Hey Family!
I hope everyone enjoyed the break! Sounds like
you were all really busy though so that´s good. Kiersten is gonna be huge when
I get home! Maybe Shane is right and she will grow to be 6´7". Ha ha that
would be really funny. Sounds like she´s enjoying volleyball though so that´s
good. Is Shane excited for grad? I can´t believe he is graduating in two
months. Time goes by so fast. I have yet to play basketball
here because we don´t have a ball. But if we did have one, we would definitely
play. The only problem is that you can only find soccer balls here. Soccer is
fun but it´s not as fun as basketball. But that´s ok. Today we climbed a large
hill in the back of our area to take pictures and to give a blessing for our
area. It was pretty cool and you could see the whole city. I attached some
pictures of it for you guys to see.
Well I don´t have a whole lot to write about
this week. We were really busy but nothing super interesting happened. On
Wednesday we did a division with the District Leaders and I went with my
trainer, Elder Bunderson. We had a really successful divison. We stayed in my area and Elder
Fonseca went to the other area. We marked three people for baptism, found four
new investigators and had some really good lessons. E, our investigator who
had a date for baptism a couple weeks ago, still hasn´t been baptized. He´s had
some doubts because his girlfriend is mad at him for keeping the Law of
Chastity, and hasn´t wanted to commit to anything. We taught him on Wednesday
and talked a little bit about some of the specific blessings that we receive
because of the gospel. The Spirit was really strong there and he committed to
be baptized this week. We have been working on asking inspired questions a lot
and I felt that we asked a lot of questions that really got him thinking. It
was really neat to see the changes in him, just from that one lesson.
Other than that, not much to report. District
Conference is coming up soon and they are going to organize the first stake
here in Cape Verde. Assomada is going to become a ward!!! Also, the Conference
will be presided by a member of the Seventy. We will have a Zone Conference a
couple days before with Elder Kopiske ( if that´s how you spell his name) the
Europe Area President. The Fogo missionaries will be coming to participate as
well so that means I´ll see Brodie finally! Next week is going to be pretty
exciting! The work is going really good here. We are finding a lot of people
who have been prepared by the Spirit to receive the gospel. L, our
investigator that I told you about last week, introduced us to her cousin this
week so we started teaching her and she is going to be baptized with L! We
also had some lady approach us in the street asking us for councel. So we
marked a day to pass by this week to talk to her.
It did rain one morning. Saturday morning around
8:30 it started raining really hard. It was funny because everyone in the
streets were running for cover. However, it lasted less than half an hour and
was all dried up by the time we left at 11. Well I hope everything continues to
go well and I love you all! Have a good week!
