August 3, 2010

Family,

This week was good. nothing like last week but still it was way good. we baptized three young who have a great desire. they live far from the church but they went to church in the morning and were baptized and then at night to be confirmed. it was good. and this week we will probably baptize there parents!!! the loved the baptism of their children and now are wanting to make the same decision. the work is going great!

this week i learned alot about the sacrament and how its the most important thing that happens on the earth except in the temple. and that we need to be 100 percent reverent during. we need to act during the sacrament meeting how we would act if the body of Christ was on the table. because really his body is on the table. and if we arent thinking about the sacrifice of Christ we are not worthy to partake of it.

im so grateful for all that i learn on the mission. im going to us these things for the rest of my life. its awesome


well i dont have much else to say. i love yall and miss yall

until next week

elder fletcher

July 27, 2010

family,

this week was awesome we baptized 2 men and a family very very special that is making plans to go to the temple in one year. im so freaking happy for them. this was an awesome week. oh so we had transfers and i stayed in sousa!!! i wanted to stay so bad!! and i got my wish. 5 transfers in the same city!! i came here in the start of feburary and ill leave here at the end of september or maybe october!!!!! i love the people here. they have grown to be my second family. i almost cried just thinking that i would leave this area yesterday!!! haha. oh but wait... the biggest news there is... i dont know if you guys remember. but ever since feb. i have been teaching a man named jailson.. remember?? well.. he was finally baptized. it took 5 months but it finally happened. i cried like a baby haha. it was the best night of my life. i got to baptized someone that i truly thought i never would and only a HUGE miracle would allow him to be baptized. but i witnessed a true miracle. it was amazing!!!

im sending some pics for you to see him. but this transfer we have about 4 familys that can be baptized. we are going to have to work our butts of to acheive this!!! pray for me to be able to baptized the families that we are currently teaching. well im coming close to the 4th quarter.. just a few more days and ill have 1 year and 6 months. im not ready to come home. i feel like i have a crap load to do before feb. work work work. its all i do and ill i want to do. thanks for all the support. i love each and every one of you so much. im doing good here. keep doing what yall is doing!!!
love

elder fletcher


1st pic my zone with sister hall!!!

2nd pic i baptized this entire family except the husky woman

3rd pic baptism of JAILSON!!!!!!!!!!!

4th pic an eternal family!!!!!

5th pic some of my bestest friends. my second family!!!

6th a few young men that we baptized. future missionaries

7th pic a very shy man. i love him

8th pic one more future missionary

July 20, 2010

family,
rex is going to have surgery!! how crazy. i hope all goes well with him i wanted to see him at least one more time before he dies. haha im kidding.but ill pray for him now...

This week we had interviews with pres. hall. with pres. fernandes the interviews were 2 minutes long. but with pres hall its 15 minutes. its awesome because its a conversation with love instead of an interagation! this week we baptized a boy very special. he has desires to serve a mission. and after i baptized him he said to me.. just 2 more steps holy ghost and endure to the end. and ill be saved. i told him that the last step is harder than all the others and its going to be a challenge. he said the challenges will help him grow more closer to God. it was a great feeling to hear this.and this week we will baptize 2 families!! me and my companion are excited and so are the families. and on saturday theres gonna have a wedding reception. we already paid 50 (reais) last week and we have to pay 75 more this week but its so worth it. Id rather baptize families than eat. ha but i have tons to eat.

i only have 7 more months to give it my all. im almost in the 4th quarter. everyday i need to improve spiritually. i dont want to have regrets after the mission. ``i gotsta give it all i has!!!´´

i love u all!!! this church is true... we have a living prophet on the earth and a god who loves us. Christ is his son who died for all humanity. of this i have a surety.

love
elder fletcher

July 13, 2010

family!

this week i got to know president hall. wow he is so awesome!!! nice loving smart and ready to work his butt off!! i got my package! mom thanks for everything that you sent. oh i loved that blender cup thing. i use it everyday. its good because after a hard days work its real hard to make a shake in the blender but now i just put it in the cup and shake. thanks.. and the missionaries loved there things. they said thanks and sent a big huge to you and gave me the money. i will use its as a reserve fund and use it when i dont have any money.

but this week we did splits with the presidents son. and we got to work with him. it was awesome. they are coming this week to do interviews. im excited to see them again. but this week we didnt baptized unfortunately. it was the first time in 11 weeks that i didnt baptize. but its all good cuz in the next two weeks we will baptize 2 families!


the work is great and im doing great. those reeses peanut butter cups gave me a physical boost. haha.

ummm i dont know what else to say. i cant remember what i wanted to tell you guys. keep strong in the faith and yall be blessed.

love

elder fletcher

July 6, 2010

family,
this week was good. we found 26 new investigators including 8 familys!! im working harder then i have in a long time. we baptized this week and we have 2 families to baptize in two weeks!! im way excited. so this week we had a change of presindents and president hall is finally here. and he and his wife are coming to my city tomorrow and he is going to do a division with us!! its going to be way awesome. and also i will probably recieve my package tomorrow!!! i hope that is has arrived.

so the work here is crazy. we are killing ourselves physically. but its the best feeling ever arriving at home each night dead tired. it makes you feel like you gave it your all! this week we made goals to contact tons of men that can be priesthood holders. we are just looking to baptize men and families. i know that the Lord will help us find good people to teach. i made a goal to read the book of mormon 3 more times on the mission. im in mosiah. im going to finish, then the next time i read ill read it in spainish and for the las time in english. i have already read it 5 times on the mission and i have learned so much. if i had known the power that this book had i would have read it everyday as i child and teenager. it truly has changed my life completely. the book of mormon and the spirit made me the person i am today. not that im a good person but made me way way better at least. i know without a doubt that it was written by prophets of god that lived here in the americas. i know that alma heleman nephi mormon moroni amon king bejamin lived and were called of God to do his work. joe smith did not write it, but truly translated it. and he was called of god to do exactly that. anyone who is reading this letter can know the same thing i know. you just have to read and ask god. its so simple. i love this gospel. i love the people in brasil. i love teaching them about the truth. its the best feeling ever!

i love you all and i know i can live with you all for ever and ever!!

thats the best knowledge i have!

love

elder fletcher

June 29, 2010

family!

this week was real good. we had the dedication of the new chapel and it was the last time that i will see president fernandes. this wednesday president hall will arrive. its crazy. but yeah we stayed in the chapel this week and when the people came to visit we showed them around and then we had a room where we taught the first lesson. its
was awesome. i literally taught the first lesson more then 50 times this week. its was awesome and the spirit was way strong because we were in the house of the lord. but yeah. im loving the work. i love teaching the gospel of Christ. i know that it is the only true gospel of this earth and on any other. this knowledge is worth everything that i have passed and went through in my life. i know without a doubt that this church is true. everyday i learn more about the truth and i
learn from teaching other people. this week we found a family very special. i hope that all goes well with them. the man of the family has a huge desire to know more about the truth.

im starting to realize that my time is fading away. i dont want this to end i only have 8 more months to spread the word of the true church, just 8 to be a full time missionary of my Savior, just 8 to work my butt of to help the lost children of God. actually i have more then 8, i truly have a life time but only 8 to do it all day every day. pray that i can be a better insrtument in the Lords hands and that i can be more faithful loving and obedient. thanks for the love and support.

elder fletcher

p.s. usa lost and people are giving me a hard time. haha. pray that brasil wins the cup so they dont kill all the foreigners!!!

June 22, 2010

family!

this week was good. the work is going great. we hade our last
sacrament meeting in the old church and we will be moving to the new
chapel this week. everyone is excited to visit the new church and so
we will have like thousands of people to teach this week. Oh and
during this week we are going to sit in the chapel and teach all the
people that are going to visit the chapel during open house. im so
excited.

but yeah so this week we baptized and taught tons! its was real good.
and im with my new companion who is adapting real well with the
mission life. its one of the most difficult things but he is doing
great. his name is actually elder vicente and he is from porto alegre.
he has 6 days in the mission field. i have been blessed to train two
missionaries and both of them have been awesome missionaries that
adapted quickly. there are some that take months to adapt. i havent
tooken a pic of the chapel yet but next week i will send you guys some
pics!! the people we are teaching didnt want to go to church yesterday
becasue brasil was playing and everyone wanted to stay home and watch.
im not kiddin when i say that a regular soccer game of the brasil
national team is bigger then the superbowl. its crazy. and not to
mention that im in a small city, eveyone says its crazier in a real
big city.

i love you all. i dont know what else to say..

love
elder fletcher

p.s. the gospel is true.

June 15, 2010

Family!!

in this moment i am very happy. we got transfers last night and i was thinking that i would be transfered. but im going to stay here in sousa at least one more transfer. and im going to train a new missionary.. elder de saints. its been 3 transfer with the same companion so im glad for a change. my companion elder barbosa stayed in the city with me but he was called senior companion of another missionary. so everyone is happy. oh and im going to be here when the new chapel is ready and so everyone is going to visit the church and we will have SOOOO much work to do. im certain that this will the the hardest transfer of the mission but also the best.. im so excited. oh and in two weeks president hall from AZ gets here!! its going to be way different.

in a little bit im going to the bus station to pick up my companion and then we will go to work!! ive never been so excited to do the work of the lord then i am right now. i dont have much to say today but on monday i should have tons to say!!


i love you all

elder fletcher

p.s. ill send pics today okay?!!

the first pic is me with elder gomez barbosa and r. araujo and a donkey

second is me andd elder barbosa

thrid is us with 10 liters of ice cream

the forth is me and a cow that got stuck in the canal. i dont know how!!!

May 25, 2010

family,

this week was so good. we had conference and i learned so much about
what i need to do to be a better missionary. im so grateful to have a
president that is inspired by god. im truly going to miss him. however
im excited for the change of presidents to be able to learn more from
a different perspective. this week we baptized 3. we had success
because we changed what we were doing and tried something new and the
lord blessed our efforts. we have a family that we are going to
baptized in a month, i hope i can be here to baptized them but i think
i will be transfered. its going to take awhile to baptize them because
they have to get married. but whether or not im here when they get
baptized i will be happy.

i learned alot this week about the importance of my calling and how i
need to always try to be better everyday to be worthy of this amazing
work.

oh will someone let me know what is going on with az and the mexcians??

im going to send pics..

oh mom you are going to like this... i bought protein powder and i
already gained couple pounds. i am doing exerises in the morning and
its helping alot...

so this week we are going to baptize a guy that couldnt be baptized 4
weeks ago because of something that he had done in his past.. but he
will be baptized this week because president is coming to sousa and he
will be able to be interviewed by president.. so he will be baptized.
i feel like we are helping more people and helping them truly
understand what this gospel means. im so grateful to be here. thanks
everyone for the love and support!!!


love

elder fletcher

the first one is the first vision. im the black joe smith

the second is s sign in a church here that says that all the peopke
must pay more than 50dollars of tithing.. apostasy

third is me on a bridge

the fourth is a crazy man that we saw at a dinasour park

and the last is the baptism of this week..