I hope everyone is doing well. I had a good first week in Marabá. We left Belém on Tuesday and it is about a 1 hour flight. There were 2 missionaries that were suppose to leave Marabá on Monday and go to another area, but they missed their flight and were stuck here with us until Saturday.
The city here is really big. REALLY BIG. But it is only a branch here and 4 missionaries. The members are super good and help a lot with bringing people to church.
The people here are super receptive. Really it is super weird because I served almost my entire mission in the city and it is more difficult to find good people knocking doors and whatnot. One day this week we only knocked 3 doors and got in to all 3 houses. Usually when we knock doors we have to tell the people what we do and make our message sound interesting so the person will let us in, but its not like that here. When we knock on a door we just introduce ourselves and the person opens the door and lets us in without knowing who we are!! I even did a test and started telling people that we sell ties and popcorn and even then we got into people houses!! It is really a good area and we are teaching lots of people.
There is a family that has been taught by a few missionaries but hasnt been baptized yet because they arent married. But this week or next week they will be officially married and be baptized. We were also able to find a few families this week that we are teaching. We taught a kid this week who has 17 years. Hie name is Eduardo. He is super cool and went to church all by himself. We also taught his mom and he said he will bring her next week.
We are teaching another women who is pregnant and legally married. Her husband is a member super inactive so we are trying to bring him back to church and baptize her.
We were knocking doors this week and a lady let us in. When we asked her if she was ok she said no because her 16 year old son committed suicide 10 days ago. It was easy to tell that she was not doing very well. We taught her the plan of salvation. The Spirit was super strong. We are going to work more with her. She was one of the people who never went to church but now she started going to church with her neighbor. So we will keep working with her.
It is really easy to stay busy here because there are so many people to teach and everyone wants to talk to us.
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