American companion, Elder Stevens;

Oí família! Whats up? How is autumn back in the states?  I'm doing well as usual and had a pretty fun week!  I'm already accustomed to working with Elder Stevens now and its been good to be able meet more investigators and recent converts better with the 2 areas combining.  Its been fun to have an American companion because its a lot easier to joke around and stuff, but I'm probably not learning Portuguese as fast now :P. 
   
  So the coolest thing was that I went on divisions with Elder Day again, but this time I got to go to Rio Pardo.  I was really excited because I remember Jamie talking a lot about it and how much she liked it.  I imagined that the city itself would be really similar to Vera Cruz because they are both little cities right next Santa Cruz, but when I arrived I was surprised to see how different it was.  Rio Pardo seemed a lot older than Vera Cruz, all the streets had buildings were more old fashioned.  The church there is still growing well there and we got to teach a lot of cool investigators that they have.  I only got to meet 1 family of members but they were really cool!  I met your mae Jamie, Fernanda and her family!!  Haha when I introduced myself to her she got soooo excited because she absolutely loved Sister Gee.  We sat in her house and we talked for a long time and she shared a ton of cool experiences that she had with Sister Gee.  She also showed us some pictures and letters that you sent that the greatly treasured.  Haha and do you remember Arthur Jamie?   I'm sure you do, he was one of the coolest kids ever and me and Elder Day joked around with him for a long time.  I'm still really bad at remembering Brazilian names, but I think that it was Rubia and also the dad  were there to  Wow it was such a cool experience to meet the whole family and have such and have such a strong connection to them.  But they are all doing great and really miss you.  They told me to make sure that you come visit them again someday :)  We stayed there for more than an hour just having a great time, and Fernanda didn't want "the brother of Sister Gee" to leave was trying to get us to stay for even longer when we had to run to our next appointment.  It was also kinda cool to be able to stay at the same apartment that you stayed at on the other side of the world.  It was pretty nice, and a lot better than the one in Santa Cruz that I visited. 
   
  But its been nice here in Vera Cruz as well.  The weather has been really nice without the rain and it hasn't been to hot. We didn't have to many people at church this last week and only had 1 investigator which was kind of disappointing.  It seemed like everyone was visiting family during the holiday "kids day" which is a really big deal here. Haha I felt ripped of since there isn't wasn't of these days in the United States, but then I remembered how dad used to always say that there is 1 Father´s day, one Mother´s Day, an then 363 kids' days :)  Oh and one day when we went to visit one of our good investigators that seems to be progressing a lot, we learned that she had moved!  Luckily she is still here in Vera Cruz and we know what street she lives on, but we don't know her address so we hope that we kind find her in the next couple of days. 

So like you said dad, it would probably be better to have the emails sent on Sunday from now on if that's possible because the hour difference will change and also we have been trying to come earlier than before.  But anyways I'm loving my mission, learning a lot, serving a lot, walking a lot, and also being blessed a lot.  This really is a great work and I'm glad that I have this opportunity to devote some time to serving the lord.  Thanks for all of the letters, emails, prayers and support.  I love all of you and wish the best for you!!