First more about minha companheira - Sister Lucas. She is really great! From Sao Paulo, 21 years old, muito legal. First of all, she is so funny! We already have a lot of inside jokes, and we laugh and joke around a lot. She speaks a ton of English which is so incredibly helpful for me when I have questions or don´t understand something.. She is a really hard worker. We study for long periods of time in the mornings, and she is always ready to go work and find more people to teach. She is the most patient human being alive. I honestly rarely understand what is going on half of the time, and I ask her to repeat her questions multiple times. Yet she continues to stay patient with me, which I am so grateful for. But she really is so awesome, and I´m really glad I got her as my first companion in the field!
The other day, we talked with Thomas, a member youth in our area, and the conversation turned to seminary. Sister Lucas started talkeing about how LDS youth - though few and far between - love seminary and the scriuptures, and I just thought wow. Bountiful is so different. Yes there are more youth, but not as many genuine testimonies. It reminded me of what you said Elder Ballard(?) said in a stake conf, the fact that "the world is wicked enough for the savior to come, but the saints aren't ready". <- I really do think that is directed to us in Utah.. The members here in Brazil are so passionate and have this hunger to share the gospel with as many people as possible. There isn´t that same fire in Utah - myself included! I remember! Definitely a good example for us.
Okay, now a update of the week:
This past week we had SO. MUCH. RAIN. One day it just absolutely poured! But the work must go on! We started out the day and it wasn´t too bad, but it really started to pour halfway to our investigator Messias´ house. Periodically we would wait under an overhand to wring out our skirts and get out of the rain for a second. Throughout the day, we walked through the rain, and at one point it was so hard it broke Sister Lucas' umbrella! We ran under a overhang thing, and you can bet your bottom dollar that her umbrella was a goner. But another lady was underneath the overhang as well, and we were able to get her contact info and set up a lesson for next week! No coincidences - everything happens for a reason (:
By the end of the day, we were utterly soaked (Sister Lucas mais porque she didn't want to share the umbrella) so we puddle jumped our way home in the roads which were just flooded - like up to our calves with water!
We´ve had to drop so many (almost all) of our investigators this past week. They´ve been being taught for many transfers now, but they´re just not progressing or acting on what we teach :( Sad day. But I know that we´ll have more time now to find other people who need to hear our message! So pray for us to find people who need the gospel in their lives - especially families!
We had a good lesson with an investigator Paulo last week. Paulo is in a wheelchair, and only has one leg, so it is slightly difícil for him to get to church. He´s been struggling lately because he has a lot of pressure from the Catholic church/outre amigos to not liston to us, not get baptized, etc. etc, so following up on commitments has been a bit difficult. We´ve told him to read LDM a few times, and to pray, but he still seemed unsure. So in this lesson a few days ago, I just bore my testimony that I know the Book of Mormon is true, with every part of me, and that if he read it and prayed about it, he would receive an answer from Heavenly Father. And he really listened, and agreed to read with real intent. Grateful for the Spirit, and our blessing to touch people´s hearts as missionaries.
But overall, another wonderful week in Brazil! Grateful for the lessons learned so far, and the fact that Heavenly Father loves us and blesses us every single day! We just need to recognize it.
Love, Sister Hill
1. Cute Sisters in my Zone, last P-Day
2. FRUIT WALL on the way to church!
3. Sister in my zone <3
4. Roads of Parnaiba. This is what my area looks like (: Roads I walk every day!
5. View from the front of our house
6. Sisters em minha casa
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