Leaving Sao Nicalau

So to start off, Praia has been great! I went from 6 lessons a week in Sao Nicalau to 25 lessons!! :) And on Tuesday we are going with one of our couples to set their marriage date!! :) Their names are Maria and Tinho. They have been coming to church for a while and are super ready!! So that will be fun.

P-day lunch

We also are working with another couple named Saturnino and Nilda. They are the type of family that doesn't progress very fast, but every time we leave, I feel like we made a little progress! We already have given their son and Saturnino a blessing. The son was really sick. Saturnino thought he had a curse on him, so we gave him a blessing! But they are great. We are also working with Zezino and Monica. They should be married here in a few weeks!

Well! Praia is nothing like Sao Nicalau! It is a night and day difference here! People are really friendly, and they will actually listen! 

This week was good! We had 6 new investigators. We also have been teaching this man named Jaime. I think I talked about him last week. We talked to him again and he was great. We even sat down to talk with his wife. So hopefully everything goes well!

We did a lot of door contacts and road contacts and things were still going hard. I am starting to see how it must be in other parts of the world!! But Praia should be good. President says that Praia is on fire right now, so that should be good. My comp. is Elder Hartman. I don't know much about him! :)

I have a funny story though! We were teaching Jaime, his wife, and his mom when we asked his wife to say the closing prayer. What ended up happening was that all of them just said things they were grateful for and then said "amen"!! It was funny! :) We will work with it, but it was a good lesson.

Photo: Leftovers from Carnaval! 

Love,

Elder Naylor 

PS: Elder Naylor has decided to extend his mission by a month--his current release date is July 21st. We are so (sob) happy for him. ;)

To start off, we had the President, his wife, and the assistants pay us a special visit! We had a lot of trainings and we learned a lot of stuff! One of the things I learned that hit me the hardest was that our president said, "God can't steer a parked car," saying that we need to act and work so that the Lord can guide us, but if we stay still and don't show our faith, he can't guide us. Almost all the the time the blessings come after the "trial of our faith." We need to exercise it first, if we expect help.

Also, remember that nice Chinese couple that made us dinner? We made dinner for them this week. They are very nice and very friendly. I kind of want to learn Chinese now! :)

Nice Chinese Couple

We also contacted another man from Holland who said we were wasting our time here and that we should be in Israel teaching them. Of course, he would not let us say a word as he proceeded to smash on the United States, and whites. I am really starting to understand that being a disciple of Christ is not easy...

We also have started doing door contacts. The first ones were rough, but I feel they could be our break through point! 

Love,

Elder Naylor 

On Mount Gordo

Top of Mount Gordo

So, the thing I have really been working on this week is staying positive!! I had a bad day Tuesday. It just kinda felt like nothing was going well, or would go well, but I got around it the next day and it has been better since! :) I totally understand why hope and patience are attributes of Christ.