É modi?
Man it has rained so much in Praia!! I think
almost everyday in September it has rained and when it rains here, it doesn’t
mess around. Saturday rained pretty much the entire day so I don’t think I was
properly dry until night. But it is so green!! I wish I could go out to
Assomada again because it has been raining a lot since July and apparently it
is amazing out there! It was green when I got here but now it should be even
greener. Praia is pretty green though and it looks pretty nice here. It’s still
crazy to think you are all back in school already. I will definitely say that I
am not missing school right now.
So I guess I’ll start with transfers. Surprise,
surprise!! I am NOT being transferred. But that is good because I don’t want to
leave this area. I don’t think I have ever wanted to leave an area yet... I’ve
only had three. But our area is exploding right now and I don’t want to leave!
I do have a new companion as Elder H has been shipped of to Mindelo to be
Zone Leader in the North zone. I will be serving with Elder R as Zone
Leader. He is from Wales so that keeps up my streak of foreign companions. He’s
pretty sweet and I’m really excited for the transfer. Our whole zone is being
changed around and we have a lot of new missionaries coming. We will have three
greenies and four areas are being white washed. We’ve got high hopes for the
transfer and our zone is going to grow a lot.
The rest of the week was pretty sweet. We had
zone leader’s council on Tuesday and it was ALL DAY LONG!! 12 hours of training
with President! We spent the first half going over the numbers for each zone
and each dupla. I really realized how much you could learn from numbers.
Obviously numbers don’t equal success but they do show where things are
lacking. After though was probably the best part. President O let us
into his office to see the transfer board! So we all knew about transfers all
week. It kind of took away the suspense of transfer time but we were able to
plan out for each dupla of missionaries in our zone for the next month. It was
really hard not to say anything to the other missionaries, especially since the
two new zone leaders were invited to the council but weren’t allowed to tell
anyone why.
The only other thing that happened this week was
B was baptized! He’s the friend of a bunch of the youth in our area and he
is sweet!! This youth group is awesome and reminds me a lot of my group of
friends from home. The only difference is the youth here are all baptizing
their friends!! SO COOL! So he was baptized by one of his friends and is super
pumped. He showed up to church on Sunday in a shirt and tie with all of his
buddies and he received the aaronic priesthood afterwards. Our other baptism
wanted to wait a week to be baptized with his sister so we only had one but it
was a pretty sweet one. It’s so cool to see these new converts and watch as
they share the gospel with all their friends and family. Definitely wish I had
done that when I was at home.
That’s really all that is new here. Next
transfer is going to be even better and we have a lot of work to do. We’re
going to help this family, that we have been working with since I first got to
Praia, get married and we’ve been finding a lot of awesome investigators. There
are so many people who are ready and are getting answers to their prayers and
all we have to do is help them prepare. It makes missionary work so easy!! Have
a good week!
Love, Elder Dola
