Week 44

We had another week full of tiny miracles. We hit frequency of 50 again in church! It's crazy how much this branch has grown, I remember my first few Sundays only having 25ish people at sacrament. We owe all this growth to the members here. I would honestly put my money on them if we were looking for the hardest working members in the world.
The volcano in Fogo erupted!!! Haha Elder Olsen had to move out of his area cuz he was right under it.

Week 42

I'm alone!!!! I have had no comp all day!! He'll get here in 2 hours, though. Elder Welch got transferred out of here, sadface, but we still had a sick last week. I took the best pic ever, we were helping out one of our less actives carry food for his cows up a mountain. It was harder than it looked, my respects for people who do it twice a day every single day of the year.
I'm not gonna say much at the moment because I'll be emailing later when Elder Reid gets here. I'm super pumped to serve with him, he's already a buddy of mine when I was back in Sao Vincent.
Anyways, laters!

I'm back! It was sooo weird being alone! I didn't know what to do, I just chilled with Hinzaguy most of the time but he had to work, so I stayed home alone until Reid got here, and now he's here! I'm super pumped to serve with him, he's a boss. I got a call at 11PM last night telling me that my comp was leaving at 8AM and I needed to find someone to stay with, so naturally everyone decided to be busy, so I had nobody to be my comp. I was alone from 8AM until 2PM. Weirdest feeling of my mission so far. I was freaking out. 

So this past week was way busy, we did a ton of work with less active members. Something happened that I honestly never believed would happen in my mission. I actually love a little kid, lol. His name is William or "Willy", he is seriously the most adorable kid ever. He's not loud at all and he actually behaves! Only at church tho haha which is good. He's only 6 but he says he wants to serve a mission when he's older, little stud haha. I asked him to sit next to me and take a pic and the first thing he does is throw up a peace sign. He's the one in orange. 

This week we also made History!! We visited a zone called Garca which took us an hour and a half in a car and another 30 of walking to get to. I was the first missionary to ever set foot in that area! Welch was second, lol. I have pics but they're in a different SD card that I forgot, sorry. I'll send some next week. The little zone only has about 20 families total, and 2 of them have been coming to church twice a month for a while, they have a baptism date for the 13th of December, I'm so pumped for them! 

Dude!! Look at this pic Elder Olsen drew me. It is seriously my favorite drawing ever. He knows me so well, haha. It's a bunch of Yoshi, Naruto, and Dragon Ball Z stuff. 

Week 9

Wow mom. I left you one job! To take care of fluffy, lol. And lucky!!!! I miss Mexican food, although I did make tortillas like a boss. Como un jefe. My companion was very happy  because of it.
And well, P-Days are kinda long. First, I wake up, clean the dishes and mop the floors, stuff like that. Then we go play soccer for like 2 hours, come back, eat breakfast, then go email (now), then go shopping, come back to the house, make lunch, chill there or chill at other missionaries' houses, then we are back to work. Nothing that special.
So I'm sooooooooooooooo excited!!! I'm getting my first baptism this Saturday. I'll write you a letter about him later. And well, I didn't take a lot of pics this week, just a few.
So here's the best thing about Cabo Verde (not really, but it's still pretty good). They love white chocolate, so they decided to mix it with nutella. It tastes awesome with bananas. Oh and here's me making tortillas.

White chocolate with nutella!

Making tortillas like a bawss

Elder Olsen was quite excited about something Mexican

And well, you said to tell you if I needed something sooooooo, I need my contacts. And also, I'm scared of this pen running out of ink. It's my favorite of all time. It has a crazy fine point and it's used to mark scriptures and stuff. It's awesome cuz it writes really smooth and it doesn't bleed through the pages. I bought it at the MTC, so I don't really know where else they sell them. It would be awesome if you could send me like 2 or 3 more of them. 

Oh and if you were thinking of sending me food, just make sure it doesn't go bad, cuz I won't get the package till like a month from now. Well, I don't really have much else to say, so take care!!! Love you!!! Ate' a segunda! 

 

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For those wondering: I wrote him about how my mom forgets to take the cover off Fluffy's cage every morning. Fluffy is his pet parrot. Here she is: 

Week 8

I still have the 5X5 Rubik's cube with me, I actually timed myself and I cut my time from 15 minutes to 7:32 which I'm extremely proud of. And Elder Olsen is awesome, I taught him how to do a rubiks cube and he learned like in 24 hours, super fast.
Here I can devote an entire hour of just e-mailing and not doing laundry at the same time so I have heaps of time to reply. Mindelo is actually the nicest city in Cape Verde, it's a lot like Matamoros so compared to the rest of the islands it's really 'advanced'. I didn't have a lot of time for pics this week, I only took a few.
I really like it here. It's kinda sucky having to walk 3 miles uphill every day, but I'll get used to it. Seriously, when we leave the house in the morning, we walk uphill, then when we get back at night, somehow we are still walking uphill. I think we broke logic. I'm not serving in the city part of Mindelo, I'm at the outskirts of it so everyone I teach is poor and humble. I like the food here, all they eat is rice and beans and fish, I haven't had cachupa tho. So far I'm surviving with ramen, tuna, cereal, and fresh bread every morning.

Here are some pics:

The last time we were together before we were sent to different islands </3.
Elder Cordova is on Fogo and Elder Young is here in Mindelo but at the other side of the city so I cant see him.

Cape Verdean Escudos are cool looking and colorful

I basically live off cereal and rice. This chocapic is actually pretty good. 

And well, rice is rice. 

So Elder Olsen and I climbed this mountain for like 10 minutes just to take a pic,
 and then we climbed back down. Fun huh? 

Also, I'm not that fat, it's the wind that makes the shirt look puffy.