So... it's already August. This week was kind of
crazy. The best part though is that G WAS BAPTIZED!!! This is the
"gangster" that I wrote about a while ago and he's pretty much just
awesome. He gave up drugs and everything and is super excited. He's been
reading the Book of Mormon like a machine and has completely changed his life
around. It wasn't easy but he made it and was pretty darn happy. I had the
opportunity to perform the baptism and it was so awesome to see how happy he
was after it was over. He received the priesthood on Sunday after church and is
really excited for his "new" life. Unfortunately I am in some Chinese
Internet place today and I can't send any pictures. So I'll try to send them
another day... if I remember. Not making any promises.
So ya as Zone Leader we have to monitor the
zone, we give trainings if we feel that something needs to be improved or
fixed, and we are in charge of giving the numbers to the assistants at the end of
the week. The biggest thing is we are here to lead the zone through our example
and make sure everything is running smoothly. However, as zone leaders in Praia
we have some extra duties during transfer week. Mostly just donating our house
to the missionaries who are passing through Praia on their way to the other
islands. We also housed the new missionaries on Tuesday, which was pretty
sweet. The Canadian stayed in our house Tuesday night and he's pretty sweet. He went to LCI. I didn't know him before though
because turns out he plays every sport that I don't play. He's pretty excited
though and is gonna be a great missionary. He's going to Fogo so has already
been on more islands than I have. We also housed two new missionaries from
Portugal and man, they are kind of freaked out! They got into Praia super late
at night and were dropped off at our house. Unfortunately, we had no running
water for the first half of the week so they were all worried that they were
never going to have running water. They had so many questions and I'm pretty
sure they are a bit homesick. But
they'll be fine and they seem like nice guys.
We're still having troubles getting people to
come to church and I don't know what to do!!! We have a bunch of sweet families
though that are getting ready to be married so we are hoping to have a couple
marriages as well as baptisms this transfer. How sweet is that??
Praia is
pretty sweet and there are a lot of people who are receptive to the gospel.
There are just so many more people that sometimes it is a little harder to find
them. I really like it here and the people are awesome, even though it is so
dang hot all the time!! The work is going good though and we have Zone Leaders
Council tomorrow. I'm so excited!!!
So other than that, not much else is new. Other
than we got robbed Monday night... not cool. We have a balcony with a door that
we open up when we are in the house because it lets some air in. But we ALWAYS
close it before we leave or before we go to bed. The one night we forgot,
somebody came in and took a bunch of stuff. I only lost 2 000$00 but we also
lost our phone, Brodie's camera and his iPod. We were pretty ticked off but it
was entirely our fault. I did get my package though. It came really fast.
Thanks! Anyways, enjoy what’s left of your holidays. Have a good week!
Elder Dola
