A Baby Left...

Dear Family,

I only have a baby left.

This past week has been quite interesting. On Tuesday we shucked corn as service. On Wednesday we went to a school to scrape rust off the fence so they can repaint. However, they didn't really have the correct type of tools we needed. Yea they had rust brushes, but this was some serious rust. We ended up scraping off the first layer of rust as best we could with a knife, going over that with a rust brush, and then going over it again with sandpaper. But that didn't work out that well. So after a couple hours of scraping in futility we gave up. They need some serious equipment to get the rust off those fences.

Then on Thursday we had a division with the Elders in Cha de Alecrim, another part of Mindelo. I went to that other area and worked for the day. When I went over there I learned that those Elders buy their food on a daily basis. So their cupboards were bare. It was interesting... Needless to say, I made mention of the fact that P-day is a day set apart for the doing of necessary things like buying of our food so we can focus on the work during the week. but we'll see what they do.

Friday we had a massive mexican meal. We had 2 other Elders over and we cooked 2 lbs of beef and made taco meat and burrito meat. I made up the last of my refried beans. Elder Go made salsa. We had black beans and some homemade sour cream. It was glorious. Then we had a training with President Neves. And he told us the identity of the next Mission President. His name is President Oliveira. He's a Brazilian who lives in Bountiful Utah. The switch will happen at the end of June.

And on Sunday we had a record amount of investigators at church. Woot!

Pictures: One is of us scraping the fence for the service project. One is a couple sheet metal houses that are pretty common in my area. Sheet metal house seems like it would be more like an oven... The other picture is of our meat feast on Friday.

Love,

Elder Canute