Transfers!!!

So transfers came early. I'm going to be a mom!! (missionary lingo for a trainer...) I'm training! I've got mixed feelings about this but I'm excited!! I'll go pick up my new baby (missionary lingo for a "new" missionary to Portugal) on Wednesday and until then, I'm comp-less! I have to stay with the other sister missionaries here in São João da Madeira until then and then tomorrow, another sister who will be training is coming down here from Viana do Castelo and we'll work together tomorrow in my area and then head up to Porto Wednesday morning. Lots of changes!! I'm excited though! Wish me luck!!

So this week, we made a goal as a district to have 18 new investigators. That's nine for each of us. We hadn't found alot of new people to teach the past few weeks, so we were so excited! We decided to get Tripa Doce on Saturday if we hit our goal. Tuesday comes around and we got one new investigator (novo). Super exciting! Then Wednesday, nothing. Thursday, nothing. Kinda freaking out. So we decided to do a division in our area and cover our entire area. We got 6 novos in less that 3 hours!! It was awesome!! I worked with Sister Nagliati, Italian by birth but raised in Brazil. She's soo amazing and I learned tons of things. She was really good at contacting someone and teaching the gospel right then and there instead of awkward chit chat beforehand. We ended up getting 14 novos total this week but we tried our best, so decided to get Tripas. Sadly, the Tripa Doce stand was closed (it's owned by a recent convert) so we didn't get any but we will tomorrow!

We were teaching a cute little old lady, Conceição, the other night and she was getting really tired because it was late and she kept on talking about God and it kinda just turned into a prayer and then she started falling asleep. I'm still a little sick so I coughed and she like freaked out and jumped out of her chair and yelled. It was hilarious!! We decided to let her get to bed after that... 

I know that the Church is true. I know that this is the only Church where we can be saved with our families and those we love most. I'm so grateful to get to serve here in Portugal. It is really the "promised land" (no offence to all the other missionaries in the world...). I love my Father in Heaven and my Savior. I'm so grateful for this time of year when we take out extra time of our lives to think about the birth of Christ. 

Com muito amor e carinho,
Sister Hillam

Oh... oops.. 
I totally forgot my camera at home so... no pictures today. They'll be really good next week!

They have these cool street cameras in Portugal--you can take a photo and email for free.  (Luckily, mom has a photo to include this week!)