Week 42 - Six More Weeks in Cabanagem!

 Selfie Clay took with a ward member's camera when he was supposed to be taking pictures of the sister missionary who was being transferred!

 Clay wearing Bishop Carvalho's work shirt that might be his now...

Zone Cabanagem May 2016

Cabanagem Ward Elders' Quorum 

Clay and Elder Steindorf with Felipe Monteiro 

who just received his mission call!

Hello!

So this week was pretty good. It had a lot of ups and downs.

So at the beginning of the week we had 2 people we were preparing to be baptized. We talked to one of them on Tuesday and she was super excited for her baptism. Then Wednesday was a very hard day for us. I am not sure what happened Tuesday night. We think one of her friends said some negative stuff about the Church and made her rethink the whole baptism thing. Because we went back Wednesday and she had completely changed. She said she doesn't want to be baptized. We were so sad. It is so disappointing because even though she is only 15 years old she already has a lot of difficulties with the commandments. But when she learned about the gospel she really started changing and she stopped doing some of the things she used to do. But she gave up at the last second. She could have changed her life forever but she chose a different path. Of course we will not give up on her, but it will be a lot harder now. So that was sad. And on the same day we went to see the other possabilidade for baptism and she also gave up. Her mom thinks that she needs to know more and prepare better before she gets baptized. Satan worked hard against us this week.

So we had transfers this past week and I will stay another 6 weeks in Cabanagem! After this transfer I will have 6 months here. To be honest I was expecting to leave. I have been here for a while and we finished Elder Steindorf´s training so I thought they would let him have the experience of another companion. But we both stayed and we are glad. We know the Lord still has work for the two of us here in this area. There are also 2 sisters in the ward here, and one of them was transferred and we will receive an American sister. So that's cool! I am super excited to stay here another transfer. It will be really sad when I leave, the members here say I have been here so long I am basically a member of the ward now!

So me and my companion have a lot of goals for these next few weeks. Our investigator list is small so we will really have to pray and trust the Lord to help us find "those who are being prepared to receive the restored gospel". It is exciting!

I love my mission! I cant think of a place I´d rather be than here in Belém! 

Love yall!

Elder Green