Elder Clay Green's Brazil Belem Mission Blog: Week 37

Clay drinking 'Mr. Green' soda.

Clay and Elder Steindorf celebrating their baptism with pizza and more soda - but without electricity (and it doesn't look like he's doing too well with cutting down on soft drinks!)

Hello!!

So this week was good. We have seen lots of miracles lately and had more this week.

SO we have been praying real hard to find people to teach that are prepared to receive the gospel and be baptized. There are always people prepared to receive the Gospel and be baptized. Sometimes they just don't know it until they hear it. That is why we have to talk with everyone.

So Tuesday we were walking down the street thinking about some slight possibilities for baptism on the 23rd. We started teaching a woman and during the lesson a member passed by and asked us to come to her house when we were through. So after the lesson we went to her house and she took us to this kid who has 17 years. He went to general conference and our last baptism meeting... We taught the Restoration and challenged him to be baptized. He accepted and is very excited for his baptism on the 23rd! It was crazy that as we were trying to find these prepared people, this reference dropped out of the sky. We truly are seeing blessings!!

So we did another exchange this week. I went back and stayed with Elder Gann for a day and a half. He is super cool but we speak lots of English and it is hard for me to switch back and forth between languages. But we had lots of fun.

So a few weeks ago a lady came by our house and left 4 papers talking about light bills we haven't paid. Two of them were from October and November. We weren't even here then - the other missionaries that were here didn't pay it. We sent them to the mission office but somehow they weren't paid and Friday our electricity got shut off.. So this weekend was quite the experience. Hopefully they will turn it on today or sometime this week.

We had a baptism this week. The lady we have been teaching who didn't want to change churches but changed her mind after General Conference was baptized. Her son got to baptize her and it was a very special meeting. It was was almost a disaster because we got to the church to clean the font and what not, and when we went to turn on the water nothing came out... We got real nervous real quick. But there is a solution for everything. So we ran the emergency fire hose into the room and filled up the font like that. It was pretty sweet.

We like to celebrate all of our baptisms. So we bought some good pizza Saturday night and ate it in our dark, hot house. But we still enjoyed it a lot!!

It is quite difficult to walk in these roads because there is a lot of construction going on. All of the roads are dirt with lots of pot holes and now they will put asphalt down. But as they are preparing to do that, the roads are terrible. And it rains everyday so it is just mud. We were walking down the road one day and had to avoid this huge hole in the middle of the road. So I went on one side of the road and my companion went on the other side. As I was about to get through all the bad mud, my companion screamed for me to help him. So I had to go back around this hole to help him get out of this mud. He took a wrong step and sunk in about to his shin in mud.. I had to pull him out, which was even more difficult because I was laughing so hard. So that was fun!!

That's about it for this week. We are seeing tons of blessings in our work. I know this is the Lord's work and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

Love yall!

Elder Green