HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC!!!!!!!!! I hope everything goes well for you
this birthday week!!! :) Love you lots!!!
Oh goodness gracious another week has gone and another one of the
last precious weeks that I have has come! I can’t handle it sometimes!
This week was really good!! So we’ve been teaching Paula to prepare
her for her wedding this week and her baptism this week and we made real
progress!!! We have to teach in a very simple way so that she understands and
this week we were asking her what we had already taught and she responded and
remembered everything! Incredible! Manuel was so excited! I love when you can
see on the faces of people the change that the gospel can have in their life. I
really found peace knowing that you can literally tell. You don’t have to
guess, it shows. I see it every time I go to Paula and Manuel´s house. Love
them so much! Anyway, we still had a few problems because she doesn’t want to
get married without a dress and rings...we’ve kept these financial problems on
the down low from the members but because we brought members to teach with us,
they discovered and now they want to pay for everything. I love these members
so much! They are paying for the dress (only a cheep, Chinese one), and the
rings! They want to even do a party after her baptism to celebrate the wedding
and baptism!! I just love these people. We were praying so hard to know what to
do. They didn’t have money for food and we couldn’t do anything. The members
are now taking control and I know they were our answer. So she is progressing
really well!
We are planning an activity here in Viseu to watch Meet the Mormons
so people have a better idea of us because surprisingly, not many people know
who we are here! So we’re planning a movie night at the church. (This was all
my idea and now it’s catching fire!!) The members all want to help and the
missionary are all helping which really helps!
We’ve been working a lot with the members and this week we went to
Monica and Firmino´s house to visit their family. They all live in that area.
Sadly we couldn’t see all of the family members but the work is now rolling
there!
We also spent a day in another village in our area. Carla served
here in Portugal when it was 3 missions! So we went and worked with her in her
village and met all of her family there. One day these family members will
accept! It was super fun to meet the families of the members! It made the work
really easy when the members were giving the people to teach!
So this week we found out that we’re moving houses! Our house that
we have now is bad...really bad. Sister Waddell has been in a hotel because of
a reaction she had. So they decided to start house searching for us as well! It
was last minute too. We got a call that said, `hey, we’re looking for a house
for you and need your boundaries. ` The next day `hey we found a house, go
check it out.` we went and oh my goodness it’s the cutest thing ever! It’s
small but has 2 floors! It’s perfect for missionaries. We really liked it and it’s
right by the cathedral. Jordan those catholic churches that you woke up to
every morning are my back yard! It’s stellar!!
Tomorrow I have mission counsel and then this week we have zone
conference. So this week will fly by. (As if the other don’t too) I wish you
could all see the miracles that happen here in the mission. I only can write
the general stuff but there is so much more that I want to share. So many
miracles happen. You all know, but I wish you could all be here to witness the
beauty of it all. I love the mission. We’re working hard and doing all we can
to find those that need to hear the message. I’ve written little messages to
myself during studies and it comforts me to know that this work is not my work.
I love that I can go and do my best and the Lord makes up the rest. I see that
with the investigators that when I don’t have the words to speak, the Spirit
teaches for me. All I have to do is open my mouth and start and then the Spirit
does the rest. Man, I love mission! Love you all lots! Pray for Paula and
Manuel, also Sister Costa and her family, they really need it.:) Thank you all
so much for all you do! Love you all!
Sister Hillam
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