The Southern Zone Conferences

On February 17th we hopped on the Fast Ferry and headed to Fogo. You need to know first that the Fast Ferry is anything but fast. It takes about 23 minutes by plane to get to Fogo from Praia, but anywhere from 3 1/2 hours to over 5 hours to get to Fogo by ferry. It depends on how rough the seas are. This time it took over 5 hours. We did not get to our hotel until after 10 PM that night. Four of the Sisters in the Zone are on the island of Brava so they had to take the Ferry the next morning and though it only took about an hour, it was pretty intense. But the Zone Conference made up for all the travel woes. It went great! We have some amazing missionaries on the islands of Fogo and Brava!

The next day we flew home to Praia - in 23 minutes!. Then on the 19th we held the Praia Zone Conference. It is our biggest Zone but unfortunately because of Carnival this week, we were not able to get the 4 Elders on the island of Maio in for the Conference. (President and I are planning to go to them at the first of next month and give them a mini-conference.)  But here is the rest of the Zone. Again I can not say enough good about our missionaries. They are amazing!

And the last Zone Conference was held on the 20th in Assomado. It has been uncharacteristically cool here in Cape Verde this year, and since Assomado is one of the coldest spots anyway, it was especially cold for us there. Notice the sweaters. This is a great zone and they are here at a very specially time. The area was just made a District and we are counting on this group to build it up.