Week 45 - Batismo in Cabanagem

Hello!

So this week was good. We had a meeting in Belém with Brother Holmes - the first counselor in the general young men presidency. It was super good!! The spirit was really strong. It was a little complicated because he was speaking in English and there was a translator. But it was still great! 

Thursday we had 3 baptism interviews to do. So we did a big exchange. I spent a day in Tapanã with Elder Rech. So that was fun.

We had a cool experience this week. Saturday was a very difficult day for us. All the people we had confirmed to go to church said they couldn't make it. All of our appointments were falling through and we just were lost. We hadn't been able to find many new investigators or addresses during the week so we decided to pick a road and just start knocking doors. I was feeling really bad because we have had trouble progressing our investigators lately. We find people and they seem interested but getting them to church is tough so we don't  have very many people preparing for baptism. I was feeling frustrated and confused while I was walking in the street thinking about it. We are working hard and trying to do everything just right, but we just aren't having as much success as we were having before. So we picked this road and said a prayer at the beginning of the road and then started knocking doors. In that hour of knocking doors we found 3 people who are really good. We taught the restoration and they loved it! Our goal is to baptize one of them on the 25th. So that was a cool experience we had.

We had a baptism on Saturday. Ana was baptized and she was SO excited! I really haven't seen anyone with such faith like she has. We taught the word of wisdom and she stopped drinking coffee on the same day. We taught the law of chastity and she told her boyfriend he has to back off. She went to church 2 weeks in a row and couldn't wait for baptism. It was really a miracle and a blessing to find her.

Yesterday was Ward Conference here in Cabanagem and there were a bunch of people at church. It was a really good meeting. The bishop and stake president both gave great talks.

For my next package I don't really need the brown shoes. But maybe you could send some of my Duke shirts and some dollars. Everyone here wants dollars!

That is really about all for this week. 

Love yall!!

Elder Green 

ELDER GREEN

MISSÃO BRASIL BELÉM

MISSÃO DE MACHO. 

NENHUM VENTO É FRESCO.

 Clay with Brother Holmes from the General Young Men Presidency

 Clay with Elder B. Silva (former companion)

 Clay with Elder S. Oliveira (former companion)

With Elder Bartoski (roommates at the CTM)

With Elder R. Santos

 Clay with Elder Christensen

With Elder Stephan

With Elder Belo

 Clay with Elder Galindo

 With Elder Nickels

 With Elder Rech

With Elder Romero

 With Elder Fernandez

With Elder Vander Werff

With Elder Alves