Sister Griffin and I decided that we are now Sister Grillam because we're literally the same person and we're going to serve the rest of our missions together because it's just the best. We'll see if Presidente agrees next week because transfers are coming up!
Also, we ate strawberries with like every meal this week. We had:
Tuna fish sandwiches with strawberries
Cereal with strawberries
Yogurt with strawberries
Pancakes with strawberries in the batter with strawberries on top with strawberry jam
I don't remember the rest but we had a giant crate of strawberries we had to use. We'll be going through strawberry withdraws this week...
Now on to more important things...
Tuesday we had the most amazing district meeting that I've ever had. During district meeting, we read the letter that President Amorim sent us. It was about that new (in relative terms because I been out of the real world for a year now) movie about a soldier in WWII that wouldn't kill anyone but ended us saving so many people as a medic. The soldier, Desmond Doss, would save someone's life and then turn back to save others'. He would pray, "Senhor, dá me forças para salvar mais um. Mais um Senhor." (Lord, give me strength to save one more. One more Lord.) We talked about how we need to rely on the strength of the Lord to just help one more person. We were all really touched by that. I loved it. So now every time we find new people to teach (novos as we call them) we send a text to our district saying, "MAIS UM SENHOR!" Or mais dois, três, etc. It's amazing that as we rely on the Lord, miracles happen.
Speaking of miracles... Last night after skyping with our families, (which was great by the way) we went out to work, pois. We passed by some old investigators but no one was home. Then we contacted people and none of them lived in our area (tourist season!!). And then we went to contact some references the Elders had given us. On the way there, we missed the first bus, caught a later one, got stuck at the bridge that opens up to let boats through, went and tried some other people, who weren't home, and finally tried the last person, Conceição. We go to the address which turned out to be just a sewing store, which was closed. As we're looking around to see if we got the right address, a lady comes up and her daughter and we ask her if she is Conceição, and guess what, it was!! Then she takes us to her home and we teach her and her daughter, Joana. The Spirit was so strong! They're amazing! Joana is 20 and super sweet and after we left, we turn around to see Joana running after us. Apparently, I left my agenda there and both her and her mom were running around the streets of Leça to find us. They're the sweetest!! Anyways, moral of the story: So many things happened before us finding Conceição that made it so that we were in the right place at the right time. And MAIS DUAS SENHOR!
I LOVE THE MISSION! Hitting my year mark last week was kinda super scary and it's just going to get scarier every day... But I can't wait so see all the miracles that will happen in the next 6 months! Here we go!
Love ya'll!!
Sister Hillam
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| Churros recheados com oreo e nutella |
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| We liked the mirror at mini preço |
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