Elder Jacob Hillstead

WHAT A WEEK       Holy cow you guys, I feel like I just got done running a marathon and here I'm finally catching my breath. This week was straight up nutso, so much stuff went down but it all ended well. You guys remember that whole "miracle marriage" thing that went down at the beginning of month? So this week was the follow up appointment, legal signing of the marriage document, and the agended baptism of both Pedro and Amanda. We knew this week was gonna have a tonna stuff, so we started Tuesday running, and didn't stop til yesterday night. Let's toss the introduction into the fire already and get to the REAL story.       Alright alright so first part of the week is that we decided to meet with Pedro and Amanda EVERY day this week, to chat about how they were feeling, and generally accompany the two of them. Wednesday night we pull up, start chatting, and out of nowhere Amanda drops a dreaded combination of words. She explained to us that she wanted to ...

 Good afternoon friends and fam! Man am I stoked to be talking to you guys today, happy Easter week! This last week was straight up EGGselent   (definitely not the first person to use that today) and I saw the hand of the Lord a ton during this very very special week. I hope that for everyone back at home, spring has started to blossom and snow has already melted, and for my friends here in Brazil, let's get ready for the summer together.        This week I had 2 fantastic divisons! Spent 2 days with 2 of the finest Brazilian Elders out there, young Elder Jans and Elder Vaz. Gosh these divisions were great, they were so fun and taught me a bunch. Elder Jans is like the most fun dude ever, literally don't know if I've ever seen the dude not smiling or joking, and he makes any stressful sitation better. Elder Vaz is probably like a certified super genius or something like that. Dude spent the day in my area and talked to everyone like they'd been best fr...

Freeeaaaak is up everybody, thanks for clicking on another Elder Hillstead email! I promise this one'll be shorter than the last. Really quick, wanna know something crazy I learned? When I arrived here in Brazil, I met Elder McLane as my trainer right, and the other missionaries also met their trainers. Apparently EVERY comp I've had until now was training the same time McLane was, so they were all in the same place at the same time and I didn't even realize I'd be comps with them later on. I pointed them out with the order of when they became my comp  too, check it  (Flick credit Elder Seal)  Isnt that nuts though? All my comps until now were sitting in front of my eyes and i didnt even know it. Can't forget the one who got me to Brazil in the first place homeboy Elder Schudde, but he was among the greenies that arrived with me so he's not in the photo. Still though he was there with me, so that means all my comps were in the room at the same time  Anyways thou...