Week 2 - Brazil MTC

Hello there! All is well here in the MTC! I have had a good week. I've  already learned so much and I can carry on a very basic conversation in Portuguese! So our room is full right now. Me and Elder Black, Elder Dunkin and Elder Cummings, and 2 Brazilians. Brazilians are SO awesome! I have yet to find a mean Brazilian. They want to help everyone and they are just super cool. The food is pretty good actually! I eat at every meal and I´m only hungry sometimes! We started teaching an investigator on the first week. Felipe. He is not a real investigator - just an instructor here in the MTC playing like an investigator. We teach him every morning in Portuguese! But on Wednesday he `got a new job and had to move`... So now we are teaching Hilda (which is just our main instructor Irmã Scaduto) but that's going well too. 

On Monday me and Elder Black prepared our lesson for Felipe as usual, and as usual Felipe had a few questions of his own. But this time instead of the awkward silence that there usually is when he asks questions, we actually understood most of them!! And we were answering them! I heard words coming out of my mouth in Portuguese that I never even remember hearing before. So that was really cool.

On Sunday we had a really good devotional with President Swenson in English!!! So that was nice. Then we went and watched a video in Portuguese with English subtitles. The Testament. 
 

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE WEEK: So we were watching the movie and I was having to read all the subtitles but even with that distraction the Spirit was so strong the whole time. I know we have all seen that movie before but it had been a while for me so I really enjoyed it. At the end there is the part when the Savior came to visit the Nephites and Jacob was bringing his blind father who had waited his whole life to see the Messiah. While they are running around trying to get a better view, the little sister (probably 9 or 10) stopped in front of a doorway where she had a perfect view of the Savior. The rest of her family kept running but she stopped. I had a really weird experience at that point. When it showed her, her eyes were big and she was just amazed, I literally saw little Andie standing there instead of the actual girl.. I know that sounds weird but its true. Jesus said "Suffer the little children to come unto me" and she got a big smile on her face and went running to the Savior! There wasn't a dry eye in that room anyway but I was a mess! I don´t know if I've ever felt the spirit so strong. So that's my weird and spiritual story for the week!

We went to the temple today. It was BEAUTIFUL! Everything about it was amazing. So yes Friday is our P-day. So that is when I will e-mail and what not. The Brazilians in our room were not endowed until Wednesday. It was great cause they were SO happy! It was pretty funny. I love Brazilians. They are just hilarious and I love being around them. Right before our devotional on Sunday the music was playing and everyone was being quiet, a Brazilian walked by our row and saw Elder Vick and yelled "Ronald Weasley!!!" I guess because he has red hair! But anyway we all just died laughing. They're just crazy funny like that. 

Everything here is all about Portuguese! They get mad sometimes if they hear you speaking English. But the MTC is super nice! Everything about it is great quality and just crazy nice! A lot of the stuff here is better than America! Except for these computers, the keyboard is way different so forgive all my mistakes! But its not like Africa or anything. The city is absolutely beautiful! The temple was on a big hill so we could see over everything! It is just so pretty here. I´m having a blast!

I get to go walk around outside after I am finished e-mailing so I will go to some shops and stuff. Oh and my camera did have a place for a memory card but it is just way smaller than the one we got before. It can only hold 6 pictures right now!! So if you wouldn't mind maybe putting one in an envelope and send it to me that would be great. It´s pretty small. Elder Dunkin has the same one as me so just get a small one! And I'm gonna give you my Facebook info so you can keep up on that, share info with people about my mission and stuff. Just don´t go crazy on there! 

 

And tell people to write me! You were the only email I had! Guess I'm not as missed as I thought.... HA! And give Teagan my email please. I was pretty disappointed she didn't email me today! I want to know how the temple was and how things are going. And if y'all can send letters that would be great - so I can have something physical to read! We check our District mailbox after every meal and no one ever has anything! 

Well that's about it I think. I really hope I didn't forget anything. Feel free to share this Email wherever, facebook etc... and give people my email and say I'd love to hear from everyone! 

My mission has already changed me a lot spiritually. I´m beginning to see who I really am at this time in my life. I am A missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I have been called by a prophet of God to come teach these people of Brazil the Gospel! I will fulfill my duty!

 
I love you all and hope to hear from yall!

Elder Green

* Note from Betsy - Clay was able to find a picture card for his camera in one of the shops near the MTC so sending him one will not be necessary and he can now take more than six pictures!!!