Nov 15 letter home

Hey everybody,

So its a little later here in the day cause we had been fishing all morning. It was really fun though, i had been waiting to go for forever so it was nice to finally get out and go! There were six of us missionaries and a member from one of the branches and we headed to the west side of the island where they have a way cool beach and a way cool areas to fish where it drops right down deep so there are a lot of fish there! We caught about 25 total with 1 octupus. It felt good to real in some fish after so long! The biggest one we caught was about 24 in. but they were the coolest looking fish i had ever seen, they were all realy bright and colorful! I also grabbed the octupus and its suckers on its tennacles started sucking onto my hand and it would stick to you, it was really hard to get off! I had a blast though and we will probably go again in not to long. I also saw a group of dolphins swimming out from us for the 3rd time on this island.

So other than that let me think of what has been going on... our area is still doing really good. This area is probably my favorite area i have served in so far just because there is so much work today and here in downtown Mindelo is an awesome area! Its pretty cool being with Elder Olson, we just need to remember to speak Portuguese more to keep improving instead of losing it. I feel like we got our area really organized now so now we know exactly who are the people who have interest. We also spent half of our time teaching all the recent converts of this area which is a lot... but now the branch is going to start teaching them so we will have a lot more time to teach normal investigators and help out the less actives. It will be cool. We have quite a few people that we are preparing for baptism now... i wish i could tell you about each one individually but that would kinda take a while... just know that they are cool people though! We are getting a lot of help from the members now and we are seeing tons of miracles that are happening and people that are wanting to change their lives! Well other than that i cant really think of anything that is new. These week i cant remember if i already told you guys but its district conference (stake conference) and we will be having the temple president from madrid coming to speak with us.

Well thats sweet about byu picking it up, now hopefully they can keep it going! It sounds like the utah jazz are on fire too, especially with beating the miami all star team! Well i hope everyone has a good week and thanks for everything! Good luck with the surgery mom.