''I'm not crazy, just a little''

Crazy week again! We never get a break, it's so great :)

We had divisions this week with the sisters from Coimbra this week! It was such a crazy day! In the afternoon, the sisters still hadn't gotten here so we had to go on divisions with a few members in our ward. It was so much fun! We drove around in cars (aleluia!) and visited tons of people! Then the sisters arrived and we did the same (just without the cars). Then in the morning, it was Sister Guerrero's birthday so we went running with her while the other sisters in Viseu snuck into our apartment and made banana pancakes for her. It was the cutest!

We were fasting all day on Friday for our zone and man, fasting and praying works amazingly! I know the mission isn't only about numbers but we had better numbers that day, that we had had when we had 4 sisters in our area working at the same time. It was crazy!! The Lord really does bless us!

Also, another crazy thing.. We had to run home again the other night. We found out that we've been running 6-7 minute miles every night. Never thought I would say this but it's actually kinda fun!

We have been teaching Emanuel's mom, Margarida. She has been kind of down the past few days and ended up not coming to church yesterday so we had to move her baptism date. We were talking to her with Emanuel and she was crying, which Sister Pennock and I were totally fine with because, you know, sometimes you just got to let it out. But Emanuel didn't feel super comfortable with that so he kept on doing the craziest things to cheer her up. He grabbed her cheeks at one point and made her smile. Then later he said, in english, ''I'm not crazy, just a little'' in his cute little english accent. Emanuel is like a 25 year old 5 year old. Margarida was definitely much happier after that!

Also, I got to see my old comp/cousin yesterday!! Weird to call her Madi and see her without a tag! Missed her a lot!

I love the Portuguese peope here!! They're so cute and have a few funny phrases they use:

Fogo: literally means fire but it's kind of like 'dang it' or 'ohh man!'

Puxa: means pull but it's something that you say at the end of a really long story and you just don't know what to say..

Sei la: doen't make much sense when you translate it to english but you say it when you don't know the answer to something or don't feel like answering a question. Investigators do this a lot..

Em aguas de bacalhau: 'In waters of codfish' kinda weird.. It's like saying 'suck between a rock and a hard place' Like you're not going anywhere, just sitting there with the fish.

Well, we're in the last week of the transfer! It's flown by! Next Tuesday we'll find out if I'll stay in Viseu or go somewhere else! It's going to be crazy!

Sorry this email is so random..

Love you all so much!

Sister Hillam