well you guys had a ton of questions this week and i have quite a few things to talk about. first off ill just tell you how the travel went down because that will answer quite a few of the questions you have. i left monday night on a plane headed from sal to praia. in praia the aps picked us up and we stayed the night at their house. we woke up at 4 in the morning so we could get back to the airport on hop on a plane to fogo. our plane left at like 6 30 or so and the flight was just like 30 minutes. all the flights in cape verde are super short. we got there but we were on the other side of the island where the zone leaders live so we stayed with them until like 11 then we took a haise that went around the island to get to our area. it took quite a while and there were a ton of people packed in one haise. mom or dad said they saw something about watching youtube videos and it looked like the areas were either green and lush or black volcanic rocks. this is super accurate. driving to our area i saw both of these things but my area is more of the green mountainous lush area.
we have a ward and a group in our area so we have 5 hours of church on sundays. and the group we pretty much climb a mountain to get up to and the first time we did it was my second day here. i was used to sal which is flat and windy so its cool but here its temperature is close but with much less wind and much more hills to climb. and i was sick most of this week so i was dying climbing the mountain. its all good now though but mom would love this area. but as we know hiking isnt my favorite thing in the world. but the area is still super cool. one thing that was sad this week though was the frequency of church dropped a ton this week. not sure what happened though.
my new comp is elder lundeen. he is from hurricane utah and he has two transfers left. i will probably kill him but there is also a chance he will be transfered for his last transfer.(kill is when you are the last comp to a missionary before he goes home) that has been happening quite often recently here. he is fun and a cool guy and really likes the work so we work pretty hard.
for p day what we have done so far is we played ping pong! it was super awesome. i missed ping pong quite a bit. they have this center for youth place where you can go play games for free and not many people use it so we went there and played. its a pretty cool place but it has some interesting art work. maybe ill send a picture of what i mean next time. i dont think we can leave to go see the volcano. i dont think president matthews really likes when missionary leave their areas to do tourristy things.
oh yeah another really cool thing about fogo is it has mountain dew so i have been enjoying that so i dont need that in my package anymore. and i think i will buy a camera here.
ill tell you more about the people here next time when i know more about them but i think thats about it for this email. thanks for all the emails ill try to respond to as many as i can right now. love you all.
Love Elder McMullin
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