August 5, 2019
Hello everyone,
I am trying out a new thing because I now have a smartphone! I will be writing a little every day into a draft that I will have sent to everyone on monday. This should be a lot better for you guys and for me because i am really bad about writing emails and in my journal, so this will consist of both more or less.
Today Tuesday the 30th, we went to our local meeting house to use the internet to send some messages and confirm appointments and the wifi wasn't working, so I thought maybe just the wifi was down. We went inside and figured out soon enough that the power was out in the chapel. I knew that yesterday people stopped by to do some maintenance so I thought maybe they were working with electrics and turned off the electricity for the building. We went outside to the electric panel and the disc thing(dad would be proud of my knowledge of nothing electrical) wasnt moving and everything was flipped on so I knew that it wasn't anything that we could do. Afterwards we left and I asked the guy who has a barber shop in the front of the meeting house if it was out for him too. He said yes it had turned off for him too about 15 minutes ago.
We decided to go to an appointment and soon realized that the energy was out in the entire city center. After walking for a bit we heard some people getting excited and the power came back.
It was kind of funny to me and my companion going from the realization that the wifi wasn't working and then the buildings electricity was switched off then to the building wasn't getting electricity to the road doesn't have electricity to half of the city doesn't have it.
Wednesday 31st.
Today my companion and I left the house a bit earlier than normal to head to the next town over(an hour bus ride)to take part in a district meeting, in the district meeting while talked about our work in our areas and about who we have been teaching that is progressing. Afterwards my companion and I came back to our area and we made ourselves lunch in our house, a missionaries house normally doesn't have all of the normally required things to prepare a meal, so you have to get creative some times. We made a chicken stroganof and ate it over rice and with something called "Batata palha" which are these little fried sticks of potato that you mix in with your food to give it a crunch and some added flavor. Batata palha looks kind of like if you got straw and broke it up super small
After that we had a couple of commitments around the city and did contacts throughout the day. We have recently been teaching this new family and I am super excited to see how they progress. There names are Michelle(daughter) and Cida(mother) Michelle is around 25 and she is finishing up her fifth year at college to become a lawyer.
Friday 2nd(no one's perfect)
these last couple of days have been pretty good. Yesterday we had the chance to receive a reference for members a couple of towns away about a family that lives in our area. I am excited to stop by their place tomorrow and see how that goes! Today we had the privilege to have lunch with Irma Iveth. She is an awesome member and her and her family help us out a lot. The only sad part is that she lives 2 hours journey on foot outside of the city so every time we have lunch there it takes about half our day or more. I heard yesterday from my first area in Carapicuíba a non active member I helped get active in the church today is getting married and his soon to be wife I taught is going to get baptized! I am super happy for him and can't wait to see him again when I visit after my mission.
Monday, 5th.
Today has been really great and a good p day. I found out that I will be leaving my area so I'm all packed up and headed out to Itapevi. I am super excited to go and will definitely miss this area! I love the people here and seeing them grow. They have also helped me grow a ton as well!
With love and support,
Elder Meyers
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