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

Directing people to our path

Hello!

Well this week has lots of crazy spiritual experiences. To start we have Sister Francine. She's the one who wanted to move so she could live the law of chastity and live in a safer area. We got a phone call from her one morning and she was in tears. The man who she was living with and her got in an argument and he started to beat her. Fortunately he is no longer living with her anymore. The problem is that she doesn't have a job and he was her only source of income so she doesn't have any money to buy food. Luckly we have some really great relief society sisters here to help her and her baptism is for this Saturday. 

Mohamed is doing really well. He had a really hard time understanding the fall of Adam and Eve. We explained very clearly that it was part of God's plan and he was getting it but not quite accepting it. We left him to read over 2 Nephi 2 and to pray about it. When we came back he said he just felt good when he did that and believes it is true. His foster mom in Barbadoes doesn't want him to move there with her so we know he will probably stay in Guyana. He is still looking for a place to rent. 

We talked to Brother Juman on Sunday and he said he got some frames for some glasses and a doctors appointment for bro Chu's eye's for free and is even willing to drive him there. Brother Juman is a very generous member. 

Next on crazy things that happened. Last week we got a referral from a Vreed En Hoop member at church. It was for a former investigator named Fiama. I contacted her my very last week in Vreed En Hoop but never got to teach her. We were walking to a recent convert when she called out to us and said she has friends in Venezuela who are Mormons and one of them even served a mission. I got transferred and the missionaries literally taught her everything. She was very close to being baptized but then moved back to Venezuela. Well there she said her Mormon friends kept visiting her and encouraging her but she never got baptized. Since she came back to Guyana she has kinda back slid and isn't to sure what she wants anymore but is willing to give the message a try again. She moved from her old home in Vreed En Hoop and to a home that is less than a 5 minute bike ride from where we live. The member who gave us the referral was her felllowshipper who stayed in touch with her. Fellowshippers are awesome. Feel free to help the missionaries at home teach. 

On Sunday an older Indian lady walked into church. She said She used to go to a baptist church a year ago but stopped going because the Pastor was very rude and has been looking for a new church since. She said she was riding a bus when she met a kind lady who told her this was a nice church with really pure teachings so she decided to check it out and loved every part of it. We have a lesson scheduled with her on Thursday. The Lord is directing people to our path!

Love Elder Fisher

"The spirit working in him"

Hey!

This week has been good. We are doing really well. 

Mohamed is getting more into the routine of things and I feel he is gaining a testimony of the things we are teaching him. He really wants to be baptized. We set his baptism date for July 21 but there is a problem. On June 30th his rent runs out and he will have to move. He has no idea where he is going to go yet but Barbados is a possibility since that is where his foster mom lives. 

We are also working with Brother Chu. He is a really great example to me. He had a stroke a few months ago and so he walks really slow and has a hard time remembering these things we teach him so we are going really slow with him. He is always very positive and something really cool is that ever since he has felt like what we have been teaching him is true he has been learning and understanding and remembering everything a lot better. I know its the spirit working in him. He hasn't missed a week of church since we met him and he doesn't have very much money and he can't work either. One of the main struggles with him is he has very poor eye sight so he can't read anything. He loves reading but he can't afford to by glasses  so we are trying to get some help for him. He is really awesome! 

I love you all so much!

Love Elder Fisher

Banana man or 2?

Hey! This week was great! 

We are working hard as always and we even had a baptism. Doodnaght, Sruti and Amar. They are really awesome. Their mom has been a big help and is even starting to come to church with them. 

On Tuesday I went on an exchange up to Parika. It was pretty fun. We tried to find some investigators I use to teach in Vreed En Hoop but moved to Parika's area after I was transferred and was dropped because the Parika Elder's had a hard time getting on to them. The directions we received were as follows. Get onto a bus. Tell the conductor to drop you off at the the taxi service on the public road. Get in a taxi and tell him you want to go to the banana man and its the pink flat concrete house next to the Banana Man. We followed the directions but then the taxi driver took us to the wrong banana man. We spent over an hour looking for this pink house. The elder's said they would find them a different day now we know there are two banana men. 

We are still working with Mohamed. He has had a little bit of a rough life. He was born Muslim and his mom and him were homeless. A Hindu temple gave them shelter there until his mother committed suicide. He was taken into a foster home were they had many Pentocostal missionaries teach the kids the word of God and he decided to become a Christian. At the home however there were a lot of negative influences and by the time he was 18 he went to prison. Since he came out of prison he is trying to live a changed life. He came to church again on Sunday but seems a little confused and overwhelmed by everything. We are trying to get him to get more accustom to the different style of worship that he's not used to.

Its great to hear from you!

Love Elder Fisher

"Fisher" of men

Wow that sounds pretty sweet. Crazy week. 

You know I have never met this man you call Kenneth before. He better be as good as all of you say he is because I don't want any chump marring my sister. But in all seriousness its pretty great she is getting married. 
Last zone conference we studied about the temple and its a sweet place! Let me know about more details when you get them all figured out! Its pretty exciting. 

This week has been really good. We have been exceedingly good at dodging the rain. We didn't get soaked head to toe once and it has poured this week. Something really crazy that happened, yesterday at church we were going into Elder's quorum. The on going joke some of the members have here is that I am a "Fisher" of men and they like to ask me how many fishes have I caught. I said I hadn't caught too many this week but that I will next weekend with the Jairam boys. Brother Peter the man talking to me said well you better go talk to that guy then so you can catch more. There was a young adult sitting on his own that I hadn't really noticed before. I walked up to him. He told us his name is Mohamed, he's 20 years old and he lives in Patentia. The meeting started and after the meeting we got to talk to him more. He said he was on a bus and a women on the bus called for everyone's attention and began preaching the gospel. He said it got him so motivated that he decided he wanted to join a congregation. He used to go to Church of Christ on the east coast and has fellow shipped with Penticostal missionaries before. He didn't really know what this church was but he decided to come and check it out anyways. We set up a teaching appointment for Wednesday and we are really excited to begin working with him. 

Love Elder Fisher