First off...HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!! Man, I can just imagine
how fat ya´ll are going to get because of this week! While you’re all off and
eating, I’ll be walking and teaching! I’d rather be here than there though! I
guess you can come and join me if you’d like :) I love you all so much!
I STAYED ON THE MADEIRA!!!!!!!!!!!! haha I know that the title says
that but it´s true. I’m no longer just a regular missionary. I’m now the only
STL on the Madeira!!! I’m over 4 sisters so I guess I get to go do divisions with
the other sisters that live with us! I’m super nervous and excited at the same
time. I get to go to mission council all alone with the Zone leaders and take
care of the sisters. I’m super scared but I know I can do it. I found out
literally about 5 hours ago but we got the call for transfers yesterday and ALL
THE SISTERS STAYED!!!!!! I’m pretty excited about that!!
Not going to lie, I hate the week before transfers because all I
want to do it know what is going on for transfers!! But it was a good week! We
met this guy named Helder and he’s very interesting. He doesn’t really believe
in God but he believes in a place where spirits live. So we taught him the
second lesson and it went really good! We taught and you could see him his eyes
and even in his countenance that he was thinking about it and that it made
sense. He started out with his arms crossed really hard and joking with us and
by the end he really was curious about the life after this one. We left him
thinking about the message and by the end his shoulders had relaxed and he was
a little looser. THE PLAN MAKES SENSE!! He loves science and so do I so we got
to talking and man I love teaching the gospel through science! haha the lessons
went really good!
One morning, everything was just going all wrong. Everything just
fell apart and I have such a huge testimony of trials and blessings! This
transfer is just full of them!! Anyway we had a really rough morning and then
after lunch we just found so many elect people. There was this one street that
we wanted to go down for like 2 weeks but we always had lessons on another road
so we never could spend some decent time but we had a whole afternoon so we
took it to find families! WOW! We found so many people open to our message!!!
It was incredible! This week was just full of those times. But every time we
were blessed to find people to teach!
We’ve been teaching a guy named Vitor who is cousins with the
district president and we gave him a chapter to read in the BOM and he read it
and at our last lesson he asked for another chapter!!! He’s too chill with
life, he says that if it makes you happy you should do it. This time we asked
him if he knew the church was true what difference would it make? And he said,
It would make all the difference in the world.` So now he’s progressing a lot
more than we thought but it will still be a slow process because his family is
key in the process!! In the same day we went to see Sofia and Wilson her son
was there! We used the pyramid of cups to explain how the church is built and
after that Sofia wanted her son to pay attention. It was incredible! Even the
littlest with 3 years loved it! Truly the Spirit!
This week a member of the branch got married!!! I was called an hour
before and told that I would be playing the piano for the wedding...YIKES!!!
haha so we got there and I ended up not needing to play! But still lead the
music. It was strange to see a marriage outside of the temple but also so happy
that they wanted to be together! It was small and pink! And then they asked us
(Sister Miller and I) to clean all of it up...So we swept and picked up all the
petals and put the chairs back. It was super fun and I felt the happiness of
getting married but the sorrow of having to clean it up. I guess you can’t have
the good without the bad right?? haha Good thing that won’t happen for
awhile!
So On Saturday we talked to Laura for the first time this week
because she’s been super busy with school and her play that starts this week.
So we got to see her for 30 minutes and I was just crying. I felt for sure that
I was leaving! So we talked to her and President specifically told us to try
and mark her before the end of the year but that didn’t happen. We ended up
talking about transfers and I got all choked up. I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!! But
sadly she had to catch the bus to go and Sister Miller and I just sat and cried
it was so sad. We tried to see her on Sunday but because of her theatre
schedule we couldn’t see her. We were close to her house on Sunday and the
biggest miracle of the transfer happened!!!! This whole transfer I have been
praying to meet with her mom and just talk to her. We were really sad on Sunday
because we thought for sure that one of us would leave. So I gave her the
necklace that you sent mom and while we were there all the dogs were going nuts
and her mom came out!!!!! WE TALKED TO HER FOR 35 MINUTES IN HER HOUSE!!!!!!!!!
IT WAS A MIRACLE!!! All of the prayers and fasts that the zone, the district,
you all, and we’ve done were answered in those 35 minutes with her mom
Regina.
I know the Lord answers our prayers. He answers them in His time and
we need to have faith in his timing. I’ve learned to have patience in His
timing because usually it’s not when we want but when he wants. I love the
gospel so much and I’m so thankful for the Spirit that leads and guides us as
we teach and contact. I feel so blessed to be here on the island during Christmas
and I feel like I’m too blessed during the mission. I gave a talk on faith and
every week I just remember that without faith God can’t work miracles. It’s so
true. He knows every single one of us individually. I love you all so much!!!!!
Have a great week!!!!
Sister Hillam
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