"Don't listen to that guy. He's trying to lead you down
the path of righteousness. I'm going to lead you down the path that rocks!"
Alright! I have been transferred to the Monroe Ward, in the
Charlotte South Stake. I am paired up with Elder Schauerhamer,
who has been out for 19 months. We live right across the street from the
church and we share the ward, but not our apartment, with the local
Spanish missionaries, Elder Ovalle and Elder Oviatt
(who came out with me.) Neither of us know the area, so we have a bit of
work ahead of us.
It is a good ward, though, and I am glad to be here. It's
ironic that I got paired up with Elder Schauerhamer, because, believe
it or not, I mentioned him in my second email in the field (entitled
"They WANT you to eat the rolls," for those of you with a good
memory). Almost a year later, I am companions with him. Crazy, huh? I now
can relate to John Bytheway. ("What kind of name is 'Bytheway?' "
"You're one to talk, Mr. Bathroom Tool!")
It was very interesting for me -- immediately after we were
assigned as companions at transfer meeting and sat down together, I had this
wonderful feeling of rightness from the Spirit, and that's never happened
before. I wonder why Heavenly Father found that necessary to do this time
around.
Anyway, we've been getting along well together. Elder Schauerhamer
is a very humble, down-to-earth missionary with a good heart. He has a great
desire to be exactly obedient and work hard -- two VERY good qualities to have
as a missionary. He always has this cheerful smile on his face and is unfazed
by rain or bad weather.
On Sunday a member invited us over for dinner. They were
giving us barbecued chicken legs. As a joke, the husband referred to them as
frog legs, and apparentlyElder Schauerhamer believed him. For the rest of
the meal we played along, getting him to believe that they really were frog
legs that we were eating. I'm pretty certain he still honestly thinks he had
frog legs for dinner.
This whole week has been a big game of Find the Less-Active
at Home, except this time around, we are on bikes. We met with a particular
recently activated sister on Saturday. She's getting her patriarchal blessing
on Wednesday, and she was a bit nervous about it because of several events in
her past. What a great blessing it was for me to be able to share my testimony
on that one! I was particularly hesistant to get my own patriarchal
blessing myself. I kept thinking to myself, "What if there's something
important in my life that he doesn't mention? Or what if he says something that
I know is way out there?" And I fretted and fretted and stalled.
When I finally got my blessing, though, I knew it was true, every word of it,
and that it had to come from Heavenly Father. So many parts of that blessing
have come true in beautiful and unexpected ways.
I actually shared my blessing with this sister, which is
highly unusual but I felt okay with doing it.
I testify that Patriarchal Blessings are true inspiration
from our Heavenly Father, and I would encourage each of you to read yours and
study it this week. They truly are wonderful.
Well, due to a variety of factors I am sadly out of time,
but I will have more to report next week. I love you all and I'm glad to be here.
The Church is true. Hurrah for Israel !
Elder Fisher
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