The Astonishing Adventures of Sister Hannah Hiatt

So this week happened. Honestly it was kind of uneventful except that we had transfers, so we're chuggin' along getting used to a new companion. Her name is Sister Garcês and is from Manaus, Amazonas (which I thought meant that she lived in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and probably had a pet snake but it turns out that it's actually pretty developed there. She lives in the city where they have skyscrapers (not just treehouses) and seems pretty cool). She's got 8 months in the mission, but all of her past areas have been in the city part of the mission, whereas I've spent my entire mission in ABC (which is more suburb-y). Aside from that, not a ton happened. Katia and her family were confirmed (except Kaiky (the really tall one) who wasn't feeling well that day). It rained some. Sunday we put the phone on silent mode for church and then forgot to turn the sound back on, and so after we didn't answer the phone the whole day long the LZs came to our hous...

This week was really wild. A while back we met a really sweet family. We got to know her a little and found out that she was a widow with seven children (yes, seven!) and hadn't gone to church since her husband passed away, about two years ago. We taught about the Plan of Salvation and it was a really spiritual, sweet moment. She invited her kids to go to church and they adored it (not all of them went, but when they do it'll double the size of our primary) and then yesterday they were baptized. So, for each baptism we like to do a musical number, and for this family we chose "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus," which is my favorite but my companion wasn't too familiar with it (she's a convert and didn't learn all the primary songs). So we practiced and stuff, and everything was ready for the baptism. We went up, our piano man did the intro, and I started to sing. Just that I was waiting for Sister Sales to sing, too, and waited. And waited....

So if my math is right, this Thursday will mark one year since I entered the MTC (wild, right?), and what a year it's been. So if you've only been skimming and looking through the photos I send, I thought I'd do a recap of all the highlights. Transfers: 0- MTC, with Sister Jones and Sister Miller (and when they left, Sister Christiansen and Sister Johnsen, and when they were busy Elder Wright and Elder McFarlane (yo, the MTC was wild)) 1- Riberão Pires, Santista, with Sister Gomes 2- Ficamos 3- same area, with Sister K. Souza 4- Maua, Pilar, with Sister Melo 5-Santo André, Ala 4, com Sister Marchioni 6-Santo André 4 com Sister Medrano 7- Ficamos 8-Rudge Ramos, Assunção, com Sister Sales And since it's all about the numbers: Number of different kinds of pizza I've tried: 8+ (frango com catupiry, portuguesa, baiana, broccoli, one-that-I-don't-know-what-it's-called-but-was-good, chocolate com M&Ms, brigadeiro, calabresa, and probably other...