Week 24 - ROLL TIDE!! ACABOU ÓBIDOS!!

Oi!

To begin, I am super pumped up right now after reading all the emails about Alabama winning the National Championship! My companion thinks I am crazy, but he just doesn't understand... 

So we had a good week here in Obidos. We have found a few really good families we are working with. There is this one lady we have been teaching and she is 19 years old. Her husband is 20 (but they aren't legally married). He works everyday from 6 am until 9 pm so we have only taught him once, but we've taught her bunch of times and she is definitely receiving answers to her prayers. She keeps all the commitments and doesn't let anyone touch her Book of Mormon because she doesn't want it to get messed up. We taught her this past week, all we did was read 3 Nephi 11 with her and she was crying during the whole lesson. She was hesitant about getting married at first but now its all she wants to do. Her husband is really good as well. They have a little girl and really liked church on Sunday. We gave them the papers to get married and they said they will fill them out. So that's good!! We taught this lady's sister for a couple of weeks but she is running from us now. So that stinks.

We had a little miracle this week. We were sitting in our house studying and our lights got shut off. We went outside and the guy said we have 2 months of unpaid bills so he cut our electricity... We went to the place and paid both months and the lady said they will turn it back on in 24 hours. As you know it is really hot here and trying to sleep without a fan isn't fun, and we can't even open windows because there are these bugs that come out only around this time of year but there are thousands of them - literally everywhere. They almost cancelled an activity at church because there were so many of those bugs. So we left the electricity payment place and worked that day, and as we were walking back home we were dreading having to sleep in the heat. So we stopped on the side of the road and prayed - and repented for procrastinating the payment of our bills - and asked the Lord to help us be able to rest comfortably. And you better believe we got home that night and our electricity was on and working just fine. A little miracle for the week.

So a funny story. We were eating lunch at a members house on Saturday, and it is very common that if a child is less than 3 years old he will be butt naked. This member has 3 kids and the youngest is always naked. So we were sitting there eating and this little naked baby is running around the house and then he stopped, and pooped right there on the floor. His mom sent him outside and went to get a towel to clean it up, but sure enough he came back in the house and stepped right in his own poop. It was funny because me and my companion both went "OHHHHHH!!" at the same time. So that's a little funny story.

We ate lunch yesterday with a really good family, and the man wanted to show us a cool trick. He said if you lock you hands, and put a normal egg in between your hands with both points of the egg on your palms, you can squeeze as hard as you can but it won't break. I thought it was crazy, but my companion tried and he was trying so hard but literally couldn't break it. So then I tried. I started squeezing slowly but it didn't break. So I squeezed a little harder, and a little harder, and it wasn't breaking. So then I gave it everything I got. And after about 3 seconds you better believe that thing busted and splattered all over us. Oh they thought it was so funny I was covered in egg. But they were also very impressed because they said I'm the first one they have ever seen do it! 

So transfers. We got the call Sunday morning and I am being transferred to zone Cabanagem, area Cabanagem. That is close to Belém. 30 or 40 minutes from Belém. We will get a boat tonight back to Santarém, and my plane leaves at 10 am tomorrow. I have a lot of mixed feelings. I want to meet new people and what not, but I love Óbidos. We visited all the members to tell them I was leaving and they were pretty sad as well. Today is p-day when we usually don't eat with members but one of the members invited us to his house and did a big ole goodbye barbecue for me. But it is what it is. I am really excited for my new adventure. My new companion will be Elder B. Silva, and Elder S. Oliveira will train here in Óbidos. 

But that's about it for this week. Sorry no pictures again. Maybe the internet will be better in Cabanagem and I can send you some from there next week!

Love yall and hope yall have a good week. 

Elder Green
ROLL TIDE