Everyone Loves the Dentist

I always heard that serving a mission would be stressful. Everyone told me that physically you fall apart. But man. No one ever told me how true that was. So this week, I had to go to the dentist because I couldn't open my mouth super wide (how can I preach repentance without speaking?) and the dentist told me that apparently I clench my jaw when I sleep which is caused by extreme stress. Oh and then I accidentally popped my shoulder out of place (it's still out of place oops). Oh and I can literally crack whatever joint in my body now. But putting all that aside, I'm so grateful to be able to serve the Lord with all my heart, might, mind and STRENGTH. It's such a blessing to give the Lord a year and a half of my time and dedicate it to Him.

And he totally strengthens us! "And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them." So Sister Mortensen and I were running the other morning and I was SO tired and really did not want to run but I knew it would only help. So at the beginning of running, I was DYING. Maybe Sister Mortensen was too but I was too out of breath to ask. So I said a quick prayer and asked the Lord to help my weaknesses become strong. By the end of running, I felt as if I could keep going forever. I know that the Lord helped me (even though it was literally the smallest and probably most unimportant thing in the world.)

Right now in Amial, we're trying to find some new people. Our past ones aren't progressing super well so we're gonna give them a break. And we decided to take a random bus through our area and get off where we felt we needed too. We found some of the coolest people: This one couple that just had a baby. The mom of a member. A young couple that totally just let us in even though they were eating dinner (UNHEARD OF!). And more! I love the Lord's guiding hand in our work. We were always in the right place at the right time. I LOVE IT HERE!!

BEIJINHOS GRANDES!

Sister Hillam

Sister Mortensen and I on sketchy train tracks. (If y'all have been reading my emails for a long while, I always have bad luck with trains. Thankfully, nothing happened this time!)