TRANSFERRED! :( June 18, 2012

Greetings!
Well, I am sad to report that I have been officially TRANSFERRED! What a bummer. I'm getting transferred to the Southern Island of.... DUN DUN DUUUN.. Fogo. Blast it. In all honesty, I've heard Fogo is wonderful, but I'm just being a party pooper because I love Sal and don't want to leave. I catch a plane tonight at like 11ish to go to Praia... but I'm not sure about my travel plans after that. BUT I'll either get to stay with Sister Vanderhorst, or President.. So I either get to see my BEST FRIEND from the MTC! orrr I get a HOT SHOWER!! WITH WATER PRESSURE!!! :D I'm slightly pumped for this experience. I also get to break mission handbook rules.. hahaha. Yes!

Would you like to hear what my mission president wrote in his email to me this week? Hahaha.

Dear Sister,
Your portuguese is getting there, the writing not so much! Hahaha
We love your sweet spirit. Thank you for being obedient and kind. The Lord will use you in many ways in this mission. Many will feel the love of God through you.
Love,
Pres. Oliveira

My mission president laughed at me! hahahah! He's a stinker. Anyways, I'll be serving with Sister Gomes. She's from Portugal! She's dying in a transfer and a half, so I'll be killing her. I'm pretty stoked about getting a fluent companion. I'm also stoked that I get to live in a house with another companionship! Sister Routsen (my friend from the MTC) and Sister Arlete (She was just Sister V's comp)! I'm STOKED to live with them! :)

Vilma and Poéjo were baptized this week! It was awesome! Vilma was super scared.. but she did it! She overcame her fear of water!! :D (Really, she has a fear of large bodies of water) It was awesome! I'd attach pictures but all of the ports on this computer are closed up because APPARENTLY there is a virus going around on the computers in this internet place... Next week maybe.

Anyways, Yes. I'm super sad to leave my home of Sal, but I hope what everyone has been saying about Fogo is true. I'm probably going to be in Fogo for at least two transfers because I'll be killing Sister Gomes off. I've heard that Fogo is SUPER HOT. And that it's super hilly. It's going to be quite the change from the nice ocean breeze and flatness of Sal.
Have I mentioned that the lower islands speak a different creole? Well yes. They do. Basically, creole is a lazy version of portuguese. And apparently there are TONS of ways to be lazy! Bidu is what the lower islands speak so.. Wish me luck with that one!

Sister Holland says that the first week of a transfer with a new change is always the hardest. I've also heard the mission gets easier in your third transfer. That the third transfer is when you are REALLY accustomed to mission life. I'm quite a bit excited about this.

I start my 3rd transfer of a 12 transfer mission today. NUTS huh?! Anyways, that is all the news I have for this week. I hope everything is all dandy in the states!
Love, Sister Buhler