 

We also started teaching a man named Eion. We met him while biking home for lunch one day. He's in a wheel chair and has 6 fingers on each hand. We gave him a push to his destination. He is really kind and pretty smart. He is really happy to meet us and came to church last Sunday. He loved it and wants to keep coming. 

Oh also on big news I have forgotten to tell you this the last two weeks but I got my new mastercard! It only took 6 months to get here! 

Mohamed and Brother Chu are doing well and everything is looking positive for their baptism on Saturday. We are really excited for them. We already talked to Mohamed about preparing for a mission and he said that is something he would really love to do! There are a lot of really great people here we are teaching. We are working really hard and the Lord is guiding people to us! Love you all

Love Elder Fisher

Mango

Hey!

Well this week has been good and man have I eaten a lot of mangos! Every time we go to sister Carol's house she gives us a big bag of mango's and we are having a hard time keeping up. I've eaten at least 3 each day this week. She is really awesome but we found out she is not married to the man she is living with and doesn't want to be married to him because in her words He's a drunk and has made her life miserable. She said she plans on leaving him and moving to New York with her son by the end of the year. 

We taught Mohamed about the law of chastity and he didn't get the point of it. We tried our best explaining it and how God wants to protect families and he replied "Well I don't want a family!" and how he has gotten by without a family. We had Kellon with us who is a YSA age member preparing for a mission. We challenged him to study the law of chastity and pray about it. After we left Kellon stayed and studied with him. The next day when we showed to teach him Kellon was there. He had taken the day off of work so he could be with Mohamed and before we even started the lesson Mohamed told us he now understands the law of chastity and is willing to obey it. He was even pretty happy about it. We gave him a bunch of Liahona magazines we had after the lesson and he read the autobiography about president Nelson. He then called us and told us how overwhelmed he felt by the spirit and he hasn't been able to stop reading! He is really awesome and is doing well. The work is going well and we are looking forward to Mohamed and Brother Chu's baptisms on the 21!

Oh I also forgot to mention we contacted a really sweet family. Its the Fortune family. It was the first house we contacted on the street. Wayne the father has 9 children but most of them don't live with him. He use to be a rasta man but cut his dreads so the police would trouble him less. Him and his wife Sita are not very educated but are looking for a good christian church to go to where they will feel comfortable. They say they sometimes feel bad when they go to church and people ask them to read because they don't know how to read so we assured them they don't have to read at church and that they will feel comfortable. We hope to see them this coming Sunday!

Francine's baptism!

 Brother Jacobs is the man who did the baptism

Love Elder Fisher

"Best day of my life"

Well this week was good. We are working hard finding and teaching. 

On Sunday we had Sister Francine's baptism. It was awesome. She is doing well but still looking for work and has no money. I am confident as long as she seeks first the kingdom of Heaven all things will be added unto her. 

Mohamed is doing well. He is making friends with all of the YSA kids here and going to a lot of activities. On Monday night we taught him about the spirit world and shared how the gospel is preached to the dead reading in 1 Peter. He stopped for a minute and the spirit filled the room. He looked at the scripture and back at us and said. "This is the best day of my life. Straight up from the time I was born until now this is the best." Before that lesson he thought his mother was suffering in Hell because she had committed suicide but now he knows there is hope for his mother. 

We had a awesome lesson with Carol but when we called to come back on Sunday she had gotten sick and went to the hospital. We haven't heard from her since. 

Brother Chu is doing good as always. The plan is to get his eyes tested as soon as possible and the branch will be able to help him get the funds to buy the lenses. He loves reading and he promised us that when he would get his glasses he would read the book of Mormon every single day. He's awesome. 

That's a little update on things on my side!

Love Elder Fisher