Representing Canada

Susan's baptism went great. She's doing very well. We took her to the temple with our ward mission leader and a recent convert who's been struggling and everyone had a real uplifting experience. The members have been really nice and supportive and she is very happy to have found the Church. She will be a good member; She reads the Book of Mormon for two hours every day and looks up words in the dictionary and gets the meaning. Now we need to find more people like her. Elder Embulu is doing good. I think he was stressed with being a new District leader and preparing for the baptism. I still don't understand him sometimes but we're communicating more.

We try to work with the members a lot. We took Susan to a different member's home every time we taught her and now she knows a lot of the members really well and feels welcome in the ward. We are hoping to continue to bring her to members homes for dinner appointments. The members do an amazing job fellowshippig new members in the ward; we would just like to help the members to invite a friend of theirs. I'll talk to you all next week!

-Elder Fisher 

almost forgot. We're having a world culture activity in our ward and I'm representing Canada. Could you (anyone) send me a number of facts about Canada and a list of Canadian things?

Under Attack

Hello!

It was nice to talk to you yesterday. Things here are going good. Elder Embulu is very hard to understand sometimes, which has made it hard to get to know him. We've been pretty busy all week with moves and DLC and getting the iPads all set up as well as preparing for Susan's baptism coming up this Saturday. We've also got loads of exchanges coming up as this is a five week transfer and we need to get all the exchanges in. Then there's the zone conference coming up. This transfer will probably go by really fast. It feels like it's been a long time since I've led an area but it's been running smoothly so far. It usually starts off a little ruff but our days have been full and we haven't got lost. Our planning has been going well too. We'd like to take Susan to the temple before her baptism so we're trying to arrange things for that. Problem is the recent convert we were planning on asking for a ride is not doing too well right now and we don't want to over-book her. She recently lost her job and is very busy finding a new one. She's also really struggling with her testimony. But she still comes to church and the ward has been a great support.

-Elder FIsher

Skype

Hey how is everyone doing?

Things are going well. Moves is in a couple of days and I'm staying but my companion is moving. I will be getting a new companion named Elder Embulu. He's from Paris but his parents were from the Congo. Elder Goldsmith was companions with him before. 

Susan is still doing good. We have taken her to a different member's home each time we have taught her. It's great that she's meeting all these members and making friends. We're struggling to find new investigators but that's something we're going to have to work on.

We haven't got our iPads yet but we should get them this week. It's going to be very different although our missionary work will be the same. But all of our books and paperwork will be on our iPads and eventually we will be able to use Facebook. That will be really weird. We'll also be using them for e-mailing so i don't think we will be going to the Apple store to e-mail any more.

It takes too long to type stories. I actually have no time. My companion is rushing me to finish up.

I'll talk to you next week. On Skype.

iPads

Not much to say about this week. 
Things are going good. One of our recent converts in our ward is struggling because of some anti-material she came across while looking for the General Conference broadcast. She still comes to church and everything; she's just confused. She has such a huge desire to learn and absorb information. I've been praying really hard for her and this morning in my study I found a perfect Ensign talk for her to read. I think it will help her out a lot. 
Susan is doing amazing. She's preparing to be baptized on the sixteenth of May. She's progressing really fast and we may even be able to move the baptismal date closer but we'll see how things work out. She still smokes but she has cut down a lot. 
This week we will be receiving training for iPads. I still don't know much about it yet but the mission will be using iPads starting next transfer. Also this is my trainer Elder Johnson's last transfer so he will be going home next week. You may be able to see him soon.

Well it was nice to hear from you all again. Have you seen the new avengers? The members are telling us all about it. I'll bet Dad is exited for the new StarWars movie. There's a young kid in our ward who's training me to be a Jedi. He keeps calling me his apprentice and asking me how my training is going. Talk to you all next week.

-Elder Fisher

Plane Home

This week was good. We had a good exchange and we did a lot of contacting this week. Gilbert came to an activity so now we know he's still alive; He's jus very busy. It would be nice if he answered our calls and texts though. At least now we know that he sees our texts if he knew about the activity. We've got a new investigator named Susan and she seems nice. We're really trying to get the members involved and we've already got a perfect fellowshipper for her and we'll be teaching Susan at this members home. 
Apart from that we have done some service and have been trying to be in contact with the members more. Our new ward mission leader Pedro has been a big help. He's doing really good and I think with his help and with the great relationship we have with the Bishop we should be able to get the members more involved. 
Well there's not much else to say really. How does Mum like her new phone? Is she getting the new Apple Watch? They have them on display here at the Apple store; they look really cool. Very expensive though. Hope you all have a good week.

Oh by the way I leave on the plane July 22 for home.

-Elder Fisher

Relationship with God

We have had a busy week. We've done a lot of traveling for Zone Training, the musical fireside, conference, exchanges, and reaching some people that are too far to take a bus. I feel like I've spent most of this week on a train. Other than all the travel, I did catch a cold so I felt a bit miserable for a few days but I had to work through it and I'm feeling better now. I'm glad I decided to just work through it because we wouldn't have got much done this week otherwise. 
Unfortunately Dean dropped us this week and he and Kim decided they are not ready for baptism yet. I think Kim is the one making all the decisions and Dean just goes with it. We are all very confused and don't know what she will decide next. But they are in the sisters hands. 
We really want to focus on the members now and try to help them do missionary work. We're hoping this will eventually help us to get some investigators that we will teach more than once. 
We met this guy on the street from Romania. His name is Alin. We invited him to the Easter activity and he didn't show up but then he called us this week to meet up with him. He's a cool guy but teaching him was hard. He just wants to make some friends as he doesn't know anyone here. We're more than happy to help him make friends but he also made it clear that he's looking specifically for girls. We made it very clear that we're here to help him build a relationship with God and he appreciated that.

Hope you all recover from you'r holiday and have a good week!

"I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music."

-Elder Fisher

Motivation

So not much has happened this week but it ended on a good note. I've been feeling very positive even though I feel a cold coming that I'm not exited for. We seem to have found a lot of energy and motivation for contacting by the end of the week and have been able to meet lots of nice people we hope to meet again. We've also been busy with service. We helped a recent converts son fix up his old kit car. He told us about this cool car museum; apparently it has a bunch of cars from the TopGear challenges. Hopefully we have time to go some time; he said he'd take us but tickets are £20. Easter has made the las couple of days really busy with ward activities and general conference. General conference was really good; I got a lot out of it. It felt like a very comforting conference. I guess that makes sense as it was an easter conference. We have a new investigator and baptismal date named Dean and he's a referral from the sisters. He wants to be baptised but he struggles with the word of wisdom. There is also a lot of confusion about him and his partner's plans to get married. We've made it clear what they need to do to prepare for baptism (the sisters are teaching his partner) but they keep changing plans without letting us know. At this point we don't know what they're planning on doing. We haven't been able to see Gilbert (the man who thinks we glow) but hopefully we'll see him tonight at FHE. He hasn't got back to us on that. He's been busy but we're still in contact.

Looks like you had lots of fun in vegas. Hope you enjoyed your Easter!

-Elder Fisher