Well another week already went by again and my sealing to elder cuestas will be canceled because I´m going back to Sao Vicent to die. Fernando Po is the name of my area and I´ll be serving with E. d. Palmer. He only has six weeks in the field so I´ll be his step father. But I´m not there yet because TACV (the airline company) fails at life because they are a monopoly and can do whatever they want. They canceled my flight this morning so I´ll hopefully be leaving later today to get there. The weather is back to hot here in Fogo but Mindelo is a lot cooler so that will be good. And as for jobs most people just try and sell stuff it seems like. Theres car drivers, a lot of people fish, people will just sell stuff on the side of the road. Anything they can do for money. School is like normal. The kids have grades but it´s not by age how they divide you its by if you passed last year or not. And yes there is CVU cape verde universtity and I think there is another one in Mindelo but I don´t remember. And I honestly have no idea how people afford to leave this country. I think a lot of people get help from relatives in america to get out. And of course there are sister missionaries still in this mission. But non of them are older than me. So this week was pretty good. At the begining of the week we didn´t have anyone marked for baptism. On monday we passed by one of our older investigators that we hadn´t taught for a while and he said that he´d been wanting to talk to us for a long time. He said he´s been going through a difficult time in his life (I think he broke up with his girlfriend so not really that difficult just drama) but he had found solice in the book of mormon. He was kind of a flaky investigator but when we talked to him that day we found out he had almost finished 2nd Nephi and it had only been like 2 weeks since we talked to him. So we marked with him and talked to him about baptism and marked him for the 7th and then we left. The next day we went back and he was kinda feeling iffy about the 7th so we asked him if he wanted to get baptized the 14th and he said that would be a lot better. We went back the next day and he´s like Elders. I´ve been wanting to talk to you since this morning. I think I want to get baptized this week. So we prepaired him and he had is interview and everything on Friday and we find out afterwords the chapel doesn´t have water but we were like ok whatever we will just go to the other chapel that is up top like 10 min away. Saturday morning (baptism day) we find out the chapel uptop doesn´t have water. Guess where we did the baptism. The OCEAN! It was wierd. I already knew (since tuesday actually) that I would be leaving this area and the guy asked for me to baptize him so I felt like I was in the best two years doing a baptism in the ocean my last day in the area. It was neat though. My first ocean baptism. Oh also this investigator on thursday afternoon (day before the interview) got really sick and we still had to teach him a lot so we gave him a blessing. I really think satan didn´t want him to be baptized. But he did (take that satan) and confirmed so that was really cool and the story of my week. We also had to get a car to get everyone to the beach and of course on saturday we couldn´t find a car. We finally found a small one and when we were like this is not going to be big enough because it will only fit like 11 people max and none of the cars we know were answering their phones or here in sao filipe so we were sitting outside the church with 31 people that want to see this baptism including the investigator us and other missionaries and we were like what are we gonna do. And we see parked like 20 feet down from the church a huge empty bus. I said to elder cuestas. Lets go ask this guy and we rented the bus to take us all down and the bus had exactly the amount of seats we needed. So Satan really didn´t want this guy to be baptized but God really wanted him to and gave us a bus we needed to take everyone. It was really cool. But yeah that was our week and hopefully I´ll be able to make it to my next area today but we shall see. It will probably be like 10 at night when I get in finally. Wel love you all and hope you have a good week.
love
e.weiss
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