Week 80 - Milagres in Castanhal!

Leadership Council of Brazil Belem Mission Feb 2017

Hello!!

THis was a really good week. We went to Belém on Tuesday for a meeting with the president. We talked about lots of thing in the mission and made a few changes. With all the general changes that happened with the missionaries, our president also changed a bunch of stuff in our mission. Everyone is trying to adapt to the new changes. 

We had our monthly zone meeting on Wednesday. It was super good. We talkede a lot about planning and setting goals and also about working better with the members and helping investigators fufill commitments. We set lots of very specific goals to help our zone with those things. 

So remember Beny? We went there on Thursday and talked about the Plan of Salvation. She understood everything but she gets really nervous about everything! When we taught about baptism she got so nervous when we told her that her baptism isnt valid! Like almost crying nervous! She gets nervous about everything. When we taught about the Atonement and the 3 kingdoms she had a fit thinking that she will never be able to return to Gods presence and that she isnt worthy for baptism. We tried helping her calm down but she wasnt hearing it! I took her Book of Mormon and felt that I should mark Alma 7 for her to read than we left and said we would come back on Saturday. When we got there on Saturday she was completely calm. She would not accept the 25th as her baptism because she was super scared. But on Saturday she said she read Alma 7 and felt a huge peace. She said, "Little preacher, I read this part in the book, and this is what I want in my life. I dont want to be impure anymore. I want to follow Christ. I am excited for the 25th." And we got super happy and taught her the Word of Wisdom and she will stop drinking beer and coffee! The Spirit was super strong during that lesson. She didnt get nervous or scared, simply accepted the commandment and committed to live it. Buuuuut she got sick during the night on Saturday and didnt go to church.... But this week she will. 

So we got more news about Aureo. So he already knows for sure that he wants to be baptized, but he is scared that his wife wont accept. Her name is Ester. So on Sexta he brought his wife to Castanhal!! We called the sisters and all 4 of them came to the church to help her feel more welcome. The sisters took Ester on a tour of the church and showed her everything! Even sang a hymn for her and everything! She said the sisters are angels and she wants to visit the church on a Sunday. They werent able to come on Sunday because they live super far and Aureo worked Sunday night. But this morning, we and the sisters went to their house early and talked with them and she even made us lunch! So she approves and we will mark a baptism date with Aureo this week. MILAGRES!

THere is a family in the ward where everyone is a little overweight. We went there this week and they bought a ton of pizza and cake for us to eat and fruit salad! I love that family.

Mais um milagre. SO on Saturday we went to lunch and I forgot that the member with who we ate lunch said he would invite his friend for us to teach. But we got there and met Victor. Victor is 17 and also lives really far from the city, but he came that day to stay with this family. This family is super helpful. They both served missions. Victor has lots of problems with his family. Lots of problems. But he doesnt do the stuff that his parents do and he has lots of good friends who help him. We taught him after lunch and he cried a lot. Actually everyone cried. He is a super good kid and wants to do good even with his bad situation. He said he recieved an answer from God during our lesson and wants to join the church. He left Castanhal at 5:00 amand went back to his city to change and then came back for church! He made lots of friends and even asked what he needs to do to go on a mission! You can imagine what our response was;) MILAGRES!

We are seeing lots of progress in our area and in our zone. The Lord is blessing us a lot.

Love yall!!

Elder Green