Internet and Prison

Dear family, 

The man got things fixed so now we have our own internet at home.  As I was saying before, we will be flying to Praia, the capital city, on yet another island.  This is where we originally came.  We will be doing a home gardening project for 2 days.  With all this travelling I have had to cancel piano lessons for a while.  I have a super student, Eddy, who is 16 and plays like Jon Schmidt.  He transposes, plays like a dream!  He is the district choir pianist and we love choir because theyare doing such wonderful songs.  Started Christmas music yesterday; we'll be singing "Carol of the Bells" (the Ukranian carol that Matt likes) in Portuguese (of course).  At Christmas all the churches gather in the Praca(town park) and sing together,  There was a band concert there last night.

We are missing all of you and pray for you every day.  Please pray for us too. (I'm sure you are).  Special hellos to the grandchildren!

We will write again after a week and a half when we get back home from Praia. 
We are going to the prison today to meet with the director to see how we can help there.  Our branch president is taking us around to these places and he knows everyone.  He also speaks good English.  Larry's Portuguese is a great help--he gave a talk on the 10 virgins yesterday.  I am using the language at every opportunity, studying every day.  Only one of my nine piano students knows English, so I teach them entirely in Portuguese--a good way to learn.
Love,

Elder and Sister Goff