Howdy Family! (Week 17)

Hey folks! Hope your week was great! Had another great one here too!

This week we had a baptism! Whooohoo! His name is Fabiano! He is awesome!

This week was also crazy! So I'm now training, in a new area that needs a lot of work (like as if we were opening it), and I'm also the district Leader. Whoo Hoo!

Starting this week I am much more organized!

So this week was full of learning! My companion is Elder Aristimunho--he is from Uruguay! Speaks a lot of Spanish! One day I gave our phone number to a lady and I responded with the numbers in Spanish! Ha Ha! Elder Aristimunho loves to work hard which is all I ask for! He is fantastic. Wish you all could meet him personally!

I'm now living in a house very close to the church, which is super nice! We have two other Elders in the house too! Elder Bezerra and Elder Moraes--they are the zone leaders and are both from São Paulo. It's a blast with them! This is Elder Bezerra's last area/transfer.

I'm also the District leader now. It's awesome! Always thankful for the opportunities I have to serve. Obedience is very important and something I have to teach to my companion and my district. But what I've found, is that the best way to teach obedience is to show them the blessings that come from being obedient and to teach them about their purpose as a missionary. So if they are a 'purposeful missionary," obedience will come as a consequence; a little hard to explain here but yeah! This concept can also be applied to many other areas in life., like raising children.

Love all the emails and advice y'all give me. Thanks so much!

Don't have much time but love you all,

Elder Hillam
austin.hillam@myldsmail.net
ElderHillam@blogspot.com