Week 20

How on earth did you remember my favorite day in history?
Anyway, so I found out that Me, Elder Olsen, and Elder Burch all got DearJohned at the beginning of our 3rd transfer. That night was funny, even though I hated my life. We just sat in my bed all night eating ice cream and cake and all that good stuff lol.
So this past week I went on splits with Elder Hartman. I stayed over at his house and worked in his area called "Cementerio Tras" (behind the cemetery). It was pretty awesome getting to know other areas. I was gonna send you pics and stuff but I forgot my camera lol. Sorry.
I'm sooo glad I'm not you, school sounds horrible to me right now. Especially math classes, I don't even know how to work the calculator.
So guess what? Now we have sisters in our District. And guess what?? They took cake to the last district meeting. And guess what?? The cake tasted good. It's gonna be a great transfer.
So I've been hearing a lot about this new movie called Ssss....something Approach. I forgot what it's called. But it's this movie about 2 missionaries that get kidnapped in Russia. It's based on a true story. You should watch it.
Man, it's sad how low my standards for music have gotten. A couple of days ago I heard the song "Fireworks" by Katy Perry as we were walking down the street and I got super excited lol.
So, for the first time ever, all the District leaders had a meeting with our Mission President and nobody else was invited, and it was the last time we got to see him :( It was such a spiritual experience for everyone. He has the most powerful testimony I have ever heard, you can literally feel it, it's kinda hard to explain, but basically he made all 10 of us cry lol. Even though I only got to talk to him like 5 times, I'm gonna miss President Oliveira sooo much. He only has 2 weeks left on his mission, then President Matthews is gonna replace him. I'm pretty excited to meet him.
Well, I'll do my hardest to send pics next week, take care! I love you!!!!

-Elder Zuniga

Week 19, District Leader!

Hey I just got dearjohned! Lol. I'm laughing right now but I'm probably gonna cry myself to sleep. Lol, jk.
But good news, I got your package!!! Man you're the best sister every! Soo much ketchup!!! I wrote you a letter telling you thank you and stuff so that's all I'll say for now. Dude! I'm District Leader now! I found out last Monday night. I feel super out of place cuz I'm like the youngest in the district lol. But Elder Olsen is District Leader too so he helps me out. Now I live in a 4-elder house! The 2 other Elders are Elder Burch and Elder Pumbumua (from Mozambique and from Utah, guess which is which, lol.) I was already good friends with Elder Burch before so this transfer should be fun. Well, sorry for not having tons of time, I wrote Yari a whole book saying it's OK lol. Well, take care!! I love you tons!!!

-Elder Zuniga

Week 18, Transfer #3

I haven't gotten your package, but it looks like I'll be getting it in a week or two. It's already in Praia, but I'm kinda on a different island. So anyways, this right here is Ravidson, or Ravi for short. He is 23 and is such a boss, he is a recent convert, barely got baptized the week before I got here. He had a lot of problems with alcohol but he was able to get over them. He had a couple of fall backs, but he is going strong. I took a pic with him and he wouldn't smile, so I got after him and made him take another pic lol.

Yesterday we had 10 investigators at church!!! I was super happy! This family right here were among them. I'm super excited to keep working with them and help them come closer to our Heavenly Father. Last night was Transfer night, I had my fingers crossed so I wouldn't get transferred, which thankfully, I didn't. We are working with sooo many families, there's no way I want to leave them till they all get married and baptized, lol. One of these families is Valdivinho and Teresa. We had a Family Home Evening with them. Valdivinho is actually a less active and one of the first people to get baptized in the city of Mindelo. He actually found us when he was drunk lol. We were walking down the street and we heard a guy yell "The Church of Jesus Christi of Latter-Day Saints, the one true church!" He was drunk and stuff, but we still made an appointment with him and we went by a couple of days later. We started teaching him and the woman he is living with (who is super catholic) and now she wants to be baptized! I love that family soo much, they all showed up to church 2 times in a row.

So we took this pic on Saturday at District meeting. I love these guys, they're some of the funniest people I've ever met haha. Elder Romano and Elder Hartman are sitting next to me and Elder Burch, Elder Olsen, and Elder Taylor are standing in the back. Also, I'm gonna try forwarding a pic of our zone. 

Well, I don't have any time left, so take care!!! I love you! Buh bye!

-Elder Zuniga