Email 3/12/12

Yeah the irish are not exactly a big influence here in cape verde so I´m thinking nobodies even heard of st.P day. except for the missionaries. (get it?) Well I´m glad you already made a dentist appointment for me. And it´s conveniently at the exact same time as one of yours so you can spend even more time with me. That was just a coincidence right? And sure go with that doctor guy. And it is also convenient that you will be getting your hair cut as the same time I get a massage isn´t it? Double dare can be explained later. And no I have not used the water bottle and see you did have something you wanted me to bring home that I was going to leave behind. This is why I asked. And I suppose we could link it to dads computers. Or I suppose that somebody who´s coming home from a mission could get a computer from some people that love him. Probably not this somebody though. HA did you really just ask if you should stock up on mnt dew. If you don´t I think I might empty the store. And the natural man. What a fun subject. Well if you want to learn more about putting it off you should read or reread that talk by brad wilcox that you sent me. "His grace is sufficient." His piano example rocks. I´ve actually had to teach a few people about that. Anywho here´s a random thought, rather than stocking up on stuff you should just send me shopping :D. Well anywho you asked about double dare. It was a lot of work and I was more exhausted after than I ever have been in my whole mission I think but it was good. We had games like a 4 legged race (no not 3, 4) We tied balloons around their ankles and they had to stomp them. We also played blind musical chairs and a game where they had to push an escudo on the ground from one side of the gym to the other and then go through a maze made out of tape. Oh and they had to push it with their nose. good stuff. Don´t worry there are pictures. And yes I was the host. There were a lot of children there which made it difficult. but it worked out and all. Um what else. Were doing good here. We are supposed to be having 3 baptisms this week so that will be good. And next saturday and sunday are district conference here. So my last sunday is district conference. I´m thinking president is going to have me e. Ryan and e. Liddle all do something or stand up or something because it will be our last day and we are the oldest missionaries in the mission and all on this island. But yeah looks like lifes going good and Elder Vance is doing divisions with me and e. palmer until thursday so it´s going to be a party!
love
e.weiss

Email 3/5/12

Wow this is a long email. I haven´t even read it yet but it looked long as I scrolled to the bottom of the page. So I took about 120$ give or take out of my account so it should be good. And I will never be able to reimburse my personal money. I fell to far behind and now I´m living on even less money because I won´t be spending the whole month of march here so they took out 3000 escudos out of my monthly money. even though it´s only 5 days of the month I wont be here. stupid. And no it´s not that weird not being incharge of that because now I´m incharge of an activity we are having this saturday with the branch. Basicly we recreated double dare but our games are going to be a lot funnier. And teaching is going quiet well this week actually. We ended up finding 11 new investigators and had 8 investigators at church so that was cool. And of course I´m bringing my first pair of shoes home. They are going to be legends. And weasles could be litte creatures inside your body. It would probably be quiet uncomfortable to have one inside you but it´s not impossible. And personally if I were you I wouldn´t have used somebody elses eye drops because that could have made it worse. and YAY for massage. You know what you can also book for me. A dentist appointment! So I don´t end up going 2 years without an appointment again. oh wait. that already happened once because SOMEBODY *coughmomcough* kept telling me oh you just went like a month ago. And you could probably make a doctors appointment as well. Oh and by the way just a little side fact. Cologate Advanced whitening toothpaste is a lie. It does not make your teeth white in 14 days nor 54 days. 3 times a day for 54 days. Nothing. Lies. And for going to the temple members here eithe go to spain or brazil. Where ever will give them a visa first. The next group that will be going out is going to racife brazil. The church has a program that helps people get there. The only thing the people have to pay for is food and clothing and stuff like that. That story wasn´t very embarrassing. What would be bad if you knocked down a painting in the temple or tripped and fell or you were wearing a rosery and made a cross on your chest when you walked in. That would have been embarrassing.
So yeah we had a good week. we did some teaching, had some meetings, I have to go out and buy a lot of stuff for our activity on saturday because nobody else wants to do it. You think people would learn to be a little more proactive but I guess not. Well we actually have a lot of things we need to do today so I will have to cut my email short but I love you and hope you all have a good week.

Love

E.weiss