Week 4--Provo Missionary Training Center: Pirate Hymns

Ola todos!

It's been a great great great week!! Lots of learning and lots of exciting things are going on!

So our teacher, Irmão Barlow told us about an awesome hymn in the Portuguese Hymn book: Secreta Oracão aka Secret Prayer. So usually when we sing it in English, it's kinda boring but wow something about singing in Portuguese just makes it so much fun to sing. The only problem is that when we're singing, we sometimes get a little too excited and we feel kinda like Pirates singing on a ship. Also, there's this song that's only in the Portuguese hymnbook that also reminds us of pirates which I guess makes sense because Portugal = ships = pirates, right?

One of our elders, Elder Comeau, is colorblind which is super fun. SO we have these Purple language books and one has all these phrases in it. Our teacher had mentioned it in passing and I thought we all knew what it was. Once we were asked to pull it out during class and Elder Comeau gasped and said, "That book?!" Then he sat back and was quiet for a second. We asked why and he said, "I thought it was blue and I've been looking for a purple book for the past four weeks!" We love our color blind Elder.

We were planning our lesson for Campeão and randomly Sister Nance says, "I think we should sing to him." I was like uhh okay... whatever you say! So we ended up singing "I am a Child of God" to him and it really invited the Spirit. Aaand we taught a completely unscripted lesson and talked about things we didn't really know how to say in Portuguese and it was awesome! Yay for the Gift of Tongues! Our teacher, Irmão Read, told us that if we enter a lesson without notes, we are exercising our faith in Christ. When we exercise our faith in Christ, we will see miracles!

ALSO.. Sheri Dew spoke to us last night at devotional! So awesome! Sister Nance and I got to meet and talk to her! SOO COOL! She talked about how it's okay if we have questions as long as we approach it the right way. Elder Bednar comes tomorrow!!!!

We get to Skype a real Portuguese/Brazilian member on Friday and teach them a lesson! So excited! I'll let ya'll know how that goes :)

Ahh last night we watched Legacy which is about a girl and her life during the beginnings of the Church. I saw it a long time ago and I used to love it but wow.. didn't realize how cheesy it was. Every time someone said something that was "flirtatious" or cheesy, the whole room would burst out laughing! It was great!

2 MORE WEEKS UNTIL PORTUGAL! CRAZY! We're all feeling ready to get out of the MTC and into the mission field!

A igreja é verdadeira!

Com amor,

Sister Hillam