Email from 12/27/10

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

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

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

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