Hello, dear sons and families,
How are all of you?
We have been very busy this past week, even to being on national Cape Verde TV Thursday night--we were interviewed by the TV station at a formal presentation of the items which the Church humanitarian funds gave to the old folks' home here in Mindelo. Several people at Outreach said they saw us on TV. We never thought it would be on, and especially not so soon--the night of the same day as the morning presentation.
We will now be concentrating more time on visiting less-active members and encouraging them to return to church activity--since we don't know where anyone lives (there are no addresses!) we have to have a guide (the district president's mother) to show us where people live.
We also had Zone Conference today with the mission president and his wife and our friend, the mission nurse. We also had company overnight because of the conference--two sister missionaries live on the island to the west, and they have to come over the day before on the boat and then stay overnight. Now the house is quiet again with just us.
We had a good idea about Easter and General Conference--since we don't watch Conference until 3 p.m. live session, we wanted to have some type of Church meeting for Easter. The district decided not to hold regular meetings of the branches on Easter. So we came up with the idea of a Family Home Morning at our house for a few members of the branch who attend Family Home Evenings with us. The elders will give a lesson and we'll sing the Easter hymns, have a treat and a game about identifying the apostles with their pictures and something specific about them, like Elder Nelson is a heart surgeon, and Elder Packer carves wooden birds, etc.
Sure hope to hear from you all again soon; we are feeling lonely for our families.
Love, Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Elder and Sister
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