Dear Family,
So sounds like your week was pretty exciting. It
is still weird to think that Shane is in the MTC already. I’m super excited for
him though. I can’t believe that we have Spanish-speaking missionaries in our
ward, which is now huge by the way! I’m definitely going to go out teaching
with them and I’ll either just speak Portuguese or Crioulo which at times is
really similar to Spanish. The work is growing in the entire world but
definitely in our little islands here in the middle of nowhere. On Sunday the
second stake in Cape Verde, this time in Mindelo, was officially organized and
President told us that it was an amazing experience. I couldn’t be in a more
amazing place right now to be sharing the gospel, the Lord is blessing these little
islands and the Church is growing like crazy.
So life as an assistant continues to be crazy as
ever, it’s amazing sometimes that we ever have time to work in our areas. Last
week we had Mission Leadership Council and Zone Conference in Praia, both of which
were awesome. Our mission is moving in the right direction and we are making
the adjustments to help all of these new missionaries that are coming in. We
are losing a lot of old, experienced missionaries these next couple months and
we are working to help strengthen the leaders here so that the work doesn’t
slow down. Everything is going well though and we are really excited for what’s
to come.
So we are in Fogo right now and we are going to
spend the week here. We have zone conference tomorrow with President Oliveira
and then I am going to the North side of the island in order to go on divisions
with the missionaries in Mosteiros. I’ve never been to that part of the island
before so I am pretty excited. Plus the missionaries out there are really young
and really awesome so I am looking forward to be working with them.
Other than that though, not much else has
changed. E was baptized on Saturday and other than him walking into the
font accidently before getting changed, (he thought it was the door to the
bathroom and didn’t look before stepping in), everything went smoothly. We are
on the last week of the transfer again and we have to get everything ready for
the changes and the new missionaries that will be coming in next week. Lots of
work to do but I’m super excited for all of it!
I will try to call home on Sunday at
8:00 pm our time. I’m not really sure what time that is at home but I think it is
just after you will be getting home from Church. We will try to use Skype if we
can but if not I will just call. I love you all and hope that you have a good
week!
