Clay drinking that delicious Brazilian soda!
Serious in his suit...
Admiring his supplies from home
Clay and Elder Steindorf at a special baptism!
So this was a good week. Tuesday we went to the mission office for interviews. My companion had 2 boxes and I had 1 so we have tons of stuff in our house! But the difficult part was returning to our area on a bus full of people with 3 big boxes!! But the interview with the president was really good. He always is looking for ways he can help us.
Wednesday we went to our district meeting and no one had the right key to the chapel.. So the whole zone went to our chapel in Cabanagem and we had a super good meeting. This week was very special because the Prophet and the Apostles were going to speak to all of us. So we did a few practices on how we could invite people to conference in a contact on the road. The only problem here is that conference isn't broadcast to every chapel, only the Stake Center. So it is more difficult to take investigators to conference especially since none of our investigators have a car so we have to find a ride for them or they have to catch a bus!
This week me and my companion Elder Steindorf had a cool experience. We didn't have many investigators, so we decided to focus on that. We have a map of our area in our house. So we both said a prayer and picked 5 roads in our area and didn't show each other. After we both picked 5 roads we compared them and had 2 roads in common!! So we went to one of them that day and got 4 new investigators in one day! It was a cool experience for us and this next week we will go and hit the other road!
I greatly enjoyed conference. All the talks were really good and our investigators especially liked the music. I was excited to hear Elder Mazzagardi speak (Clay interviewed with him at a Zone Mtg in Santarem). We got to watch all of the sessions. When President Monson went to announce the new temples I had a feeling he was going to say Belém. And boy when he said Belém you should have seen that chapel. Everyone literally went nuts! Clapping and everything! But after about 2 seconds it was like we all realized that we were in church and got quiet. I got to thinking about it and they have a right to be excited. At home we have a temple 30 minutes away and people can visit every week - every day if they want to. The closest temple to the members here is days away by bus and it isn't easy or cheap to go. There are members here that have been very firm in the church for years and have only gone to the temple one time because of the distance and expense. They are SO happy to be getting a temple of their own that they can attend often. And I think they deserve it! I will definitely return here after my mission for the dedication!
We have a few good investigators we are working with. We are teaching this one lady and she is a little crazy but very excited about her baptism. She has a little problem with coffee, but we taught her the Word of Wisdom and bought some cevada for her. Then we did a trade. We gave her the cevada and she gave us all her coffee! So she is progressing. We also have 2 other women we are teaching. They all went to conference and are progressing well.
So I hate to say this but I have started to develop a little gut. And to think that when I arrived here I had a 6 pack!! ;) I think it is because of all the soda the people drink here. The soda we have here is totally different than the soda in the U.S. and it is so good! But I have made a goal that I will only drink soda one day per week. And we will start running every morning. We ran for about 2 minutes today and we about died.. I literally have not run in 8 months. But we will stick with it and get better. Soon maybe we can make it 3 minutes.
The new shoes are good. We got rained on the other day so they are soaking wet but I left them in the house to dry. You can send the brown shoes I left at home if you want and then I'll have an extra pair to rotate!
That's about it for this week. I will try to send some pictures later! Love yall!!
Elder Green
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