27th October 2015

                     in brazil you can choose to have up to 4 flavours of pizza! on one pizza!

                                           chillin out with my home boy frodo

 messin with stray dogs in the middle of the street. i dont think this dog has ever been scratched before in his life because when i scratched his head he made like this super funny face and sat down on the floor like he was loving it hahaha.

                                                 HUGE mango tree in salvador

               had an awesome conference in salvador the other day with one of the seventy!!

                             getting lost on the huge freeway with my district hahha

Holy heck sounds like you had a pretty busy week!! but sounds like heaps of cool stuff happened too!!

so this week we had an awesome conference in salvador ( had to do two 9 hour bus trips to get there and back!!) but was deffs worth it!!! we heard from Elder Mazagardi and his wife and holy heck are they a spiritual couple!!  Elder Mazzagardi like shut down everyone and then showed us how we can be better missionaries so that was awesome!! we have been trying to implement a lot of the things he spoke about so this week has been real good.

and this week we have a baptism for SURE we made some invites and everything haha this time it wont fall through im sure of it. ill send some pics when next pday comes around.

haha and im glad your liking the tan, your probs not gonna recogsize me when i get home!! haha im gonna come home black and fat hahha.

anyays i love you heaps too and hope you have an awesome week!!

Love Elder Greener

19th October 2015

Hey thank you for all the photos!! haha i bet the kids had a lot of fun there at the strawberry farm! did yous come home with heaps of strawberries?? haha and sounds like lyric is pretty fun to be around sometimes haha if he talks more than eli i can even imagine hahaha.

haha i love the way dad shops, he like to buy all the cool stuff like i do. can you tell him to send some pics of the stuff he brang home?? would be awesome.

and what did sharni make for dinner? it wasnt that seed lasanga that she made that one time was it?? haha kidding.

and thankyou so much for the sam photos haha looks like hes getting bigger and bigger, where is he sleeping now? with sharni tom or maddi??

so things have been going really crazy here recently haha. me and my new companion have deciced to be EXACT obedient and holy heck i dont even know how we are coping with all the blessing we are getting right now. this week was so so full we didnt even have time to visit all our investigators. we have been trying a new method of contacts and we baisically introduce ourselves and tell them our pourpose and invite them unto repentance and to be baptised like jusus christ was and we are getting lots of investigators this way.

but yesterday kinda sucked. we had a baptism all lined up and all sorted out and everything, i even bought a huge freakin watermelon to eat at the baptism and she didnt show up to church. she said she was going to visit someone on saturday and that shed be back buy sturday night but when we passed by her place sunday morning she still wasnt at home. so that really sucked dunno when shell be back.

and we are going to travel to salvador again this week i think for a training by one of the area seventies!! its gonna be so good i cant wait.

taught a really awesome lesson the other day too. this old couple and their 24 year old daughter. haha we taught a little lesson and then the old dude was like i got kicked out of three churches but i still love  playing guitar and singing jesus songs haha and i was like hey i play a little guitar too so he gave me his guitar to play and it was like super untuned so i tuned it for him and he was so stoked and then i played a little bit for them and they thought it was the best thing hahaha was really cool.

But hey i love yous all so so much, hope everything is awesome back home!!

Love Elder greener

12th October 2015

                                                  me and my last companion, elder felipe

       a melon called Xixi, which literally translates to pee or urine hahaha a made a wicked juice out of it it was so good haha.

yeah conference was so good we watched it yesterday!! we had to wait a week cos the internet heres so bad that we had to download it and watch it the next week but it was so so good.

haha i  loves that talk too about the role of the women. this morning a was studyig the story of the 2000 stripling warriors and the first thing that came into my mind was you. when the strippling warrios say in verse 48 that they doubt not because their mothers knew it. like they wouldnt not have had the faith they had if it wasnt for their mothers, and i thaught that i definantly wouldt be here if it wasnt for you so thank you so much mum.

and yeah me and my new comp are doin so freakin good!! his name is elder long and hes from america haha were doing so well together. but something came up and we werent able to do the baptism on saturday but we have it re marked for this coming saturday so that should be awesome.

haha and im waiting very anxiously for the package haha i bet youve pack it full ave goodies. but it should get here pretty quick yeah??

anyways love yous heaps and heaps, hope yous have an awesome week!!

Much love, elder greener

5th October 2015

So this week has been really good, my companion got transfered and i got a new comp, Elder Long!!

thinga have been going really good this first week and we have been having lots of success. we have a baptism lines up for this saturday and we will most likely baptize her in a river!! im really excited and exact obedience is really paying off.

fasting testimony sunday was awesome and our investigator even bore her testimony out of nowhere!!

was a a super spiritual sunday and im so glad to see the results of out work coming together.

anyways not really much to say but the bbq went awesome too!!! heaps of mean and heaps of food.

anyways love yous all so so much and hope yous have a great week.

Love Elder Green

28th September 2015

my companion is getting transfered so we spent our last day working with the branch president. was awesome!!

Haha yeah we had a zone conference but for some reason we didnt go, i think we got forgotten because we are is such a far area hahaha!

this weeks been super crazy. on friday we had a full day planned but then we had to drop literally everything when we got a call from one of the secretaries saying that theres a list of less actives that we had to visit. so we dropped everything and caught the first bus to the city center which it kinda far away. so we hunted for these less actives (oh and the list is about 10 years old too) from like 1pm to 7pm without finding a single one of them. haha we walked in the 38 degree heat for 6 hours without stopping or sitting once it was a crazy day. but blessings come from acting quickly. when we got the phonecall to visit the people we dropped everything straight away and hopped on the first bus. and on the bus we met the son of one of the dudes that brang the church to my area from são paulo. hes a less active kid and we set an appintment to go visit him this week so that was an awesome blessing from acting quickly.

but sadly the baptisms fell through. i already emailed dad why and it sucked but we will keep working with them.

anyways toninght im going to salvador cos my companion is getting transfered!! so should be good to see everyone at transfers tomorrow and get a new companion, even though i wanted to stay with my current companion haha.

anyways i gotta get going and get this bbq prepared its gonna be awesome, ill try send photos next week!!

Love yous heaps

Elder Greener

21st September 2015

                      me and my comp at the bottom of this huge bridge called Mettalic Point

                                  service project at a members place!!

                                  Went we went to salvador to see the apostle!!

after the meeting we went on splits with the zone leaders. working in a tri conpanionship is pretty sweet!!

                                            climbing the nextdoor neighbours guava tree haha.

Yeah ive been very thouhtfull this week and ive really been trying to change my thought pattern and its really been helping. weve had a really awesome week this week. weve been so freakin busy we havent even had time to visit all the people we made appointments for!! but its good to be busy. haha time is absolutely flying past it feels like yesterday i was in my last area but now its almost transfers again which is crazy.

We had an awesom district meeting this week and we got to meet the new missionary couple that are serving here!! I cant remember their names but they are an awesome couple serving their third mission together. so our district leader is awesome but he is also a certified crazy. hes going crazy to baptise people haha and he gave us a few methods in which we will stsart using to try have more success so hopefully we have more results soon.

Had an aweosm lesson with on of our investigators while i was  on splits with our district leader. i was going to go there and see how she was doing in regards to the word of wisdom, but when we went in i got the impression that i should speak about that another time. we ended up sharing a powerfull lesson about prayer and i invited her so be baptised on the 27 of september. 

so hopefully we should have 2 baptisms this week whick is going to be awesome.

next week is also transfers so ill have to let you know if im going or staying, but ill let you know when i find out!!

Lots of love, 

Elder Greener

14th September 2015

Hey Mum,

well i just wanted to thank you for this email. to be honest, if i wasnt here on the mission and i got an email like this i dont know if i would have received it very well. but as i am here learning so many imporant thingsi can definantly see that the things you do for me and the kids are out of love. its like coming on the mission has taken this fog out of my mind that was blocking a lot of good things and blocking me from thinking straight. but now its like that fog is being taken away and my eternal perspective is getting massive. I have been reading my patriarchal blessing a lot lately and contemplating on being a good missionary or an extraordinairy missionary. its not something easy for me, because sometimes i have thoughts like ´´if i completely devote myself im just going to turn into a robot peter preisthood with no sense of fun or anything like that´´. but then on the other hand i really cant survive as a missionary without the miracles that come through exact obedience. im so thankfull to have parents like  you that fully know what they need to do in order to enter the celestial kingdom, but not only know but also act on what they know. im so thankfull that you a willing to do what you have to do in order to receive the blessing of the lord mum. like i cant even explain how thankful.

But this week has been alright. one of our main investigators that was progressing told us she doent want to take any more lassons and canceled her baptism date. she has a boyfriend that is married to another woman and has some kids with her and he is like sustaining our investigator because she is out of work. oh and the wife of her boyfriend doesnt know about her, but the sisters of the wife know about it??? hows that for a situation. so baisically she decided that after we taught her about the Law of chastidy. so that really sucke this week.

But our other main investigator is still progressing heaps!! one sunday she didnt feel comfortable with the clothed she was wearing compared to the  other women there so out of nowhere she decided to change her wardrobe in accordance to the church dress standard. shes and awesome lady and im stoked for her baptism.

But me and my companion are doing really well, im learning so much stuff from him its like my heads gonna explode, but he says im getting a lot better a everything now which is great.

yesterday i gave a talk in sacrament after oneof the talkers bailed so i had to make up the talk pretty much on the spot, luckily it was only 7 mins haha. but i think i learnt more from the talk than the members, i talked about obedience and exact obedience and shared the story of when nephi had to go back to jerusalem to get plates, and that the results of his exact obedienece were miracles. 

we have set some great goals for next week that we are going to put to the test and im gonna give EXACT obedience a go too. this week is going to be difficult but i want the blessing of the lords so it should be great.

anyways i hope th family is doing great and all is well back home.

love yous heaps

Elder Greener