I Have a Family Here on Earth....

I don't have much time BUT we went paintballing today as a district! It was sweet and I totally took a ball to the neck.. mas tudo bem! It was SO much fun!

So the biggest thing that happened this week was....

MÓNICA E FRANCISCO
So that family that the elders gave us last week is AMAZING! The dad is Nuno and he is a less active. Mónica is the wife. Francisco is 8, Leonardo is 6, and Rodrigo is 3. THEY ARE AMAZING! I've never had lessons so spiritual with investigators until now. They really have a real desire to learn and follow Christ. They are marked to be baptized on the 20th of May. They, sadly, didn't come to church yesterday because the weather was so bad and Mónica had to walk with the three kids and a stroller for 30 minutes to get to the church. We visited them last night and talked about how important church is and we told her that we could have come helped her if we had known and she just said, "Oh! I didn't know!" She's so cute. Pray for them! They'll need to get married and stop smoking. They already stopped drinking coffee which is great! I LOVE THEM! My whole mission I've wanted to teach a family and now Heavenly Father has blessed us with this wonderful family to teach and bring into the Gospel.

Another great thing that happened,...
Manuela! She's now marked for the 27th of May!! We asked her why she wanted to get baptized and she said, "Because I know it's right!" She's so elect!! I LOVE HER!

Now just some funny things:

I'm getting ready to leave and all I hear is Sister Griffin yelling, "I DROPPED THE WATER I DROPPED THE WATER!" I run into the kitchen and the water jug is on it's side on the table and there is water everywhere. I don't know how she manages it sometimes.

We were contacting people on the way home and we contact this old man in a wheel chair and he ended up being really drunk and wanted us to hold the cap to his carton of wine and we told him that it's bad and he looked and me and said, "no. tea isn't bad." The carton totally said wine. Then later he told us it was juice. Then he drank the entire carton in a gulp. Then he told us we were pretty and that he'd married both of us at the same time if he could. That was flattering I guess. Maybe we'll find him when he's not drunk! That'd be great!

I love Matosinhos and the people here. I love the Gospel and the opportunity we have to change and become better every day!

Love ya'll!
Sister Hillam