So we had our first fast Sunday (6TH) ! I had been
struggling, I thought "I'm not gonna get fat! I'll work out SUPER hard and
burn the fat right?" No, I ended up over exerting my arms and was so sore I couldn't touch my face for 4 days haha. Oh boy... I realized (because it hurt
to fold my arms) that I had never prayed so much in my life! I truly feel that I have come closer to Christ by learning how to bring the Spirit to the room
and help it to teach of the Gospel of our Savior. I was able to bless the
sacrament in German, goodness Ich Liebe Dies Sprach!!! It's leaking into my
journal haha our investigator from last week was named Charles. I cant remember
if I spoke about him, but we started teaching him in German the second day, we
invited him this last Friday morning to be baptized and set a date for a month
out, he came to our class that night and explained that he's actually our new
teacher haha so that was a trip. Our two new investigators are Brother
Charchighidim and Frederic. We will meet them on Monday.
7th Monday was a wonderful day, we planted a Buch Mormon
with Charles, we were so ecstatic and after walking out of the lesson My
Companion let me know I had given away his personal copy and not my own!!! He
committed to praying and reading and read 5 chapters the first night. I cant
wait for him to understand and step closer unto Christ!!!
8th Tuesday We had a service project at 6:40 am, so we had to
wake up an hour earlier, we cleaned one of the buildings and it was a lot of
fun! We taught Charles about prophets and the restoration. We confused him
because we didn't know the right vocab, so we worked hard the next day to
UN-Confuse him.
9th Wednesday we taught Charles more about Jesus Christ. The
Atonement definitely rung with him, after explaining Christ's Suehnopfer
(Atonement) he was very quiet and then our time was up. I felt the Spirit so I
know that is was a good quiet, because he was thinking about what that meant to him. We
sing every morning to get the Spirit, although ya'll would probably think German
wouldn't do that haha. We met an investigator from Germany that day, his name is
Johnathan, he is working here while he studies Linguistics at BYU. He feels God
does not answer his prayers. Jonathan is very sweet and I'd love to show him
Christ and His Heavenly Father DO love him, he just needs to open up more and
learn to hear the Spirit of God. As members we have this great gift, a pot of
gold, (the keys to eternal happiness) and it is so difficult when we go up to
someone we care about, grab an ingot of gold and try to hand it to them and
they won't reach out to accept the gift.
10th Thursday we spoke about the gifts of the Spirit. I
recognized that the gift of tongues works with my gift of understanding and
discernment. I understand much more German than I can formulate and it helped
me so much while I listened to Jonathan's life story. I have developed a great
love for the scriptures and read close to 10 chapters a day! I'm working through
a brand new copy of the Book of Mormon, marking spiritual lessons and writing
any inspired thoughts. Oh, a note in my journal (I'm reading it as I write this so I
don't forget anything) is that "the food here destroys the bowels". Also the backwards people of Utah believe in "Daylight savings
time"... apparently this Sunday we get one less hour of sleep...
11th 🎵Friday was yesterday,
it's the day we get ready for P! DAY! 🎵 Don't tell my
mission leader but I may have fallen asleep during scripture study on Friday
haha. I sit next to the vent, so if I lean back it blows on the back of my
neck... yeah I was out for an hour and a half haha but my German ist SEHR
GUT!!! and I'm loving the language. Again its leaking into my English. I miss
you all!!! I've got some pictures, we're always finding ways to tease or mess
around with each other, today we bowled with my 10 deodorant sticks and I tried
to pop a bag in Elder Knight's ear but I missed and ended punching him in the
face haha. We played soccer in the residence hall with a roll of tape.
I miss you all, this is the one for the blog, so Hi-ya
bloggies! I miss you, but I've gotta get back to serving the Lord!
Until next
week! Love Elder Fisher!!!
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Our District Left to Right:
Sister Alton "ShootPar", Elder
Morrison, Sister Earl "Sister Mom", Elder Knight "the
Goof", Elder Jensen "the King", Elder Fisher "Le Hunk"
(naturlich), Elder Andrewsen "the Serb", Elder Roemer "Muscle
Man" |
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| Awake for Scripture Study |
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| Asleep for Scripture Study "It happened ONE time!" |
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| Elder Knight with a clamp on his nose (I hold the record for longest suffering [greatest patience award]) |
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| Bowling with Elder Fisher's ten deodorants. |
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| Can he bowl a 200? |
