Week 57 - Sickness in Marambaia

Hello!!

So this week was difficult. Well to start things off, Wednesday night I got sick. I had a really messed up stomach and I had a fever. I was up ALL NIGHT. The headache and fever went away but even now my stomach is messed up. So the second half of the week was tough. A member took me to get some medicine and helped a little bit, but whatever.

Also, our baptism fell through... Friday night as we were walking to Micheals house to take him to the church to be interviewed, his sister called us and siad he didn't feel ready for baptism yet and what not, but in the pouring down rain we went there to talk to him. My companion worked some magic and changed Micheals mind. So we took him all the way to the church to be interviewed, he passed the interview and was SUPER excited about his baptism. I have literally never seen a baptism so well planned. We already had people prepared to give little talks and a seminary choir that was prepared to sing and food and everything!! But when we got back to his house Friday night, his dad said that he didn't know about the baptism (we told him last week about the baptism and his wife signed the ficha so he definitely knew) and he wasn't going to be able to see it because he had to leave the house Saturday. So he didn't allow the baptism. So we had to tell everyone and cancel EVERYTHING we had planned. It was very disappointing. But we will try really hard this week to baptize him on Saturday.

I dont know if I told yall that we got a new bishop. He was the mission  presidente second counselor for 2 years but now he is our bishop. He is GREAT! He served a mission and is only 32. He is super excited and visits people with us every week. He has tons of plans and is going to change a lot here.

We also got a new Ward Mission Leader. It is also a new thing for me because I havent had much experience working with a ward mission leader yet in my mission, but he has some really good plans that will help us a lot.

Also we had some sad news about Valeska. She really liked church last Sunday and she would loved to be baptized, but her son lost his job and now she has to work extra, so she will start a job where she works every Sunday morning selling breakfast and stuff. So she said she will never be able to go to church on Sunday. We got real sad. But we wont give up. We are going to teach the Sabbath Day super intense and spiritual for her and try to help her.

I love my mission. I am learning so much. The mission is literally the hardest thing I have ever done. I have never felt so stressed and at times, sad, but then again I have never felt so happy and close to the Lord in the whole life. I know this is where the Lord wants me to be. 

Love yall!

ELDER GREEN

MISSÃO BRASIL BELÉM

MISSÃO DE MACHO. NEM O VENTO É FRESCO.