May 24 Letter Home

Well I learned my lesson for saying that I would be leaving! I am still here for another transfer and it looks like i will have some more time in praia! It was kinda depressing to hear that i would be staying but i guess thats just how it goes down. Everyone knows that i have been here forever though and i even heard that the assistents had a meeting with president neves and during it they asked why i was in praia for so long, and president told them that after this transfer i would for sure be leaving this island for good..... but i decided im not even going to get my hopes up this time until i actually find out for sure. I hope this means that my second half of the mission will be in all really cool areas but we will just have to see. It will be cool to see some of the stuff going on in our area this transfer though. We baptized two little girls saturday, and normally we dont baptize so young without their parents but they have been coming to church with us for 6 months so president neves said to just baptize them. Their sister who is 14 will be baptized right after and we are working with the parents too, they want to get baptized but they have marriage problems. The guy is definitely an interesting guy but he is pretty funny. I will be training a new zone leader here who has one more transfer than me. He is from Mindelo which is where my first companion is from and it looks like i will be having another one that doesnt speak any english. My new next door neightbor is from ceder hills or somewhere around there though so at least i will have one american in the house unlike this last transfer. Carlos and Gilmara are also getting really close to marriage and we got a couple other guys about my age that having baptisms coming up. This area is going really well, but i feel like i have already talked with every single person that lives here so its kinda hard. As for the things that happened this week.... we had our zone leaders counsel which was the best one yet. All the zone leaders flew in and we went to the mission office and talked about a lot of things that will help out the mission. Another thing that was also really cool was we had a surprise visit yesterday. One of my teachers from the mtc that served here a few years back came out for a school project with 2 other students from byu and they are here in praia. They came to our branch yesterday and then in the afternoon they walked with us to go out and teach. It was weird because the last time i saw him i could barely talk to him in portuguese at all and this time we were talking in creolo with each other. Well thats about the news from here.