Dear Family!
Sorry i surprised so many people by writing so early! We usually dont send that early but we had to come back so yeah... dont panic i am still alive. And no transfers is next week! Its going to be exciting. i just hope i stay here with my companion! I am not ready for change... but just as i say this when we are comfortable that is usually when things change. And me and my comp are getting really comfortable... So we shall see!
So this week was awesome. I will first discuss the baptism of jocy!!!!!!! yayayyay. she is awesome. we found her about the first few weeks i was here but she worked SO much so we couldnt teach her So then one day she shows up at church and she is with one of our recent converts. She said the only thing keeping her from going was because she didnt think she had clothes to wear. She thought she had to be dressed like a sister. But the member assured her she could wear pants. So i think usually the doubt is not doctrinal when people dont go to church... it is social! So we need to remember that. That is why you members at home are SO important to the work! But jocy showed up and turns out she was in holidays for work.... so we taught her in 2 weeks and she wanted to be baptized so bad. She is super awesome. We had a little set back when she had to be interviewed by our mission president but i learned something huge in that experience. She was interviewed by him and after she explained how the weight she had for SO many years because of one mistake that she did had made her feel guilty every single morning she woke up. But then after the interview she expressed how she didnt think about it as a weight anymore. She had repented. Repentance cleans and purifies! I realized the power of repentance.. and the power of the atonement which makes it all possible! I hope we can all recognize the importance of the Atonement and power in it. I wanted to tell her after words how great our mission president was and how he helped her feel like that... but then i ended up saying how great Christ is and how he helped her feel like that. It is true. It is all because of him.
So she was baptized and it was great... refer to pics
Then we had a great week really! Super success. We had studies with the sisters and made goals with them. These studies was an idea of our mission and we decided to do them. Best idea ever. We got to make some goals and follow up with some goals. The sisters are super excited to work and i think we are going to make these mini goals into Zone goals next month! As long as the sister love them. I think they will.. they are more plans than goals.. the goal is to increase new investigators and date marks for baptism! And we have some awesome plans to do that but i wont expalin to you all because a lot of you would not understand... just imagine that we dont have computers in cabo verde... or i pods or i pads or whatever so we made our weekly planner page into an i pad sheet. hahaha anyway we are cool!
BUT yeah....i found a verse. 1 nephi 13:37. Endure to the end... but how?? how i ask you all? By sharing our beliefs! We have been teaching the friends of our recent converts and they have become super solid! They have the opportunity to share their beliefs with friends and family and they recognize how they actually know even more that this is true! Missionary work is how we become more converted. Try it out... it works! i love you all and i hope you can be missionaries!
Oh and it is rainy season. which means... wet feet... constantly. So yesterday we walked out of our house and had to cross a mini river to get to the other side of the road. and we followed this mini river all the way down to our area... our area is down unfortunately so we had to cross a BIG river as we got down. haha we went the wrong way and had to cross a ditch full of water.. ugh. but i didnt get too wet. I just laugh that i am actually here... in africa... getting ridiculously wet because they dont have ways to control this water... and i am a little scared that some crocodile is just going to pop out... hahah just kidding... i dont think we have those... i pray! guess we will find out.
hope i have legs next week.
Love you all
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