Monday, August 5, 2013
Hey everybody!
Sorry I didn't get a
letter to ya'll last week, it was a crazy Monday. But here I am again
today!
I get to stay here in
the Acores again this transfer! I am really happy about that. This area has a
lot of potential, it just needs a little push and I am doing my best to give it
a shove! You've seen pictures by now, so let me explain a little.
We live in Angra do
heroísmo, which translated means "cape of heroism". Pretty awesome
name for a city where as missionaries we save peoples souls (Plus it makes it
even more like the legend of Zelda... hahaha)! Our city is right on the edge of
the island, you can almost always see the ocean.
Our area covers over a
third of the island. We walk all over the place. There are little towns spread
all over. We go to Terra-Cha, São Mateus, Posto Santo, a lot of other towns as
well. Every town is beautiful, and really interesting in its own way.
The food here is
really good. As missionaries we eat a lot of rice and tuna fish, but when
members invite us over for meals we get awesome food. They make this stuff you
put over rice that is amazing! The capo verdiano people make it the best
though, and also make some other really good stuff. At members houses we eat
all sorts of things. We had octopus the other night. They have a really good
fish they eat here called buck-ul-yow (that’s how you say it, I have no idea
how it is spelled...). We tried to deep fat fry some the other week and it was
super salty. So we asked a native and they told us you have to soak it in water
for 3 days before cooking it... oops...
The island parties for
half of the year, and right now a thing called Praia-Fest is going on. Praia is
in another area, but two missionaries on our island went home this transfer, so
we were in Praia to be with the dying elder's companion until he gets his new
one. The whole city and most of the island was in Praia partying all night! It’s
not bad partying, it’s something you can take the family to, for the most part
at least, but they have live music all night, so until five o clock in the
morning our hose was shaking from the music. I took some pics from the balcony
I will try to get uploaded sometime this week.
We have another elder
lee coming to the island to be district leader. I don’t like the confusion that
will bring, but it will be a little bit fun going on divisions with him so its
elder lee and elder lee =) Sure wish it were one of you guys though!
I love all of your
letters! It only takes a minute to read a letter, so don’t worry about time, I
will read it and reply!
Shauna, I expect an
email from you before the wedding! And I want a tie from it, so I hope you were
planning on that!
Well, I love every one
of you a ton! Keep having fun, don’t worry about it being the end of summer,
just have as much fun as you can before school is back!
Go swimming for me!
Elder Lee
Mom,
Answers to your
questions - Yeah,
let me see if I remember them...
Not transferred,
staying in the most beautiful place in the world for now with the same
companion.
No more baptisms that
you know about. It’s really tough right now but we are really going to work and
hopefully have at least five this month!
As far as a camera
goes, idk. I really don’t know what to do and don’t have a lot of time to give
it any thought soooo... yeah
Same address yay!
And complications last week we just didn’t have any time to
email because of weird scheduling with a meeting our volta da ilha took longer
than it was supposed to.
My dropbox is full so I can’t
upload more pics until I do something about that. I don’t know where I am going
to keep all my mission pics. I have a card I guess I can put them on. So I’ll
need to move every time I upload my pics from online to my card. But I'll get
pics to you. Josué, Rute, and João Pedro are the names of the boys we
baptized. I found Jet a wife he can marry. I
will try to get a picture of the little girl this week at church... hahahaha,
she is cute too, and they’d be perfect ;)
I think I am making
progress in the language. Sometimes I feel like I should know more, but then I
just try to work even harder so I can still feel good about myself =)
It’s weird to think though I have almost been gone for three
months now. That is 1/8 of my mission gone. Sometimes seem more fast than
others, but I just don’t think about it much.
yup tambem! Have fun
and I love you more! We gotta go!
Your little Elder Lee
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