Feb 8 Letter Home

So yeah some other big news is that i had 5 people baptized this week. The first one is t-caixo (Di) the rapper. He is doing really good and will be a strong member in the church. He is from my old area but i was still able to watch the baptism and everything so it was sweet. I was with him from the day we contacted him up to his interview so we have quite a bit of time together. We also baptized a family that is way strong, its a mom and her three kids, i think i already told you guys a little about them. Its working out dang nicely for us though cause now they are inviting all their friends to hear about the church too so we should have lots of new investigators to teach. We are also already preparing the 2 guys to serve missions one day. Besides that the work is going about the same. We have a couple that is way cool that we are working on and i think they will be married pretty soon and then baptized. We are also teaching a 14 year old guy who is amazing. He looks like he is 18, talks like he is 20, and speaks 5 languages already. He is without a doubt the smartest person i have met here. We watched a church movie with him the other day, but instead of wasting our time putting it in port., we just watched it in english. He is also playing for a cabo verde team in soccer and has other coaches from all different countries that come to watch him play, and he is planning on going to play for one of them once he is old enough but doesnt know exactly where. He is pretty ligite though, he thinks he might play for someone like LA galaxy in the u.s.a. and then after head back and play for a big europe team. He already has a huge testimony, there is only one problem. Soccer takes up so much of his time that he has a hard time making it to church. He already has close to 1 year with the missionaries and he comes to church whenever he can, but lots of times he has training. We kinda dont know what to do but he has been to church these last 3 weeks and we are going to have a family home evening in his house to teach his family. I will let you know what goes down.
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> Well this p day has been pretty fun today too. We went up to the city of Assomada up in the high mountains with some of our zone and enjoyed the nice cool weather and green scenery. We went and hiked to the biggest tree in cabo verde too. It was depressing coming back to praia though cause its so hot and we cant even see the sun, there is a sand storm so its just smoggy. The place we are using for internet right now doesnt let us upload pics but next week i will go to the other place and get some pics sent to you guys.