21st April 2015

Woah i cant believe its all going so quick, time really does fly. seems like yesterday i was home messing around with all the guys and stuff. 

 im starting to to remember all those sleepovers too hahaha i miss them.

        rained so much the other week that there was like a waterfal on the stairs on our street

with Irmã Vera!! she always gives us geladinho when we visit its so good!

and hey yeah i dont know when im gonna be able to call yet but there is a member that lives right next door so we will be able to use his computer which will be awesome, ill have to keep you updated as i find out whats goin on cos im not sure yet.

1- hmm best moment of this week

2- yesterday was pretty tough. We visited a whole heap of inactives and we had a bunch of investigators that were supposed to come to church with us. before church we went around and poped by all their houses to see if they were ready and literely everyone bailed. oh except one youth that showed up after we visited her so its good that shes back at church now.

3- and nah havent really done anything unusual hahah i dont even know what unusual is anymore after being here for almost 5 months hahaha

4- We are teaching a dude called fabio and his family, a young lad called Raphael and said he doent believe in god but after us teaching him he believes now, A young couple and a few others, slow progress but better than no progress. 

5- ive learnt the importance of the basic doctrines. we visited some members randomly cos i wanted to see how they were going so we poped by and were greeted warmly like usual. we talked abit and i was asked to share a message and i felt impressed to talk about the power of prayer. i just said what i honestly know about prayer and that our heavenly father is there always for us but for this particulay member i thinkit was exactly what she needed. we then gave her mum a blessing because she wasnt well and they were in credibly greatful. so yeah just sharing what you know and really meaning it with the intent to help someone is powerful.

but yeah ive got a couple of piccies for ya today! not many but yeah ive got a few!!

cant really take any touristy pics because were not really alowed to look like tourists hahaha so yeah.

anyways ill send some pics, love yous so much!!!

Parts of email to Maddi:

...and yeah ive eaten some pretty weird stuff already but i dont have any photos just yet. i ate cow foot and cow intestines!! haha it was actually alright too.

and yeah i eat awesome food everyday. lots and lots of fruit. google a fruit called jaca, its really weird hahaha.

17th March 2015

Pics taken are at .... Nossa Senhora do Monte Serrat 

TRANSFER WEEK...

still in the same place. and elder fender is home now and i have a new brazilian companion elder honório, he has 13 months in the mission

i really mis the 7D dried mango and raspberry bullets!! but what i really miss is hair wax!!! they dont have it here like at all!!

im doing really good!!! leg is pretty much all better now so im not really having dramas with it, probably will start running again this week, me and fender made a goal to run to the chapel and back in 15 mins, but our best is 15:21 so i need to beat it.

ok questions:

1- Best moment this week was probably transfers. President and sister lisonbee gave some really awesome talks about how if you are doing the right thing, the lord will put the right people in your way that YOU need to teach, and actually everything they said which was a miracle in itself haha. my portuguese is slowly getting better

2- worst moment? dunno havent really had a bad momnt, this week has been a little hard because we had a few investigators bail on us and almost noone has been home to teach, but this week will be better

3- well this morning we went to go have a look at one of the beaches, there is like a huge church on one of the coasts so we went there and had a look which was cool, nothing crazy exciting but haha

4- We are teaching quite a few people, one of my favourites is geraldo, 50 year old dude. he says that weve really helped him in a lot of ways and he feels more ready to be baptised now which is great, still need to set a date for him but.

5- hmmm this week i learnt the importance or studying the book of mormon every single day. since transfers things have been a little crazy and me and my new companion, elder honório, have been trying to set up a new system of how we are going to do things and i havent reall had time to study much, and its been making such a huge difference in my day! its been way harder to understand people and to teach aswell. so always study and read!!!

but yea so transfers was last week and i got a new companion, brazilian this time! were getting along really well and working together great too. this week is going to be a lot better cos last week was mainly showing him around the area and stuff like that.

hope everything is going awesome back home

love elder greener!