Week 91 - Maraba Week 2

Hello!!

We had a good week. Very busy but it was good.

Last Monday night we left at night to visit a few people. We actually only had 1 appointment, but that person wasnt at home so we tried one other person that lives close by, but that person also was not home. So we decided to walk a little far to visit a women who promised to go to church last Sunday but didnt. We had planned to visit her on Tuesday but we went on Monday because we did not have any one else to visit. When we got there at 7 o clock, she was sleeping. We talked to another person that lives at that house and we decided to wake her up. She came out and we taught her. She felt so bad because she forgot to set her alarm and slept in on Sunday. We showed her that we were really sad that she did not go and she felt even worse. Then she told us that she prayed on Sunday and asked for forgivness and asked God to send us back to her house and give her another chance. She waited for us on Monday! When we showed up she cried and said she knows what we are teaching is true and that God has responded to her prayers. The only problem is that she lives with a guy and they are not married..... But we are still working with her.

We had our zone meeting on Thursday in Parauapebas. There are only 3 branches in the zone and 4 missionaries per branch. We have our meetings in Parauapebas because it is more central and easier for everyone. It is about 3 and a half hours from here. It was a good meeting and we got lots of stuff done. We will catch a bus today as soon as we leave the cyber to go Parauapebas because President Costa is visiting the mission and tomorrowthere will be a meeting with him. But because our zone is so far away we will receive a transmission from Belém to Parauapebas to watch the meeting. I always knew that would happen. I spent my entire mission close to the city in Belém and now my last 2 transfers I got sent far away and President Costa visits the mission and I will not see him personally!! Just my luck. But we are super excited to hear him.

We are teaching a lady we found knocking doors and her 12 year old son. She has a lot of kids and her house is crazy because it is only her who takes care of them. Seriously it is like a brazilian Green family house, little kids all over the place. But we are teaching them and she is very interested. Her son went to church by himself on Sunday because her youngest child was sick with fever and what not. We taught them the Word of Wisdom Friday night. All of them drink coffee. LOTS of coffee. And she smokes. It was night and we explained everything to her and she said she will stop drinking coffee and smoking. So we asked her to bring us the coffee she had in her house. She hesitated and said she didnt have anything else to give her kids the following morning. We told her we would bring her cevada (something that all the member of the church drink here. it tastes like coffee but is super healthy and actually really good!) the next day. She still didnt want to give it to us and said she did not have anything else to give her kids. We told her to give them water the next morning. She got sad and said that she could not bring herself to give her kids water to drink in the morning. We reminded her of the commandment and promised her that if she really cares for her kids she would give us all her coffee. We were very persistent and eventually she gave us her coffee and we let her son throw it all away. She seemed really sad and I felt a little bad afterward but we knew we had done the right thing. We bought her cevada the next day and she hasnt drank coffee since that day we threw it away!!! Now we just have to get rid of those cigarettes!!

We are teaching another kid with 17 years. He is super excited for his baptism and is going to church every week!

We are teaching a family that we are marrying. We have to go see today if they are already married because you have to wait like 30 days before it is official. SO we will check on that today and if it is all good they will be baptized this Saturday!! There is one more family that we are teaching and they are already married and have 2 kids with age to be baptized. We were worried that they didnt want to learn more about the church because they didnt go to church, but we went there last night and they were super excited! They felt bad because they didnt go to church and spent the day reading the pamphlets we gave them. It was a super good lesson and we invited all of them to be baptized and they all accepted!

I am loving this area!!

Love yall!

Elder Green