Saving Lives both Spiritually and Physically

This week was defiantly a memorable week for me, saving lives both spiritually and physically. 

Where to begin...

This week was interesting! We have been working hard preparing Victors baptism and most importantly him. 

Friday morning was a day that is note worthy. In the morning we biked to President Thakoor's house to get the church keys and start setting up for the baptism. After we finish there we make our way to our next appointment. On our way we bike around a corner and we see a man lying on the ground and he begins to have a cesure. He then rolled face down into a trench which is a ditch with water in it. Its what they use for a sewage system but this one fortunately wasn't a nasty one and wasn't very deep. We quickly jumped off our bikes ran over and with the help of another guy we pulled him out. Some ladies that were selling things around there were then able to help him out a little. 

Later that day we got a phone call from Elder Haake asking us if we saw anything suspicious at the church because it had been broken into and the speaker we have the mic system hooked up to in the sacrament hall was stolen. The police weren't able to come to the church until 9 the next day to investigate and it was around 5 pm at this time so we needed to get someone who president Thakoor trusted enough to look after the building. The only person who would do it was Victor but he had to be at work by 8 am. He came and guarded the building until President Thakoor could release him in the morning. He worked the half day and then came to his baptism at 2:30. The baptism went really well and so did church even without a speaker. I would send some pictures but we forgot our SD card reader. Sorry!

Elder Fisher

Time is Flying

Time is flying. Everything is going well here. 

I have not seen moko jumbie dancers like you asked but I do know jumbie means like a demon or a scary ghost. 

We had zone conference on Friday and then Berbice just had its district conference at the Canje building so i got to see all of the members  there. It was really nice. It was a lot of fun. There is a lot of work here too do. The church needs more help here. We got some more news on Trinidad. Right now there are 6 missionaries there. By October there will be 4 and by the new year there will be no missionaries there. The mission will still be called the Trinidad Port of Spain mission. The sad part is they won't even let Missionaries from Trinidad serve there. There was 2 sisters from Trinidad who had to be reassigned. 

I'm really glad Brandon did so well on his assignment. Tell him we could use his help here especially in Berbice. The good news about Trinidad closing is that Guyana will get all of those missionaries. This week was special because we had zone conference and district conference. After district conference I stayed a little longer in Canje and was able to do the baptismal interview for for Prakesh. I taught him all of the lessons but finally his parents are allowing him to be baptized. I am really excited for that. His baptism is set for May 5th. In his interview he said he knew Joseph Smith was a prophet because he read the book of mormon and prayed about it and felt good. He says when he goes to church he feels refreshed. I'm excited for him! I love you all!

Elder Fisher

Service Time

 I hope grandma does alright. That's kinda scary. Grandma I'm thinking of ya.

Well this week was pretty normal. Not too much happened. We were able to find a few new people to teach. We taught some lessons. Enjoying Bake's at Sister June's. 

We did some service moving some coconut tree logs in a pile to burn for a recent convert, sister Ann. We are having fun working here in New Amsterdam. 

Elder Wall was showing me some pictures of his family and I saw a picture of Brother Zuk. I asked if he was from Canada because he looked really familiar and he said yeah he's from the Crows Nest Pass. I was like hey that's in our stake! I knew he looked familiar! That's pretty cool you know his grandparents. Things are going well here.

Rasta's are interesting and there is no shortages of them here. Some are super chill and some are a little sketchy. I think its pretty cool. Bob Marley is a Rasta.

I hope you enjoy your week and everything about it!

Love Elder Fisher

Rasta named Michael

Hey!

The people here are great and life is going well. I got to meet a sweet Rasta named Michael. He told us to pull on his dreads and they felt like a rug. He was cool. He taught us a little about Rasta and we taught him a little about the restored Gospel. He said he has made a covenant and a vow with God that he can't cut his hair. He showed us the vow in the bible in Numbers 6:1-10. He said his hair use to be longer but then the police arrested him for cannabis use and cut his hair for identification reasons but he is trying to grow it back. You meet lots of cool and crazy people here.

This week has been fun. We spent most of the time in New Amsterdam but did spend a little time in Rosehall. Got some great hot dogs in our trio. 

We have been working hard preparing for our baptism and everything went really well. Everything fell right into place and the spirit was present through the whole process. It was really nice. Diana was able to bear powerful testimony both after the baptism and at testimony meeting of how the the gospel has changed her life. 

My companion is Elder Wall from Los Angles. he is really cool and we are having a lot of fun. His Dad is actually Canadian and from Taber. He says he has visited Canada a lot and is related to a lot of Jensen's there. We should see some more baptisms coming up here pretty soon!

Love Elder Fisher

Happy Easter

 

Hey

Well this week has been good.  We are working hard and enjoying the Easter season with lots of rain and sunshine. The weather has a hard time making up its mind.

On Thursday we got Transfer calls. I am staying and Elder Sanchez is being Transferred. My new Companion will be Elder Wall from California. Things should be good. I don't really know Elder Wall but I hear he is a pretty good missionary. He should get here on Thursday. I have Elder Eads and Elder Killian with me here right now as they await their new companions. We are trying to balance Canje and Rosehall's areas with ours but it looks like we will spend almost all of the time here in new Amsterdam because of the baptism we have on Saturday for Diana Thakoor. She is the branch President's niece and recently has been living next door to the Branch President with her Dad. She is doing well and has gained a pretty strong testimony in the few months we have been teaching her. Its pretty cool because I taught her the second lesson last transfer on an exchange and now I have taught her most of the lessons this transfer. We had her interview last night and it went really well. Elder Eads says it was really good. 

General Conference was awesome and I really liked it! This years sessions was actually the clearest on my mission. The audio worked and sounded clear so it wasn't hard to understand anyone and the internet only stopped working a couple of times! It was awesome. No interruptions during the solemn assembly. It was very spiritual and I received my witness that President Nelson is a prophet of the Lord. I really like the new ministering idea and I feel like its going to work a lot better here then home teaching and visiting teaching. 

There has been lots of loud music everywhere for the Easter weekend. Its an entire weekend celebration. During the day the music is blasting in all the church's and in the evenings its blasting in all the neighborhoods. Also whenever a holiday falls on Sunday it gets carried over to Monday that's why I couldn't email yesterday. We celebrated our Easter Monday at the church playing Domino's at our Easter Monday Branch activity, a very popular game here and enjoying food while all the kids fly kites. There's always kites in the air and its supposed to symbolize the assention of Christ into heaven. Its been good. Today we are doing our shopping and emailing because everything was closed yesterday. We are still working hard and staying busy all of the time. Love you all!

Elder Fisher

Good Spirit

Hi

This week has been good. 

We worked really hard to get Sister Geeta's baptism perfect and it went really well. We had pretty decent Branch Support and President Thakoor did everything very well with little to no help. This Sunday we had the confirmation and all we had to do was go over what president Thakoor had to say. It was his very first confirmation to do and so he was very nervous but once he started going, the spirit took over. The spirit was very strong in that room and people after thought we had helped him. I know that blessing he gave to his daughter was exactly what the Lord wanted him to say. After it happened he said he couldn't remember what he had said. It was really cool. 

Today we had our zone activity and we played soccer on a field next to the New Amsterdam public hospital and some Cuban doctors saw us playing so they joined us. It was pretty fun. 

Elder Sanchez is pretty good. We are having fun and working hard. We are preparing for our next baptism on on April 7th. 

OH and tell Grandma and Grandpa happy 50th anniversary. That's pretty cool.

Here is a picture of Sister Geeta's baptism and a picture of a wonderful steak meal we had after the Baptism. We found a barbecue that sells stake every Saturday for only $2000 GYD. It was fantastic. 

Elder Fisher 

18 month mark

Hey!

Things have been good here. Nothing too crazy. Just doing the usual.

Wow it sounds very eventful there at home. Sounds like its been quite the week for WCCHS. Its great to hear how provincials are going.

I am glad you liked the picture of me on Facebook I will  try to continue to get classic picture of me on our mission page. 

 We have been working with lots of people and the work is a little slower here. I didn't realize how important reading was until I came to a country were a quarter of it cant read. It makes me feel smarter though! Its been interesting but fun. Especially in Berbice where the literacy rates are much lower. Maybe that would help kids want to read more when they learn how important it is to learn to read and be strong readers.

By the way the Haake's are awesome. We are working hard and preparing them for a baptism this coming Saturday. We have also been teaching and preparing Sister Geeta Tuckoor for baptism. She is the Branch presidents daughter and she finally feels like she is ready to take this step in her life. She is really cool. Her Boyfriend is really understanding and has moved back in with his parents so that she can be baptized. We are also now teaching him as well. His name is Victor. He is progressing really well. The only problem is if he can't get a job here soon he will have to work on a farm out in the bush where there is no church. He taught us that you must overstand the plan of salvation and not just understand it. We are trying to find new people here but they aren't quite as welcoming as in Canje. Still really good and everyone seems to follow through with their commitments a lot better here. I'm not too sure what the change is since the two towns are so close. Its been fun though. 

Elder Gibson and I celebrating our 18 month mark last Wednesday at Zone conference.

Elder Fisher