Email from 1/11/11

Oh yay your feeling better. And you made a friend at church! Also just a quick reminder Seth wouldn´t have been able to sit next to his mother during priesthood because well last time I checked women don´t hold the priesthood. Speaking of which me and another Elder gave a blessing to one of the sisters in our district because she was sick and it was very dificult in english. If I have to baptize anyone when I get home I don´t know if I´ll be able to do it in english. It´s a lot easier in portuguese. Go figure. And maybe I´ll go to a portuguese ward when I get back just so I don´t sound like a fool trying to talk in english about the gospel. That´s fun that Elder Christofferson was there. What else. Oh we had our baptism this week and the kid showed up 30 min late for it and was late to sacrament so we almost didn´t get to confirm him. Standard cape verde time. Oh and I also miss branchs/wards that know what there doing. We went to branch council this week and what´s supposed to happen is president is supposed to conduct, we start talking about our investigators for ten min then we leave and they discuss other buisness. What actually happens is we get there, The ward mission leader conducts the meeting, we talk about our investigators. We as the mission leader and the missionaries while everyone else is talking amongst themselves and then we get up and leave and they pray and end the meeting. And President Neves was talking about how we need to have faith that a stake is going to get established and that the islands will be like Tonga but if they can´t even get a simple meeting right that´s not going to happen. Well whatever have a good week and continue to stay well and get your exercise from shoveling snow!