Last night I had this terrible nightmare that Sister Sharp hated Sister Yerman and that there would be emergency transfers. I was like "NOOO I don't want to be transferred!!!" Then there was a part of the dream where humongous poisonous bugs were flying into my new bedroom... The room where Sister Payton was comps with Sister Dee. And President & Sister Oliveira were on their way to see our apartment. Terrible dream right??
Well, today.. I got a call from President. I'm training... AGAIN. Haha. What? Her name is Sister Santos. She served as a mini missionary at one point with Sister Dee. She is going to Brazil, and hasn't recieved her visa yet. (Obviously, my dream didnt foreshadow this.. but it did give me a scare!) Actually, she called up the mission President last night and told him she would like to leave on her mission ASAP. So... Now I'm her comp. And Sister Pina is with Sister Biggs. President said that I am now "mentoring" Sister Pina. We'll all be living in the same house now,.. and working in the same branch. It'll be hard, but fun. :)
As for this past week.... Sister Pina poor thing, has been sick all week. But has been trying to work diligently. Sister Biggs is getting TONS better at understanding. I think she understands between 50-75%! :) Sweet girls. Man. I really love them. I'm sad I only got to be their comp for 2 weeks.
The leadership meeting was BALLER. Man... I feel so different going into missionary meetings now than I did the whole rest of my mission. I feel like I've grown so much. It's nuts.
No baptism this week. Everyone is going crazy over here, but alot of good things are coming out of the woodworks.. The success stories will be next week. ;)
Anyways,... Yup. FAST PACED LAST TRANSFER.. WHAT?! :) I'm excited.
Also, Sister Biggs is teaching me how to sing alto... she just laughs at me. hahaha.
I know more happened this week, but I cant remember bc of everything that happened today!
So yup, bye!
Sister Buhler
Monday, July 8, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
Greeniegreen
So this week has been alot of fun. :) Sister Pina and I picked up Sister Biggs Tuesday afternoon. Oh, it was a lot of fun. The same thing happened to Biggs that happened to me when I got here, the map of cape verde came up on the powerpoint, they say your name, your trainer's name (your trainer RUNS in the room to hug you), they say where you will be serving, and you take a picture together! It was cool to finally be the one stampeding into the room. :)
Sister Biggs doesn't understand about half of anything. hahah. I think she understands, then I look at her, she gives me the blank stare and starts smiling. hahaha. Nope, nada. She getting better at asking us to repeat things to her.
This week, I taught Sister Pina how to give trainings, and trained Sister Biggs. Personal study, Comp study, Train, train. I've come up with a newer, more complicated study schedule, but it will work out better bc now Sis Biggs can language study with me instead of by herself.
It is the following:
Buhler Biggs Pina
8 ---Lang------ PS
9 PS ------Tr-------
10 --T--- PS ---T----
11 ---------CompS--------
You get that? Make sense? So Pina will do Biggs' training from now on. That's what Pres wants. And that is fine by me. :) I make them language flash cards, and scripture cards to memorize in their spare time. Man. I think giving me 2 comps is the best thing the Lord ever did to me. I'm so busy! I mean I normally kept myself busy in other companionships, but now being responsible for more things.. its great. Being busy is being happy. :)
Speaking of which, tomorrow is the leadership coucil here in Praia. I'll be going to that by myself and my comps will go out and work. I'm a little worried for Biggs.. ahaha. But she'll do fine. It'll be a good wake up call for her. :)
My comps are so funny. I wish everyone could meet them. Their mannerisms just kill me. ahahaa. Sister Pina mostly communicates in quick look/facial expressions.. the facial expressions are so fast they are just looks. And she is so sweetly patient with Sister Biggs. These two are just so cute together. I swear. They help each other with the languages they are learning.. man. I am a LUCKY and BLESSED missionary to have them. :)
Olga got baptized this week. She's a sweet little doe eyed girl who has alot of member friends and we're trying to help her mom accept the gospel. She cant read so she's really shy.
MARIO got baptized this week!!! And his whole family came!! I sat next to his mom at the baptism.. she cried! Man... I am so happy for Mario.. :) goodness me.
I have enclosed pictures of..
Me and Sister Pina eating cake.
Me, Sister Biggs and Sister Pina.
me, yerman and her greenie sharp, biggs, pina and payton (pina's real mom)
So uh, yup. That's it!
Until later!
Sister Buhler
Sister Biggs doesn't understand about half of anything. hahah. I think she understands, then I look at her, she gives me the blank stare and starts smiling. hahaha. Nope, nada. She getting better at asking us to repeat things to her.
This week, I taught Sister Pina how to give trainings, and trained Sister Biggs. Personal study, Comp study, Train, train. I've come up with a newer, more complicated study schedule, but it will work out better bc now Sis Biggs can language study with me instead of by herself.
It is the following:
Buhler Biggs Pina
8 ---Lang------ PS
9 PS ------Tr-------
10 --T--- PS ---T----
11 ---------CompS--------
You get that? Make sense? So Pina will do Biggs' training from now on. That's what Pres wants. And that is fine by me. :) I make them language flash cards, and scripture cards to memorize in their spare time. Man. I think giving me 2 comps is the best thing the Lord ever did to me. I'm so busy! I mean I normally kept myself busy in other companionships, but now being responsible for more things.. its great. Being busy is being happy. :)
Speaking of which, tomorrow is the leadership coucil here in Praia. I'll be going to that by myself and my comps will go out and work. I'm a little worried for Biggs.. ahaha. But she'll do fine. It'll be a good wake up call for her. :)
My comps are so funny. I wish everyone could meet them. Their mannerisms just kill me. ahahaa. Sister Pina mostly communicates in quick look/facial expressions.. the facial expressions are so fast they are just looks. And she is so sweetly patient with Sister Biggs. These two are just so cute together. I swear. They help each other with the languages they are learning.. man. I am a LUCKY and BLESSED missionary to have them. :)
Olga got baptized this week. She's a sweet little doe eyed girl who has alot of member friends and we're trying to help her mom accept the gospel. She cant read so she's really shy.
MARIO got baptized this week!!! And his whole family came!! I sat next to his mom at the baptism.. she cried! Man... I am so happy for Mario.. :) goodness me.
I have enclosed pictures of..
Me and Sister Pina eating cake.
Me, Sister Biggs and Sister Pina.
me, yerman and her greenie sharp, biggs, pina and payton (pina's real mom)
So uh, yup. That's it!
Until later!
Sister Buhler
Monday, June 24, 2013
Ai dos mentirosos!
This week, Mario was SUPPOSED to get baptized... but convieniently the day he was supposed to be interviewed, he was accused of stealing a computer from his neighbor's house! So he spent the day in jail for something he didn't do. Mario wouldn't hurt a fly. He's honestly super amazing. Darn Satan. Then he had to go to the Police Station on Sunday to make a statement, but no one was there. Fubekas! Bishop had called later that night to check up on Mario and we told him how distraught we were... he was like, "I'm so sorry.. I one of my investigators was stabbed and killed in my first area. I know it's rough." ..Bishop wins.
Anyways, Saturday he wasn't feeling that great bc he was all hyped up for his baptism and now he was just spending the day doing nothing. Previously, I had passed some church movies from my thumb drive to his friend Ailton's computer. Well, Ailton knew he'd be doing nothing so he left his computer with him. Mario watched the Land of Light film, the Legacy and Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration. When we met with him yesterday he was telling us all of these things and then he stopped and was like, "When I was watching the film about Joseph Smith, when the kid was praying in the forest... I felt something.. *he touched his hand to his chest* ..and it made me want to cry." We had HUGE smiles on our faces. We were just like, "That is the Spirit!!!" :D Oh.. It was so happy!
This Saturday, the church (in all of the islands it seems) cleaned up the dirtier beaches in CV. We cleaned up Gamboa(sp?). It was a lot of fun, but my thighs are super sore from bending over all morning. haha.
Um. In case anyone was wondering this weekend was transfers. and Yep. I got transferred. To a different area of Praia. We all knew that 10 or 11 new sisters would be coming in and that we were short one sister to be able to train them all. When elders would ask how we knew we would be training this transfer, we simply responded that we did the math and that, in fact, one unlucky sister would have to train 2... Speaking currently is the unlucky sister. hahahaha. President started out the phone call by saying "Sister Buhler.. I miss you!" I miss you too! "Sister Buhler, the Lord loves you and trusts you." Oh yeah president? Why do you say that? "Because he is trusts you with a big responsibility. You will be recieving Sister Biggs from the MTC, and you will be with Sister Pina. You will finish Sister Pina's training and train her how to finish training Sister Biggs." ... So yes. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to train the 1st 6 weeks, the 2nd 6 weeks, and train how to train.... but I have a meeting with other trainers tomorrow about it. And I recieved the call this morning that I am now, in fact, the new Sister Leader for Praia.
Sister Yerman is going to stay in our area and reap a bazillion baptisms with her new greenie Sister Sharp that will get here tomorrow. Exciting right?
We have an investigator that works doing tickets at the airport for the church. She is amazing. She also told us this week that she didn't make any tickets for us so we knew we would be staying on the island. :) She also made us pizza and juice!
Our RC Eliane went and taught with the Elders this week. They called us up after and were like, "We just went and taught with Eliane and we wanted to say that ya done good. She participated, she explained things, she bore her testimony that the church would bring them lots of happiness, and she even offered to say the closing prayer and left a blessing on the house. ... And she was dressed modestly." Hahahaha. Oh heavens! We're so proud. :)
Our Bishop's family is out of town this week. We made him Cachupa and brought him some leftover cobbler we had. Poor thing just runs around with no time to made food. He was really grateful. He says we are wonderful. hahaha.
Lots of love,
Sister Buhler
Anyways, Saturday he wasn't feeling that great bc he was all hyped up for his baptism and now he was just spending the day doing nothing. Previously, I had passed some church movies from my thumb drive to his friend Ailton's computer. Well, Ailton knew he'd be doing nothing so he left his computer with him. Mario watched the Land of Light film, the Legacy and Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration. When we met with him yesterday he was telling us all of these things and then he stopped and was like, "When I was watching the film about Joseph Smith, when the kid was praying in the forest... I felt something.. *he touched his hand to his chest* ..and it made me want to cry." We had HUGE smiles on our faces. We were just like, "That is the Spirit!!!" :D Oh.. It was so happy!
This Saturday, the church (in all of the islands it seems) cleaned up the dirtier beaches in CV. We cleaned up Gamboa(sp?). It was a lot of fun, but my thighs are super sore from bending over all morning. haha.
Um. In case anyone was wondering this weekend was transfers. and Yep. I got transferred. To a different area of Praia. We all knew that 10 or 11 new sisters would be coming in and that we were short one sister to be able to train them all. When elders would ask how we knew we would be training this transfer, we simply responded that we did the math and that, in fact, one unlucky sister would have to train 2... Speaking currently is the unlucky sister. hahahaha. President started out the phone call by saying "Sister Buhler.. I miss you!" I miss you too! "Sister Buhler, the Lord loves you and trusts you." Oh yeah president? Why do you say that? "Because he is trusts you with a big responsibility. You will be recieving Sister Biggs from the MTC, and you will be with Sister Pina. You will finish Sister Pina's training and train her how to finish training Sister Biggs." ... So yes. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to train the 1st 6 weeks, the 2nd 6 weeks, and train how to train.... but I have a meeting with other trainers tomorrow about it. And I recieved the call this morning that I am now, in fact, the new Sister Leader for Praia.
Sister Yerman is going to stay in our area and reap a bazillion baptisms with her new greenie Sister Sharp that will get here tomorrow. Exciting right?
We have an investigator that works doing tickets at the airport for the church. She is amazing. She also told us this week that she didn't make any tickets for us so we knew we would be staying on the island. :) She also made us pizza and juice!
Our RC Eliane went and taught with the Elders this week. They called us up after and were like, "We just went and taught with Eliane and we wanted to say that ya done good. She participated, she explained things, she bore her testimony that the church would bring them lots of happiness, and she even offered to say the closing prayer and left a blessing on the house. ... And she was dressed modestly." Hahahaha. Oh heavens! We're so proud. :)
Our Bishop's family is out of town this week. We made him Cachupa and brought him some leftover cobbler we had. Poor thing just runs around with no time to made food. He was really grateful. He says we are wonderful. hahaha.
Lots of love,
Sister Buhler
Monday, June 17, 2013
Aiyan.
Well, no pictures today because I forgot the adapter.
But we ran/hiked all the way up to the top of a mountainous thing this morning and it was AWESOME. The área up there is called Bela Vista. You can see the whole city from up there! Man... It was fun.
In other news, Eliane got baptized this week. :) The Elders and we were very happy to see her get baptized. (They had been working with her before they passed her to us.) She was late to her baptism and confirmation, but she is really liking church and Young Women's. She's 17. There aren't alot of Young women in our ward but at least they are all her age to make her feel right at home.
The Elders this week baptized a 62 or 67 year old woman... She is now the oldest AND newest member of our ward! She has alot of problems walking, but the Elders gave her a blessing and she has been walking better and better every week with the help of the members. She also can't read, so the members are going to pass around a calendar in relief society and priesthood for people to pass by everyday to read to her. She's a real sweet thing.
This upcoming week, Mario will be baptized! He's the friend and neighbor of our ward mission leader, Ailton. We marked this date with him earlier in the transfer and this past week he has been wanting to move it back a week... This wouldn't be such a huge deal if it wasnt Satan putting that thought into his mind when he is already ready. But he interviewed with the Bishop with the Bishop's routine before baptism interview, and Bishop turned his thoughts around.
This week we recieved a list of 28ish less actives from the Bishop. The Bishop, The Elders, and we all had a meeting where we knelt in prayer and we divided up the work in 2 sections, and now we will be working with the ward counsil to try and bring these people back. We will talk about 2 people from each half of the list each week and talk about how we can help them. :) I'm excited for our ward to be big and strong again. :)
This week 2 different less acctives we did visits to, came to church!! :D Plus 5 of our investigators. It was super happy. :)
Zone Conference was great this week. It was great to be able to talk to President and Sister Oliveira. I'm so lucky to have them as my mission president. :)
Other than that, the sun is hot here.. The work is going well. We're happy. This weekend is transfers. This transfer just FLEW by. Where did it go? Seriously.
Anyways, That is all.
Sister Buhler
Monday, June 10, 2013
Itzapraia
So this week was an AWESOME week to be me. HOLY MOLEY.
We had visits from the sister leaders. Which means I saw Vander! :D It was alot of fun. We got to do a one hour division. So Vander and I taught the first lesson to a man named Totu... He's HUGE! When I saw huge, I mean BUFF! He went to prison for 3yrs for something he didnt do.. He now works in security. Yerman and I marked a baptism date with him later on. He was like, "Yeah, that's cool. You guys know what is best." He's amazing. and he has a woman. Who is SUPER nice. I hope we can help them get married...
When Sister Robinson came down from S. Antao, we told her sister yerman was brazilian. HAAHHA. For a whole day. And she believed it. I wish I was mexican and could do cool things like her. My comp also got called "Japa" this week. hahahaa. No one ever gets her nationality right.
Zediani got baptized this week! :D Oh man. Our bishop baptized her. She got in the
NO ONE TELL ANYONE.. but we are planning a casamento escondido. Haha. Our investigator, Janice has been living with a reactivated lessactive member... and they were against marriage. Not against it... but they didnt know when to get married. and she didnt want to move out of his room. Well, Yesterday I finally was like, " So you dont want to move out Janice? Then our invite today is for you guys to start your wedding papers this week. Don't worry about the date until later. Just start the papers because you have to get married." For some reason, things fell into place after that... I shared my Aunt Debra's eloping experience (Thanks Debra and Garren!) and told them how important it is to keep the commandments. Then Janice was like, "I'd like to do that.. a secret wedding. How do you do that?" --Just get married in the courthouse. "Thats it?" --Thats it. "I dont need to be married in the church?" --Nope. Thats just the Catholic church. You'll go to the temple a year later. "Ok." Hahaha. we asked Lindinho to say the closing prayer and he was like "Give me a minute...I'm just so happy right now." Hahahaha. I'M SO EXCITED! secret wedding. secret wedding!
Other news, I'm 2 weeks behind in my journal. My comp and I are pooped all of the time. OH!! Check our numbers!!! (keep in mind we made our goals to challenge us!)
Goal/what happened:
bat 1/1
date marked 8/11
lessons with members 15 /17
other 0/11
new inv 8/15
less active lessons 3/6
training members 2/4
(obviously i excluded the goals we didnt meet. hhaaha. but these are the most important ones anyways.)
We aslo had 6 people at church. But only 4 were at sacrament meeting.
Also, Heavenly Father loves me because I accidently left my camera card sitting on the counter at this internet place last week (stupid I know), and no one stole it! We came back, and we sent the other sisters back here during the week.. nothing. You would think after asking twice it would be gone, but THANKFULLY, the lady today had found it last week! :D Thank heavens.. It had precious pictures from Sao Vicente on it. WHEW! Thanks Heavenly Father!
Also, today we found King Burger! hahaha. The knockoff burger king. We talked to the worker there... He is now a reference for the Elders.hahaha.
I love Praia. This week I'll be on divisions with Sister Payton. I'm excited! I love Payton! Also, I learned her greenie is scared of me. hahahhaha.
Also, we found a gecko in our house last night! He doesn't live with us anymore... He lives outside. He took a ride on sister yerman's skirt. hahahaha.
Ate logo!
Love, Sister Buhler
We had visits from the sister leaders. Which means I saw Vander! :D It was alot of fun. We got to do a one hour division. So Vander and I taught the first lesson to a man named Totu... He's HUGE! When I saw huge, I mean BUFF! He went to prison for 3yrs for something he didnt do.. He now works in security. Yerman and I marked a baptism date with him later on. He was like, "Yeah, that's cool. You guys know what is best." He's amazing. and he has a woman. Who is SUPER nice. I hope we can help them get married...
When Sister Robinson came down from S. Antao, we told her sister yerman was brazilian. HAAHHA. For a whole day. And she believed it. I wish I was mexican and could do cool things like her. My comp also got called "Japa" this week. hahahaa. No one ever gets her nationality right.
Zediani got baptized this week! :D Oh man. Our bishop baptized her. She got in the
NO ONE TELL ANYONE.. but we are planning a casamento escondido. Haha. Our investigator, Janice has been living with a reactivated lessactive member... and they were against marriage. Not against it... but they didnt know when to get married. and she didnt want to move out of his room. Well, Yesterday I finally was like, " So you dont want to move out Janice? Then our invite today is for you guys to start your wedding papers this week. Don't worry about the date until later. Just start the papers because you have to get married." For some reason, things fell into place after that... I shared my Aunt Debra's eloping experience (Thanks Debra and Garren!) and told them how important it is to keep the commandments. Then Janice was like, "I'd like to do that.. a secret wedding. How do you do that?" --Just get married in the courthouse. "Thats it?" --Thats it. "I dont need to be married in the church?" --Nope. Thats just the Catholic church. You'll go to the temple a year later. "Ok." Hahaha. we asked Lindinho to say the closing prayer and he was like "Give me a minute...I'm just so happy right now." Hahahaha. I'M SO EXCITED! secret wedding. secret wedding!
Other news, I'm 2 weeks behind in my journal. My comp and I are pooped all of the time. OH!! Check our numbers!!! (keep in mind we made our goals to challenge us!)
Goal/what happened:
bat 1/1
date marked 8/11
lessons with members 15 /17
other 0/11
new inv 8/15
less active lessons 3/6
training members 2/4
(obviously i excluded the goals we didnt meet. hhaaha. but these are the most important ones anyways.)
We aslo had 6 people at church. But only 4 were at sacrament meeting.
Also, Heavenly Father loves me because I accidently left my camera card sitting on the counter at this internet place last week (stupid I know), and no one stole it! We came back, and we sent the other sisters back here during the week.. nothing. You would think after asking twice it would be gone, but THANKFULLY, the lady today had found it last week! :D Thank heavens.. It had precious pictures from Sao Vicente on it. WHEW! Thanks Heavenly Father!
Also, today we found King Burger! hahaha. The knockoff burger king. We talked to the worker there... He is now a reference for the Elders.hahaha.
I love Praia. This week I'll be on divisions with Sister Payton. I'm excited! I love Payton! Also, I learned her greenie is scared of me. hahahhaha.
Also, we found a gecko in our house last night! He doesn't live with us anymore... He lives outside. He took a ride on sister yerman's skirt. hahahaha.
Ate logo!
Love, Sister Buhler
Monday, May 27, 2013
BOAAA
This week... Zediani did not get baptized again. hahaha. She was so scared. Even with her dad baptizing her. He was trying to help her in the water, and she exclaims, "AGUA E' TCHEU DEMAIS!" hahah. Poor thing. Her Dad finally baptized her, but he only said the first 3 names and not her 4th.. so she has to get baptized again this week.
We had 4 sisters die this week. (aka. go home from the mission) It was rather sad. They are very loved... But we did inherit some nice things from them! If they are reading! THANK YOU! hahah.
The sisters from the other islands are coming in today, (the ones that are sister leaders). Im excited to see them.
This whole week and part of last week we've been using our landlord's mother's electricity. Apparently one of the tenants in our building didnt pay their bill so they cut the whole building's light... then they put it back in.. but somehow our level still doesnt have electricity? So there is a cord that runs from her level to ours giving half of our apartment light.
There is an incredible recent convert named Sandra who was baptized a few weeks ago. She fed us a tortilla, with sausage and delicious mangos!! We had went to her house to talk to her about helping us teach a girl named Line, but then she kept feeding us! Oh... I was full before we even walked into her house and every bite was a fight....
but the mangos were super good. Cabo Verde has THE best mangos!
Other news... We have a few young ladies progressing towards baptism. They are sweet.
The ward is having "Rescue month". The whole ward is choosing 2 people that they can help come to church before the end of the year. One less active and one nonmember. And this next sunday, the ward is going to fast for these people. I'm so happy for them! By the end of the year we will have our frequency up to 150 if they do it. They have an average frequency of about 70. This past week was 90.
Praia really is something different. I really love the area I'm in and the people we teach and find... They are just so ready. Way more than others. Kindof makes me wonder why the Lord put me here in my last transfers. hahaha.
Until next week!
Sister Booler
We had 4 sisters die this week. (aka. go home from the mission) It was rather sad. They are very loved... But we did inherit some nice things from them! If they are reading! THANK YOU! hahah.
The sisters from the other islands are coming in today, (the ones that are sister leaders). Im excited to see them.
This whole week and part of last week we've been using our landlord's mother's electricity. Apparently one of the tenants in our building didnt pay their bill so they cut the whole building's light... then they put it back in.. but somehow our level still doesnt have electricity? So there is a cord that runs from her level to ours giving half of our apartment light.
There is an incredible recent convert named Sandra who was baptized a few weeks ago. She fed us a tortilla, with sausage and delicious mangos!! We had went to her house to talk to her about helping us teach a girl named Line, but then she kept feeding us! Oh... I was full before we even walked into her house and every bite was a fight....
Other news... We have a few young ladies progressing towards baptism. They are sweet.
The ward is having "Rescue month". The whole ward is choosing 2 people that they can help come to church before the end of the year. One less active and one nonmember. And this next sunday, the ward is going to fast for these people. I'm so happy for them! By the end of the year we will have our frequency up to 150 if they do it. They have an average frequency of about 70. This past week was 90.
Praia really is something different. I really love the area I'm in and the people we teach and find... They are just so ready. Way more than others. Kindof makes me wonder why the Lord put me here in my last transfers. hahaha.
Until next week!
Sister Booler
Monday, May 20, 2013
Pwaia
Well, I've met my comp Sister Yerman. She's the BOMB. I love her so much. She's half mexican so she's picked up the language super fast and everyone here loves her! She's in her 2nd transfer so I'm her step-mom. This week has been a bit crazy because we've had 3 dying sisters in our house all week and a bunch of newbs coming in and going out to their new areas. But it's been interesting. Tomorrow all of the dead folks go back to their countries. That'll be sad... But I'm happy for them! :)
My camera still isn't recognizing the computer. poop.
Anyways, We had 2 baptisms scheduled fo this past week. 2daughters of a recent convert. The younger one was scared of the water so we are going to try again next week. I wish I could show you their pictures...
Praia is interesting. There are alot of Fogo people here! :D I love Fogo.. haha. OH! So there was this less active named Shuduko that Sister Robinson and I were working with in Sao Filipe.. and as he was starting to try to turn his life around he told us he was going to Praia. Well, I just knew that was
the end of that. Praia has nothing but rapes and shootings. If he was bad in fogo, who knows how bad he could get in Praia. Well Guess what? I saw him. At the church on Saturday. In a white shirt and tie!!! And He has 2 weeks left in his mission prep class and then he and his gf are going to send off their mission papers!!!! He told me, "How is Sister Robinson? You know you both started up the spark of light in my life, and I got here and wasn't going to go to church, but then I remembered that I promised you that I'd go to church, so I did. I didn't go in Sunday clothes, but when I got there Sonia came up to me and talked to me. (Sonia is his gf)"
As a side note, we walked into our baptism's house this week and she was already in there teaching a lesson on baptism to the kids.... She's the Primary President and she is a BOSS.
We had ward counsel on Sunday.... I felt like I was dreaming. The bishop actually helped. Kept things breif and let the missionaries go first so we could leave and teach... AND MEMBERS GIVE US REFERENCES. It's heaven here. I'm so serious. I understand why Pres wants weekly baptisms now.. bc here in Praia, it could be possible. But I feel like its different on the other islands..
Basically, I love it here. I'm happy to be here. Heavenly Father is seriously, the NICEST. :)
Oh and they check the mail twice a week here. So if people want to send me mail.. :) I'd like that!
Love, Sister Buhler
My camera still isn't recognizing the computer. poop.
Anyways, We had 2 baptisms scheduled fo this past week. 2daughters of a recent convert. The younger one was scared of the water so we are going to try again next week. I wish I could show you their pictures...
Praia is interesting. There are alot of Fogo people here! :D I love Fogo.. haha. OH! So there was this less active named Shuduko that Sister Robinson and I were working with in Sao Filipe.. and as he was starting to try to turn his life around he told us he was going to Praia. Well, I just knew that was
the end of that. Praia has nothing but rapes and shootings. If he was bad in fogo, who knows how bad he could get in Praia. Well Guess what? I saw him. At the church on Saturday. In a white shirt and tie!!! And He has 2 weeks left in his mission prep class and then he and his gf are going to send off their mission papers!!!! He told me, "How is Sister Robinson? You know you both started up the spark of light in my life, and I got here and wasn't going to go to church, but then I remembered that I promised you that I'd go to church, so I did. I didn't go in Sunday clothes, but when I got there Sonia came up to me and talked to me. (Sonia is his gf)"
As a side note, we walked into our baptism's house this week and she was already in there teaching a lesson on baptism to the kids.... She's the Primary President and she is a BOSS.
We had ward counsel on Sunday.... I felt like I was dreaming. The bishop actually helped. Kept things breif and let the missionaries go first so we could leave and teach... AND MEMBERS GIVE US REFERENCES. It's heaven here. I'm so serious. I understand why Pres wants weekly baptisms now.. bc here in Praia, it could be possible. But I feel like its different on the other islands..
Basically, I love it here. I'm happy to be here. Heavenly Father is seriously, the NICEST. :)
Oh and they check the mail twice a week here. So if people want to send me mail.. :) I'd like that!
Love, Sister Buhler
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