8/16 Letter home

Hows it going back at home? Things are going pretty smoothly out here. We are just starting a new transfer and i am getting my new companion, we will be going to the airport to pick him up from praia in just a few hours. It is Elder Morreira from Brazil. I was hoping to get an American so that i could have someone to relate to more, but E. Morreira is the next best thing. I knew him in praia and he is a really cool guy and really chill so im sure i will like him. This will be the 5th transfer in a row with a comp that doesnt speak english though! I will be training him as zone leader and then hopefully i will be taken out of zone leader this transfer. I would like to go open up a new island or something still!
So anyways this week was pretty fun. One of the best things that happend was that i found a little store here in our area that has some american products... when i walked in i almost started crying tears of joy. I was able to find real bbq sauce, peanut butter, ranch dressing, real spaghetti sauce, and brown sugar! I know those 5 things dont really seem like that big of a deal to you guys but to me it just completely changed my way of living in the mission!
As for the work this week everything is going about the same. One sad thing is that Luis, that guy that is getting ready for baptism had a little stumbling block. We showed up to our lesson and he was drunk. That is the first time he had had any problem with alcohol recently and it was kinda sad, but we got it out of the way and he is still on his way to being baptized. He is a man of his word and he said he was done doing anything like that from now on. We are still working on finding new people though and having to do lots of contacts. We have taught a few new cool people though. We taught one guy named Mowacir who is the smartest man i have talked with here. He is a professor in portugual during a part of the year and he is also an author and travels to all different parts of the world to do researches. His house is a library and he speaks portuguese really well which is kinda uncommon here! We taught him and at first i thought that we werent going to get anywhere and that he would just bash on what we taught but it was the complete opposite! He really liked it and wants to keep talking with us. WE are going back there tomorrow so we will see what happens. Our branch is still really weak but we had a branch activity the other night that was really fun. We played games and had a though and everything and the turnout was actually pretty good with about 30 people there. Even though its small there are still some way cool people and a lot of them are pretty close and we are gaining the trust of them more too. But being in a small branch we have a lot of responsibility in it. I had to teach gospel principles class last week and this week i am teaching primary, it should be pretty fun.
I heard about that elder that came out here but went home after a few weeks but i never met him. He went straight to fogo so i didnt know him. That is something that happens but not a whole lot, most people are able to deal with it.
Well i cant think of a whole lot else that is new. Today we just woke up and a couple of us went to the beach here in mindelo which is pretty nice and we played football. I think the rest of the day is going to be spent relaxing and getting my companion. Next week i will let you know a little more about him and everything else.