Hello everybody! Sorry for forgetting pictures last week.
This
week was crazy! On Wednesday we did the Pisca de Uvas, or grape
harvesting to turn them into raisins! The church has a huge vineyard
here in Madera, and every year during the harvest, all of the 8 stakes
here help out to harvest the grapes. I've heard about this my whole life
from my dad and was so excited to get to do it! Things I learned:
1) It's very messy, I was completely covered in dust
1) It's very messy, I was completely covered in dust
2)
It takes a lot of skill. All of our recent converts and two of our
investigators came and they did probably 20 tablas (sheets of raisins)
in the time I did 3.
3) SO MUCH FUN!
I
am amazed at how humble and sweet everyone here is. They all wake up at
3 in the morning to work in the fields every day, and then they came
back at 4 in the afternoon to work for another 3-4 hours just to serve
and help people who don't have food all around the world.
On
Saturday Hermana Feldman was sick, so I called a whole bunch of people
in the ward so we could go on splits, so she could stay and rest and I
could go out and teach. She ended up staying with our friend Maria, and I
went out and taught with Hna Sierra, who hasn't been to church in a
while, but we've been teaching her grandkids. She had never gone out
with missionaries before and it was such a sweet experience for her! We
also took one of the young women out with us, and she's preparing to go
on a mission. She doesn't speak a lot of spanish, but I translated for
her and I could just feel how strong her testimony was as I repeated
what she said. We had a miracle too. The key to our car is a bit finicky
at times, and usually when it doesn't work, we know we have to talk to
one more person. This happened saturday, and we kept knocking on other
doors but the car still wouldn't open. Finally I said we should pray
and the four of us all prayed together and then immediately when I
pushed the button the door opened!! Prayer works, I'm telling you all!
And it was so sweet for those two to have the experience of seeing
miracles of missionary work.
Also, this month
is going to be crazy. They counted up each companionship goal in our
zone for baptisms, and our goal as a zone is 33. And last month we had
4. Our leaders said that this is going to be the month that changes the
rest of our missions. We all fasted together yesterday and every night
every companionship is praying for every single one of those 33 people
by name. We're going to be exactly obedient, sacrifice, pray, and work
with members to accomplish this goal. We're so excited!
We
had transfers Tuesday. We got a new elder in Madera 3 - Elder Nelson
who's from Virginia. So every night at dinner it's two missionaries from
Chicago (I don't know if I ever mentioned this but Elder Mederos went
to Naperville Central, but we never met before), and two from Virginia.
YSA also got a new sister, Sister Buchanan, who's from Utah and is super
sweet! We really enjoy having them next door now.
Wednesday
we cleaned a member's yard and afterwords they fed us lunch, but the
elders couldn't go in because there wasn't a guy there, so we had a
picnic outside. Super fun!
Pictures: bertoldo's
baptism, Marinelo cookies, our picnic, the American missionary cars
(red, white, and blue), and Grape harvesting!
Love you all!
--
Hermana Marin Fisher
California Fresno Mission
1814 N Echo
Fresno, CA 93704
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