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

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

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