I´ve decided I´m really not missing anything at home because everything seems to be the same. It is weird that everyone is coming home though. My mission is going by way too fast and now as an assistant time seems to be going by even faster. I´ve still got time though and we´re always busy so that is good.
So I´m e-mailing really late today because we spend the ENTIRE DAY cleaning our house! It was a disaster!!! Up until last week there have been two other missionaries living in our house who never clean. Because we are never home we don´t have a ton of time to keep things clean and it slowly just started piling up. They are now gone though and we have been cleaning every single morning since Wednesday and today we finally finished!! It feels so much better now!! So that has been our life these last few days... not all that exciting to tell you the truth.
BUT we had a baptism this week and it was a huge blessing from Heavenly Father. We set a goal to baptize every week of the transfer and unfortunately our baptism for this week fell through on Wednesday. She is progressing really well and really wants to be baptized but her boyfriend sleeps at her house occasionally and we felt that it is better to help them get married and wait to baptize them together. Unfortunately this left us without anyone to meet our goal until we went to visit the bishop one night. While there, we found out that his wife´s nine year old son had never been baptized!! He really wanted to though so after a quick conversation with the boy´s father we got everything ready and we had a really nice baptism service on Saturday. It had to be done by the missionaries because he has already passed eight years of age and it was a huge blessing for us this week.
Things are starting to settle down in the mission again and the little problems are being fixed. We had a really good week as far as baptism last week and this week is looking to be even better. We have one guy preparing to be baptized this week named C and he is amazing! He received a strong answer from the Spirit and is determined to be baptized this week. Even though he stayed up until 5 in the morning on Sunday, he woke up and came to church! These people are incredible and Heavenly Father just continues to send them to us.
To answer your question, Elder Hill and I kind of speak a mix to each other; Portuguese, English and Crioulo. I may or may not, (most likely will), have troubles with English when I come home because almost everything I hear is in Portuguese or Crioulo. So don´t judge me!! I love it here though and I really don´t want my mission to end. It´s the last week of the transfer though so we´ve got a ton of work to do. Have a good week and I love you all!
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