Week 32 - Lots of training in Cabanagem

Clay and Elder Steindorf eating pizza at the Multi-Zone Conference this week!

Hello!!

This week was good. We had a lot of stuff happen and it was very busy.

We helped send in the marriage papers for a less active member and her boyfriend and we are teaching him now. I never knew how complicated it is to do a marriage! But thankfully we got that out of the way now we just need to get him ready for baptism!!!

We had our first district meeting since the transfer on Wednesday. It was good. We had a good training and what not. I learned a lot. We also had the big conference on Friday with all the zones here in Belém. It was super good. President and Sister Stasevskas talked a bit about some essential parts of missionary work. I really learned a lot this week and we are trying to apply the things we learned to our work!

So I have been talking to y'all for a while about the investigator we found in the area book and have been teaching. He is super busy and almost doesn't have any time even to talk to us, but he is always at church and has a testimony. He is just very focused with his studies. So we prayed and prepared a special lesson for him. We read a chapter in the Book of Mormon talking about the importance of baptism. Then we read in 3 Nephi 13 where it talks about seeking first the kingdom of God and the other things in life will fall into place. Afterward we bore testimony and invited him to be baptized on the 19th. He accepted. So that was super cool. It was a lesson really spiritual. So we are very happy about that and will continue to help him during this week so he will be fully prepared on Saturday!

Me and my companion are doing good together. He is learning very fast and isn't as nervous to talk with people as he was at first. We practice every day in the morning and study preach my gospel. We are both learning and progressing.

We learned a lot this week about talking with everyone and the importance of talking with as many people as possible every day. That is one thing that I wasn't very good at when I started my mission but now I like to talk with people. I have a scripture that I have been reading and applying to my work. Mosiah 28:3:

"Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble."

This is the desire that everyone needs. I love these people in Brazil. I don't want any of them to miss out on the blessings that this gospel has to offer. 

Well that's it for this week!

Love yall!!

Elder Green