Nov 23,

> Its good to hear its cold there! I really miss snow and I really miss thanksgiving! I will miss being with you guys and yeah we do absolutely nothing for thanksgiving here besides work. Most of the missionaries here are Cabo Verdeans and Brazilians here too so not even a whole lot of people care about thanksgiving here, with the Elders next door to us one is American but they are getting less and less Americans here and more missionaries from Cabo Verde. Almost all the guys that serve from here end up being called to serve here. In our district I am the only American and I can only think of one other American now in our zone. Lots of people ask me to teach them some english though, its fun and they are way cool. But yeah back to thanksgiving I think I am just going to make a really good dinner that night to celebrate.
>
> So this week has been alright, but we had two days where absolutely nobody was home and we just spent all day trying to find people to teach and only got a couple lessons. It was hard but at the same time we got 5 new investigators. One crazy thing that happened is we have a non active member thats about 30 and all he does is drinks and partys and he is crazy... his name in english means Vision and everytime he talks with us he points at his eyes and then at the sky and says "I have the VISION of being better" haha its funny. (Lots of people here just give themselves their own names like Vision, we teach a guy who calls himself Bruce Lee, and just lots of weird ones like that) But yeah so we went to his house sunday morning to take him to church and we knocked on the door and his mom answered who is pretty crazy herself and said that he went to a party the other night and drank too much and when he got home he just got home and went up on the roof and had been asleep their ever since... stuff like that isnt even uncommon and I have so many stories like that haha people here are so weird. We see the same guys every day that sit on the street from morning to night and drink and talk, every day. Nobody has a life here. And Ryan I forgot to answer your question but everyone drinks here, most of the people on the streets are always drunk and it always smells like alcohol.