Sal is one of the more tourist-y islands. ..but not really where we live. We live in Espargos. In the middle of the island. Santa Maria is the tourist part. We caught a truck down there earlier today and walked around the beach and had some icecream. It was good. :) Seriously... this place is AWESOME. Oh and the island is nothing, but sand and sky. and all the roads are cobblestone-ish. More like--rock-ish.
The people are SUPER FRIENDLY: More friendly than southern people. (Apparently it´s possible) Everytime you great someone, you kiss them on each cheek. EVERY woman we meet we kiss her on the cheeks. It was a little strange at first, but if you don´t do it you just end up looking unfriendly. The men do it to women I suppose, but not to us Sisters. hahaha. I guy at the beach today tried my companion, but she was all "Não posso!" hahah.
The people in the small branch of the church really like me. :) The younger people are always helping me try to learn new words. Yesterday a small girl drew us pictures of us with her. We had name tags on. hahaha.
We aren´t allowed to eat in members houses because we don´t know how clean everyone is and so we have to decline from everyone. BUT bc this past weekend was General Conference, we had an almoço(lunch) at the church! Beans and rice! Both days. hahaha. The 2nd day I had Cuscus. An dish that is SORTA like cornbread, but not. Sister Holland and I got a doughnut recipe from an Elder that ended up making like 150plus doughnuts. The dough just kept going! It was like a recipe where mashed potatoes were in the ingredients. SO GOOD! But it was alot of work.
Here are the triste things that have happened since I´ve been here:
Day 1: I had to sleep on a tile floor without a blanket or pillow my first night here in Africa. I woke up every hour. One to drunk people sleeping and another time to a rooster who didn´t know that it was 3am. hahahah.
Day 2: I killed my hairdryer. (I later found out it just blew the socket... The wattage is too big on my hairdryer. They have weird sockets here.)
Day 3: I stepped in dog poop. ...There are a BILLION disease-filled dogs here. And they poop everywhere and lay everywhere. hahaha.
Day 4: I got bleach on my favorite green shirt when I was trying to wash the food we got from the store. We have to disinfect EVERYTHING here. and we have to use a filter for everything. It´s cool, but the filtered water only comes out as a little stream.
Day 5: I leaned up against an investigator´s house and got gum on my favorite button down. AND We saw an investigator of ours PEE ON A WALL and then he came up to us and shook our hands. And the day before i had lost the cap to my hand sanitizer and everything and fallen out. hahahaha.
But apart from that things are really great! I laugh about all those things. Honestly, its so fun. I love this place. We have running water and a washing machine, but of alot people here don´t. But almost everyone-no matter how poor- has a TV in their concrete house. hahah. I love it here. We have one investigator that is just soaring and eating up the message of the gospel. Others are having a difficult time with the commandments, but we´re working on it.
Tell Skyler Luthi that I saw Domingo Cruz who served with him in Fogo! He´s in my branch! :)
And tell Sister Patterson, Dean, Davis, Bringhurst, and Elders Hansen and Wilhelm that I saw them during conference!
Til next week!
Tchau!
P.S. Apparently the national language changed to Creole 30 days before i arrived... but they can't decide WHICH Creole. But it doent matter bc we are only allowed to speak portuguese anyways....but alot of people sure do speak it! and fast. really fast.
PPS you can dear elder or write to me at
Caixa Postal 420
Praia
Ilha de Santiago
Cabo Verde
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