Welllllllllllllll I was transferred! My new area is Tarrafal! but not the one on the main island that i have already been to. This Tarrafal is on the island of Sao Nicolau. There are only 4 missionaries on the island and they are in 2 different towns. Both areas just have groups which means they arent even big enough to be a branch yet. The area that I am in has only been open for around a year. Which means everyone is a recent convert. So i guess the things that you guys will be most interested in hearing is that I am district leader of the island, group leader of our church group because we have no male priesthood holder to do it so i get to preside and conduct meetings, visit all the members to make sure everything is going well, and such, and also church is in our house. So this area is quite interesting. And seeing as i only have one transfer left after this one I will probably finish my mission here!
Some stories from this week. My first plane that was suppose to bring me here was cancelled due to rain but i was able to get here the next day. good thing too because if i didnt i wouldnt have gotten here for awhile! There are two elders that are suppose to leave this island but cant until this week due to planes and boats off the island are limited. My new companion is Elder Delgado. He is from Cape verde the island of Santo Antao. I have never been there but i know him because i was his district leader in fogo when he started the mission. He actually stayed with me a few days while he waited for his companion. Now he has a year on the mission! Time flies. The elder that i took the place of is Elder Bisk who i also knew on fogo when he started his mission. He is from Kaysville and i think used to live pretty close to where dad and christine and jordyn lived. He also played lacrosse but is 2 years younger than me, but he is still with us waiting for his boat tomorrow so he can finally go to his new area.
We had 2 baptisms this saturday and the area that i left had 2 baptisms on saturday as well! Once again i have an area baptizes in the ocean! That makes 4 out of my 6 areas on the mission that have had to do baptisms in the ocean.
I think that is it for this week!
Love Elder McMullin
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