8/24 Letter Home

Everything is going pretty well out here, not a whole lot has changed. My new companion is a cool guy and prett funny, we are having a pretty good time. This week we had to make a bunch of trips to the airport right at the start which was kinda annoying but thats just how transfers are. We had to take people there that were leaving the island a few times and we also had to go pick up the new american sisters that just barely got here this week. We were still able to get a lot of work done though and this was one of the better weeks i have had in this area. We found a few new people here that are really cool... we are getting rid of our investigators that dont really do anything and we are finding others so its a lot of hard work but its a lot better. A couple of the people we found though are sailors which is kinda hard cause they travel for like 6 months at a time and they never know when they are going to be leaving... we will see what happens though. We also found a new couple that is actually married (which is kinda rare) and they are super nice, im liking forward to teaching them again. As for our other investigators, Luis is still doing the best. He got past that little problem with alcohol and is going to be baptized not this saturday but the next. We are also working with the members a lot more and we are a lot closer with them now. They are all inviting us over to their houses to teach them and talk with them and they are starting to help us a lot more. Like i said our branch is only about 40 people right now but it used to have a ton more, so there are a lot of inactives in the area so our plan is to go find them with the help of the active members and get them back there. Hopefully we will be able to make this branch a lot stronger.
So anyways there is the summary of the work. Mindelo is going pretty well... we are in the rain season now so its been pretty cloudy most of the days this week. We got dumped on on saturday, it was coming down hard! It was a good way to find some new people to teach though, i think that some of the people felt bad for us so they let us in to teach and it worked to our advantage.