Jun 21, 2010

Whats happening everyone?

As for me... I am just been spending my whole p day waiting for power to come back on so i could use internet, to be honest i didnt think i was going to get any e mail time this week. The power in all of praia has been off all day so we havent been up to a whole lot, we just played our weekly soccer game, got my hair cut, and hung out in our hot house without any fans to keep us cool. Thats just how things go here in africa though so you just gotta deal with it. Everything is going pretty good though and this has just been a pretty standard chill week. The world cup is still kinda slowing things down here, but it really hasnt been too bad for us. We have some way cool investigators so even though there might me a game on and they want to watch it, they will turn it off for us. The go crazy about there soccer here though, its nothing like in america... the world cup is the most important thing in the world to some of these people. While i was getting my hair cut the portugual game was on... and must people here like portugual cause they have two players from here and its one of the closer countries. So everytime they marked a goal, all the barbers would just start yelling and jumping up and down.... so it took a while for them to finally get my hair cut.

On Saturday we also had a baptism which was really cool. It was duku that 19 year old i told you about. We wanted to have his new convert friend kevin baptize him, but duku is kinda bigger so kevin´s mom didnt think he would be able to be strong enough to lift him back up so i had to do it, it went well though. We also had our interviews with president neves this week and during it, he asked me how long i had been here in praia and when i told him he told me i could count on leaving the island this transer (that will end in 2 weeks) so now we will just see where im headed too. Im down with anywhere but im thinking i will probably either be going to mindelo up in the north or over to fogo.

We´ve got our zone leaders counsel tomorrow so all the zone leaders are here with us right now and we will be heading over to the mission home tomorrow. the meeting can go kinda long and get kinda boring, but we learn some pretty cool stuff during it and the food at the end makes it pretty worth it. I wouldnt complain if i got taken out of zone leader this transfer cause i already have 4 but i guess i will just have to wait and see. Im still really wanting to train some new guy.

Well thats about all the updates ive got for you guys for now i cant think of a whole lot else. Keep me updated on the college football situation though and whatever else is going on. Oh and by the way i completely forgot that strawberry days was going on, i forgot it was even close to that time of year. Im not gonna lie its kinda depressing to think that next strawberry days i still wont even be home! Im kinda in that point of the mission where i feel like i have been here forever, and i still have forever left to go. Its all good though cause im having a good time and time is still flying.... almost one year now!