Elder Jacob Hillstead

The week was INCREDIBLE! Ladies and gentlemen we have ourselves a wall of famer on our hands. This last week was freakin' marvelous for a number of reasons, and I'm amped to tell yall about the why!  Something amazing that happened was that we were able to help our 2 friends Izaia and Majara get legally wedded this last week woot woooot!! Where are my fellow wedders at   Elder Johnson step up  naw but seriously it was actually a super chill process and they're so happy! We had members being a bunch of help to us and it was overall just a super smooth process. The missionarios in this area before us I know have been pushing for this marriage and so I'm mad hyped we were finally able to see the signature on the certificate first hand.  Actually speaking of the marriage, we were planning on going to the notary office on Saturday to get everything ironed out and finalized. The plan was for these 2 members to pick up Izaia and Majara at their house and head to the of...

Whaaaaaats going on everybody how we doing? Anotha' week passed and gone, only this one was spent half in Macapá and half in Belém! That's right folks we had ourselves a big ol MULTIZONE this week! It was President & Sister Ribolla's finale here on the mish, so everyone came together to see them out and to hear their final message for the mission.   President talked with us a bunch about the power of mindset and having the will to make miracles happen here on the mish. He said that when HE served his mission here (yeah dude served his youth mission in the same place he was called as a Mission President) he saw a bunch of miracles brought forth by much effort and faith on the Lord. He said that he wanted to create that same environment for us so that we could have the same life-changing experiences too. Then he showed some numbers of the baptisms from the past years since he'd arrived as president, and since he'd arrived the number of baptisms had almost doubled ...

Hello hello! We back at it AGAIN with another week, bringing you the latest piping hot dish from the oven of Macapá. Super big week wow, so much happened! I call this week the semana de altos e baixos (or highs and lows) 'cause there were a lotta high highs and some pretty low lows packed into the week. Through it all though I learned more lessons, my testimony and faith grew stronger, and I've got this next week to be better cause of it! Lemme run y'all through it.  THE HIGHS: Okay so we actually saw so many miracles this week it was nutty. First of all, Saturday afternoon we were contacting and we invited this random lady we met to church, and she actually came! She said she liked it a ton, would come next week too, and now we might be having her over at a member's house tomorrow for lunch with us. There's the why for the 20 contacts every day. We fasted for the first time in the transfer this week too and lemme just say wow, the power of fasting is REAL. Our LMA ...