I hit my four month mark yesterday.. Only 14 more to go! Thank goodness it's not less!
Tomorrow we'll find out if we'll be getting transferred or not! We seriously have no idea what will happen since there have been so many changes recently in the mission. Vamos ver!
We've been working really hard with Margarida (Emanuel's mom). She was marked for baptism for the 24th of September but she didn't come to church yesterday. Investigators have to come to church at least 2 times before getting baptized. It helps them understand the importance of taking the sacrament and attending church. Well anyways, we got to her house early in the morning and Emanuel was ready for church but Margarida was still in her night gown and was complaining about how sick she was. She kept on saying that she was 'mal disposto' which really just means that she doesn't feel like it. So we ended up staying there for an hour and we told her that we wouldn't leave until she came with us. She ended up not coming and we went to church really late. Then we decided to grab some members and go to her house so she could take the sacrament during the other ward. We looked so funny. Us, two older men, and a 30 year old sister. It was hilarious. Margarida actually wasn't sick.. She just had things to do. We ended up postponing her baptism.. Super sad.. We're trying really hard to help her realized the importance of baptism.
Two of the members that came with us to her house, Firmino and Carla, were talking to me about transfers and they said that I'll never end up leaving Viseu. They said that I'll stay here the whole mission and then after, I'll just stay and marry someone from Viseu. Haha we'll see about that. Not really something I need to be thinking about right now but hey, at least the members like me!
Remember João Paulo? So we actually dropped him about two weeks ago and gave him to the elders. For us, he wasn't progressing and he was kind of a single man, which we aren't allowed to teach--so let the Elders try. Last week, we saw Paulo in the street and he looked so happy and he said he was going to the capela with the Elders. Then later, we talked to the Elders on the phone and they sounded soo happy. They only said that they found money on the ground. Then we talked to Emanuel, who's best buds with Paulo (he calls him Paulinho) and he said that something cool would be happening on Monday. We put together all the pieces and guessed that JOÃO PAULO IS GETTING BAPTIZED! Apparently it was supposed to be a surprise for us but we figured it out haha!! No one knows that we knew before they announced it at church yesterday.. We acted surprised though! He'll be getting baptized in an hour and a half! Ahhh!!
We taught a less active family this week. They stopped going to church because someone offended them. It was a super sad lesson. They know the church was true and they were preparing to go to the temple! But it was also an incredibly spiritual lesson too. Never in my life have I felt the spirit so strong. I knew exactly what to say and the Portuguese just came. At the end of the lesson, the wife was crying. She knows that it's time to come back. They still wouldn't come to church but we brought them flowers yesterday so we're just doing baby steps.
We also learned from the people here that fig milk can take off moles (superstitions)..... Well at least we thought it did.. Sister Pennock wanted to try it on the mole on her neck so she put some on. She said it burned a little. I looked at it a little later. THE MOLE WAS COMING OFF! But it looked really gross... Then that night Sister Pennock learned that it had actually burnt her skin.. It looked gross. Then an investigator looked at it and got soo mad at her and then insisted on cleaning it off. Thank goodness I'm going to be a nurse.
Elder Zwick came to our mission last week! He talked a lot about our foundations in Christ and how we need to strengthen them! This is something that I want to work on more and more! Elder Zwick is such an amazing servant of the Lord!! I got to talk to him about my grandpa for a little as well. It was nice :)
Well, love you all so much!! You all are great and are doing great things with your lives!
Com amor,
Sister Hillam
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| The awesome Indian food we ate today!! |
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| Sister Pennock enjoying her Indian food! |
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