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
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