Casamento

Dear familia e amigos....

the subject means marriage!!! i will start with how today we went to mark the marriage date of zaza and patrick. they will get married next week. july 9. WE are super excited for them and zaza was smiling so big!!! She has a dress and everything and her little ring that she wears. i am so excited for them.

but it was a struggle. last monday we went to mark and we know how they got in a fight and apparently the marriage was off... well then we just told them to pray... read... talk. haha and they worked it out. so the next day patrick calls us at the end of our studies and says he is ready to mark casamento. so we go to their house and walk to the registro... but it was just patrick. so obviously we need both of them but zaza went to her sisters house and didnt bring her cell phone. so we call the sister... too late tho because zaza already left. so we get a taxi and go find zaza as patrick waits in the registro. we find her by luck on the street and she finds a kind lady to take her son.. diogo ( he is the funniest little 1 year old ever )... and then we make our way to registro. we think all is ready... but no! the license... or ID of patrick is wrong. it says he was born in praia but he was born in fogo.... ugh!! haha who makes that mistake. so that day we couldnt. the next day he gets things figured out and we finally go today to get it done! yaya! no problems simple. even though they said they would meet us there at 10:30 and dont show up until 12:15... cabo verde time. no problem.

so next thing about this week is that it was good and the only things i can really remember are funny stories. so let me begin. on wednesday i made these awesome tacos. all by hand! they were legit and super good. i think i got to excited and ate way to much though. because during the whole day i felt super sick. i just kept going though because i didnt wanna go home... pride in me made me stay out. but during the lessons i was just praying i wouldnt throw up. and i was praying for faith too. and the wholde day we were blessed with lessons to! So then finally at the end of the day we make our way home and we have this big hill before our house. i just told myself to make it up the hill and past this group of people... well.. the lord had another plan. i threw up about 5 times... nasty i know... right next to this house. i felt so bad. but they were SO nice. they told me to drink water and dont worry about it. they even tried to speak some english to me. haha but we couldnt just let them go with out a present of that scene. so we gave them book of mormons because they were so nice and they took them and the guy even wanted to shake my hand full of throw up. i shook my head but he insisted... so yeah. cabo verde. haha but extra great contacts with book of mormons! baptisms!!! haha

Next we had 2 divisions... they were great. i learned a lot about faith overcomes fear on these divisions. i know that as we have faith.. even when we are feeling down we can overcome.

next is vitor and erika. another couple. they are preparing for marriage! but vitor has Word of Wisdom problems. BUT he has dropped everything except maria joanna. i think you can figure that one out...

So we are having problems with investigators in church. every single one of our other key indicators were met last week... miracle. except people in church. SO we made some plans. we talked about the importance of the sacrament. so we are going to have our people write on cards a question they have... and then they have to seek an answer in sacrament meeting. i think this will be an invite for our members as well. a lot of people show up to church after the sacrament is passed. we need to make it a priority to prepare ourselves for sacrament. like grandma said in my letter this week :)

Next is the sketchy bread place we eat at.... This place is awesome! So we walk into a store... but instead of buying at the store we go to these stairs that our like corridor stairs of a prison tower and we walk up to the top. there is a small whole in the wall where we can ask for bread while they are having meetings and it just is super funny to me... or when they dont have meeting we walk into the room and just buy it there. but it is the BEST bread i have had. especially with butter. and we are their favorite costomoers. they are muslims. haha i just love them. we cant teach them but they like to hear about what we do and our message as we come and buy their bread. its like 25 cents for a huge thing. IN LOVE.  creepy place... but so worth it.

Love you all :)

Sister johnson