Saving Lives. Spiritually and Physically

This week was a blur!!! And next week will be transfers! Also I hit my 5 month mark on the mission last week and I'll hit my 4 month mark in Portugal this week!! How time flies!

So last night we went with an older couple, Augustinho and Natália, to teach this elderly lady, Laurinda. It was about 8pm when we got there and we went into Laurinda's house and she seemed a little off. Then we had a peak in the kitchen and I have never seen so much alcohol in my life!! She was so drunk. I felt so bad for her. The thing is that she wants to learn and change. We were there for about and hour helping her understand what we were teaching. She even said last night that she knew that she was killing her body by drinking. At a point, she was complaining about how old she is and she waid that she was 66. Augustinho said to Laurinda, 'Oh! You're only three years older than my wife! She's 63.' Then Natália looked and him and said, 'No. I'm 62.' Augustinho kind of just looked at her and then shrugged off that he was wrong but Sister Pennock and I could not stop laughing. I guess when you're with someone for how long they've been together, you kinda just forget little things like that.

Last week we were teaching a lesson to this older couple outside their house and the husband was kinda just sleeping through everything we were saying but the wife just said that he's sick. Then by the end of the lesson, we tried asking him a question and he wouldn't respond. His wife started freaking out and pushing him to wake him up but nothing was working. Sister Pennock called the abulance and I had to try to wake him up. I've never seen someone so close to death before. It was super scary but eventually, we got him talking again. Great practice for nursing after the mission. We checked up on him a little later that week and he's a lot better.

Also, random thing.. Apparently there have been murders in our area.. Yikes. They're about 1 1/2 hours away from where we are but ehh it's a little creepy!!

We met this amazing lady, Amélia, the other day. We contacted her outside her house. We visited a few days later and she is soo prepared!! She's older and lives alone. She wants to go to church and be baptized but she's afraid of what her family will think. They're all Jehovah Witnesses but she said that she doesn't like that church at all. She tried talking to her daughter and her daughter pretty much said that if she moves churches, then Amélia will no longer be her mother. When Amélia told us that, I just wanted to cry. We're going to try to talk to her daughter this week.

President gave us a challenge this week to get one more new investigator (novo) that we had the week before. I had noo idea how we were going to do this but we had faith and we prayed so hard!! And in pretty much two days, we met our goal!! Miracles happen! It was definitly a answer to prayers.

Heavenly Father definitly answers prayers. We've been calling all our members to pray for us and our investigators right before a lesson and Saturday nights to help them come to church. We've seen so many more miracles because of this! Members are the key to everything! They help so much with lessons and love the missionaries! I love the members here in Viseu!!

Love you all!!
Sister Hillam