April 25, 2016 Soccer

got to play soccer today!! it was super chill and fun, we played against some of the members here that got a little team together hahah it was pretty fun! able to get a nice little run in there to lose some of the weight i got coming on the mission;)

other than that we are working hard with this family that been coming to church to get them baptized on jun. 5! they are excited! they are super young too!! the guys like 23, and shes like 21 or something.. but its nothing like BYU.. like thats pretty weird here.. 

but they are awesome! they are bringing their little brother to church too and he wants to be baptized too!! haha its super funny actually.. there was some girl that came up to the other missionaries i was talking with on sunday, and she just says "can you guys baptize me? ive been coming to church for a long time and i want to be baptized." so it just kinda reminded me how blessed i am to be serving here! its a great place with some amazing people!!

also we should be having like 5 people baptized this weekend for our area with a total of like 40 here in the zone!! should be a big one! we'll take some pics and youll see the harvest.!

but this week went great, everything is great! today i drank some water that im not sure was filtered.. we'll see how the rest of this day goes...

stay classy.

Elder Fuchs

April 18, 2016 8 MONTHS OUT

16 months out 8 to go!!

wait.. no i still got 16.. 

well time has been going by quick and it gets faster every week! and the amount of email i get just gets even lower!! so safe to say i am loving it here.

but this week was really good we got a tooon of investigators to church! all you gotta do is like.. invite them to church.. funny how that works..

but we are definitely going to work and try and keep these fams progressing! 

if you wanna know at all what the new area is like.. just look up this verse in mosiah 3;7

it'll tell you just how i feel as soon as i walk out the door everyday.

also i was reading a great talk by elder eyring called the priesthood man. if you havent read it. do it today! its amazing! it talks about 3 things any priesthood man needs!

1. a pattern of prayer

2. a habit of service

3. a rock-hard decision of honesty

it is one of my favorite talks!

well not too much happened this week, we had another great family night last night and i lost the game we played in the end and so i had to dance around while they sang and clapped.. so  if your lucky one day you might be blessed to see that video;)

also we met a guy named sabonete .. and in portuguese that translates to 'bar of soap'

better than wet wipes i guess.. 

have a great week! stay healthy! say your prayers!

Elder fuchs

April 11, 2016 First Week in Beira

Everything is going well in the north of Mozambique!

sat with a looot of new families this last week and trying to keep visiting them and get them to come to church! we had a few investigators come to church to watch conference and they really liked it!

everything is like 100x more humid and sweaty here, but it has been raining and its been pretty cool these past few days here. not too much news other than what ive already said. 

but while i was at conference, i brought some crackers, and every time i grabbed another cracker there was this lady sitting infront of me that would turn around and look straight at my crackers. this happened for about 5 minutes. then another speaker came on and literally started his talk with, "i was an hungered, and ye fed me."   

but long story short. she didnt get any crackers.

also during my studies this week in alma 62 verses 4, and 5.

it talks about how moroni was traveling to this city far away, and as he was traveling he would pass through other smaller cities. but wherever he went he had a high standard, and didnt tell people what he believed but he showed them, and because of his example, "thousands did flock unto his standard"  then in verses 9, 10 it just talks about how anyone who didnt follow he executed.. but what im sayin is that, we like moroni can have a standard and know who we are and what we want to be. if we can figure out those things for ourselves we will be able to stay firm in the things we believe in and keep the covenants we make regardless of the situations we may find ourselves in.

because wherever you go, whether you want to be or not, you are an example, for good or bad!

have a great week! bring a friend to church! (not a member)

elder fuchs

April 4, 2016 NEW AREA NEW COMPANION

so i dont have too much time

 but i did get a new area and a new companion!

both are super cool , he is from zimbabwe and has been on the mission for just one transfer less than me. still dont have a pic of us together but ill take one this week and send it!

and the area, compared to where ive been before is like straight up jungle! 

nothing too crazy this week! but a lot of new things! finding some new people and getting it started in this new area:)

hope you all have a great week! 

go to the temple!

Elder Fuchs

March 28, 2016 BIRTHDAY WEEK

im a 19 year old MAN. 

This week was my birthday on the 25th! and some of the guys in my house woke up early and my companion elder payne made me a ton a french toast and hashbrowns and all that hahaha so it was a good day!

for those of you who have served missions you know that holidays and birthdays and really just like any other day that you have here.. hahaha its kinda sad. but thats what i signed up for! hahah but we did celebrate with some milkshakes and some good stuff like that. 

but we also had a baptism this saturday and everything went great! its amazing how prepared some people are! they came up to us one sunday and the wife said " hey i have a husband who wants to get baptized so we can go to the temple. and we are married legally and i am a member already." so i tried not to pee my pants when i heard that. but anyway. he got baptized this week and will be confirmed next week because he came late cuz his car wouldnt start on sunday.. i guess the devil still works on easters.

but MIRACLE happened this week. so last week we were supposed to have a 23 year old man confirmed because he had been baptized like a month ago and he couldnt get confirmed because of the conference we had with the apostle and because of stake conference. and he didnt show up the day he was going to be because he had heard some stuff from a afriend at school the day before and decided not to be a member of the church anymore. but this week we visited him and just bore testimony of the truth of the church and the prophet. then later we took him to a family night we were having. and after when we got home we got a text telling us he was ready to be confirmed a member of the church the next morning!!!  and i even got to assist in his confirmation. he has decided to start his mission papers and to go on a mission as soon as he can! he is one of the smartest people i know! and im happy for him! 

moral is we might all have questions about things we might not agree with or things we dont completely understand and no one can give us a sure answer! 

as long as we know the bigger questions and have the answer to those from the spirit, the liittle things, dont even matter.

in the words of elder callister " i can live with some human imperfections in the leadership of the church, i can live with some questions others may present, time will answer those, i can live with that. but i cannot live without the saving ordinances the church gives. i cannot live without being sealed to my family for eternity."

so as long as we know what we believe, nothing else really matters!

have a good week and make sure when you say your prayers, ask what you can do better! ... it works.

ps. im being transferred

elder fuchs 

March 21, 2015 7 months and 19 Years!

Well this week was good, a few downers on a couple investigators but nothing that wont turn out well:)

but this past week i hit 7 months out on the mission and this week i will turn 19 ! whaaaat.

but here on the mission.. nothing is really different on your birthday or christmas... like.. you still work and stuff and cant celebrate... so..

anyway. things are great but i dont have any time at all anymore so i just want to invite you all to read a talk by Tad R. callister called : the blueprint of christs church.

literally the greatest talk ever. anyone who ever has a question about anything to do with the church and want to know why and how we do things. read this talk. 

its amazing!!!

have a great week! love you guys!

S/O to emily mcgee going to MESA, AZ on her mission!!

March 14, 2016 Lost boys #found

doing some contacting this last week we stumbled on a home where they said the missionaries had already passed some time ago but her brother was a member of the church

we thought it was weird because there were no members in that area that we had ever known of so she told us to come by the next day so that we could be able to talk with him and when we came back the next day he said that he had never been baptized but he had been going to church over the past year and a half with about five of his other friends that never got baptized either 

we asked if he could show us the other kids and get to know them really quick and he did! so we had a lesson with them and they said they wanted to before but i guess the missionaries back in the day thought they were all members or something so they never got the opportunity to get baptized

and they asked what they had to do to get baptized and when they could do it
Well we werent really expecting that but we taught them the restoration and gave them the baptismal date of April sixteenth! so around this time next month we will be having their baptism!

also we had a really funny lesson with Joao and Angelina we were just supposed to be there for about fifteen minutes but we ended up being there for a little longer than an hour! they decided to like tell us their entire life story and how they met and about all their kids and then we discussed how they could get married faster and it was nice hahaha its always a miracle and nice to see when an investigator you are teaching brings up the thing about marriage and baptism! 

we had a great week this week and i hope you guys did too!
if you are bored this week EMAIL ME cuz i miss you guys!

pray that i can find some sugar cane this week!

Elder fuchs

(computer wouldnt let me upload pics this week sorry)