Week 31 - Primeira Semana Treinando (First Week Training) Cabanagem

    Clay with other trainers and new missionaries last week. 

  (I told  him next time try to get a little closer to the front!!!)

Hello!!!

So this week was good. Sorry my email was stinky last week. It was a very crazy 2 days. Monday I spent a lot of time in the mission office and then went to this big house where all the missionaries who are being transferred to a far away area stay. Or in my case waiting on a companion. I didn't have time to send an email Monday, and Tuesday I was in the mission office again for a while and then had to go get my companion, so I had very little time to email then either.

The group that arrived on Wednesday had 16 new missionaries. My companion is Elder Steindorf. He is from Curitiba and is 18 years old. He spent his senior year of high school in the United States and learned a little English, but we don't ever speak it! Training is a lot different for me and I am learning a lot while I am teaching. Our investigator group is a little small so we did a ton of contacts and looked for new investigators this week.

So we had a funny experience yesterday. We got in the house last night and the water wasn't working in the shower. The sink in the bathroom and kitchen still worked. My companion was worried about being able to take a shower. So we came up with a plan! We stopped up the drain in the bathroom sink and started the water running so we could use a cup and bail water out of the sink and pour it to take a shower. My companion went first and while he was taking his 'shower' the water in the sink stopped as well! So he gave up. But I realized that the sink in the kitchen was still working a little. So I got a blender, filled it with water from the kitchen, and took it to the bathroom and used it to take a shower. When I ran out of water I wrapped in a towel and ran back to the kitchen to fill it up again! It was quite the experience but I got clean! Then my companion was going to try the blender but the water in the kitchen ran out too so he didn't get to finish his shower. But there are guys at our house now fixing it.

So we had a baptism 2 weeks ago and our new convert already gave us a reference. We went with him on Saturday and taught his friend. He also received the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday!

Our zone changed a lot with transfers.We got 2 new zone leaders and 2 new district leaders. Our zone is really strong now and I hope we can have a lot of success.

We will have a big conference this week with multiple zones and the president, so I am excited about that. 

Sorry no pics this week. I didn't take any and my companion's camera doesn't have wifi like Elder B Silvas did...

I met lots of missionaries this week. Thanks for sending the packages. I am going to make the brownie mix at the bishops house after this!

Well that is about it for this week. Love yall!

Elder Green