Week 61 - General Conference in Marambaia!

 General Conference October 2016

 Political Hopeful

First English Class

Encantamento Zone

Hello!!

So this week was good. The elections are going on here in Belém for like governor and that kind of stuff. The campaining tactics are a little different here. Each canidate makes their own music with their name and everything, then they go drving in the streets blaring their name and music. I have no idea who any of these people are but I know almost all the musics. There is this on guy running, his name is Cabo Mauro. We met him this last week!! Even got a pcture with him! He is super cool and if I was Brazilian I would definitely vote for him!

Wednesday we had our first English class. We had little invites with our pictures that we handed out to everyone. A lot of people showed up late but we had about 40 people there. This week I will have to go to another area on Wednesday for an exchange so my companion will have to take over for the English class! We are expecting to have a lot more people within the next few weeks. 

So my ward here is part of the Cabanagem stake. General Conference here is only broadcast to the stake centers and most of these people cant get it in their house so the chapel is always full. The chapel we attend is the stake center for another stake, but our stake center is SUPER far and we had to travel almost 1 hour on a bus to get there. So that was frustrating. But we really enjoyed conference. Me and my companion went to the secretary´s office and watched it in English. There is just something about hearing their own voices. I get frustrated when someone like elder Holland gets up there and and starts getting into it and all we hear s a little no emotion Brazilian voice. So we decided to watch it in English. The internet was really bad Saturday. We weren't even able to watch the second session on Saturday.But Sunday it was all good and we watched it normally. We stocked up on snacks Saturday morning so that was fun.

I feel like the main topics of conference were the Atonement, prayer, and repentance. I really liked President Nelsons talk about our joy. Our joy depends on us. "Saints can be happy under any circumstances". Also liked what Elder Ballard said, "There are lots of excuses to fall away from the church, but where will you go?" I also liked Elder Bednar and Carl Cook and Dean Davies and pretty much all of them!!! I liked Elder Rasbands counsel that we name our kids after awesome scripture characters. It was a REALLY good conference!!

Thats about it! Love yall!

ELDER GREEN

MISSÃO BRASIL BELÉM

MISSÃO DE MACHO. NEM O VENTO É FRESCO.

 Dinner Appt in Marambaia