1 YEAR Older and Wiser Too

Updates of the week:

Transfers happened --> I will be staying here in Bacuri (woot) and Sister Finati was transferred for PiriPiri! Super crazy that she is entering into her last 12 weeks now. Time flies SO FAST.

Oh yes, and hitting my 1 year mark was so strange. Like how has 1 year already passed by? It's incredible to see the difference that a year can do, but especially see how I have changed.

We celebrated my 1 year mark with a lot of rain HAHAHA. I ended up catching a cold after, but hey, it happens.

It's been super rainy this past week (which is hilarious, because about 2 or 3 weeks ago it was so hot the road was melting) the good thing is that it means it's pretty cold at night, which means I can use sweats. FINALLY, feels like Christmas haha.

This week we ended up doing TONS of contacts in our area, and just trying to build our teaching group again.

But all is well here in Bacuri!

SO CRAZY THAT NEXT WEEK IS CHRISTMAS. LIKE WHAT. HOW.

Excited and nervous and ready for the week to come (:

Feliz Natal!

Sister Hill

1. christmas conference

2-5 no better way to celebrate 1 YEAR than in the rain, right?

6. last sunday with sis finati

7. Sister Finati with our christmas tree that we donated to a recent convert family #christmas

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! - Just kidding. Everything here still looks the same. Hahaha. BUT if it means anything, there are about 3 houses here with some christmas lights! It's the effort that counts (:

This week was good, and luckily a lot more eventful than last week (haha. I am sick of staying at home..)

Sister Dias had to go to Teresina to see the doctors there about her knee, so sis Dias and Caetano left Tuesday morning. Hoping and praying that everything will work out, and that she can get the help she needs to be feeling better and walk normal again.

Hilarious experience of the week:

We were walking in the road, and saw a lady walking towards us. We greeted her with "boa tarde!" and she greeted us back and waved - to which Sister Finati thought was a high five. So of course, trying to return the gesture, Sister Finati almost hit a lady in the face trying to give a high five that wasn't intended. HAHAHA.

Tuesday we had district meeting, and then headed out to interview Francisca. We had to remark her baptism for the next week due to the fact that she is having a hard time with café/smoking but she received a blessing from Elder Davis, and said she was feeling so much strength spiritually. I am grateful for the priesthood, and the power that is so real and so strong. Pray for Francisca and that she can continue strong!

We were able to receive some great referrals this week, a great handful of families (YAY FAMILIES!) One of them we have already started to teach - Fran and Kennige, and they have two kids, Kenya and Daymon Bryant (sidenote: it is super funny to hear names like these here, because generally everybody has the name 'José', 'Lindilmara', 'Patricia', etc.) We taught them about prayer and invited them to start praying together as a family. I am super excited to see their progress, as well as contact these other families this week! We´ll have lots of other miracles to talk about this next week, for sure!

I hope everyone is getting excited for Christmas! Yesterday the stake had a christmas program - so good. I love the fact that no matter the language, or traditions, we all celebrate Christmas with the same Spirit. They showed this video before starating (which I LOVE so much). I always get chills watching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_TEOyhy7Bg

boa semana!

Sis Hill

sorry, not a lot of pictures this week. My camera is without batteries. hahaha.

but enjoy this picture of gelato that we took a week or so ago.

1-2 gelato

Hello Ankle!

news of the week! I tripped in the road and did something to a ligament in my foot/leg. WOOT WOOT. So I am now doing physical therapy, and life is grand. All is good. Atleast nobody died.

So yes, I stayed at home with Sister Dias, another Sister who has mais ou menos destroyed her knee.. she fell in São Luís and hit her knee really bad. We are praying for her that all will be well, because she will most likely need to go home to do surgery on her knee. The mission life is rough people.

But the good side of things is that this left lots, and lots, and LOTS of time to study. I read a lot from the President Hinckly manual, and loved the chapter on serving one another. Loved what he said about service, that "The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best medicine for despair is service. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired."

have a wonderful week all,

Sis Hill

1.  view from my apartment

2.  #I'mbroken

3-4  Surprise for Sister Finati (she's reached 16 months)

5.  My new bling:)