Sister Emma Hulsey: Email: May 15, 2017

Hello family!

OH MAN IT WAS THE VERY BEST TALKING WITH YOU GUYS!!!! I love you all so much!! And then when I got home I remembered that I had forgotten to wish you a happy mother´s day Mom! and Grandma!! Sorry!! You guys are some of the greatest blessings in my life.

So a few cool things happened this week. We went and learned how to make soup with Margarida and then taught her family the first lesson! It was awesome and now we make lots of soup. We visited a few times this week with her and she is hilarious. She always gives us so much stuff. I think Sis B now has 2 new pairs of shoes and a new skirt. She is a little harder to teach because she talks A LOT but we still love her. Also we met Fatima and a lot of her gypsy family this week! Fatima is really sweet. When we went over there she got so excited because we had contacted her a few weeks ago and at the moment she said no and to come back (how everyone does here..usually they don´t really want us to come back) but we went back and she told us she was praying we would come back. She said she just really wants to know which church is true. and to find a church she can stay in forever. She told us the door is always open. (Gypsies are pretty funny. They really do have a lot of faith. but it´s kind of twisted. Fatima was telling us how she hasn´t paid her rent in 3 months so she was praying and she said her land lord hasn´t gotten too mad at her! )

This week we also found Lurdes, a lady who lives by Aldina (Aldina actually introduced us to her.) But Lurdes has a ton of faith and said we needed to go pray for her mom. So, we entered her house and knelt down and said a prayer for her mom. Lurdes was super touched so much so that she came to church! (she said her mom got a little bit better, then she asked us to say a prayer for her vision because she doesn´t want to use glasses, she thinks she looks ugly with them ahha)

When we were walking to church (after a few people who promised they would come let us down) we felt the need to turn back and knock on Fatima´s door. So we did and....NOTHING! Well, we just turned back to go to church with peace in our hearts knowing we tried everything. Then all of the sudden a car stopped us. It was Lurdes! We asked if she was going to church and she said yeah so we hopped in her car and helped her get there! Wow the Lord is just so good.

This week I did a special study on joy. I went to the Portuguese guide to study the scriptures and it says see also obedience. I thought about that for a while. Our purpose on earth is to have joy, and when we are obedient, we have the spirit. And one of the fruits of the spirit is joy!

I am very glad you guys are doing well and keeping busy. I love you all very much. Thanks for all of the prayers and love.

Love

Sister Hulsey