So sounds like your week off was busy, as
normal. It seems rare that a week long vacation goes by with nothing to do but
relax. I guess it’s better that way though. General Conference was awesome, as
always. We did watch it in Portuguese and NOTHING weird happened!!! It’s a lot
harder to pay attention when it’s in Portuguese though, even though I
understand everything that they say. That’s another weird thought... I listened
to 5 sessions of Conference entirely in Portuguese and I understood everything.
It still seems weird to me at times but still pretty awesome.
This week was new missionary week and we got 11
new missionaries!!! YES! I am not gonna lie, that has probably been the best
part about being assistant so far. I wonder how weird I was when I first got
here because they were funny! I forget that some things that happen here aren’t
normal in other parts of the world, like a cow grazing on the side of the road
in the middle of the city, but it was a lot of fun and they are really excited
to be here. Our mission is growing fast and we now have 94 missionaries! The
work here continues to grow like crazy and it’s really exciting to be working
so close with the missionaries.
So this week we had two baptisms, and one was a
complete surprise! M, our investigator who was going to be baptized a few
weeks ago but needs to get married first, decided after church last Sunday that
she was not going to wait for her boyfriend. He works late all month and after
that she decided that he is going to just have to live in his parents house so
that she could get baptized. She was the most determined investigator I have
ever had and it was really cool to see her get baptized. Our other baptism was V, a friend of C who got baptized last week. We were really blessed
this week and there are so many awesome people here right now!!
That’s about it for now. We’re going to Mindelo
tomorrow to do divisions for a week. Dad, as for your MTC activity, I don’t really
know. The biggest things that people have to adjust with are kind of hard to do
in a youth activity. Some of them were: following a strict schedule, keeping
the rules, managing your time, going everywhere with a companion... speaking
Portuguese. I don’t know if that’s helpful but that’s all I got. Have a good
week!
