How are you guys? Things are going pretty well out here. I actually just got back from the beach... we headed out to the other side of the island this morning as a district with the Goff couple too and just played some football and stuff. It was pretty nice and we had the whole thing to ourselves besides a few fisherman there, but i sent a few pics of it. Other than that everything is going about the same, not a whole lot happened this week.
This last Tuesday we did have a day that was a little different though. We have a new senior couple here from Ogden that just got here and the wife is our new nurse. They live in Praia but they came up this week to see what health centers they have up here so she can know what to refer us to. So anyways we had to go translate for them for most of the day cause they dont speak portuguese and it was pretty fun. It was kinda fun seeing how the gift of tongues really does work for missionaries... in the first medical center we went to the head nurse was actually from cuba and i had to translate for her and our nurse, but she spoke about 40 percent spanish, 40 creolo and 20 portuguese. The cool part is that it didnt even matter and i was still able to understand everything she said and we got it all taken care of. It was a pretty cool day, it pretty much felt like i just took a day out of the mission and spent a day with my grandparents.
We did lose quite a bit of time working this week though because of that and also interviews with President Neves cause he was up here and yesterday we had to go to a leadership meeting of all of the branches here to get ready for our district conference that will be on the 21 of November. We will be having the President of the Madrid temple coming here along with a general authority from Portugual as our speakers so it should be really cool. But we were still able to get quite a few good lessons in and we will be having a baptism next Saturday. It was the kid that drank coffee so we had to postpone it but he is doing good now and he is ready. He is 18 and he is already saying he wants to go on a mission so he should be a strong member here. We have a new investigator now from a member that brought her friend to church and she used to live in portugual going to school and she actually talked with missionaries there. We have only taught her twice so far but she is really interested and we already have a baptism date for her in december and its cool cause her friend can always teach her with us, we just teach her at the chapel down here. I have had the opportunity to get a little taste of a european mission lately too. We have an area inside our area where we get a lot of tourists that we run into sometimes. On saturday we ran into a few guys from sweden that started speaking with us in english and i decided that its so different talking with people from europe instead of Cabo Verdeans. They make a lot of educated questions while asking about our church which is really cool cause here when we talk with people they just keep shaking their head and saying yes but they dont really say anything else. Other than that we are going to praia tonight for our zone leaders counsel and then back here tomorrow night. Well thats about the update on the work.
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