Jan 25th Letter Home

Yeah but so sorry, i will tell you guys about whats going on here now. So this has been a pretty fun week getting to know the people in my new area and what not. To answer your question dad, we got about 30 lessons this week and is usually anywhere between 30 and 35 if you are working really hard here in Praia... although the number is higher in fogo and other places... people arent as receptive here in the big city as they are in other areas. So it was really cool getting new lessons with new people and our area is really cool. We have an awesome family of a mom, her two teenage sons and 11 year old daughter that will be baptized not this week but the next, but they are golden! We have another family that is close to baptism too and then a few couples that we are working with to get married. ~We have one young couple though that are really cool but the story with them is kinda sad. They arent married but are living together and they both want to be baptized, but now they are thinking they are going to just seperate instead of getting married and they have a kid and everything. We are trying to work with them still to get married cause they are way cool and we want them to stay together! Its kinda funny cause we actually have quite a few people like that, but its not easy work! Our area is really good though, we had 11 investigators in church and we are making some new contacts and getting lots of new people too.
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> So my favorite part about being zone leader is being able to do divisions with different missionaries and walk in their areas. This week we had our division with the assistents, so i headed over to their area and stayed with e. oliveira who is the assistent from here. There area is the really rich area of praia so it was really different teaching in a nice area! The zone leaders and assistents have to travel around the islands for divisions and conferences quite a bit in airplanes, but because i am zl in praia i dont really deal with that. This mission is so different though because of all the natives that are serving. The one i walked with (oliveira) is from fogo so he normally wouldnt be allowed to serve in an area in fogo.. but because he is ap he has to travel there to do conferences. He sayed that the house he stayed in was two houses down from his home with his family and he saw them like three times while driving past. He was also able to teach his mom when he was in Santo Antao because she was there visiting and she ended up being baptized from it. He also studied here in Praia for a couple years and his ex girlfriend from here lives in his area and he has to walk past her house everyday. That is pretty much like me being called to the provo mission, serving in American Fork and yet having rules where im not suppose to see you guys for 2 years! Talk about crazy huh but so yeah, there are all sorts of weird things in our mission like that that wouldnt really happen in a normal mission. Im loving it though and its a good experience... the time is flying be really fast still and it gets faster every transfer.
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> So i will try to answer some of your guys questions now. Yes it is really hot here, and cape verde is its own country. Zone leader isnt all that bad either, the main thing is just meeting with the president and assistents a lot more, zone conference which will be this next week me and my companion have to do a big presentation, and divisions and stuff. Other than that not a whole lot has changed... besides having an american companion i guess. We get tons of attention now because we are 2 white guys walking around... EVERYONE comes up and just starts talking to us. So yeah if you have more questions just ask.