New Companion:  He's from Cabo-Verde (I don't know if that has a different name in English) near Africa. He is the Senior Companion, and he wanted to spend the week cleaning our house, and getting to know the people and the area.  He's really fun when it's time to have fun, and works when it's time to work, gives criticism constructively when the time is right. Yesterday night, we had a "Home Meeting" where we planned the things this week that will affect all of us, talked about bills, cleaning that needs done, etc (I had the idea to do this to unite us all a bit better, etc.) and then we talked a bit about stuff we could all do to improve the lives of all of us... Another Elder suggest that we all try harder to get to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 6:30 (until today only I wake up at 6:30, we'll see if that changes) The other two are a Brasilian who's been here 7 months, and is training for the 3rd time already... And his "Son" who is an American that arrived this transfer. I really like the group I used grandma's birthday money to buy 5 ties and a pair of indoor soccer shoes :) All for $20... next transfer I'll probably use the Christmas $20 to buy a leather scripture cover that's really awesome :)