Deep Fry Stuff

Hey everyone.

It's been another good and busy week. We've been mostly busy visiting less actives. One of them came to church this week which was nice. The reason why she doesn't come is because she's deaf and she needs someone to sign for her. 

We also spend half our time walking, and there are lots of up hill roads and paths here. It's exhausting in the hot weather. Today has been rainy so we decided to stay in and deep
fry stuff. It was good but now we're feeling a bit disgusting. I'll
show you some pictures of what we made. 

We didn't see Jacob this week; he's been busy and hasn't been answering our calls. He's in the middle of moving right now, but he's not moving back to Sweden yet. Not until
August. We started teaching a lady named Kate and she has a baptismal date for the eleventh of July. She was taught before and has been to church but she stopped coming and stopped investigating because of some concerns. But when we called her she was exited to meet with us and explained how she's overcome her concerns and wants to feel closer
to God. She came to church this week as well. 

Bexhill and Hastings is pretty nice. Bexhill is apparently the birthplace of British motor racing. Maybe you could look up some interesting things about Bexhill/ Hastings and let me know. I'm sending a video we took earlier today, a picture from our flat, and a picture of me and my companion and Elder Holland. I'm on the left and my companion is shaking his hand. 

Also,Dad, how did you get your katana swords home from your mission? Is there anything you'd like me to look for to bring you home? Happy Father's Day and I'll talk to you next week.

Bexhill

Hey folks!

The weather here has been really nice apart from this morning, but
it's supposed to warm up in the afternoon and the sun is supposed to
show.

Hastings is really nice. I'm living in the Bexhill area right on
the coast of the English Channel. We sometimes go jogging on the beach
for morning exercise. I think we were planning on having a BBQ on the
beach eventually with the district on a p-day where the weather is
nice. Don't worry I'm not treating this as a holiday; in fact we've
been really busy. We've been doing a lot of service this week. But the
area is lovely. I'll send some pictures next week as none of them are
on my iPad. The ward is pretty small but everyone is really nice. We
have an investigator named Jacob who's really cool. He's been taught
everything but he just isn't very confident about his testimony and
doesn't feel ready for baptism. Elder Westra is a really nice guy.
He's 26 years old and he's been out for just over a year. He's from
Holland. His English is very good. We get along really well.

The 22nd is the date that I get on the plain. I haven't received
the letter with my travel plans yet but I'll give you the information
as soon as I have it.

Elder Westra and I have had some really good teaches together.
Especially the one with Jacob. He just needs to recognize the spirit.
We often make plans for a lesson and then completely change what we
teach because we both have a strong feeling that they need something
else. It's always important to follow the spirit to teach to their
needs.

The Elder Holland conference was really good. He talked a lot about
how his mission really meant a lot to him. He also reminded us how
important it is to teach with power and authority and that obedience
helps us to have the spirit as a companion as we teach. We all got to
shake his hand as well.

I hope you all have a lovely week and enjoy the weather. Talk to you
next week! I'll take a picture out of the café right now to send you.

Hastings

This transfer was a five week transfer. It went by fast. I found out that I'll be moving today to Hastings for my last transfer. I will miss this area. I had a good relationship with a lot of people here and will miss them but I'm exited to work in my new area. I hope I can make an impact in that area with the short time I have to be there. My new companion will be Elder Westra. I've met Elder Westra before and he seams like a cool guy. I've heard good things about him. I'm sure we'll work good together. 

Khai Thu is moving back to Canada now. We'll try to get his new address and refer him to the missionaries in Montreal. Susan is still doing amazing. She came to a broadcast we had yesterday at the steak center from Scotland where Elder Holland gave a really good talk about the Book of Mormon. She really enjoyed it. I'm exited to see him on Friday at Hyde Park.

We went to Farnborough on Saturday with the whole district and drew the plan of salvation on the ground with chalk at the town center. It was fun and we came across someone we recognized.

Hope you all have another lovely week and I'll talk to you next week.

Mom get better

So we've been doing a lot more contacting but we want to try to have more effective contacting. There aren't very many people on the streets here and people don't seem to be home too often when we knock. We want to contact in the town center more where there are a lot more people to talk to. We'll also continue to stop by a number of former investigators and less actives. We also need to work on our approaches. There are a number of things we want to work on and I hope we'll be able to improve.

The cultural activity went well. We had a few people cancel on us but we had a pretty good turn up. It was fun. I'll talk to you next week. Hope Mom gets better.

Thanks for the birthday wishes

Our days are going a bit slower now but we're doing our best to keep busy. Kai Thu came back to church on Sunday. He disappeared for a while and we thought he must have moved back to Canada or Vietnam or something. Turns out he was just sick. We don't know what to do with him but we will start teaching him again and hopefully figure him out. We may consider using our iPads to Face-Time the Chinese Elders if that might help. He also speaks French but I'm not sure how well; Elder Embulu can try using French on him. We'll just try to communicate to him in every language he knows. I'm not sure if it's a language barrier problem. We just have a hard time understanding his concerns. We've been stopping by a lot of less-actives and finding people along the way. A lot of them have moved but we talked to our Bishop and he gave us a good list of people to stop by. Susan is still doing well. She gets along really well with everyone. It's like she's been coming for years.

Our iPads are nice but there's not a lot we can do on them yet. We still don't have Facebook and we don't have the aria book/ planner app yet. We can do other things but it's very restricted. We've got the gospel library app and we can e-mail and Face-Time when we have wi-fi. We can also show videos from church websites but that's about it.

I loved the birthday video that Mum made! It made me want to watch the movie. Thanks for everyone who wished  me a happy Birthday. I didn't really do much this year. We didn't make a massive sandwich or anything. Thank you also for the interesting Canadian facts. Maybe if you could send me a list of things that come from Canada or people who are Canadian. I'll need it by Saturday. We can check our e-mails before then. I'll make some poutine for people to try but I've never seen cheese curds here so I'll have to just use normal cheese. It will be fun! We've got some exiting things coming up. On the 12th of June Elder Holland will be coming to Hyde Park Chapel and President Millar is trying to get the entire mission there to hear him speak.

Good to hear from you all!

-Elder Fisher

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