Sunday, July 18, 2010

3 days shy of 1 YEAR!!!

Hey everyone whats up?
Well i am going to try to answer everyones questions in this e mail, so if i skip a question sorry. But so Mindelo is going pretty good, its definitely different from praia though.... some things are better and some things are worse. As for the worse... i really miss the people from praia! My last branch was awesome, i felt like it was just my home ward cause i was friends with everything and everyone would help us out but here, this branch is really week. There are only about 30 people that came to church yesterday and out of those 30, the only ones who are really welcoming are the ones i already had met throughout the week. We have a few guys my age that come teach with us and also a guy thats probably about 40 will walk with his and his wife is really nice too (she is a recent convert) but besides them and a couple other people in the branch they arent all that open like the people in praia were. We would get more people in a single family home evening in my old branch then we do in church here. Its also kinda hard to find investigators, we have a couple cool ones that seem like they are going to progress but besides them we have nobody. Most of our time is spent knocking doors trying to find new people and most of the people just make excuses to not talk with us. In praia even if people werent that interested they would still at least let you in to talk and they would always say "Im not going to deny the word of god" haha but here its different. But as for the good things, the city of mindelo is a lot nicer then praia. Its a lot cleaner and more organized and it kinda reminds me of a city for tourists. They have quite a few cruise ships that stop in here and the bay is really cool. I think we are going fishing there next week so i am way excited. I am also going to be travelling a ton this transfer!!!! Our 3rd week of the transfer me and my companion are going to be flying to sal to walk with the elders there, my 4th week we are going to be taking a 45 minute boat ride to santo antao to have our zone activity there, my 5th week i am going to be flying to praia and spend 3 days there to do a division with the assistents, and then the 6th week we are going to be flying back to praia to have our zone leaders cousel. I look forward to the day that im not zone leader anymore. The weather is also a little nicer and fresher here in mindelo so i cant complain about that either. Thats about all the next stuff i can think of though, sorry if this e mail is giving you guys a head ache i might have kinda rambled a little bit. I will try to let you guys know a little more next week about whats going on. Oh and by the way you guys can just keep sending stuff to the same address, it will just go to praia and then they will bring it up when president comes up here or i will get it when i go down, i shouldnt ever have to wait more than 2 weeks to get it. Thanks for everything though and you guys have a good week.

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