TRIPLA e TRIPAS

We got transfers last night! And guess what... WE'RE STAYING IN A TRIPLA!!! And... SÃO JOÃO NOW HAS ELDERS! We're not just sisters anymore! It'll be awesome, the members might revolt, but it'll still be awesome!

This week we were soo busy with trying to find new investigators. Last week our district goal was 40 and we hit it! Then we decided to go for 60. And guess what.. WE HIT IT! It was so hard and we're dead now but it was so amazing! We had so many miracles! We started a district fast on Saturday and right after we started, each dupla found a least one novo. And then at 9pm, we had 58 novos. WE ONLY NEEDED 2 MORE! So we got permission from President to stay out just a little later and find the novos. AND WE DID! It was awesome!! To celebrate, we're going to MATOZINHOS to play volleyball and have a picnic! I'll send pics next week probably..

We've been making a lot  of listões with the members, which is just a giant list of their friends so that later, we can work with them. Anyways, with one listão, we did it with these 3 old people, Odete, Otília, and Irmão Tavares. They're all siblings. So we were asking them about how many siblings they had and Odete said 7 and the other two said 8. They counted out the siblings and Odete still didn't believe them!! We decided she's the dumb blonde of the family. 

Oh a story that I forgot to tell from a long time ago...
So, Sister Mavy and I were in our apartment and the power goes out. So I try to turn the breaker on and it doesn't work. We call the mission office and they hook us up to the electricity company. So I'm talking to this not-so-nice portuguese man with a very thick accent and he tells me to go to the electicity box outside and press the orange button. SO I do.. and at that moment, the phone dies AND I turn off all the power in the WHOLE APARTMENT COMPLEX.. So we run inside our apartment and chill there until someone comes and fixes our mess. They come and the power goes back on except in our apartment. We ended up having to wait until the next day for someone to come and apparently there was a different orange button to press.. Oops.. Lesson well learned :)

I'm so grateful to be staying in São João! It's literally the best place in the world with the best members!! In Relief Society, they remind everyone to pray for the missionaries and they love helping us!! São João is going to be a ward soon!!! Wish us misisonaries luck and pray for us and our investigators and members and everything!!! 

Com amor,
Sister Hillam

PS.. There is the cutest old couple in our ward that is getting married now! They call each other girlfriend and boyfriend! And they hold hads and kiss ahhhhh ADORABLE! They're like in their 70s :)

Pictures.. we didn't take any. Sorry!!