First off HAPPY VALENTINE`S DAY (6 days early)!!!!!! I have a
question for you all, will you be my valentine?? Also, thank you mom and dad
for the Valentine’s Day card! It really made my day and my week! I cried a few
times!
This week was crazy up and down!! It reminded me a lot about the
roller coaster in Orlando Studies that you go straight up and then go straight
down (Jordan, Crystal, and I probably rode that one like 3 times) well in the
end, it was just like that! Lots of twist and turns that you wouldn’t
expect!
So I’ll tell you the stories of a few people from this week!
We are teaching a lady named Gina that was already taught by the
missionaries and only wants the Mormon missionaries to teach her. We went there
this week and she was waiting outside her house for us! She has depression and
she knows exactly where to build confidence in herself and build her faith. We
read Ether 12 with her and she loved it! She then shared with us that she wants
us to teach her son as well! We’re really excited about her progress but it’s
slow because she still trying to believe in Christ but she’s changing which is
important!
We met with Decio, which is an Angolan family that was already
taught before us and not baptized. We went there and had a really good chat to find
out his icebergs. Now we know how to help him more. He even ended up asking us
for a missionary manual! That was super funny, and that he wants to write
stories about our lives, our missions, and us. He’s really interested in who we
are and why we do the things we do! It was a really good foundational lesson.
Carlos is incredible!!! We had divisions this week and I brought
Sister Smith to our area to work and we taught the word of wisdom which he
easily accepted. He was so eager to stop smoking and he’s accepting everything.
He has a testimony of the church already! On Sunday he ended up not going to
church. We called him that morning and talked to him about the cigarettes and
he said he’d only smoked 1 that morning! Then he went on to say that he didn’t
have money to buy more but that he would catch the bus to church. We waited for
him and he never came but we went to his house and talked to him. He didn’t
have the money to buy the bus tickets and he was feeling really sick because he
went from smoking 15 to smoking 3 cigarettes! It was awesome! But we read the
scriptures and prayed and then he felt better! It was great to see the
happiness and difference in his life.
We had divisions and Sister Smith and I visited Patricia and talked
to her for a little and then she unloaded on us! It was awesome! She went on to
say how ever since we started teaching her and talking with her, her house and
kids have been different. She’s seen the difference that we are in her life.
She was saying this without us asking!! She then went on to say she was reading
the Book of Mormon before she went to bed and the first thing she saw when she
woke up was the book. She really wants to change her life and she feels that it’s
changing with us. I just want to jump up and start telling the whole world! We
had a really good discussion with her about the gospel and the importance of it
all. Again, it’ll be a process but she’s on the road to baptism!!!
We were asked to visit a woman in the relief society that hasn’t
been to church in a month and wow was it awesome! We got there and she just
started crying and telling us everything. Her father passed away about a month
ago and no one knew. The member’s didn’t know and no one was there to help her.
She hadn’t been to church because she didn’t feel the love at church. We got
there and shared a message with her Matthew 11. 28-30. Come to find out she
takes care of 2 women that are in bed always. They are barely alive and she
stays with them for 24 hours a day for 5 days. She’s alone and when we read the
scripture it made her cry and me. We had a really good connection and she ended
up going to church yesterday! At church those same scriptures were shared as
well as Finding Faith in Christ. Church was exactly what she needed.
I had a lot of time to think this past week and read the Book of
Mormon. Our district was sick this week so for half a day I had to stay home
because I was ready to throw up but during that time I read the rest of 3
Nephi, 4th Nephi, and half of Mormon. I just wanted to read till the end. I had
lots of time to think about our personal lives. I love those chapters and I
gained a new love for the Book of Mormon. I know it’s true. I know the power
that comes from it. It is the greatest missionary! I loved reading and studying
it! I read and study it twice a day, when I wake up, during personal studies,
and at night, before I go to bed. I love that book so much!! This week is Carnival
so we have a few activities at the church that we’re going to do. The work is
progressing, it’s not to the speed that we would like it, but it’s going :) I
love you all so much!!
Sister Hillam
P.S. Transfers are going to be on the 28th instead of this next week
:)
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