Earth Quake

The time is flying here and we are having fun. We are making our visits and teaching lots of people. We started teaching a member named Sister Ruby who has family in Edmonton and visits every so often. She's really cool. We are hoping to have some baptisms here on September 15.

Hey don't worry this week was really crazy and 100% safe. Tuesday was the craziest as that was when we felt the big earth tremor. I was in Sister's Village teaching one of our baptismal dates on there wood stairs. We were sitting there when all of a sudden the stairs began shaking. At first we were confused until we saw the power lines shaking and all the buildings creaking and groaning and we realize it was an earth quake so we ran of the stairs and stood on solid ground. It was a very weird feeling as my feet were solidly placed on the ground but I was shaking. It felt like i was dizzy. 

I also learned I don't want to be picked up by Guyanese emergency first respondents. On our way back we passed a bad motorcycle accident before any first respondents arrived. Our hired car driver decided to stop to get a good look. A small crowed began forming at this point. It was dark and it looked like the motorcycle driver hit a homeless man walking on the road. The man who got hit, his legs were cut up very badly and were bleeding a little bit. The motorcycle driver looked much worse. His face was all bloody and blood was foaming from his mouth. Both were just laying there unconscious but moving a little and breathing. A police truck then pulled up and the police got out and yelled at the crowd to help pick them up to put them in the back of the truck. About 10 men then picked them up by the arms and legs and lifted them into the truck. The cycle driver left a good pile of blood behind his head.They then took off and we haven't heard anything since. We got in the car and drove away. 

The next morning we felt our house shake for a half a minute. It was a smaller tremor but not as many people noticed it. On a more positive note this week we were biking between appointments and we accidentally took a wrong turn. When we realized it we stopped by an older lady carrying groceries. She asked us if we could help her. It was a short walk to her house through a street full of craters. Her taxi refused to drive her through the street and she has really bad knees and can barely walk. We gladly helped her and she told us how she use to be Muslim but had a good friend in the church in Georgetown and began to go to the church there and became a christian. The missionaries were teaching here but then her husband died in a car accident and she moved and lost contact with the church. This was about 8 years ago. She was never baptized or anything but she told us how she was thinking about trying to find the church again and that she would love to go to church again. Her name is sister Lila and she is a very nice lady. We have begun teaching her and her Granddaughter. Its been a fun and interesting week!

Love Elder Fisher

source of revelation

Hey 

Well this week has been fun. I have been finding more members in our area this week. Its been fun trying to strengthen our members because they need it. 

I`m really having a hard time knowing what to talk about right now. It feels like the weeks are just flying by right now. I really love my new companion Elder Ortega. We are having a lot of fun. We are working hard together. he reminds me a lot of Richy. It almost feels like I`m hanging out with Richy all the time except we are doing missionary work. 

All of our recent converts are doing well. Mohamed is staying on the east coast by one of his old mentors from the orphanage he grew up in and is helping teach him the missionary lessons right now. He got his phone back so we are able to stay in touch a little. We have begun teaching a young couple named Junior and Queenie. They have been going between West Minister (in our area) and Georgetown for school. The Georgetown Elder`s picked them up but handed them over to us since they will be over here on this side more often. They are very elect. They have been reading the Gospel Principles book that they got at church in Georgetown and when we visited they were asking us what they needed to do to have an eternal family. Queenie then told us how she keeps getting dreams that the church is true (very common source of revelation here). On Sunday they showed up to church very early. They beat everyone there and were waiting for someone to come to open the church. They are awesome and I`m hoping we can get them baptized before I go but we won`t rush it. 

Love Elder Fisher

Special Assignments

Hey everyone! 

Soca music is literally everywhere here. You get in a car or a bus and they blast your ears out with it. Its definitely the most popular music here. 

Well I got my last transfer call here. I am staying in Patentia but my companion who is going to kill me is Elder Ortega from the Philippians. We will be together on Friday. President Baird called me before I got my transfer call and told me he would like me to be a zone leader for my last transfer. He gave me a few special assignments to review the mission policies and see which ones I think could be tweaked or changed to make the mission more effective. He also said since I have been here for so long I have seen the most changes in the mission from where it was to the high level it is functioning at now so he wants me to give a report on what made it change at MLC on Friday. 

This last week was pretty good but Mohamed is missing. His rent ran out and so he had to leave. He told the branch president he is going to Georgetown and he left so quick he left his phone with Brother Cooper so no one really knows where he is right now. For all we know he could be homeless right now but I really hope not. 

Eion at church was telling all of the brethren in priesthood class how he loves this church and how its already changing him. Hopefully we can get him baptized by the end of the transfer. We have been doing a lot of contacting and searching for more elect people to teach. Things are going pretty well here.

Love Elder Fisher