Sister Kate Mary Whiting- Cape Verde Mission

  HELLO EVERYBODY!!!!!!  Yes! I am alive and well! It's been kind of a crazy week but I am genuinely so happy to be here. I'm serving in Tarrafal and it's this little beach town in the mountains it's seriously one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I can see the ocean from our apartment and the beach is like a 5 minute walk from our place so we went there today for pday and played soccer and put our feet in the water it was heavenly and it took everything in me to not jump in😃 It is so hot here. I thought it would be like Hawaii but boy oh boy was I wrong. I sweat 24/7 because it's so hot and humid and ac doesn't exist so I just try my best to walk in the shade lol.  The language is hard but it's good and I can tell that I'm progressing more and more everyday! If someone speaks Portuguese to me I can understand most of what they're saying but if they're speaking creole I just smile and nod and then look at my trainer so she can tel...

  Well everyone I've finally made it. Today is my last day at the mtc LFG!!!! This week was good but I'm ready to get out of here and travel for a nice 24 hours😀 I don't even know what to write about cause I feel like Bill Murray in groundhog day but it's chill It's really cool to see how my Portuguese has progressed since I've been here though. I'm not perfect at all but I can tell that I've made big improvements since the first day so yay!!! My tutoring teacher served in cabo verde so me and my companion asked him to teach us some creole. These are the phrases I know: -Modi ki bu txama? (What is your name) -A mi ki ta mandi li. (I am the boss here) -Tu drete? (You cool?) -Kuzé ki bo fla mós? (What did you just say to me dude?) I think those will be very useful thank you Irmão Jensen👍 This week in class my teacher was trying to tell us what the Portuguese word for rainbow was so she drew a rainbow on the board and then wrote ROYGBIV underneath it. The...

  Man oh man what a WEEK! I am going to be 100% honest right now when I say that I genuinely love the MTC. Others may beg to differ but everyday is so fun and it probably helps that I've been here for like 2 seconds and I leave in a WEEK! (from tomorrow) Yes that is correct I have received my travel plans and I'll be leaving next Tuesday (the 11th) to Cape Verde!! I feel very blessed that I got my visa and I'm able to go straight there because my whole district got their reassignments today so they won't be going to Portugal for a little while. S/o Cape Verde for being chill like that. You may be wondering, whaaaaatttt she's a queen??? Wheat-ling???? Me and the girl's in my district have finally stopped going to bed at 10:15 because we remembered that we brought cards so now every night (the past 2 nights) we have played very intense games of monkey bridge and the sister that wins is then deemed as the queen the next day. Unfortunately I did not win the fir...