Week 79 - Working hard in Castanhal

Hello!!

So yes I've known for awhile that my release date is changed to july 4th. hahaha. We go to Belem tomorrow for interviews with the President. I'll check while I'm there and see if my package made it yet. If it isnt there Ill check next time.

This was a good week!! We were able to work a lot and find lots of new people! We went on splits on Tuesday with 2 members. I went with Fernando, our recent convert. He has 2 months as a member but is already getting ready to go on a mission! It was super cool to work with him this week. He is 21 years old and he will be a super good missionary!!

We found a lady knocking doors and she is progressing a lot!! Her name is Beny. She is smart and has a really opened mind and heart. We told her that her baptism wasnt valid and she needs to be baptozed again and recieve the Spirit. She said she got goosebumps and wanted to know how this Holy Ghost thing works, so we taught her and she came to church on Sunday! She even invited her 2 kids and their families who are not married to come to her house to hear our message. We taught the law of chastity for all of them on the first visit!  THey liked it a lot and even wanted to come to chuch on Sunday, but it rained a lot!! And they live far and tried to come by bike, but it was raining too hard. So only Beny came. But they are super good and we will work a lot with them this week.

We walked a lot one day this week. Seriously, we left our house at 7:30 to teach a lesson and only returned 9:00pm. We spent about 2 hours teaching and the rest of the time walking. Our lunch that day was super far, and all of our appointments were falling threw and we couldnt get in anyones house. But everyone has days like that. On that day, something happened to me that only happens in movies. We were walking on the streets and there are always kids playing soccer on the streets. As we walked past some kids they stopped and just looked at us. At most the kid was 5 years old. So I smiled and gave him a thumbs up, I always do that and they always do it back, but to my suprise, this 5 year old kid looked at me, did an uppercut mottion with his arm and flicked me off.... I didnt get mad or anything I just was super suprised and kept walking, but my companion was not very happy!! haha but it for sure was an experiance i wont forget!

We helped the sister this week teach a kid who has lots of problems with the Word of Wisdom and didnt really want to talk to the sisters. I have never seen someone who wants so much to change. The Spirit was Super strong while we talked with him and set goals to help him overcome his problems. In moments like those I never want to stop being a missionary.

Aureo is still doing good. He will bring his wife to church next week for us to show her around and help her not think so bad about the church.

We are seeing lots of miracles here in our area. The members are starting to help more and we are finding lots of good people!!

Love yall!

Elder Green