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Dear Family,

Cape Verde is made up of 10 islands. I am on the island that is situated on the most north east called Sal. I am serving in a town right in the middle, next to the airport, called Espargos. FYI.

Sal is awesome. The weather has been amazing thus far. It´s got a fresh breeze that comes through. My house isn´t that big, but for 2 missionaries it works quite well. I am a little saddened at having to go back to cold showers, especially when there is low water pressure. No bueno. That´s Spanish for "not good". My companion is from São Tomé but lived in Cape Verde for several years before going on a mission. His name is Elder De Oliveira. We get along fine. We´re not exactly besties but we don´t have any beef. It works for the work.

Speaking of work, since Sal is almost completely flat, walking around all day isn´t nearly as bad as it used to be. The branch here isn´t as big as my the last one I worked in but it isn´t terribly small. The last weeks frequency was about 88. What I´m going to try working on is finding more leaders to baptize. That´s always something the Church needs. And my mission president wants to get a chapel built here so we need to show the Area that this place needs a chapel. So now I´ve got a goal.

Oh, and fortunately there is more than one computer place. So instead of using the piece of garbage internet place this week, I´m using a more decent one. I´m attaching pictures. One is of this little boy riding a huge bike. I´m not exactly sure how he managed but he did. Then the next day (I didn´t have my camera with me) I saw two girls on one bike. The girl in front was steering while the girl in back pedaled. It was quite the sight. There is also a picture of a salt deposit I saw as my comp and I walked by a beach today. One of the members was showing us a different beach we could use for baptisms instead of the one they normally use. Apparently the normal one has all sorts of dips and rocks and stuff and this other place doesn´t. We´ll see. The other pictures I also took while on this little walk.

Anyways, I´m doing well. Thanks for asking.

Love,

Elder Peterson