The devil came back. Remember several weeks ago we were out knocking on doors when we happened to knock on the devil's door. It was such a frightening experience. (I wrote about it in an earlier letter ). On Tuesday Stan and I we're returning from our morning hike through the forest. As we walked up to our apartment  building, he (the devil man) was standing there. Can't tell you anymore. Maybe someday.
        Today has been a day of service. This morning we rode our bikes over to Martin & Amelia's at 7 am. Martin has arthritis in his legs and so needed help digging his potatoes. I parked my bike ; happy that I didn't wreck on my way.  I saw a few beautiful ripe plums hanging on a tree so I picked a couple for Stan & I to share. I was so happy I found them and walked directly into a tree branch with my face. It will look sad tomorrow for church. Anyway, Stan dug six rows of potatoes and I picked them up into buckets. After breakfast  we went to a less active family to mow, weed and clean their yard by the lake. We will take them dinner for 20 people tonight. The mother of the family is less active. She was killed in a horrible traffic accident on Monday. We are helping with all we can. Stan will be accompany the special musical number at her funeral. It's so different here, instead of serving a meal for the family after the cemetery;  everyone at the funeral goes in the gym and has finger food. I really don't understand some things.
         It's very hot here. The summer temperatures are in the 90's with about 88% humidity. We have two fans, one upstairs and one downstairs. We sleep with one blowing high speed on our faces at night. The other night I dreamed I was in a snowstorm. Ha!
        The zone leaders went with us to teach Hussain and Fatima again this week. It was an awesome experience with a discussion about the Plan of Salvation.. Pretty interesting as we had three languages going with everyone trying to understand. It so wonderful  to feel the spirit teach. Fatima questioned why we would want to leave a loving Heavenly Father and come here.  Hussain is struggling  with evolution and man. He is a scientist and has many questions.  They both are learning definitions of our Mormon culture.
         We are reading the Book of Mormon as a mission. We started August 14th and will end on Christmas. There is such great power in the Book of Mormon. I love it !!!
          Marlene came over on Thursday. She sat on our couch crying & telling us how much we have changed her life. She said before we came she was thinking of sucide. Now she said she is happy every morning when she wakes up. She has come a long way. We are hopeful for her. She is still coming to church.
            We had the zone leaders for dinner on Tuesday and also a member. Durning dinner the member's chair collapsed and she couldn't get up. It took both zone elders & Stan to retrieve her from the floor. I was really embarrassed for her but she wasn't and after we gave her a new chair she had second helpings.
          This Sunday Stan is teaching Elders Quorum, playing the piano for all our meetings and I am teaching both classes in Primary. We just got done cleaning the church.
           So an update on the food drive. Wednesday after District meeting we hurried back to Hope to meet with the youth church group from the Calvary Baptist in Surrey. We walked into a long concrete room with tables and chairs. A large projector was at the front of the room along with some African drums. There was a huge sound system playing rhythmic loud rock music. There were 40 or more teenagers and a couple of leaders. We were the only white people in the room. The young people helped us scotch tape 3,000 flyers to 3,000 grocery bags  for others to hang on houses in Hope for the food drive. The kids we fun to meet and we worked among them. The only drawback was they had to have music to work. So they would do a few bags & then all stand and stomp their feet and clap their hands to the rhythm. It took three hours but we got that part if the operation done and acquired some new friends. They offered to help again next year. We would have to extend for a month if we were to do it next year. The Branch President really wants us to.
       It was my 80 year old friends' birthday this week. On Friday a member from our branch ( the broken chair member ) and Lucy, the birthday girl and I went on a little trip. We traveled to Chillwack, went to lunch and went shopping to celebrate. It was fun. Oh and we did get an ice cream treat too.Of course mine was chocolate.
        We love being missionaries. We love our opportunity to serve and to represent our Savior, Jesus Christ. We know this is the best thing we can be doing at this time of our lives. It's not easy to be away from the comforts of our home , our family and friends.....but it is so worth it. What blessings and miracles we are seeing. We know we have a loving Heavenly Father and a wonder Savior, Jesus Christ. The church is true, the Book of Mormon is true. Joseph Smith and Thomas S. Monson are true prophets of God. Keep the faith, always hang tight to the Iron Rod. We love you all.

Lots and lots of love,
Elder & Sister Fisher