Week 48 - Turning 19 in Marambaia

Hello!!

So this was a good week. The door of our house here isn´t very good. Its like rusty or something because it is super hard to turn the key to lock or unlock. So Thursday night we got to the house and I was trying to unlock the door and it wasn't working. Eventually, the part of the door that you put the key in broke. Not the key, but a little piece inside the door. So we weren't able to unlock the door. So we went to a window that doesn't lock and tried to get in that way, but we had arranged a piece of wood on the inside to keep the window from opening. So there was no way to get in. Eventually we talked to our neighbor and he gave us a knife. We were able to slip the knife in the little slit of the window and knock the piece of wood out of there. So since then we have been getting in and out of our house from the window... And once we got in the house, we didn't have light!! The other elders didn't pay the bill and they cut our energy off!! Talk about annoying. So we had to sleep without a fan or anything. But the next day we went and printed off the 2 bills that were late then called the electricity people. But they said there are 3 unpaid bills and we have to pay the 3 before they will turn it back on!! But the 3rd bill wasn't on the website. So we had to travel to their office and get the 3rd bill and pay the 3. But luckily they turned on our lights on Friday.

So we had our first Zone Meeting with the zone Entrocamento. It was cool. 

My birthday was Sunday and it was a really good day! We went to church for the first time in our new ward. The members are very supportive so we are thinking of ideas and activities we can do to strengthen the ward and help missionary work. After church we had a very good lunch. Then we went to our house and did our weekly planning. And then we went to the house of a member here in the ward for dinner. It was the same member me and my companion ate with a couple of weeks ago with the zone leaders when we came to their area to do a baptismal interview for them. They had a huge cake and pizza and a ton of stuff and it was super good! So we stayed there for a little while. Then we went to the house of the secretary of the ward and we had a little meeting with him to plan a few things. He gave us food as well. So we were already eating a ton. So then the phone rings and it was another member. He was like 'Elder are you going to come to my house? We said today that you would pass by'. So I said okay we'd try to pass by. At this point it was already 7:30 and it was really far to his house. So we took off and we made it to his house about 8:30. He did lasagna that was really good and Cleo (bishop's wife from Cabanagem) went to his house too and she made a cake for us. She brought her son Thomas so we had a good little time there! Then we came back to our house and that's about it for my great birthday!

We are working hard here in Marambaia. The members are really good. It might take a couple of weeks but we will have lots of success here.

Thats all I have for this week. Love yall!!

Elder Green

MISSÃO BRASIL BELÉM

MISSÃO DE MACHO. NENHUM VENTO É FRESCO.

Excerpt from Elder Steindorf's email this week - 

Hi mom are you okay? Around here we're doing well. This week was good. We were very well received by the ward in Marambaia. It's one of the oldest wards since the church has arrived in Belem. Monday we had lunch in the house of this brother (in picture above). It was pday and we did not know anything about the area still. We were in the middle of the street looking like tourists when he saw us. We explained that we were new to the ward and he took us to lunch at his house. He knows Robson (friend of Elder Steindorf's brother Lucas) and Rulian (son of a member of their home ward). We live in a set of apartments, it's a tidy little house. Yesterday was the birthday of my companion and a sister here did a lot of things - cake, mousse, pudding, pizza and sweets. It was very good. Then we went in the house of Igor, a return Missionary. Cleo (wife of the bishop of my previous area) combined with him and was there last night to surprise us with a cake. She also gave us pretty cool shirts. The previous missionaries from this area left 3 people to be taught. We spent a little time just getting to know the neighborhood, the members, and looking for people to teach. Well, I'm liking it here. Lunches in the mission are always good. Everyone tries to give the best for the missionaries. Just imagine back home when you would make lunch for the missionaries we always had a few special things. If I keep eating like this every day I'm going back home on a freighter plane. hahaha. Thursday we will have a meeting with all the missionaries who are serving in the great Belem area. That should be fun!