Week 85 - Rainy Days and Wet Feet Castanhal

 How to handle holes in your shoes in Belem...

Clay and Elder Gaspar with Aureo

Zona Castanhal Meeting 3-17

Hello!!

This week it rained a lot! Seriously everyday this week it started at about 2 o clock and didnt stop! We didnt have umbrellas so we got really wet the first couple of days and you can imagine my feet! But on Friday we went in the rain and got to a persons house and they gave us 2 umbrellas. So at least Friday night and Saturday my head didnt get wet! I started putting plastic bags on my feet to help a little bit with the water! # NOSHAME. The bag doesnt even work very well because my shoes tear it almost instntly but it helps a little. I will get shoes here but the problem is there is no place here that sells shoes in my size. A member knows a guy that makes shoes for real cheap but he is traveling and only comes back in 12 days. I can make it two more weeks!

We had our monthly zone meeting this week. It was good! We set a lot of goals to help the zone do better this month. I planned what I thought would be a cool way to help the missionaries learn better the teaching tecnics in Preach my Gospel. I invited 8 returned missionaries to help me. There are 8 duplas in the zone so it would each returned missionary would be an investigator and every dupla would be able to practice teaching and recieve good feedback. I thought it was a good idea and I confirmed with all 8 1 day before, but only 3 showed up! For reasons unknown the others werent able to come. So that kind of put me in a tight spot but we made it work! It was also the birthday of 3 people in the zone so we made cake and sang to them and what not. It was good.

We had our activity on Thursday that we call Quinta Play. The missionaries organize it and everything. We ran a rope through the whole chapel and even outside. There were 4 places that the rope split into 2, at these points we would ask each person a question, ex: YOu got free tickets to a soccer game, will you go to the game or to a priesthood meeting? We asked 4 questions similar to this and if they chose wrong they would continute on one cord that led to nothing, and if they chose right they would continue on the cord that lead to the sacrament room which was the celestial kingdom. It was super good! Everyone liked it!

This week is zone conference with the presidente!

Love yall!

Elder Green

Birthdays celebrated at Zone Conference 3-17