November 27, 2018

Hello Everyone I hope you are all doing great,

This last week has been a huge blur and I really do not have a lot to share besides the fact that my Portuguese is improving every day. I have one more week here in the CTM and then I am out to the field to start serving the people. I love that I am here and I know that if I forget myself and get to work and make myself the Lords servant lives will be blessed and changed, including my own.

When I get to the field I will be able to send photos, and give more interesting emails lol.

with love,

Elder Meyers

Proselyting and Pizza

November 20, 2018

Hello Everyone,

      I hope everything is going well with you wherever you are, I am doing great here. This last week has been really good. Something special about this MTC that is different from some others is that you get to leave the MTC on p-day(which I believe I have told you guys about already) and the other thing is that once you're 4th week we go to a city center and get to proselyte. While proselyting I met some really cool people and was able to practice my Portuguese with normal people lol. I am really glad that I am here and that I have the opportunity to change peoples lives. The hardest part of the proselyting was knowing that I wouldnt get to know about the progress of the contacts I recieved because they will be in a different mission boundary. The amount of love you can feel for someone you have barely talked to is really cool when you are doing the Lord's work. 

Last prep day my companion got Domino´s from his mom with online ordering and it was really weird eating American pizza again! We also got to go to the temple again and I love having that opportunity every week while I am at the MTC. I love the people I have met here and the people that I first met when I got here are almost all gone and we are one of the oldest groups here now. It's weird thinking about that sometimes. I hope you guys have a good week, I love all of you

Elder Meyers

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo

Elder Meyers with his childhood friend Elder Sorensen who arrived 2 weeks after him. (at the Sao Paulo Brazil Temple)

I Know a Little More Portuguese

Campinas Brazil Temple

November 13, 2018

Hello everyone, 

I hope you are all doing well. I am having a great time here at the MTC and have had the opportunity to experience a lot of different things since last week. One of the things that I was able to experience is that on every Wednesday we get to go to one of the two temples nearby and last week we went to the Campinas temple and the drive there was awesome. After we get past Sao Paulo and to the country side on the way to it you see soooooo much green its crazy, the canopy of the forest and all of the different kind of trees that I cant identify is crazy and really cool. Honestly the only thing that I have been like agh I want access to the internet right now or to go to a library to research is for the trees and the birds here. 

   For the third week at the MTC they put they American missionaries with a Brazilian companion and have you teach another set of missionaries about the gospel based on a fake investigator they act out. During the first lesson I was teaching with my Brazilian companion I took the opportunity to share my testimony in Portuguese and I was able to talk for 3 minutes straight with only having to ask how to say a word once to my companion that I couldn't remember. After baring my testimony one of the sister missionaries that I was teaching started crying and she told me that my testimony made her feel the spirit more than she could contain and she told me how my testimony and faith made her glad and proud of her decision to serve a mission and that she could tell that I had been blessed to be a lighthouse to those around me and that she could tell how hard it was for me to leave my family and go to the other side of the world and learn a new language to serve the Lord. After awhile she was telling me these things I couldn't help but cry and think about my blessing from my father that I would be a beacon to others, and when I was set apart as a missionary I was given the same blessing again and I know that if I put my faith in the Lord and lean on him that the blessings that I received will help me to bless the people I meet. 

I am so happy to be here and to serve the people of Brazil. I am glad to be a part of the Lords work and I know that if I keep my focus on loving the people and forget myself while I am here I can help so many people. 

Till next week,

with love, Elder Meyers

I Still Don't Know Portuguese

November 6, 2018

Hello everyone

    I hope everything is going great for everyone in their lives back home! I am having a great time here and am super happy that I made the choice to serve a mission and to serve the Lord. I have been studying hard with Portuguese and trying to grow in the gospel every day. I love the people here so much and it is kind of crazy the amount of love you can have for someone you have only known for less than a month and will probably never see again. I have been able to feel the spirit so much here and I am sure that is why. If you guys want to know and try what I am drinking on a daily basis it is a soft drink called Guarana. I am pretty sure you can order it online and it is pretty good. I recommend getting some and trying it. 

I can't remember if I said this in my last email but this training center is special compared to some others because we are able to go out on our preperation day to shop around the MTC and I had the best burger ever last Wednesday. My companion and I also went shopping for some snacks for while we are studying in our dorms and I tried to buy some clothes and jerseys from local shops for working out but they had nothing in my size in every store I checked. 

I will send an update for you guys next week, feel free to email me anytime but I wont be able to respond until next tuesday.

Love, Elder Meyers