Week 8

Monday, December 19, 2016

Hey Mom,

Everything is good here and it is getting better. The food is still getting used to, but so far I haven´t had any problems with being sick. Except for the part where I drank unfiltered water. Something President and Sister Matthews told us not to do. It was a funny experience. More about that later.... This week has been a good week. Long but short at the same time. I had a division this week with the zone leaders. Elder Holms was the one I was with and it was super cool to serve in a different part of praia. But I confess that I missed my area because it´s my home. Anyways, we taught alot of lessons. Espically first lessons. We have like 15 new investigators who either have heard the first message or just something small about the bom. But either way, we teach the first lesson far more than we teach anything else. There is no rain here as well. Like the only time it rains and is even wet in like August and September. And get this. What we consider a light shower for like 10 minutes, or even 5 minutes, they consider a downpour. Like it´s crazy. The weather has been a bit cloudy as well and windy, like super windy, and they think it´s cold. Even my comp thinks it´s cold. It´s only like 70 or 80 degrees but they think it´s cold. I don´t get it. But oh well, mabye I will eventually haha.

I am glad everything is going well for all of you back home. It has been a bit lonely at times not being able to just walk home and sit down and relax with you guys but at the same time, I am soooooooo glad I came on a mission. The Portuguese is hard and it is taking alot of time. But I know that I will have help from above. The gift of tounges is so very real. And as far as skype goes, I will be skyping with you guys on Monday at 2:30  my time. So that is 8:30 your time in the morning of the 26th. I can log on with dads account and then you can use mine. Andrew knows his way around the xbox. Just tell him to turn it on, log into my account and go to skype and look to see if dads account says he is on. That should work. If not, I´ll also be on my email so we can work it out that way as well. I hope you all have a great week and thanks for all your love and support. My thought for the week comes from Elder Holland. He says "How ever far you think you have traveled; however many chances you think you have missed; however many mistakes you think you have made, I testify that you have not traveled far enough of the divine light of Christ´s Atonement shines."
That is so true. We can always come back even after we think we can´t. In the Ensign, there is a talk. It´s title is "Am I good Enough? Will I make it?" Read it and pray to God to ask him what he thinks of you. Your answer will be mind blowing.

Love you all.

Amar Elder Nelson