Apr 12- Letter Home

Hey everybody how are you all doing? This week we had transfers but nothing is changing with me, my companion and I are staying together in the same area which is kinda what i figured. I am happy to stay to keep teaching the people we are teaching cause they are cool, but i am definitely ready to see another island! There arent any missionaries on the island of brava yet which is the smallest one that has people, but its looking like it might be opening up this next transfer so i am kinda hoping to go there. There are also 6 new americans coming in next transfer so maybe i will get to train and stop being zone leader. Who knows... but that would be cool. If i dont go there i want to go to santo antão, where it only has one companionship. Without a doubt that is the coolest looking island and is just full of mountains. But... we will just have to wait 6 more weeks and see, and i will be talking to you guys on the phone before that, its coming fast. This week went alright though, but nothing too crazy. One cool experience was yesterday when we were out in another area where we dont go as much. We went to try and teach a less active teenager, and he wasnt there but this lady who was on the roof of the house told us too come up and talk with her and her husband. We went up there and it turns out they are members from our branch and our really strong, we had never really talked with them though just cause they come and go everyweek without us ever really running into them though. We started talking with them some and turns out they only have a year and a half here in cabo verde and they are originally from the Congo of Africa. They speak french there but we were able to have a full converstaion with them cause they have learned quite a bit of creolo here. Our conversation with them was about 80 percent creolo, 10 percent english, and 10 percent french. Its kinda funny here cause with the outsiders, you just kinda have to find a common language and start talking no matter what it is. It works though and we understood everything. It turns out that they have been members in the congo for quite some time and he was the stake clerk there, but the war got really bad and lots of people were dying so they had to escape. They had to hide out in the jungle as they were escaping and had to be really careful with snakes and wild animals cause they are really dangerous and they had some crazy encounters. But they made there way here and are strong members, it was fun talking with them.... you hear some really interesting stories here. Another highlight of the week was last night at the easter devotional we had. There is a choir group here with members from praia that sings and they are incredible! So we went and got carlos and gilmara and carmara, the youngest girl (wilson is in fogo for a couple weeks) and we went to it. It was really good, President Neves and a few other members spoke here and the music was good. Gilmara says that she wants to sing in it once they are members. That family is still doing amazing and i am hoping i will get to see there wedding and baptism before i leave. We also talk some really cool people this week, we are teaching some guys about my same age right now and its going really good. We also have 3 baptisms coming up in 2 weeks, those young girl of the family we are teaching, and that Jacob that is a soccer player (the 14 year old genius) will be at the start of may. I cant think of a whole lot of new stuff going on in our area though, things are going pretty standard. It is starting to get really hot here again but i guess i am getting pretty accustomed to it cause its not really affecting me that much anymore. I am going to come back home in july wearing a fur coat everyday in utah cause its going to be nothing for me. Well that about sums up everything so i better get going on to my p day now. Im not sure exactly what we are doing today and to tell you the truth i have already seen everything praia has to offer about 100 times now, but we will find something. Sounds like you guys are doing well though and thats cool its warming up.