Elder Jacob Hillstead

Falaaa fala fala people just how are we doin'?  Hope everyone had an extra-American fourth of July filled with fireworks and barbecues, instead of nightmarish things like "kilometers" and  "Celsius" like me ( ). Naw I'm just playin but my fourth of July was sweet! We didn't do anything special here in the 'zil, but I got to run a division with THE elder baas and it was a grand old time. We got to kick it over in Marco Zero for the day and it was awesome seeing another part of Macapa. There's so many bridge neighborhoods though there it's nuts   after one lesson we passed this dude walking his bike by us and like 3 seconds after passing him we heard a giant splash and bro completely tipped over and fell into the water . Dude lost all the popsicles he was selling but we saved his phone and got him outta the water but it was such a random moment. It was actually a way fun division though, been a sec since I've left my area for a division and...

Whaduuup friends and family how we doin'!! Got a ton to tell you all about from this week so lemme run y'all through it!  Anyone who's a frequenter here on the hillstead weekly times knows that we got BIG news bout Maria Eduarda this week! Basically Maria Eduarda's this sweet 8-year old girl whose dad is a member but mom is not. Since getting here in macapa we've been working with her mom a ton to let her get baptized, and a couple of weeks ago she gave her permission to be Baptized! It was this last week that we had her baptism and galll it was so great! Elder Klinger and I wanted to make her baptism super legit so we got in contact with the superhero ladies from the relief Society and were like "yo we need cake, decorations and the feeling of happiness for this event" and they were like "leave it to us." Boom Sunday when we got there they had gotten a buncha snacks and cake and decorations put up and totally made it a special thing! Shoutout to...