9/13 Letter Home

If you happen to get the other pictures of the baptisms, those would be from this week and last week... its daniela and luis. The baptism went all well so that was cool! We also had a pretty good week with our investigators, we still have some that are progressing really well. We are teaching the family of Tó and Paula right now and there kids. Tó is from here but Paula is from Fogo, and that creolo is a lot more like praia so its cool being able to listen to her and talk with her. They are a way cool family and even though we only started teaching them about a week and a half ago they are progressing a ton. Tó has the coolest job in the world, he is a fisherman here! They go out for a couple days each time and usually go off of Santa Luzia which is the only that doesnt have any people. They catch all types of sweet fish and he always has cool stories for me... i tell him one day im gonna come back and go fishing with him after the mission. So he had work yesterday but Paula came to church along with the kids which was really cool. We actually had quite a few people in church this week, about 60 which is about 20 more than usual. We got some investigators there and some less actives too. One of Paula´s kid´s dad is actually living in america now so he goes there quite a bit to visit. It was really funny, i guess he went out there once for about a year and when he came back he was a lot fatter. They are always talking with us about how everyone likes to eat junk food there and i guess its kinda true. The kid is 7 years old and he always likes to talk to me about mcdonalds and how much he misses it... they dont know what that is out here. They do eat a lot healthier here and everyone has to walk everywhere instead of driving, so there are a lot less overweight people. Dont ask me how i put on so much weight cause i dont know! But so yeah thats our week for ya, not too much out of the ordinary. We will be having transfers in 2 weeks and im not sure if i will be staying or leaving and if i leave i have no idea to where, i will just have to wait and see. It doesnt really matter to me what happens, all i know is that i want to serve on Fogo for quite a while! I wouldnt mind staying here another one though cause there are cool people we teach and i want to stay with them and hopefully see them get baptized.

So this next week should be pretty busy. We will have to keep the work going in our area and we are also going to be going to sal on wednesday and thursday to stay with the elders there. Im pretty excited to go back there, its a way weird along.... its flat and really small. It has really cool beaches though so i think during lunch we will go to it and take some pictures. We are also going to santo antao next week as a zone activity which i am way excited for! That is the island we can see from here, and we will have to take a boat ride to get there. Once we get there we will be taking one of those hiaces (those van things) up into the mountains and doing some hiking. Those mountains get really high and green so it will be liking being in utah almost. But the boat wont be getting back until 6 that evening and then we have lessons after that... so im not exactly sure when i will be able to write back, it might just be a day late or something.