Santo Andre!!!

OI OI OI FAMILIA!!!    Arrival in Santo Andre I can only hope that your week was as fantastic as mine! I am lovin Santo André and Sis. Marquina! There are so many more people here than Jordanópolis, it's mindblowing! Sis Marquina is the bomb! She is super friendly, easy to talk to, and hard working. She even knows a bit (actually a lot) of English which is fantastic because when I have no idea what a word means in Portuguese or am trying to say something but don't know how, she is right there with an answer. This transfer I am still living in an apartment but with another pair of sisters--Sis Lucena e Sis Ferril. Sister Lucena is from Brasil and has about 10 months under her belt while sis Ferril is from Argentina and has 15 months under her belt. Então I am this little new sister living with a bunch of experienced, well trained sisters! This is quite wonderful actually because I am learning A LOT from them and so far we are all meshing well (hopefully it stays like this).     Despite the rain that was gratefully welcomed this week, Sis Marquina and eu were able to find and teach a lot of new investigators! Nos temos um chamado Juliana que é muita boa! Muita boa mesmo! She and her cute little family just moved to Santo André a few months ago and are looking for a church. They were attending another igreja where they lived before but began to disagree with what the pastor was teaching. And that's when we found them! The one and only lesson we had with her went really well and now we are focusing muito em eles because they have great potential. We also found another wonderful older woman named Terezina. We knocked on her door thinking to find someone else but nope. The other person gave us the wrong endereço but worked out just fine because we found Terezina. She lives alone with her cute, little dog because her husband left her and her two sons passed away due to medical problems. They both we completely dependent on her their whole lives so when they passed away it was really really hard for her. She has been through so much and também is looking to be baptized. She was already baptized but feels like something wasn't right about it so is looking for the right way to be baptized. Well Terezina, that is exactly what we are here to help you with! I cannot wait to start teaching both Juliana and her family and Terezina.    Também esta semana, I was reading one of the general conference talks by Sister Wixom that talks about our divine nature. I don't know if you all have realized this but because we are filhos of a loving Heavenly Father, we all have a HUGE future ahead of us and a capacidade greater than we can ever imagine. So when things get tough and you don't think you can go the extra mile, do as Elder Holland said: "don't give up. don't pare. continue cominhando. continue tendando." As we do this and put our confidence in the Lord, everything with work out just fine and our divine nature will become more and more apparent.    I hope you all are getting ready for Christmas because it is literally just around the corner and enjoying this holiday season! I love you all so super much! Thanks for all the support and love you send my way!    Love,  Sister HilchieJ