An American Companion!!

OI FAMÍLIA!!!!!

Well this week was so super duper awesome! I picked up my new companion and guess what?! She's an Americana just like me!!! I was surprised when I got the news that I was going to treinar and then even more when I found out that it would be an American!! But Sister Wright is awesome!! She is from American Fork, Utah and has 19 years. She has four older sisters and studied at UVU before her mission. She is super outgoing and loving and ahhh I am just so excited to be with her for my last transfer. The português is coming slowly but surely but we both know that it will take some time so we're just taking it one step at a time. 

This week I had a leadership meeting, which went really well. We learned a lot about how we need to have fé in order for miralces to happen in our lives and not doubt. I know that if we really want something and it's Heavenly Father's will, everything will work out, and we will see things that we never thought could happen, happen. As we pray and work like everything depends on it, miracles can and will happen, I have seen this happen a lot during my mission and it's amazing what Heavenly Father can do according to our faith. I love my Heavenly Father and know that His will will always be better than our own. At times we may really want something but at the end of it all it doesn't happen, we get frustrated and wonder what we did wrong. But really it just wasn't what Heavenly Father wanted to happen and I know that in the long run, it will be better for us. 

This week we also had a pretty awesome experience. We were in the house of Ingrid (pesquisadora)(investigator) teaching her about prayer when her uncle's friend came in and instead of walking right through to go to talk to their uncle, he stayed in the room and participated. Well we were just about done and were wrapping up by teaching Ingrid how to pray and then said the closing prayer. At the end, this friend (Diego) asked if we could visit his friend because he had felt so good with us the little time that he was with us. So afterwards, we went to the house of his friend. When we knocked on the door, she opened it and started to give a lot of excuses in why she wouldn't be able to answer. But Diego insisted and we finally got inside. We started to talk to her, taught and said a prayer. She said that she had a billion and one things to do and that her neto that was with her wasn't letting her do anything and all this gave her a huge headache. So I said the closing prayer asking for Heavenly Father to give her conforto. At the end, I turned to look at her and there were tears running down her cheeks. She said she felt that my prayer was sincero and felt that I was really worried about her and wanted her melhor. This was just another testemunho para mim that Heavenly Father really listens and answers our prayers. That He can work through us and our prayers to help someone else feel of His love and Spirito. I know that Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of us and listens to every single one of our prayers!!!

Love you all so much! Have the best week ever! 

Love, 

Sister Hilchie :) 

Hey Guys

So not a lot happened this week; biggest things were a blackout and soccer player’s plane crash.  The blackout happened at night while we were contacting, and literally every light went out, it was like a horror movie haha. But then some lights turned back on and we were able to make it back to casa safely. And then while my companion was doing intervistas baptismal(baptism interview), I learned that there was a big plane crash where an entire soccer team had died, it was a really big deal, military and lots of people at the funeral. Spiritual though- while in Alma 5:14, it talks about if we have received Christ in our lives. and not just receive, but allowed Him to change us, make us better and more Christ-like. How important is that? Being born again through the redeeming power of Christ and His Atonement. Becoming perfected so that we may live forever in paz e alegria(peace and happiness). It is truly awesome. Well, hope all is well, love hearing from you guys!!!!!!! Love ya, miss ya!! Elder Hilchie

Vou ser mãe de novo!

OI FAMÍLIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow can you all believe that it is already dezembro?! Man is time passing by super duper fast.....well this past week was the last week of the transfer...............and................... I am staying in Parque Bristol and will treinar again. I am going to get a newb! I really didn't think that this would happen. A Sister Sobrinho and I were so sure that we would stay together but Presidente had other plans. I am super excited and know that I will learn so much with her like I have with every other one of my companions.  We got more reunion pics!! I can't believe that this is my last transfer....only six more weeks here in Brasil. I am so grateful for all that I have learned here. I love Brasil so much and the people here and it will be really hard to leave, but I am going to aproveitar(enjoy) this last little bit and love every minute.  So this past week, Sister Sobrinho got the stomach bug real bad and had all those lovely symptoms so we only left casa to work a couple days but now she's all good! But we did visit Maria (mom of Isac) and she is doing great! She is having a bit of trouble to stop smoking so this past week we did um jejum(a fast) with her and it was a great success! After the fast, we talked to her and said that she didn't have any vontade(desire) to smoke!!!! We fasted on Tuesday and afterwards she almost went the rest of the week without smoking! We got so super duper happy and excited for her progress. We also visited Mariana this past week and she's doing great! She loves coming to church every Sunday and everything she is learning with us and at church. All we need to do now is get her married. But the good thing is that they both want to get married so that makes things a bit easier! Also an update on Reneane e Anderson: we are still waiting for her documento de nascimento(birth certificate) to get here. However her mom is coming down this weekend and is bringing it right along! Wooohooo!  I hope you all are doing super duper fantastically wonderful and enjoying this holiday season! Love you all!!! And always remember to be the light of the world!  Love,  Sister Hilchie :)