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