It's crazy how fast time goes. I felt like this transfer just started. Guess not :P
One
thing I've noticed recently in Praia is the temperature change. It's
not one of those changes where it's like 'wow, the temperature changed',
because in Cape Verde, the weather is pretty well 100% the same 100% of
the time. Over the past couple weeks, I've noticed I've had to pull out
my handy 'sweat sock' (the sock used to wipe off the sweat...) less and less, until this week, I don't think I
used it once! It's really strange and actually really nice. We've had a
couple cloudy days, which is really rare. It even rained overnight this
week! It was a nice pleasant surprise. Funny how I'm commenting on this
now, I feel like the temperature for ME is gunna take a significant dip
here in a little bit...
WELL, this week we didn't have any
sick days, which is always A plus plus plus (this dang keyboard seems
to be devoid of plus signs :P), and it also meant we got a lot of really
good work done. We've got a really good pool of investigators right
now, which is also a desirable aspect in an area. Keeps me busy and
happy :)
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| The Great Gathering! (look for Sean's big smile just above the president's head...) |
This week ROCKED because we had a Zone Conference,
almost Mission Conference, with Elder Kearon of the Seventy. It was
cool cuz we had 4 of the mission's 6 zones come in for it, with
missionaries from 4 different islands making it in. Sister Mathews said
at the beginning she thought it was the biggest gathering of
missionaries they've ever had since they've been here. It was pretty
powerful to belt out the mission hymn of Called to Serve with 70 plus
(dang keyboard) missionaries. Elder Kearon is a pretty powerful man. He
used incredible British words, like 'brilliant', told someone to 'mash
the switch' when he wanted the lights off, and many others. I wish I
wrote a list of his words. He didn't have one set thing we wanted to
teach, and we must've had 4 hours just sitting listening to him. There
were so many times he would stop talking, and it would be quiet, and
you could almost tangibly feel the Spirit in the room as he tried to
follow what it was trying to say to him. One thing he taught that I
loved, he said, 'we all worry too much. It doesn't please Heavenly
Father when we're so worried. Just don't worry, and work hard!' Really
cool guy. It felt like we had a spiritual banquet just listening to him.
Powerful guy.
This week we also had Odair's baptism. He's
such a funny and happy kid, and was pretty well stoked all week. We had
talked with his cousin, Rosivelt to baptize him, but snce the baptism
this week was moved from 4pm to 2pm on Saturday, Rosivelt didn't make it
on time, so I got to baptize him last minute. It was cool :) We even
got him to prepare a short testimony to share after his baptism, and
this time, I got to bug him about going to the front to bear his
testimony. Kid's gunna be a future missionary, I love him to death.
Danir
as well is doing really well. We've noticed that, recently, our lessons
with him have taken on the role of being a little less about addressing
his specific concerns, and more in just encouraging him and following
up with him, he's progressing now really well. Last week when we visited
him, he was happy and confident, and didn't have one specific concern
or problem he brought up. Really cool to see someone follow such simple
steps and find the promised blessings :)
At church on
Sunday, we had the miracle of having 5 investigators at church again. It
was the first Sunday in a long time where we didn't go out before
church to walk around and pass investigators to get them to go, pretty
well all of them are friends or family of recent converts, and they
pulled through. Between the team of Obona and Jay, they brought all 5, 2
being Obona's sisters Joviana and Carlita, and 1 being Beti, who is
Jay's sister. She's looking really good for baptism this week, we hope
she will be baptized. Updates to follow in next week's letter :)
Today we found a restaurant where I got a tuna steak cooked on a hot rock. I didn't think this country got that fancy.
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