Happy Birthday Feast

Hello people!

Thanks for your birthday wishes. I'm e-mailing today because yesterday was ANOTHER bank holiday. I'm sure everyone loves bank holidays except for missionaries. I did get Grandpas birthday card. I did not get the cake yet but I'm sure it's on it's way. I've been having cake at other peoples houses lately so it's good that I have time to digest it before more cake arrives. The Thaires had me over for my birthday and we had cake and their kids made me a really nice card. (as seen below)

The Stimsons (Martin and Steph) also gave us some cake a few days before. They are doing good. Martin has cut his drinking in half and Steph has quit and is working on quitting smoking.

It's been a long week. I can hardly remember what we did this week. The beginning of the week has been hectic and busy but then it really slowed down so everything seems all jumbled up in my head.

The poster I told you about a few weeks ago is done. I'll send some pictures in another e-mail. Credit to Elder Brown for all the pictures this week. 

Actually there are a lot of pictures this week. Mostly from yesterday. We spent the whole p-day celebrating and cooking up an epic birthday meal. We have no more money for the rest of the month because we spent it all on this one meal. Remember that sandwich Braedon and I made? I told Elder Brown about it and he wanted to try it. But we decided to make it even better. We also added some stuff on the side. We took plenty of pictures so those will come in another e-mail as well. I've only got 9 minutes left so we'll see if I can get them ready for this week. If not you may have to wait for next week. But here's a McLaren.

Tell me if you get the joke.

Birthday Feast  --   The ingredients.

The process begins. Two quarter pound patties (one beef, one chicken) with cheese between and then wrapped in 7 strips of bacon.

next we batter and deep-fry the whole thing.

Now follow along as we put it all together.

completion!

The final product. complete with deep fried twix, snickers, and ferrero rocher. Elder Brown actually finished his!

Blessings From On High

Note from the editor:

OK before I go into Brandon's letter.......I am getting the blog done very early because its a holiday Monday and i don't have to wait till after work to do it. (This wont be the norm from now on)  This blog is a King Lamoni story in a smaller scale. Read the story in the Book of Mormon. (Alma chapter 17,18,19) The missionaries go into an area with no investigators, teach the king and because everyone knows the king many are taught. Like I said in a smaller scale though) Also a great story of the Lord providing for his servants. Note whenever you see some brackets (..........) that's my comments

Enough of me ......No on to Elder Fisher's letter.

Hey there everyone.

I love the idea of the retro photo each week. (We are starting to send Elder Fisher pictures of the kids way back, funny pictures that may had been forgot...1 or 2 each email) Still haven't got a camera but I'll look for one today.

This week was a pretty good week. We had a lot of people at church on Sunday. Still working with Martin and Steph. They will take some time to progress because of the many concerns but they are doing good and are still feeding us. Most of our investigators that we are teaching right now came from them. They seem to know everyone. We met a less active through them and she's trying to turn her life around. She came to church and really enjoyed it and she's reading her scriptures like crazy. We have other really good potential investigators as well that we are trying to set appointments with. Many of them are busy. We managed to meet one this week finally named Dean. He approached us on the street! It was like two months ago but we finally got in contact with him. We later found out that he knows Steph. He wants to become a missionary and asked what he had to do. We told him we could help him but he's moving to Australia soon. Hopefully we can teach him everything before then and if not the missionaries in Australia will have to take care of him. 

We have a pretty busy week planned ahead of us. The past couple of weeks have gone by fast. This area is starting to come alive. Hopefully I can walk fast enough...

We went to the Davanzo's this week for the second time. They are members within our ward boundaries but they go to a different ward so we decided to get to know them. They are super nice! They love to feed us. After we left their house we got a call from them. 

-Sister Davanzo said "Elder Fisher how many pairs of shoes do you have?" 

-I said "One good pair."

-"And I'm guessing they're not the ones you were wearing today are they?"

-"Actually they are."

-"Come back to our house as soon as you can."

After the appointment we had at the time we stopped by on the way home. They gave me two new (hardly used) pairs of shoes and £30 to buy another pair. They didn't notice my busted camera though...

Please continue to have fun and I'll talk to you next week!

Happy Mothers Day

Thank you to the members over there in Crowthorne who allowed Elder Fisher and Elder Brown to use their Ipad so that we could spend an hour Skyping Elder Fisher. He looks so good and so happy. He said he doesn't miss home and he's doing very well.
For those who are wondering, he has No English accent so far. Still sounding Canadian. It was great to see him so happy. It was even nice to see his companion Elder Brown and chat with him. Very nice gentleman.

Because we had an hour to talk with him he only sent pictures to us Sunday so here's the pictures.

The Thairs kids and I...: seeing who can make the scariest face:

Me with the puppies! We are so cute together. If you don't love puppies you are in fact a villain.

Below is the best breakfast I've ever made: Chocolate pancakes with strawberries  banana, and chocolate milk to drink.

And here is the most epic picture I've taken so far with my camera. Also the last picture I took before it broke. Possibly too epic for my camera to handle. View with caution.

Mothers Day

(Sorry everyone for being late with Brandon's Blog. With the holiday over there and Justin's rugby game here i haven't been able to get it posted till now.) 


Hey so............was another bank holiday so the library was closed. That's why I'm e-mailing today. 

I'm excited for Sister Fisher's mission! I'm so exited! When does she report to the MTC? I guess I can get all the details when we Skype on mothers day. We will have to do it in the morning before church (for you). It will be after church for me. Probably 2:00 here and 7:00 where you are. I hope that works. Some members will be bringing a laptop/iPad to the church for us to Skype on after the meetings.

I enjoyed hearing about Shelly Hill's acquaintance in Lethbridge that has a sister that lives over here. Sounds like Sister Lynnstickles? who takes our Book of Mormon class. We have a Book of Mormon study class every Sunday at 4:00 for members and investigators. Maybe something you can try at the Claresholm ward. We've been trying to get more activities for people to bring their friends at the Bracknell ward and we've been asking members for ideas and encouraging them to organize it (because us missionaries can't really do much organizing). Do any of you have some good ideas? One thing our ward does is a monthly quiz night. Elder brown said his last ward did a monthly fitness night. I thought that would be a cool idea.

I've been working on a sketch on my free p-day hours and Elder Brown's sister does art on the computer so we're getting her to colour it and we will make a poster. Hopefully next p-day we'll have time to take it to a printing place.

 I'm curious to know if you've all been checking out the areas I've served in on Google maps street view much. Check out some of the houses in Finchhamstead. I think Ringo Star lived in one of those houses. You can check up on that though. Talk to you on MOTHERS DAY!

Out of time now. See you Sunday!

A better picture of the trailer..