I probably sounded more mature because my sore throat. You remeber the friends episode where feebee(?) gets a cold and sings in that deep voice? Same thing it was really easy to sing the low bass notes. So for cards we just played extreme slap jack because elder jones was on the phone until 9:30 and the other elder´s companion was very sick. Merry christmas to him! That´s about all for saturday. We kinda forgot to eat Christmas night. Breakfast was enough to hold us over. I had sprite and a piece of cake. So somebody finally lives in that house in the Giles circle. Took em long enough. Yes you told me you got a christmas card from Sean. Well if your going to write my other friends you gonna have to write quick because Tyler comes home in 6 weeks. and Zach´s not too far behind. Good thing I got Sean only 2 months ahead of me so you have plenty of time to write him. So this week is technicly the beginning of next transfer so it´s just a week of finding people. not much is going on. Oh we are having a soccer competition between all the districts in praia on friday so that will be fun. Apparently president is playing on our team as well and another missionary already told me he´s going to hip check president so thats going to be fun. OHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If you haven´t sent off my next package yet could you put Bang! in it. That would be a really fun card game we could play. Oh also and need some new black socks because mine are getting holy... err holey. Defintitly not holy they smell like the devil. Oh and here´s a random question. Why is the song "when the river meets the sea" on the muppets christmas album? It´s a song about when we all die and has nothing to do with christmas. Well that is about all my thoughts for this week since its only been 2 days since we talked. but just think mom only 2 more phone calls and I´ll be home.
Ama-te sempre e feliz novo ano
e.weiss
12.27.2010
12.20.2010
Email from Dec 20
You can´t say that I forget these things if they haven´t happened yet. but yes I did get your letter this week. So phone calls: If I called you with a test phone call it wouldn´t be from our cell phone it would be with a different phone so that wouldn´t work but it would be easier still if you call us. I haven´t heard of a time limit so I´ma say there isn´t one. So yeah if you would like to call at 2 or 3 our time (depending on how long your planning on talking) and E. Jones is going to have is family call at 6 pm our time so I guess that´s your time limit. So here is our number including the country code: 238-993-4222 And just FYI our house has the worst phone reception of any house in the mission so don´t be surprised with crappy reception. So I don´t really know what our schedule is for this week. We have our Christmas party on the 23rd and we are having a brunch with the senior couple that we had thanksgiving with. Other than that I´m not sure what else is going on. I know that we won´t be working too much this week but that´s ok because we don´t have much to work with in this area. We also don´t know where were going next transfer because president decided he´s going to call Christmas night rather than the week before like he normally would have so I don´t know where I´ll be in another week. I´ll probably be sending off something for home today so you´ll need to tell me when you get it. Well other than that not much to write since I´ll be talking with you in a few days anyways right. Try not explode with anticipation because nobody wants to clean up that mess.
love
e.weiss
love
e.weiss
12.14.2010
Email from Dec 14
"I have done the Lord's work first and I know all the important things will fall into place." is the lord´s work not important? Just saying. ANYWho So I figured out that I´ll be here in the same area for Christmas because president extended this transfer another week. So what were going to do is have you call us with a calling card because that will be the easiest. However were still not sure when will be the best time to call because we don´t know if the missionaries are doing anything Christmas day together or if were just staying by ourselves or what the deal is. I´m thinking the time for you to call would be about 3 pm our time. That would probably be the best but we´ll find out by next email hopefully and if not I´ll probably call you people so you can A have our phone number and B know whats going on. And I´m sorry I didn´t mention the key chain in my email but music was a little more important to me at that time. Oh while I´m thinking about it it would be nice if you could send me a floss reach handle and eye drops because my eyes get really dry and I refuse to put anything made in Africa in my eyeballs. So I was thinking of sending home some stuff but I´m not sure yet because it might just be too big of a hassle and might cost a little too much. I´m not sure yet. Oh also If you can set up like an email notification thing for my American eagle account so I can check my balance and stuff that would be loverly. So I think on the 23rd or the 24th the missionaries here in san tiago are all having some shin dig together but I´m not sure what the whole thing is about but whatever maybe it will be fun maybe not. So no we haven´t really found anyone to teach here. We started with 3 investigators when elder Jones got here and we have about 1 right now and he´d get baptised without us because of his member friend so basically we teach a lot of first visit lessons and then never find them again so that's always (insert adjective or adverb). And of course I know what blindfolded musical chairs is I watched Ellen as well in case you forgot silly. OH one more thing that you could send me would be the other cord for my camera that plugs into the computer. The one I have when you plug it into the computer it just charges it I think. Which is pointless but whatever. So that would be fun for you all if you can send me that. We went on our Zone activity yesterday and we went back to the big tree up in assomada and I climbed inside the tree (yes literally in the tree I have pictures and film) so that was fun but I´m really tired now and when we got back yesterday the power was out until 8:30 last night so we couldn´t email so that is why I´m emailing today. Well I´m glad you remembered that really important thing that you needed to email. It was exciting. Well anywho my times almost up so have a good week and what not and all that stuff
e.weiss
e.weiss
12.06.2010
Email from 12/6/10
I don´t think they have geese in cape verde by the way. Oh and onequestion. What´s a water heater? What´s is this magic you speak of?you mean you don´t have to heat up water on the stove if you want totake a warm shower? Oh and just a fun fact were out of water again.And you really think the christmas devotional was broadcasted here? Ireally really doubt that. It´s possible I guess but I still doubt it.So yeah actually there are a few signs of christmas. They put ofchristmas lights on the main road in our area but I´m pretty sure thecity can´t handle that because we´ve been having more and moreblackouts. Also we walked by a chineese shop today that had a giantsanta statue. We thought about buying it. It will be sweet if we can.and its not too expensive. And Oh is catholism the dominate religionhere. bleh. anywho, well I´m not going to write too much more thisweek because I´m going to try and upload photos. I figured out mycharging cord for my camera doubles as a usb cord so we´ll see whathappens. Love you all
11.29.2010
Email from 11/29/10
BLUE MAN GROUP WITHOUT ME! Rude. And first of all we have invited youbefore and then after we saw the movie you said that we you had neverbeen invited. That’s funny about the clerk wearing the t-shirt. If youhaven´t sent off that other package can you send me another oil vial.The glass tube in my last one broke and apparently the missionaries inthe office said they don´t have any there. Hey I was gonna ask you ifanyone had gotten a mission call yet. Wiggy for him. That means hegets to learn French and philipineese or whatever it is called. Sothanksgiving was pretty fun. We went to the Adam´s home and there wasabout 20 missionaries there and they bought a turkey (a reallyexpensive turkey it was like 60 bucks) and we had mashed potatoes (idkif they scraped off the film on the water or not) and corn andstuffing and rolls and bananas which I must say I´ve never had atthanksgiving. And then people brought deserts like brownies and oneelder made donuts that were really good and it was fun. And delicious.And the 2 hour nap after was lovely. Oh so here´s something you´ll beproud to hear. I deep cleaned our house today. Like really deepcleaned. I couldn´t do anything about the paint peeling off the wallbut my bathroom and kitchen is very very clean. I told e. Jones thatwe're not aloud to go in there anymore. Unless you take a shower firstthen you can go in the kitchen. Also I don´t think this house has everbeen cleaned until now. Well what else has happened this week. Oh Igave a talk in church as well this week. about perseverar até o fim.It was fun. And easy since that’s what I do every day just it was tomore people at once that time. And without questions that I expectedanswers for. Well I’ve been talking with my comp about transfers andwe both reasoned out that I´ll probably stay here one more transferbut that’s not for sure and in case that happens I think we´ll becalling you from a phone call place here. If not than you´ll probablyhave to call our cell phone but like I said idk yet. Well I still needto read your second email so I guess I´ll get to that nowlovee.weiss
11.15.2010
Email from 11/15/10
Hi i couldn´t come up with a clever response this week. Or work assomebody else wrote. Were trying to help our area progress but I thinkI already told you it´s one of the oldest areas in the mission andeveryone here has talked to the missionaries it seems like. However wedid find a guy named Julio this week and he talked with the eldersbefore and now its our turn with him. He was pretty smart and talkedabout how repentance shouldn´t be something that you have to confessto a priest but something between you and God and the person youwronged. But he only has time to talk with us at the end of the weekso it´s going to be tough to teach him. And no false things beingpreached over the pulpit but he has talked about that in eldersquorum.
Hey so I feel like I´m back inBethleham because our lovely muslim neighbors have a goat tied up onthe floor of there apartment. Yeah I don´t know what its about I justhope they don´t sacrifice it in the house.
Hey so I feel like I´m back inBethleham because our lovely muslim neighbors have a goat tied up onthe floor of there apartment. Yeah I don´t know what its about I justhope they don´t sacrifice it in the house.
11.11.2010
Email from 11/11/10
DAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I was there. kinda. Not really cause thenthere would be coldness and I don´t know if I´ll be able to handlethat when I get home. And so you went to the bar to watch the game didyou? Hmmm do I need to call the missionaries in your area and havethem give you people a good old talk about a palavra de sabédoria? Ithink so. Any who did you have an incident in the bar like you did atthe game last time or is everyone there used to getting drunk so theycan control themselves a little better? I don´t know if I´ll wait forChristmas to open my package because Christmas is the 1st week of nexttransfer and there’s a high chance that I´m leaving this island so Idon´t have to want to worry about the weight limit with the package.So I guess I won´t have to act surprised. However if I do stay here wewill be having a Christmas party with this island but not with theothers. I´ll probably get transferred though since I´ve been in thesame branch for my whole time here but who knows what president willdo. We are having a thanksgiving lunch with the senior couple on thisisland this week though. And no we haven´t really found anyone new toteach. So phone calls will probably be me sending you our phone numberand you calling me but it depends if I stay with my comp here or ifI´m somewhere else. We might just use on of the international callingplaces here and end up having to spend a buttload to talk. And yes wehave a washing machine in our apt but we didn´t have running wateruntil last week so it was washboard style. So I´m glad you ended earlyso that Mal could send me a message and nobody else. So unloved. Andhere I was taking money out of my personal account early to go buylittle things for my family today. Who knows if that will happen now.Well this week has just been a lot of knocking doors and nobodyanswering or people marking for a week later so we usually don´t passbecause that means they don´t have interest. We are teaching a oneeyed lady named Maiza. We taught her about the restoration and stuffand she said she prayed and got a response but she still believes thatevery church has the authority to do baptism and stuff so it’s kindalike she wasn´t even paying attention in the last like 5 lessons we´vetaught then. Well anywho if you need ideas for things to send inpackage #2 I’d love a white t-shirt and a jazz jersey. That would besweet. Everyone here wears jerseys but no one has the jazz. Everyonehas the clippers and nobody likes the clippers so I need to combatthat. Oh also I was reading in Jesus the Christ the other day and Ifound out that woman is actually a term of endearment! Ha. I win. Ittalks about how Christ refers to Mary as woman and some people thinkits unrespectful but Talmage explains it as the woman who birthed youis "the woman of women" to you and what better title could you giveher. Boom Roasted. Just kidding love you woman/mother which ever youwould like. Well have a good week everyone and don´t get too much sunin Vegas cause I´d hate for you to have to deal with the hot sun :D. lovee.weiss
11.08.2010
Email from 11/8/10
Of course I´d have time for reading emails. So yes I stayed in thesame area and got another american named elder Jones. He´s from ogdenand he looks like tyler heinz a little bit if you remeber what helooks like. He´s been out for more than a year and he´s excited towork in this area which is nice because my last comp whom I love todeath, wouldn´t stop complaining about how he wanted to leave. AnywaysI think this transfer will be good. Oh and yes we have 2 fans but itwas still hot. Now CV seems to be cooling off which is very nice. Iactually use a sheet when I sleep now! but that also might be a trickmy mind plays on my body to make it think that its actually colderthan it really is. I also sent a letter to grandma today so you´llhave to tell me if she gets it. It also has a few photos in it butyou´ll eventually get those from when I send my card home. And I gotthem printed at a photo place. It´s a lot more expensive here thoughthan it is in the states. Roughly its 50 cents a photo. My shoulder isdoing fine. I noticed that when I lift my elbow out at a 90 degreeangle and bring it back down that on the way down it isn´t thesmoothest motion. But then I also relized that my other arm does thatso I guess its normal. Probably just muscles I never use. Wendy´s notold enough to get married. Yay for the brewsters! and why has bishopwaited so long on treatment. That´s silly that ethan got called to thesame mission. Maybe you should take my sister and your sister andheather or something like that. glad I dont have to get dragged therefor once. and I´m glad your so... enthusiastic about your cupcakes.will you send me some. Speaking of sending me some have you sent mypackage yet? If not can I make a quick little christmas list? A newpair of pants some ties and those floss reach things would be nice :D.You know the floss things that we bought at Ron´s office? yeah those.And any other crazy thing that you think I would enjoy. and maybe acoloring book :D. Anywoodle, well my time is almost out and the day isfar spent and some of us have to put our shoulder to the wheel andpush along and go buy some groceries. Well until next week. I love youall and hope you stay safe and eat right and exercise and fetch thewater and all that jazz.e.weiss
10.31.2010
October Emails
Email from Oct. 4
Anyway, so we only got 2 watch 2 sessions of conference really. We have a senior couple serving here in Praia and they had there laptop so we could watch it in English but the internet here is terrible and so that of the English sessions we tried to watch only 2 worked. The priesthood session was in the morning on Sunday (in Portuguese) and the rest would have been live if we got to watch all of them. So e. brown is from alpine and this week we didn´t get to do too much cause he was sick for 2 days, it was transfer week and we had conference sat and sun so yeah. But I have started calling our apt Hell because its sooooooooo dang hot. We don´t even sleep in our bedroom because it’s too hot. We go take those camping mattresses out to the main room and sleep there because it’s a lil bit cooler. Well funny story. So me elder brown our district leader and his greeny comp are standing at the bus stop to get to the church that conference will be broadcasted in and we´re just standing there talking and elder. Brown see´s this guy reach into a truck and take a small bag out of it and walk away with it under his shirt. He comes back and we are all watching him and he starts backing away and we look away and he walks up and takes another bag and walks away with it and were like ummm is that yours and he just keeps walking so we go tell the Asian people who own the truck/store that some guy just took bags out of there car and they go looking for him. Well they found him and some *stuff* happened and they got the items back. And his shirt. And a mob chased him and then we drove away on the bus. So don´t steal in Cape Verde. Well anyways my times almost up but today has been pretty good so far and we played soccer this morning and cape verdians aren´t the greatest at soccer so us American missionaries played well. And I jammed my toe but it was still good.
Email from Oct. 11
ola! Rainy season is already over and it’s always windy so I guess you could say we always have dust storms. No I didn´t find my missing card but it didn´t have too many pictures on it so that’s good. I think I dropped it on the way from the internet place to home or someone stole it. Either or. I´m not sick. I take my vitamins when I remember. The food situation is quite fun this week. We actually made a plan before shopping this week. So tomorrow is toasted Tuesday and were having sub sandwiches, Wednesday is weight watchers wed. And were having like pasta, thurs is greasy quinta-feira and were having hamburgers and fries. Friday is saucy sexta-feira and were having salsa burgers, and Saturday is segundas sabado where we eat at some restaurant that’s really good. And Sunday is soggy Sunday which is just leftovers. A whitewashed area is where both missionaries in that area leave and 2 new ones come in and that is what happened it my last area. A yasse is a jam packed van that only costs 30 cents to ride and a taxi is a taxi with just you and your comp for 2 bucks. No they don’t have Halloween here and the ap´s are assistants to the pres while secretaries to financial stuff. My new apartment is ridiculously hot and guess what. When I got there they disconnected our water tank so I am still without water. Transfers are Mondays unless you get a companion from another island or the states then its later. Well I´m almost out of time and were about to go shopping and we played soccer this morning.
tchou
love you all
e.weiss
Email from Oct. 18
I’m pretty sure I already explained that a yasse is just a van with as many people you can get jammed into it and a bus is a bus and a taxi is a taxi.
So yes apparently they do have Halloween but it’s just basicly a gigantic party that is probably going to destroy our work for the day. And apparently everyone just
like frows there hair and its like witches day or something idk.
Well today is my comps birthday so were gonna spend some time sight seeing
And taking pictures and stuff so that will be fun.
So this week has been ok. Our area is dying and the branch is doing
nothing to help so we're kinda at a loss of what to do. Just our normal
thing I guess.
So here´s a (insert adjective) story. We have an
investigator named Paula and she was supposed to get baptized the
first week of this transfer but she missed church 1 week so we told
her we´d have to push it back. Well because of that one week it´s been
almost a month because of general conference and the branch not
Announcing her baptism in church. Guess it shows how important it is
to go to church huh? Well anyways other than that we don´t have much
going on. we really only have 3 investigators and we might be taking
that down to 2 if one of them doesn´t start acting. But what was fun
is we did a mini division the other day so I could show the elder´s
another prospective house that they could live in cause they are still
having water problems so I got to go teach my convert carlita and one
of my old investigators so that was fun. Well not much else to report
this week so ill just end by saying I love you all and have a good
week.
e.weiss
Email from Oct 24
yes we knock doors, people are usually home and everyone pretends that
there interested and then you try and mark a day and they just say
another day. In approaches we say that were demon gargoyles from the
7th moon of Jupiter come to steal your children and force you into a
life of chasing squirrels in the mountains unless you yield to the
enticing of the spirit and read the Livro de Mórmon and dance around
like fairies singing "I´m a little teapot short and stout, here is the
elders and here is my rasta friends". No one slams doors but they do
give weird looks when they see us playing leap frog down the street.
Ok not really... they join in. Everyone’s excuse is they don´t have
time or some other day. I hope they have fun saying that at judgment
day as well. We go home for lunch. There is a really big dog in our
area that was barking at us for a while but he is a Christian (he was
wearing a cross) so were trying to build on common beliefs. yes I’m
writing in my journal but I don´t bring my journal when we come and
email. I don´t have time to write because every computer in this
country sucks and it takes 40 min to type 2 paragraphs. they also
charge by bandwidth so its not really an hour when we pay for an hour.
Anywho we had a baptism this week and I confirmed so
that was cool and for day to day activities there really isn´t much to
write. Our area is dying because its one of the oldest areas and so we
do a lot of walking and very little teaching. With the way our numbers
have been lately this area might get white washed as well. Well my
time is almost out so ill just say I love you all and be strong.
e.weiss
oh and our person who was baptized is named Paula. well if you want to
get specific its Ana Paula Olivier Moniz de carvalho but anyways love
you.
Email from Nov. 1
So my weeks been fine. We end up walking a lot because basically everyone in our area has rejected us already so its tough to have lessons that don´t fall. So transfers are
next week to answer your question and ill probably end up staying here
with a new comp. Elder Brown has already been in this area 4 transfers
and that’s irregular enough and 5 is very rare. So unless they wash our
area ill most likely stay here.
Our current church is just like a bottom floor of an apt building. Its still got rooms
and everything but it would kinda be like a smaller version of our
church but the gym would be part of the apt building. I don’t know its
hard to explain. and maybe that other church in my first area will be
finished by the time I leave the mission. supposed to be done in march
but we passed by it today and it hadn´t progressed. I know of baptisms
in the ocean but not too many. no dedications just baptism. well they
didn´t do anything here for Halloween that I can tell. I thought there
was supposed to be a party but there were not any signs of one. Well
have a good week. I´m really tired and can´t think of much more to
write so I love you all and be good.
e.weiss
Anyway, so we only got 2 watch 2 sessions of conference really. We have a senior couple serving here in Praia and they had there laptop so we could watch it in English but the internet here is terrible and so that of the English sessions we tried to watch only 2 worked. The priesthood session was in the morning on Sunday (in Portuguese) and the rest would have been live if we got to watch all of them. So e. brown is from alpine and this week we didn´t get to do too much cause he was sick for 2 days, it was transfer week and we had conference sat and sun so yeah. But I have started calling our apt Hell because its sooooooooo dang hot. We don´t even sleep in our bedroom because it’s too hot. We go take those camping mattresses out to the main room and sleep there because it’s a lil bit cooler. Well funny story. So me elder brown our district leader and his greeny comp are standing at the bus stop to get to the church that conference will be broadcasted in and we´re just standing there talking and elder. Brown see´s this guy reach into a truck and take a small bag out of it and walk away with it under his shirt. He comes back and we are all watching him and he starts backing away and we look away and he walks up and takes another bag and walks away with it and were like ummm is that yours and he just keeps walking so we go tell the Asian people who own the truck/store that some guy just took bags out of there car and they go looking for him. Well they found him and some *stuff* happened and they got the items back. And his shirt. And a mob chased him and then we drove away on the bus. So don´t steal in Cape Verde. Well anyways my times almost up but today has been pretty good so far and we played soccer this morning and cape verdians aren´t the greatest at soccer so us American missionaries played well. And I jammed my toe but it was still good.
Email from Oct. 11
ola! Rainy season is already over and it’s always windy so I guess you could say we always have dust storms. No I didn´t find my missing card but it didn´t have too many pictures on it so that’s good. I think I dropped it on the way from the internet place to home or someone stole it. Either or. I´m not sick. I take my vitamins when I remember. The food situation is quite fun this week. We actually made a plan before shopping this week. So tomorrow is toasted Tuesday and were having sub sandwiches, Wednesday is weight watchers wed. And were having like pasta, thurs is greasy quinta-feira and were having hamburgers and fries. Friday is saucy sexta-feira and were having salsa burgers, and Saturday is segundas sabado where we eat at some restaurant that’s really good. And Sunday is soggy Sunday which is just leftovers. A whitewashed area is where both missionaries in that area leave and 2 new ones come in and that is what happened it my last area. A yasse is a jam packed van that only costs 30 cents to ride and a taxi is a taxi with just you and your comp for 2 bucks. No they don’t have Halloween here and the ap´s are assistants to the pres while secretaries to financial stuff. My new apartment is ridiculously hot and guess what. When I got there they disconnected our water tank so I am still without water. Transfers are Mondays unless you get a companion from another island or the states then its later. Well I´m almost out of time and were about to go shopping and we played soccer this morning.
tchou
love you all
e.weiss
Email from Oct. 18
I’m pretty sure I already explained that a yasse is just a van with as many people you can get jammed into it and a bus is a bus and a taxi is a taxi.
So yes apparently they do have Halloween but it’s just basicly a gigantic party that is probably going to destroy our work for the day. And apparently everyone just
like frows there hair and its like witches day or something idk.
Well today is my comps birthday so were gonna spend some time sight seeing
And taking pictures and stuff so that will be fun.
So this week has been ok. Our area is dying and the branch is doing
nothing to help so we're kinda at a loss of what to do. Just our normal
thing I guess.
So here´s a (insert adjective) story. We have an
investigator named Paula and she was supposed to get baptized the
first week of this transfer but she missed church 1 week so we told
her we´d have to push it back. Well because of that one week it´s been
almost a month because of general conference and the branch not
Announcing her baptism in church. Guess it shows how important it is
to go to church huh? Well anyways other than that we don´t have much
going on. we really only have 3 investigators and we might be taking
that down to 2 if one of them doesn´t start acting. But what was fun
is we did a mini division the other day so I could show the elder´s
another prospective house that they could live in cause they are still
having water problems so I got to go teach my convert carlita and one
of my old investigators so that was fun. Well not much else to report
this week so ill just end by saying I love you all and have a good
week.
e.weiss
Email from Oct 24
yes we knock doors, people are usually home and everyone pretends that
there interested and then you try and mark a day and they just say
another day. In approaches we say that were demon gargoyles from the
7th moon of Jupiter come to steal your children and force you into a
life of chasing squirrels in the mountains unless you yield to the
enticing of the spirit and read the Livro de Mórmon and dance around
like fairies singing "I´m a little teapot short and stout, here is the
elders and here is my rasta friends". No one slams doors but they do
give weird looks when they see us playing leap frog down the street.
Ok not really... they join in. Everyone’s excuse is they don´t have
time or some other day. I hope they have fun saying that at judgment
day as well. We go home for lunch. There is a really big dog in our
area that was barking at us for a while but he is a Christian (he was
wearing a cross) so were trying to build on common beliefs. yes I’m
writing in my journal but I don´t bring my journal when we come and
email. I don´t have time to write because every computer in this
country sucks and it takes 40 min to type 2 paragraphs. they also
charge by bandwidth so its not really an hour when we pay for an hour.
Anywho we had a baptism this week and I confirmed so
that was cool and for day to day activities there really isn´t much to
write. Our area is dying because its one of the oldest areas and so we
do a lot of walking and very little teaching. With the way our numbers
have been lately this area might get white washed as well. Well my
time is almost out so ill just say I love you all and be strong.
e.weiss
oh and our person who was baptized is named Paula. well if you want to
get specific its Ana Paula Olivier Moniz de carvalho but anyways love
you.
Email from Nov. 1
So my weeks been fine. We end up walking a lot because basically everyone in our area has rejected us already so its tough to have lessons that don´t fall. So transfers are
next week to answer your question and ill probably end up staying here
with a new comp. Elder Brown has already been in this area 4 transfers
and that’s irregular enough and 5 is very rare. So unless they wash our
area ill most likely stay here.
Our current church is just like a bottom floor of an apt building. Its still got rooms
and everything but it would kinda be like a smaller version of our
church but the gym would be part of the apt building. I don’t know its
hard to explain. and maybe that other church in my first area will be
finished by the time I leave the mission. supposed to be done in march
but we passed by it today and it hadn´t progressed. I know of baptisms
in the ocean but not too many. no dedications just baptism. well they
didn´t do anything here for Halloween that I can tell. I thought there
was supposed to be a party but there were not any signs of one. Well
have a good week. I´m really tired and can´t think of much more to
write so I love you all and be good.
e.weiss
9.28.2010
Email from 9/27/10
Ola! and 6ths month's down and by next email time 2 conferences! I´m glad the primary program went well and everything like that.
I hold onto all of you and that's what gives me the strength to continue on. So e. foerster is a little better but its already transfers and I´m not 5 min south of my old area in villanova with e. brown. He´s been in my district from the start and now were comps. He´s from Utah as well but I can´t remember what part.
Anyways, I don´t know what more to write. I know you want me to write the day to day stuff as well but I haven´t gotten that ability yet and i´m trying to think write now but last week we really didn´t do much. Our area got white washed from me and e. foerster so hopefully that area will get better. It´s really a dead area though because people are not willing to act on well anything really. They´d rather just sit around and do nothing than get up and do something that will make them happy. And this area is kinda the same way but I don´t think its as bad. Well my times almost out so I got to end my email. I love you all and pray for you everyday.
tchou!
e.weiss
I hold onto all of you and that's what gives me the strength to continue on. So e. foerster is a little better but its already transfers and I´m not 5 min south of my old area in villanova with e. brown. He´s been in my district from the start and now were comps. He´s from Utah as well but I can´t remember what part.
Anyways, I don´t know what more to write. I know you want me to write the day to day stuff as well but I haven´t gotten that ability yet and i´m trying to think write now but last week we really didn´t do much. Our area got white washed from me and e. foerster so hopefully that area will get better. It´s really a dead area though because people are not willing to act on well anything really. They´d rather just sit around and do nothing than get up and do something that will make them happy. And this area is kinda the same way but I don´t think its as bad. Well my times almost out so I got to end my email. I love you all and pray for you everyday.
tchou!
e.weiss
9.07.2010
Email 9/6/10
what? you mean i´m not black? oh yeah I forget sometimes. Anyways I guess labor day is really about having babies since you were talking about them so much. I don´t think any of the missionaries follow the utes. I think my comp is a byu fan and a lot of the missionaries here went to byu before the mission so probably not. That´s sad about Brewsters. I hope Ryan does ok with that while being gone. And I think you forget that nobody but America cares about American football. Yay that you have at least a temp job. Are you looking for work at other places as well? That´s fun about elder Gomes. Did you invite him to dinner or is he not technically in our area? Missionaries always like it when they don´t have to cook for themselves. Unless you receive food from a crazy investigator and you literally fear for your life as your eating the food that she randomly brought in to the room. Never think i´ve been so scared to eat in my life. but that was a long time ago. Beginning of second transfer i think. Speaking of transfers did you know that tyler is almost coming home. Seems like he´s been gone forever. Anyways no I haven't got your other package yet. And yes (like i´ve said several times before) you can buy an ipod and I can plug it into my ihome. any ipod. that works. and do you still have my list for the music i requested? And the other things I thought of that you can put on there like Joseph and the technicolored dream coat and music man? hope so. Other missionaries have ipods as well. Some have mp3s and speakers, some people have headphones, some people need to mooche off other people and such and such. and people just buy clothes here. Theres hundreds of Chinese stores that all have the exact same things (literally theres no difference) or they can go to the sucapira which is essentially a gigantic garage sale that goes on every day in the same place. A lot of people work there actually. Well anyways we had a zone activity today and we went and hiked some mountains between assomada and tarafal and were ridiculously tired and a little sunburn. and I didn´t charge my camera before so we don´t have many pictures but that's ok cause it was really foggy and not much to take pictures of when you can´t see much. Well I think that´s all for this week so tchou! love you all. Don´t drink the unfiltered water.
e.weiss
e.weiss
8.25.2010
Granite 8th Ward Spotlight
Elder Eric Weiss is serving in the Cape Verde, Praia mission. He has been out for 5 months. He is currently serving in the area of Sao Filipe in the capital city of Praia.
Greetings Granite 8th Ward from Cape Verde!
Cape Verde is a group of 10 islands off the coast of west Africa. The people here are very humble and everybody just likes to have a good time. The people also live in very humbling circumstances. Many of them just live in small little concrete houses. Most have electricity but not everyone has running water and they have to get it from wells usually. Oh and everyone here loves soccer.
The Church has been in Cape Verde only 20 years. The mission used to be part of the Portugal, Lisbon mission. The CV mission was opened in 2002. There are only about 60 missionaries in CV and they are on four islands. About 30 percent are Americans, 30 percent are Brazilians, 20 percent are Portuguese and the rest are Cape Verdians.
This place is very different from America but there are a few things that are the same. One of those things is the gospel. The few members here have to rely on a lot of prayer and faith. Tithing is sometimes a big thing to ask from the members but the spirit and the blessings are the same. The people love the Lord and rely on him for everything and they are such great examples. This gospel is true and the members know it.
This is an excerpt from Eric's email from July 12th.
We have a baptism this Saturday so that's sweet. I don't remember if I wrote about him but here is what I have deciphered out of the Portuguese about how e. moreira and his previous companion found their family. So i´m pretty sure they were knocking doors in the area and the area they were in is like a gigantic apartment complex delio. There's like a little area in the middle that is kinda like a little park and it´s enclosed in by all the apartment buildings around it. They were knocking doors and it´s an apartment complex so when they knock a door its not like a persons house door. It's to get in to the place where there doors are. Anyways. They were in one of the areas and they knocked on the door of this kid (Jwilson) and his family. His mom answered the door and i´m paraphrasing here because I don't know Portuguese but she said something along the lines of "oh you have the word of God don´t you? Enter enter." And they did and started teaching this family and they are really sweet. Jwilson is the one being baptized this Saturday and he´s 15ish I think. But Jwilson is the man. He comes to church every week without us needing to remind him. He´s already living the law of fasting and last Sunday he brought 2 of his brothers to church and the other week he gave us 3 references of people to contact. And he´s already working on the goals in the aaronic priesthood pamphlet and on Saturday he taught a lesson about repentance to his family and we gave them the For the Strength of the Youth pamphlet and his dad (who hasn´t been in any of our lessons) really liked it and almost read the whole thing while we were there lol. Yeah, so this week is his baptism and in 2 weeks his 2 brothers that he brought to church have a date scheduled along with another 1 of our investigators. So yeah we´re gonna be busy this week.
We decided in district meeting that the members need more activities so we're hosting 4 activities every week for them. One is like a family night for the whole branch, 1 is essentially mission prep, 1 is how the members help us with missionary work and the last is just like a group social night. So hopefully we can get members and investigators to these as well.
Well this week we´ve been working on building our area back up since we lost a lot of investigators last week of the transfer. So we were knocking doors and some guy invited us in and we asked if we could start with a prayer and he said no. That´s like the first time that's ever happened. And also we asked him if he would rather live with god in eternal happiness or with the devil in eternal misery and he said whichever.
Well I love you all and I miss you but as someone in my zone in the MTC said "I get to spend eternity with my family and if I go home from my mission I could be taking that chance away from someone else"
Love always
E. Weiss
Greetings Granite 8th Ward from Cape Verde!
Cape Verde is a group of 10 islands off the coast of west Africa. The people here are very humble and everybody just likes to have a good time. The people also live in very humbling circumstances. Many of them just live in small little concrete houses. Most have electricity but not everyone has running water and they have to get it from wells usually. Oh and everyone here loves soccer.
The Church has been in Cape Verde only 20 years. The mission used to be part of the Portugal, Lisbon mission. The CV mission was opened in 2002. There are only about 60 missionaries in CV and they are on four islands. About 30 percent are Americans, 30 percent are Brazilians, 20 percent are Portuguese and the rest are Cape Verdians.
This place is very different from America but there are a few things that are the same. One of those things is the gospel. The few members here have to rely on a lot of prayer and faith. Tithing is sometimes a big thing to ask from the members but the spirit and the blessings are the same. The people love the Lord and rely on him for everything and they are such great examples. This gospel is true and the members know it.
This is an excerpt from Eric's email from July 12th.
We have a baptism this Saturday so that's sweet. I don't remember if I wrote about him but here is what I have deciphered out of the Portuguese about how e. moreira and his previous companion found their family. So i´m pretty sure they were knocking doors in the area and the area they were in is like a gigantic apartment complex delio. There's like a little area in the middle that is kinda like a little park and it´s enclosed in by all the apartment buildings around it. They were knocking doors and it´s an apartment complex so when they knock a door its not like a persons house door. It's to get in to the place where there doors are. Anyways. They were in one of the areas and they knocked on the door of this kid (Jwilson) and his family. His mom answered the door and i´m paraphrasing here because I don't know Portuguese but she said something along the lines of "oh you have the word of God don´t you? Enter enter." And they did and started teaching this family and they are really sweet. Jwilson is the one being baptized this Saturday and he´s 15ish I think. But Jwilson is the man. He comes to church every week without us needing to remind him. He´s already living the law of fasting and last Sunday he brought 2 of his brothers to church and the other week he gave us 3 references of people to contact. And he´s already working on the goals in the aaronic priesthood pamphlet and on Saturday he taught a lesson about repentance to his family and we gave them the For the Strength of the Youth pamphlet and his dad (who hasn´t been in any of our lessons) really liked it and almost read the whole thing while we were there lol. Yeah, so this week is his baptism and in 2 weeks his 2 brothers that he brought to church have a date scheduled along with another 1 of our investigators. So yeah we´re gonna be busy this week.
We decided in district meeting that the members need more activities so we're hosting 4 activities every week for them. One is like a family night for the whole branch, 1 is essentially mission prep, 1 is how the members help us with missionary work and the last is just like a group social night. So hopefully we can get members and investigators to these as well.
Well this week we´ve been working on building our area back up since we lost a lot of investigators last week of the transfer. So we were knocking doors and some guy invited us in and we asked if we could start with a prayer and he said no. That´s like the first time that's ever happened. And also we asked him if he would rather live with god in eternal happiness or with the devil in eternal misery and he said whichever.
Well I love you all and I miss you but as someone in my zone in the MTC said "I get to spend eternity with my family and if I go home from my mission I could be taking that chance away from someone else"
Love always
E. Weiss
8.24.2010
Email from 8/23/10
It´s rainy season here as well and we now have a pond by our house. A dirty dirty pond but a pond none the less. And we might be changing houses soon because of our water situation. So Foerester and I have been house hunting. I feel like a gay couple doing that. It´s weird and needs to end. But Foerester is a pretty cool guy. He served in the national guard for a while and was in firefights in iraq. Well this week we´ve been working on building our area back up since we lost a lot of investigators last week of the transfer. So we were knocking doors and some guy invited us in and we asked if we could start with a prayer and he said no. That´s like the first time that's ever happened. And also we asked him if he would rather live with god in eternal happiness or with the devil in eternal misery and he said whichever. Another first. anyways that's what´s been going on this week. We´ve been getting a lot of new investigators and its hard to keep track of them all. OH! also I have an idea for you since you teach primary that helps us when we teach about prophets. Elder foerester made this up. We talk about how prophets are messengers from god and when we follow them we can receive god´s message. So for his example he says "I´m god and I have a message for you" and then he holds up a certain amount of fingers and everyone who wants to receive his message holds up the same amount of fingers. And we do that a few times and then he asks "but how many of you have seen god?" and since no one has he either says close your eyes or he holds something in front of his hands and holds up a certain amount of fingers and says follow my message and they cant cause they cant see him or his fingers. Then he calls someone to be his prophet and they get to see his hands and show everyone else the message. Pretty niffty eh? Well that´s my long email for this week.Well love you all and think about you lots. Vive a vida tcheio sem duvidas e temors e Deus vai ajuda-lostchou!e.weiss
Email from 8/16/10
HELLOLA!
your 8-8 is great is ok but today is 8-9-10 which is more exciting so you should have used that. And I don´t know how much I trust other people with my camera. Our zone leader let a member hold his camera and they dropped it and it broke and another elder let a member look though there pictures and he ended up deleting all of them somehow. So if you want that too happen... Anyways now that I don´t have any questions I don't know what to write about. Oh I can give you the example I gave mal in her email. I type faster than these keyboards think so ill show you what it looks like when I don't fix anything. Ready er . Hello wessmserasionaries of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and we have a message about families and gods plaionn for us and all that lovssyletuff that your probalby missing in your life and we have your eternal salvatio in our bagsere right here but you p ylwbaborill just say your intersested and then not be in yohhruouse when we pass by. There now isn't that fun. you see how much i have to fix when i type. Well transfers will be next week and everything is changing. Quiet literally. In every companionship one person will be transferred this transfer, we will now have 2 more assistants to the president and they will be sisters so we´ll have 2 elders and 2 sisters and instead of having 4 secretaries we will only have 2. Oh and there´s a possibility that I could train a cape verdian next transfer but THAT is just transfer rumors. I don't think I could train yet because I still don't know everything that's going on around here. What will probably happen is I will stay here and elder moreira will leave and I´ll get an American that has more time than me. But who knows maybe ill have the holy ghost as my next companion and ill be on my own or something. So i don´t really know what else to write about or what to write for the newsletter. Oh we had another baptism this week. He was an hour or more late but we baptized him. Well I i think it might be blaspheme to have 2 people baptize but I´m not sure. I´ll be posting pictures in a min so you´ll be able to see. Tchou!
love you all
e. weiss
your 8-8 is great is ok but today is 8-9-10 which is more exciting so you should have used that. And I don´t know how much I trust other people with my camera. Our zone leader let a member hold his camera and they dropped it and it broke and another elder let a member look though there pictures and he ended up deleting all of them somehow. So if you want that too happen... Anyways now that I don´t have any questions I don't know what to write about. Oh I can give you the example I gave mal in her email. I type faster than these keyboards think so ill show you what it looks like when I don't fix anything. Ready er . Hello wessmserasionaries of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and we have a message about families and gods plaionn for us and all that lovssyletuff that your probalby missing in your life and we have your eternal salvatio in our bagsere right here but you p ylwbaborill just say your intersested and then not be in yohhruouse when we pass by. There now isn't that fun. you see how much i have to fix when i type. Well transfers will be next week and everything is changing. Quiet literally. In every companionship one person will be transferred this transfer, we will now have 2 more assistants to the president and they will be sisters so we´ll have 2 elders and 2 sisters and instead of having 4 secretaries we will only have 2. Oh and there´s a possibility that I could train a cape verdian next transfer but THAT is just transfer rumors. I don't think I could train yet because I still don't know everything that's going on around here. What will probably happen is I will stay here and elder moreira will leave and I´ll get an American that has more time than me. But who knows maybe ill have the holy ghost as my next companion and ill be on my own or something. So i don´t really know what else to write about or what to write for the newsletter. Oh we had another baptism this week. He was an hour or more late but we baptized him. Well I i think it might be blaspheme to have 2 people baptize but I´m not sure. I´ll be posting pictures in a min so you´ll be able to see. Tchou!
love you all
e. weiss
8.02.2010
8/2/2010
Hi! so I´m not sure about hump day bump day and 1/6th of your mission gone day but I´ll have to ask. I´ve used a little bit of the gold bond but not much, My packages and letters should be here this wed and if not I will beat the secrataries for you, yes people have phones. I think everyone in this country has a phone. Well almost everyone. and I´ve seen one land line since ive been here, everyone has beds of some sort if not they have matresses everyone has a table it seems and a few chairs. Some people have sofas and stuff and I think everyone has a refridgerator. And I don´t know the average income of people thats not exactly the first question we ask when we enter there house. Some people own cars but most people takes yasses or bus´ because it´s cheap. 30 escudos for a yasse 35 for a bus and usually 200 for a taxi and the AP´s have a car and president and sister neves have cars but i think thats it. It´s also fun because neither of the APs have drivers licenceses (?) because there from brazil and portugal so its fun when we see them drive around. So how many are in the branches or how many active members in the branches. Our branch 270ish baptized and about 40 active and i think 8 melkezidic (wow) priethood holders. and yes there is primary and ym/yw. Well today we had a zone activity in terrahfal which is about 2 hours north of us so that was fun spending about 5 or more hours in a car today. But anyways we went to these tunnles that run under the roads that used to be used for water transportation and we walked through them until we got to a beach and played some games and stuff there. I´m going to try and put more photos up of that today. But i´m sooo tired now. The tunnles are really small and I had to crouch through them for the most part. And I´m going to murder this screaming child next to me. Anyways so yeah and then after that our district returened and we went to nice burger which was actually pretty good. and that was today. So i dont know what else to write so tchou!love you alle. weissp.s. When you read my signature at the end of the email is it Elder weiss or Eric weiss :D just a thought.
7/26/2010
Well we havent had running water in our house for almost a week now so thats fun. We´ll probably be buying another 5 liter bottle today. Also me and e. moreira decided on a project thats going to be fun... maybe. No were going to try and make a map of our area on the giant empty wall in our appt. So were gonna use google maps and then try and plot out houses and stuff like that. So that will be our fun activity for this week. Also we decided in district meeting that the members need more activities so were hosting 4 activities every week for them. One is like a family night for the whole branch 1 is essentially mission prep, 1 is how the members and help us with missionary work and the last is just like a group social night delio. So hopefully we can get members and investigators to these as well. Well I´m not sure what else to write so I´m going to try and upload some photos and videos now so tchou!
e. weiss
e. weiss
7.26.2010
Picture from 7/26/10
From left to right back row: Elder... Davidson Taggart Barbosa Muir Brown Owens Me Cirqueira Vance Moreira President Neves.
Front Row: Sister Neves Palmer Peralta Nawmanje
7.20.2010
7/12/10 Email
We have 2 main stores that we visit. One is like a 7 11 and the other I call "Walmart" even though it´s smaller than the smith´s by our house but it´s the biggest store that we have access to so yeah. And what is this "measurements" thing that you speak of. I don´t think they believe in that here in cape verde. Unless it´s a belief of the catholic church then they probably believe it but they don´t know why.
World cup ended yesterday so maybe we won´t have to worry about that distracting people anymore (Spain won in case you were wondering I could really care less). Ah rain. I can´t believe your thinking that rain is a downside. If it rains here that means the members are paying there tithing. and guess what... it hasn´t.
Well anyways this week has been ok. We have a baptism this Saturday so that's sweet. I don't remember if I wrote about him but here is what I have deciphered out of the Portuguese about how e. moreira and his previous companion found there family. So i´m pretty sure they were knocking doors in the area and the area they were in is like a gigantic apartment complex delio. There's like a little area in the middle that is kinda like a little park and it´s enclosed in by all the apartment buildings around it. anyways that's not important. They were knocking doors and it´s an apartment complex so when they knock a door its not like a persons house door its to get into the place where there doors are. Anyways. They were in one of the areas and they knocked on the door of this kid (jwilson) and his family. His mom answered the door and i´m paraphrasing here because I don't know Portuguese but She said something along the lines of "oh you have the word of God don´t you? Enter enter. And they did and started teaching this family and there really sweet. Jwilson is the one being baptized this Saturday and he´s 15ish I think. But jwilson is the man. He comes to church every week without us needing to remind him. He´s already living the law of fasting and last Sunday he brought 2 of his brothers to church and the other week he gave us 3 references of people to contact. And he´s already working on the goals in the aaronic priesthood pamphlet and on Saturday he taught a lesson about repentance to his family and we gave them the for the strength of the youth pamphlet and his dad (who hasn´t been in any of our lessons) really liked it and almost read the whole thing while we were there lol. Yeah so this week is his baptism and in 2 weeks his 2 brothers that he brought to church have a date scheduled along with another 1 of our investigators. So yeah we´re gonna be busy this week. We´ll I guess we should be busy every week but whatever. Oh and we have divisions today with the zone leaders. Well tomorrow but tonight and tomorrow so yeah. Um IDK what else is going on.
Well I love you all and I miss you but as someone in my zone in the MTC said "I get to spend eternity with my family and if I go home from my mission I could be taking that chance away from someone else"
Love always
E. Weiss
World cup ended yesterday so maybe we won´t have to worry about that distracting people anymore (Spain won in case you were wondering I could really care less). Ah rain. I can´t believe your thinking that rain is a downside. If it rains here that means the members are paying there tithing. and guess what... it hasn´t.
Well anyways this week has been ok. We have a baptism this Saturday so that's sweet. I don't remember if I wrote about him but here is what I have deciphered out of the Portuguese about how e. moreira and his previous companion found there family. So i´m pretty sure they were knocking doors in the area and the area they were in is like a gigantic apartment complex delio. There's like a little area in the middle that is kinda like a little park and it´s enclosed in by all the apartment buildings around it. anyways that's not important. They were knocking doors and it´s an apartment complex so when they knock a door its not like a persons house door its to get into the place where there doors are. Anyways. They were in one of the areas and they knocked on the door of this kid (jwilson) and his family. His mom answered the door and i´m paraphrasing here because I don't know Portuguese but She said something along the lines of "oh you have the word of God don´t you? Enter enter. And they did and started teaching this family and there really sweet. Jwilson is the one being baptized this Saturday and he´s 15ish I think. But jwilson is the man. He comes to church every week without us needing to remind him. He´s already living the law of fasting and last Sunday he brought 2 of his brothers to church and the other week he gave us 3 references of people to contact. And he´s already working on the goals in the aaronic priesthood pamphlet and on Saturday he taught a lesson about repentance to his family and we gave them the for the strength of the youth pamphlet and his dad (who hasn´t been in any of our lessons) really liked it and almost read the whole thing while we were there lol. Yeah so this week is his baptism and in 2 weeks his 2 brothers that he brought to church have a date scheduled along with another 1 of our investigators. So yeah we´re gonna be busy this week. We´ll I guess we should be busy every week but whatever. Oh and we have divisions today with the zone leaders. Well tomorrow but tonight and tomorrow so yeah. Um IDK what else is going on.
Well I love you all and I miss you but as someone in my zone in the MTC said "I get to spend eternity with my family and if I go home from my mission I could be taking that chance away from someone else"
Love always
E. Weiss
7.06.2010
Email 7/5/10
Happy Independence Day everyone! Both American and CV. So to celebrate CV Independence Day the only thing I´ve seen so far is a commercial yesterday that had a cake and it played the happy birthday song in the background. We thought stores and stuff would be closed today like on other holidays but I guess not. So I´m starting to make a list of foods I miss in America or that I have no idea how to make (or if it’s even possible to make it here) so you´ll have plenty of things to make when I get home :D. This is probably the first time in my life that I´ve actually been hungry and now I don´t have all the yummy things we normally have in the fridge or pantry or wherever.
So here´s some things that happened this week. First we were walking to/from an appointment and we passed by 2 investigators of ours and a member that’s a fubeca and their little kids were playing together and one of them was running and tripped on the curb and fell and just laid there and didn´t cry and I was really surprised that there was no screaming or tears... and then the child of one of our investigators threw a rock about the size of my fist and hit him in the face and I´m not going to lie I had to stop myself from laughing. There defiantly were tears after that and the parent’s didn´t really even do anything about it. That´s how lax things are here. Other things that happened that were awesome this week happened yesterday. One of our investigators came to church by herself (I really didn´t think she would show up unless we went to her house beforehand which we didn’t) so that was awesome and then another one of our investigators who´s only 14ish brought his brother to church and that was awesome and then the same investigator got up in sacrament and bore his testimony and he´s not even baptized yet! He´s so awesome. His baptismal date is in 2 weeks so were really excited about that.
Oh Transfers! I didn´t even write about that yet hehe. Well that’s because nothing really happened for us. Our zone leaders are still the same and only 1 person got transferred out of our district and she got sent to fogo and were receiving an native African sister but she´s not from here and I don’t think she speaks Portuguese so idk how that’s going to work. So me and E. Moreira are still companions so yay. Oh and I think I kinda figured out how mail works here. Well for missionaries. So we have district meetings once a week and I think every other week the secretaries bring mail to those so that’s how often we get mail here in Praia IDK about other places. Most likely less often. I love you all and miss you.
-Elder Weiss
So here´s some things that happened this week. First we were walking to/from an appointment and we passed by 2 investigators of ours and a member that’s a fubeca and their little kids were playing together and one of them was running and tripped on the curb and fell and just laid there and didn´t cry and I was really surprised that there was no screaming or tears... and then the child of one of our investigators threw a rock about the size of my fist and hit him in the face and I´m not going to lie I had to stop myself from laughing. There defiantly were tears after that and the parent’s didn´t really even do anything about it. That´s how lax things are here. Other things that happened that were awesome this week happened yesterday. One of our investigators came to church by herself (I really didn´t think she would show up unless we went to her house beforehand which we didn’t) so that was awesome and then another one of our investigators who´s only 14ish brought his brother to church and that was awesome and then the same investigator got up in sacrament and bore his testimony and he´s not even baptized yet! He´s so awesome. His baptismal date is in 2 weeks so were really excited about that.
Oh Transfers! I didn´t even write about that yet hehe. Well that’s because nothing really happened for us. Our zone leaders are still the same and only 1 person got transferred out of our district and she got sent to fogo and were receiving an native African sister but she´s not from here and I don’t think she speaks Portuguese so idk how that’s going to work. So me and E. Moreira are still companions so yay. Oh and I think I kinda figured out how mail works here. Well for missionaries. So we have district meetings once a week and I think every other week the secretaries bring mail to those so that’s how often we get mail here in Praia IDK about other places. Most likely less often. I love you all and miss you.
-Elder Weiss
6.28.2010
Email from 6/28/10
Hey I´m not the only one who was sick! Don’t worry though I´m better now. I had some weird cold or flu virus but Sister Palmer (mission nurse) gave me some antibiotics and I´m all good now. I don´t think it´s possible to get used to this heat. Since I´ve been here I have seen 1 traffic light and it’s actually like 30 ft from me right now. But that’s the only one and I swear it´s not there sometimes. It like moves or something IDK. So to answer your suburb question I really have no idea. I just know that the place our house is in is São Filip, the area south of us which is also our area is ponto da água or waterpoint in English and south of that is where the church is and where we are right now but IDK what it´s called. The distance from the mission office.... não sei. Maybe 15 min drive I really have no idea. And what I mean about nobody having addresses is that NOBODY has addresses. I think there are a total of 5-6 places in CV that has addresses. The embassies of other countries and CV and the mission office/pres Neves house have addresses and that’s it. I have no idea how other people receive mail and stuff. Maybe they have PO boxes IDK. I don’t think we can give things to kids. It’s funny that you mention Paige because I was on a division with an elder in assomada and he knows Paige and her friend that I can’t think of her name but she´s the daughter of the crossing guard at quail hollow. Well I’m sorry it wasn’t CV Independence Day but my email said "or whatever holiday it is" meaning I really had no idea. Remember the person who explains things to me doesn´t speak English. I can´t believe Brian has lost 35 pounds that just seems crazy to me. I need pictures. And you probably gained 2 lbs of muscle.
Alright now that I’m done with questions for this week I´ll write some stuff that’s happening here. First off I need something for collar soil! Don’t you have some special bar of soap that’s magic or something? And maybe deodorant cause I here the stuff here sucks but were about to go to the store so ill probably just buy some anyways. BTW these thoughts are in random order so yeah. Tell Paul Cardall I love his music and I listen to it every day while I study. Oh and also here’s some more things I could use in the future but don’t need right now. Ok just one thing glasses cleaner like that little repair kit you sent me but just the cleaner. It’s really dusty here and I should probably clean my glasses more often. Also don’t think someone’s robbing me I made 2 withdrawals from my account that will total 2k escudos (probably 18 dollars). So want to hear a funny random fact? We were in a members home eating and they had the soccer game on between England and Germany and England has a player named A.COLE and I almost peed when I saw it. Oh and you know how Jake calls his mission the red deer mission since he was there for 11 months. Well elder moreira´s brother served in 1 area for 12 months so take that! He wins. Um not sure what else to write. I´ve already been on 4 divisions since I´ve been here and served with 4 other people than my companion. Guess that´s what happens when your comp is district leader. Oh and I decided when I get home it´s going to be impossible for you people to get me out of the shower because I miss it. Oh here´s some fun news. So you remember elder Vance right (I hope so or there’s something wrong) well his family is moving to Utah lol. That would be funny if he moved into our ward. But right now there not moving because his dad is still doing some training dealio for work in Arizona but they will be moving to salt lake area so that would be silly. Oh and the last thing that I wrote down that I needed to write is I need some recipes for some stuff that’s easy to make and maybe things like mint brownies and other junk that would be fun! Well I love you all and I look forward to your emails every week. I´ll still be on for a little be longer if you happen to get on send me an email it will probably be until 7:50 your time that ill be here.
eu amo vocês
-elder weiss
Alright now that I’m done with questions for this week I´ll write some stuff that’s happening here. First off I need something for collar soil! Don’t you have some special bar of soap that’s magic or something? And maybe deodorant cause I here the stuff here sucks but were about to go to the store so ill probably just buy some anyways. BTW these thoughts are in random order so yeah. Tell Paul Cardall I love his music and I listen to it every day while I study. Oh and also here’s some more things I could use in the future but don’t need right now. Ok just one thing glasses cleaner like that little repair kit you sent me but just the cleaner. It’s really dusty here and I should probably clean my glasses more often. Also don’t think someone’s robbing me I made 2 withdrawals from my account that will total 2k escudos (probably 18 dollars). So want to hear a funny random fact? We were in a members home eating and they had the soccer game on between England and Germany and England has a player named A.COLE and I almost peed when I saw it. Oh and you know how Jake calls his mission the red deer mission since he was there for 11 months. Well elder moreira´s brother served in 1 area for 12 months so take that! He wins. Um not sure what else to write. I´ve already been on 4 divisions since I´ve been here and served with 4 other people than my companion. Guess that´s what happens when your comp is district leader. Oh and I decided when I get home it´s going to be impossible for you people to get me out of the shower because I miss it. Oh here´s some fun news. So you remember elder Vance right (I hope so or there’s something wrong) well his family is moving to Utah lol. That would be funny if he moved into our ward. But right now there not moving because his dad is still doing some training dealio for work in Arizona but they will be moving to salt lake area so that would be silly. Oh and the last thing that I wrote down that I needed to write is I need some recipes for some stuff that’s easy to make and maybe things like mint brownies and other junk that would be fun! Well I love you all and I look forward to your emails every week. I´ll still be on for a little be longer if you happen to get on send me an email it will probably be until 7:50 your time that ill be here.
eu amo vocês
-elder weiss
Email from 6/21/10
Yay my memory card got there safely! Yes I just sent it regular mail IDK if they have like fast mail or something. Before I continue I would like to say that this computer doesn’t work as fast as a type so the leertts (like that) letters get jumbled really quickly so maybe you get to learn a new language this week but I try and fix it. My bed didn’t have sheets on it because I hadn’t put them on yet silly. And no they give everyone a new pillow. But the sheets you gave me don’t have a pillow case with them so I have to wrap it in another sheet or maybe Ill buy some fabric here. Haha so you want to know something funny before I continue with your questions? Gas here stss costs (ignore the misspelled words) 10$ for 10 liters lol. It’s so cheap. Anyways the elder I mentioned his name is elder Gomes. Yes we don’t have pasteurized milk. Instead we have irratiated (no idea if that’s how you spell it) milk and its so gross but yes dairy products are safe here. I have yogurt everyday but I guess that’s safe because it’s shipped in from Portugal. And we have cheese quiet often. I have no idea if its goats milk or cow btw. I got one of your packages and my guess is the other one is just in the mission office. The kool-aid will probably last for about 3 days since we have 1.5 liter bottles instead of the 16.9 oz or whatever .Yes the bread and egg thing was zac´s recipe and you can tell him that I have improved on it as well. I thought I already explained this but I guess I will again. The reason I can’t put photos on a CD is because I have no way of connecting my camera to the computer and I don’t have a card reader like we do at home. Also if I don’t send home the cards you wont have the audio files with them so Ill just send home the cards probably unless you want to buy me and send me a sd card converter that plugs into usb slots. Well anyways now that I’m done with questions....
We had like a little mini sandstorm here yesterday and we leave the windows of our apartment open during the day so we had fun cleaning today for p-day. Oh apparently there writing a bible in criolo and my companion translated some of it for me. One of the things Jesus says to Paul is: What are you doing man! Are you crazy! Another thing that one of the apostles says is: come over here and ill beat you. One of our investigators stared a prayer with Oh my god and I almost peed. Um what else. Oh we have 7 people committed for baptism right now but I’m thinking only 2 will go through with it. One is a 15 year old named Jwilson and the other is a woman named Su and IDK how old she is. Oh one more thing before I run out of time. Our district had a baptism this week which is kind of a big deal since our district is one of the 3 hardest areas in CV and I didn´t even know the woman that was being baptized but I was so happy for her! After she came up from the water she was soooooooo happy and I just smiled the rest of the day. Well I love you all and appreciate your emails stay safe!
-elder weiss
We had like a little mini sandstorm here yesterday and we leave the windows of our apartment open during the day so we had fun cleaning today for p-day. Oh apparently there writing a bible in criolo and my companion translated some of it for me. One of the things Jesus says to Paul is: What are you doing man! Are you crazy! Another thing that one of the apostles says is: come over here and ill beat you. One of our investigators stared a prayer with Oh my god and I almost peed. Um what else. Oh we have 7 people committed for baptism right now but I’m thinking only 2 will go through with it. One is a 15 year old named Jwilson and the other is a woman named Su and IDK how old she is. Oh one more thing before I run out of time. Our district had a baptism this week which is kind of a big deal since our district is one of the 3 hardest areas in CV and I didn´t even know the woman that was being baptized but I was so happy for her! After she came up from the water she was soooooooo happy and I just smiled the rest of the day. Well I love you all and appreciate your emails stay safe!
-elder weiss
6.17.2010
Email From Monday June 14
ola!
well to start ill go with your questions. I don't know if we can buy bleach, we cook for ourselves ill usually have a grilled cheese or cereal or ramen or pasta, we don't have to boil our water we have filters, I mailed the card because I have no way of putting the pictures on a CD or on the computer, Communication is OK between us he mostly speaks Portuguese and I try to speak Portuguese and that's how it goes. If i had an English speaking companion we could speak English yes, zone conference was OK, I didn't really understand much because it was all in Portuguese except for when the Simonsen's spoke because they don't know much Portuguese so one of the missionaries translated, and I dont' know how many missionaries we have in the mission but we have 12 in our zone. I don't know elder Calderwood's email address and it would be tough for you to email his parents anyways because I don't think his mom speaks English and its his dads second language. Well things are still tough here but ill get by. We had our first zone activity today. We went to the big tree in Assamada which is just a long hike to see a really big tree but it was pretty fun and I have pictures. Um what else. By the time I end my first transfer ill have served with 4 elders because of divisions. My companion is district leader so I have served with another elder (didn't speak English) and right now I'm with one of the zone leaders because my companion is with the other. I'm not sure what else to write. The things I´m going to write to you I write in my planner and I don't have it with me so I'm not so sure what else happened this week. We taught a lesson to one of our investigators and see went into the hall for a second and came back with a live chicken and it peed on the floor. Um what else. I still haven't gotten your package yet but that's probably because I wont get it until transfers because its just sits in the mission office since no body has an address.
Então, vocês dissem que gostam tentar e traduzir meu português no inglês assim eu vou escrever para vocês. Vou descrever cada dia para nós. Na menhã, nós levantamo-nos e orar. Então, eu uso a casa de banho. Depois desta, eu tenho cereal com leite grosseiro. Próximo, vou usar o duche se nós temos água ou eu vou usar muito desodorizante. Então eu vou escutar à música em meu ipod. Enquanto faço esta, eu leia O Livro de Môrmon até novo horas quando nós temos estudar companherismo. Então eu vou estudar português até saimos, ensinar duas lições normalmente e temos o almoço depois desta. Eu vou estudar mais depois de e então vamos trabalhar até oito ou novo horas. Planamos comer jantar e dormir. E isto é cada dia para nos.
There now you can have some fun. Well I don't have much else to write so I´ll just end by saying I love you all.
-Elder Weiss
well to start ill go with your questions. I don't know if we can buy bleach, we cook for ourselves ill usually have a grilled cheese or cereal or ramen or pasta, we don't have to boil our water we have filters, I mailed the card because I have no way of putting the pictures on a CD or on the computer, Communication is OK between us he mostly speaks Portuguese and I try to speak Portuguese and that's how it goes. If i had an English speaking companion we could speak English yes, zone conference was OK, I didn't really understand much because it was all in Portuguese except for when the Simonsen's spoke because they don't know much Portuguese so one of the missionaries translated, and I dont' know how many missionaries we have in the mission but we have 12 in our zone. I don't know elder Calderwood's email address and it would be tough for you to email his parents anyways because I don't think his mom speaks English and its his dads second language. Well things are still tough here but ill get by. We had our first zone activity today. We went to the big tree in Assamada which is just a long hike to see a really big tree but it was pretty fun and I have pictures. Um what else. By the time I end my first transfer ill have served with 4 elders because of divisions. My companion is district leader so I have served with another elder (didn't speak English) and right now I'm with one of the zone leaders because my companion is with the other. I'm not sure what else to write. The things I´m going to write to you I write in my planner and I don't have it with me so I'm not so sure what else happened this week. We taught a lesson to one of our investigators and see went into the hall for a second and came back with a live chicken and it peed on the floor. Um what else. I still haven't gotten your package yet but that's probably because I wont get it until transfers because its just sits in the mission office since no body has an address.
Então, vocês dissem que gostam tentar e traduzir meu português no inglês assim eu vou escrever para vocês. Vou descrever cada dia para nós. Na menhã, nós levantamo-nos e orar. Então, eu uso a casa de banho. Depois desta, eu tenho cereal com leite grosseiro. Próximo, vou usar o duche se nós temos água ou eu vou usar muito desodorizante. Então eu vou escutar à música em meu ipod. Enquanto faço esta, eu leia O Livro de Môrmon até novo horas quando nós temos estudar companherismo. Então eu vou estudar português até saimos, ensinar duas lições normalmente e temos o almoço depois desta. Eu vou estudar mais depois de e então vamos trabalhar até oito ou novo horas. Planamos comer jantar e dormir. E isto é cada dia para nos.
There now you can have some fun. Well I don't have much else to write so I´ll just end by saying I love you all.
-Elder Weiss
6.15.2010
What Are The Chances?
Elder Moreira and Elder Weiss
Sandy received this email from Norm's cousin Helga the other day:
Hi to the Weiss Family,
You may know that we're on a mission again in England. There are 37 missions and two MTCs which are divided among three doctors for medical care. We live by the Preston Temple where there is an MTC and we take care of the missionaries for medical care in the "Atlantic Islands" of the Europe Area, which includes England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Cape Verde, which is a long ways off from our stomping grounds. Of the three doctors we're the only ones who speak a little Portuguese so we were sent down there to make a visit and do presentations at zone conferences and look at a few hospitals.
Our first day there, Monday, May 31st Sister Neves, MP wife and Sister Palmer, nurse for the mission took us to see a few apartments where the missionaries live. The first apartment we went to there were two missionaries, an Elder Moreira from Brazil, I think and Elder Weiss from the US. He told me he was from SLC and I asked him where and he said Sandy. I said my cousin Norman Weiss lives in Sandy, and he said that's my Dad. That was exciting. We enjoying seeing him again. I guess the last time I saw him would have been at my Aunt Annie's funeral and he would have been still a younger kid then.
I'm sure it was a surprise to you for him to get that call. Most people would say where is that? We really enjoyed our visit in the mission. President and Sister Neves are remarkable and wonderful mission parents. The Church has only been there 20 years, so everyone is fairly new in the gospel. The people look much like the Brazilians, especially those in the north and along the coast which were settled by the Portuguese, just like Cape Verde and then there were the many slaves which they brought from Africa to Cape Verde and transported them from there to other nations where they could be sold. So there is a wide spectrum of people from white to almost black. The president told us that he hopes that before his mission is over next year that they will have a stake there. So this is a time where much is going on. Most of the leadership of the Church are young returned missionaries who have served either in their own country or others, mostly Portuguese speaking countries. He will have a wonderful opportunity in helping this country and it's people grow in the gospel.
We have lots of catching up to do since we were gone nine days, but I wanted to send some pictures to you. We hope that you are well.
We send our love
Chapel being built across the street from their apartment
Extra room in the apartment
Kitchen
Bathroom!
Practicing teaching at Zone Conference
The elders and Cousin Helga
6.07.2010
Email from 6/7/10
Happy Cape Verde Independence day! well at least it was on... Mon. I think idk whatever day was the first. So here´s something really random. IDK if she told you already but I met dads cousin here in CV. Sister Simonsen or however you spell it. Apparently her husband is the mission doctor for several places including here and they came by our apt and we met. Other random things from this week: People shake hands like fish here and its gross, I saw a poster of a Rapper that was being held up by a picture of the last supper and I didnºt know what to think about that, dogs here are proud of there gender if you know what I mean, mom you would probably die here from first heat and then claustrophobia the autocarros (minibus´ like E. Gledhill's van) can carry anywhere from 1-17 people in them at a time probably more and the buses are bigger but carry even more people, People here are never in the same house twice. We go teach at a house make an appt to come back return and someone else is living there its really strange, I had my first mango here nothing too impressive and I miss fruits and vegetables since there A) really expensive here and B) IDK if there sanitary and were supposed to soak stuff like that in bleach before we eat it and we don't have bleach so good thing I have vitamins, I could work in an Internet cafe here. All they do is give you time on the computer then watch youtube or movies or TV all day. Everyone here listens to American music and its really weird because they don't understand it. Here's a random fact for Portuguese. In English we call this "!" an exclamation point and "?" a question mark but they call them " the point of exclamation and the point of interrogation" Other random things. I saw a Portuguese TV show and there was yogurt rapping on TV and IDK what to think about that. It was weird. Its good to know the enjoyments of bubble wrap are universal, I thought I escaped Twilight here but apparently not I saw some people watching new moon and I almost threw up, If there was snow here children would pop out of the snow like daises because they are EVERYWHERE. And apparently to people here in CV America is just another word for Boston. I saw my first doorbell here yesterday it was weird it was a light switch that you turn on then off to make it ring. Anyways that is about how my week has been going. Its still hard for me to understand people and to help my companion teach lessons but this week we got 6 commitments for baptism so that was good even if there baptismal date isn't for another month. But it was a mother and 3 of her sons even though 1 isn't old enough and then we committed 3 women that live together. You know one rule that is really annoying here in cv? We can´t as missionaries enter the house unless there is a man there (for obvious reasons) but men are NEVER home so we either have to teach outside which doesn't happen too much or send the sisters there or come back another time and hope a man is there. Oh and I came really close to throwing a chicken off a cliff side to see if it would coast like cuckoos (ask Jake to explain). Um Not much else to write but I miss you all and love you and appreciate emails.
-Elder Weiss
-Elder Weiss
6.04.2010
Email from 5/31/10
Yeah we don't get much time here since we have to pay for it but to start here is a list of things to be grateful for in America: running water, safe water hot water microwaves pasteurized mild stores bigger than 7-11 English cleaning supplies traffic laws napkins food alone time cars Google texting news flushable toilet shower Sunday as a day of rest and shower mats. So here’s my list of random thoughts and then ill tell you other stuff: People like to honk here IDK what the dealio is but they honk when they see people they know, people they don’t when people are in the road when the busses want to pick someone up or just because they feel like it. I also wrote a song based on what do you do in the summer time. It goes as such: oh what do you do with your mission time when all the field is white? Do you look at the grass and sit on your ___ and watch as the cars go by? Is that what you do? Neither do I. Since I’ve been here I’ve only seen 2 other people with glasses and it’s weird. I also saw some guy get arrested yesterday and some militia walking around which was weird. I´m surprised I still am I man after being squished into the autocarro (bus) with 30 other people if you know what I’m saying and it is soooo hot here but the wind kind of evens it out when your outside. So the first day they lost my luggage so that was fun. I didn´t have new clothes other than the ones in my backpack until Saturday. So here are all the fun things I saw on my first day here. 12+ goats 9+ cows too many dogs 4-6 pigs 3ish roosters a woman breast feed in our lesson 3 naked children more cleavage than I´d care to think about a drunk man talk about the devil and the apocalypse in criolo and a partridge in a pear tree. More randomness I hadn’t showered in 4 days until today because our shower was broken and I got to have a bucket shower this morning. We wash our hands w achole sometimes and one investigator said it was cold when the wind blew in her house and I almost punched her.
So yeah life is good here. It’s defiantly challenging to be here and away from all of you and away from all the normal things in America. My first day here we got off the plan didn´t get our luggage and then went to the AP´s house and took a nap and everything. Then we went to Pres and Sis Neves house and Sis neves made us lunch (there big meal here) and then we had our orientation and met with the pres and then I emailed you and then we drove around and dropped everyone off with there companions and I met elder Morreira and I´ll tell you what I know about him. He is from Brazil and is engaged and has been here for 17ish months (if I understood him correctly which I probably didn’t) and he barely speaks any English and it’s really difficult for us to communicate and he probably hates me because I don’t say anything and I’m basically useless in lessons. But he’s a hard worker. But anyways we went to bed and then in the morning we had "breakfast" and then we went out and taught then lunch then taught then dinner. We ended up teaching 8 appointments so that was pretty cool. Well elder Morreira taught 8 lessons I sat there and didn´t understand. It´s really tough to accomplish my purpose as a missionary out here and I hope to understand this language(s) in at least 22 months but I know I´m supposed to be here and that I´ll be blessed for it and if I were serving an English speaking mission I don’t think I would be challenged at all really because its easy for me to teach in English so in order for me to have growth I needed a struggle right? Oh and FYI I hate these Portuguese keyboards. Yesterday was kind of neat though after one of our teaching appointments fell through (even though we ended up teaching someone else who wasn´t from this island) we walked up to the actual chapel they are building really close to our apartment and even though it isn´t finished yet it still has the spirit there and we walked around inside and it just felt peaceful and even though the chapel isn’t close to being finished we walked by the baptismal font and I heard that I would one day baptize someone in that font and that there would be many baptisms there so that was pretty cool. So what is going on with the family? Are you enjoying your "hot" weather yet or did it decide to snow again? Anyone have any big plans for the future? Or little big plans? I think 6 am your time is usually when I´ll get my actual email time but it´s really dependent on when we want to so yeah don´t wake up early just for that. First church was weird and I didn´t understandI like prez neves and he seems like a hard workerYes they took a picture of all of us but IDK if they are sending it out or anythingthe food is food for my first breakfast I had a mini loaf of bread because that was all we had but we went shopping again so were good.Irma lords stayed here in Praia. Yes they have stores and I haven’t even seen a market well I think that’s everything and my times almost up so I´ll just say Tchou e Eu amo voces -Elder Weiss
So yeah life is good here. It’s defiantly challenging to be here and away from all of you and away from all the normal things in America. My first day here we got off the plan didn´t get our luggage and then went to the AP´s house and took a nap and everything. Then we went to Pres and Sis Neves house and Sis neves made us lunch (there big meal here) and then we had our orientation and met with the pres and then I emailed you and then we drove around and dropped everyone off with there companions and I met elder Morreira and I´ll tell you what I know about him. He is from Brazil and is engaged and has been here for 17ish months (if I understood him correctly which I probably didn’t) and he barely speaks any English and it’s really difficult for us to communicate and he probably hates me because I don’t say anything and I’m basically useless in lessons. But he’s a hard worker. But anyways we went to bed and then in the morning we had "breakfast" and then we went out and taught then lunch then taught then dinner. We ended up teaching 8 appointments so that was pretty cool. Well elder Morreira taught 8 lessons I sat there and didn´t understand. It´s really tough to accomplish my purpose as a missionary out here and I hope to understand this language(s) in at least 22 months but I know I´m supposed to be here and that I´ll be blessed for it and if I were serving an English speaking mission I don’t think I would be challenged at all really because its easy for me to teach in English so in order for me to have growth I needed a struggle right? Oh and FYI I hate these Portuguese keyboards. Yesterday was kind of neat though after one of our teaching appointments fell through (even though we ended up teaching someone else who wasn´t from this island) we walked up to the actual chapel they are building really close to our apartment and even though it isn´t finished yet it still has the spirit there and we walked around inside and it just felt peaceful and even though the chapel isn’t close to being finished we walked by the baptismal font and I heard that I would one day baptize someone in that font and that there would be many baptisms there so that was pretty cool. So what is going on with the family? Are you enjoying your "hot" weather yet or did it decide to snow again? Anyone have any big plans for the future? Or little big plans? I think 6 am your time is usually when I´ll get my actual email time but it´s really dependent on when we want to so yeah don´t wake up early just for that. First church was weird and I didn´t understandI like prez neves and he seems like a hard workerYes they took a picture of all of us but IDK if they are sending it out or anythingthe food is food for my first breakfast I had a mini loaf of bread because that was all we had but we went shopping again so were good.Irma lords stayed here in Praia. Yes they have stores and I haven’t even seen a market well I think that’s everything and my times almost up so I´ll just say Tchou e Eu amo voces -Elder Weiss
5.26.2010
First Letter from Africa! 5/26/10
Hi! i made it here to africa but look out because i´m typing on a portuguese keyboard so this is really strange because some of the keys are out of place. Our flight landed and we were 7 of 11 white people on the entire flight so that was fun and everything was written in portuguese on the plane and all the instructions but it was good and I slept for a good amount of it. I´m meeting my first companion in a moment and he is from Brazil but I don´t remeber his name and so I dont break my typing skills anytime you see a "º" that is going to be an apostraphy since itºs annoying to type that. iºll be staying here in a praia for my first area and elder madsen is getting sent to fogo with elder liddle and elder ryan elder calderwood is staying in praia and elder vance is staying on this island but is going to assomada so those are all our assignments and my p-day is monday supposedly but that might just be elder vance im not sure I guess youll find out then. Well I need to go so I´ll just say I love you and bye!
5.13.2010
New Pictures
All the missionaries going to Cape Verde
Typical missionary pointing to their mission on the map
Elder Weiss and his Country's flag
Companions Elder Vance, Elder Weiss and Elder Madsen
4.14.2010
April 9, 2010
Portuguese is dumb sometimes. You would probably know from Spanish but why do words have to be masculine and feminine? Can't we all just get along. You still didn't say what you want to know how to say in Portuguese but maybe that's in your letter IDK I haven't gotten it yet. Irmao Campbell (CV teacher) taught us the real way to use Preach my gospel this week so that was good. Yes I like my companions. Elder Vance kinda sounds like Napoleon Dynamite when he talks and elder madson reminds me of Tyler so its awesome. Apparently they think I'm really funny IDK where they got that notion. Um what else. I'm not sure exactly where my Pat. blessing is but I think it might be on my nightstand on the lower part. Um oh some sisters bore their testimonies to us in Italian and we could understand most of it which was strange. Hurray for latin based languages. I'm not sure what else to write. Um *coughcaffinecough* but shhhhh be secretive about it.
-Amor Elder Weiss
-Amor Elder Weiss
April 2, 2010
Our schedule is wake up class or gym then breakfast, then class or gym (the one we didn't do before) then lunch then class then planning then sleep, Food is fine I eat it so there you go and our district motto is I'm going to Africa so I can eat what I want, No gas, only had cereal like 4 times, only been to the copy center once and hailee wasn't there.
Jeez your going to tire my arms out just from answering questions. Oh and you asked where my companerhos are from. Elder madson Lives 5 min away from the MTC in orem and elder Vance is from Oregon. The other two elders in our district are from Alaska (elder Ryan) and I can't remember (elder liddle). Oops. Oh well. The sister going to cape verde is with the Portugal missionaries so she can have companions. Um I think that's everything you asked. I took some pictures so you'll be happy and right now were waiting for our laundry so yeah. Um what else. I don't know. I still do stuff in gym and you can't stop me!!!!! Mostly ball with my district but occasionally volleyball or run upstairs. And the field will be open after G conference so we can play soccer and stuff. No Frisbee though which I think is safer than soccer but whatever. So whats everyone doing. Uh oh the giant red clock is telling me my time is almost up AHHHHHHHHHH BOMB -lkasdjfkl;sdajgl;kjsadg;ljsdatgl. That was the internet exploding. Well I guess I need to wrap this up so what do you want to say in Portuguese. I cant really type the accent marks or the actual accent on how you say stuff so I guess you'll have to ask Nic about that. But he's Brazilian so watch out for that cause they are crazy people. We are Portugal Portuguese so it's our language even though I'll be learning kreol (?) well 2 types depending on if I serve in the north and the south. Well I only have like 2 min so I'm just gonna say bye. Oh and my teachers served in Portugal Lizband and Mozambique but there are 2 teachers that served in cape verde so we talked with one of them but I wont tell you what he said so bye! Tchou!
-Elder Weiss
Jeez your going to tire my arms out just from answering questions. Oh and you asked where my companerhos are from. Elder madson Lives 5 min away from the MTC in orem and elder Vance is from Oregon. The other two elders in our district are from Alaska (elder Ryan) and I can't remember (elder liddle). Oops. Oh well. The sister going to cape verde is with the Portugal missionaries so she can have companions. Um I think that's everything you asked. I took some pictures so you'll be happy and right now were waiting for our laundry so yeah. Um what else. I don't know. I still do stuff in gym and you can't stop me!!!!! Mostly ball with my district but occasionally volleyball or run upstairs. And the field will be open after G conference so we can play soccer and stuff. No Frisbee though which I think is safer than soccer but whatever. So whats everyone doing. Uh oh the giant red clock is telling me my time is almost up AHHHHHHHHHH BOMB -lkasdjfkl;sdajgl;kjsadg;ljsdatgl. That was the internet exploding. Well I guess I need to wrap this up so what do you want to say in Portuguese. I cant really type the accent marks or the actual accent on how you say stuff so I guess you'll have to ask Nic about that. But he's Brazilian so watch out for that cause they are crazy people. We are Portugal Portuguese so it's our language even though I'll be learning kreol (?) well 2 types depending on if I serve in the north and the south. Well I only have like 2 min so I'm just gonna say bye. Oh and my teachers served in Portugal Lizband and Mozambique but there are 2 teachers that served in cape verde so we talked with one of them but I wont tell you what he said so bye! Tchou!
-Elder Weiss
Email from March 27
Things are great out here. We have a mini p-day today and our actual one is on Friday's but I wont always be able to check email it depends on how many people are using the computers. And we only get a half hour from the time we log on so we get this big red number in the corner of the screen constantly taunting me with its evil red glow. Ahhhhhh. Ok well anyways send me stuff! I need snack foods or I might die. So how are things at home? I can pretty much already read Portuguese even if I still cannot spell it. Well read and decipher what it means. Hurray for Latin based languages! Don't tell mom but I haven't taken any pictures yet. SHHHHH! you told her didn't you? well fine. Um I like my teachers. One served in Mozambique and the other served in Portugal, Lisbon and we make fun of Brazilian Portuguese all the time. So I get to make fun of Nic when I get home so that will be good. Um what else that's not written in my letter... I've seen a few people from school here already like elder Jackeman and elder Outsen. Sorry but no one has a first name anymore and we're proud of it! Were also proud of the other name on our tag Jesus Cristo. *whispers* that's Jesus. Well I don't know what else to report so I'll just say goodbye
-Elder Weiss
-Elder Weiss
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