Week 47 - Tchau Cabanagem/Olá Marambaia

Hello!

So this was an eventful week. Started off normal then we went to the District meeting on Wednesday and the President was there and we got some sad news. Our dear Cabanagem Zone has been done away with because our mission is sending more missionaries home than we are receiving. So we have a bunch of zones that have few missionaries. The Church says that each zone needs 18 to 24 missionaries, and all of our zones have 12 or 14. So the Cabanagem Zone was the best to get rid of because it is in the middle of a bunch of other zones so it was easy for it to become part of other zones. It was sad because our zone has been doing really good. Our zone has been 1st in the mission 3 months in a row now. We had a little farewell party. We made a really cool t-shirt and everything. It was sad to say goodbye to everyone!

Then transfers were this week. Me and my companion stayed together and we were transferred to Marambaia. That was the zone leaders old area but they both went to Marabá so we jumped over to their area. We are in the same stake as before like five minutes down the road. So we just moved to another ward and the Cabanagem Ward no longer has elders just sisters. This is our first day and it's going to be hard at first because we don't know anything or anyone. But it's going to be good. We are excited to be here and to be part of the Zone Entrocamento.

So we had a baptism that was really firm for this past week - the contact I talked about last week. She has cancer but it isn't too serious yet. We went to her house Saturday afternoon and she was all excited for her baptism. So we said that we would pass by her house at 6:30 to walk with her to the church. When we went back at 6:30 her mom told us that she got really sick and was hurting a lot, so a neighbor took her to the hospital. And as of Sunday she hadn't returned home. So that was really sad. But I hope she gets better and that the sisters in Cabanagem can help her get baptized.

So this was a week of miracles in our zone. We were short 10 baptisms to reach our goal for this month, and our zone baptized 10 people! Guess how many baptismal interviews I did this past week? 9!! I was hardly in my area the whole week. But we were very happy that our zone was able to help these people and that the Lord blessed us for our hard work. We were joking and said that the Cabanagem Zone didn't die, it was translated! 

The picture in the hammocks is me and Elder Romero in our last exchange. He went to be a zone leader in Santarem. He is from Mexico and when I get home we're all going to visit him and stay with his family! The other picture is our ward mission leader and his family. 

Well thats about it for this week. Love Yall

Elder Green

MISSÃO BRASIL BELÉM

MISSÃO DE MACHO. NENHUM VENTO É FRESCO.

Hard to say goodbye to Cleo Carvalho who has been so good to these elders! But they've got their game faces (and Alabama Crimson Tide shirts) on!!!

Belem