New Island 07-05-10

Well the subject wasnt lying, I have been transferred to a new island. I am now here on the Island of Sao Vicente in Mindelo, its pretty sweet. Mindelo is the 2nd biggest city of the country behind praia but it is totally different. It is a really nice calm and peaceful city without a whole lot of noise or anything.... the type of area is a million times better than praia. Its a lot more organized here and cleaner without trash all over the place so i am liking it. I had a really early flight though so i was up at 4 o clock and its a huge pain having to pack here because of the weightlimits on the airplanes, but i got it all figured out. The flight was only about 45 minutes. My companion is Elder Nascimento from Santo Antao which is kinda funny because we can see his city from here in mindelo. Santo Antao is just right across the ocean channel here from mindelo so its really easy to see.... it looks like im looking at the rocky mountaints stick straight up out of the ocean cause its really mountainy there. Mindelo surrounds a big bay here so it looks pretty cool, the whole city is looking down at the ocean and it is full of tons of ships and stuff. I think I will like it quite a bit, i am excited to be here. One really cool thing is that being zone leader here we have to go do divisions with the other elders in our zone, and part of our zone is those missionaries in Sal, so every transfer that i am here my companion and i will fly to sal and spent some time there. I here the beaches there in sal are the best there are. We will also be spending our zone activity in santo antao in a couple weeks. We will take the boat over there and then we drive up into the mountains up there and we will be hiking a mountain that i think is about 9000 feet high about the ocean.... i will have lots of cool pictures to send.

Transfers were pretty crazy though... president changed them 3 times. I was actually supposed to go to fogo to be zone leader there but it got switched to this right at the end, but either one is fine with me. I am thinking fogo will be next after here. My last week in praia went really well though, it was one of the best i had there. I am leaving some way cool investigators that will be getting baptized in just a little bit and we found some awesome people right at the end of the transfer. One new kid about my age we were teaching came to church last sunday just all by himself, so we started teaching him during this week and he really liked it. So he came to church again yesterday and it was testimony meeting, and during it he got up and bore his testimony! It was wild... only his 2nd time in church!!!! But so after sacrament ended all the youth came up to him and started introducing themselves and he just left church with them. We come to find out that night that he had been with them the whole day and we met up with him again at our family home evening last night. Its way cool that he already has a bunch of friends in the church, that will help him out a ton. We also have to girls that came for the first time and they bore their testimonys too, it was sweet. In all we had 10 investigators in church which is kinda a big deal here. Our family home evening last night was at carlos and gilmaras house and it was way fun... it was sad saying by to them. We went to the court place here to help them get their papers all finilized for the wedding last week so now they are just waiting. They might have to change their date though because of the papers to a few weeks back, so i am hoping for a miracle. I will be heading to praia in about 5 weeks for the zone leaders counsel so i am hoping the wedding will fall the same weekend so i can see it, but it will probably happen earlier.

Well thats about all the news from here in the islands, when i find out more about my companion and my area i will let you guys know. I am really tired though and running on little sleep so i think im going to have to finish this e mail and go back home to relax. Hope everybody´s 4th of july was good! Mine consisted of church, teaching, and packing will listening to american songs by the mormon tabernacle choir. I cant complain but i will admit that there was a little jealousy when i heard carrie underwood was coming. Well thanks for everything and i will talk to you guys next week.