This super big problem came up. All foreigners have to get something called a CPF. It’s like our social security card. There is only one place in our mission where we can go get it done. I’ll probably have to travel the entire rest of my mission helping the missionaries get there CPF.
We need to go to a place called the Poupatempo. This is where people go to get their drivers license and things like that. We have to go there to get our CPF cards except because we aren’t Brazilians we have to go to an office that is like linked with the federal police. There is only one in our mission boundaries. So I have to plan out how to get people out in the middle of no where to this place and back. Its going to be super expensive and complicated but I don’t think we will have the option to not do it.
I don’t have one yet. I have my RNE which is like an identification card. CPF is literally like a social security number and we need it in order to use our new health plans. We have to bring original documents. Missionary original documents stay locked up in the office because it’s a mission rule. That’s why I’ll have to travel. I’ll need to bring them their documents as they register, pay to get it done, and then we will have to go to Itaquera to finish the process and pick up their card. I don’t know how long it takes because I’ve never done it. I’m in the process of doing it. But the post office says after applying for it we have 90 days to pick it up. If we don’t get it within 90 days, we will have to start over again.
To register for the card is only 7 reis, but that is just for the CPF processing. Traveling and getting everyone to places is what’s going to cost an arm and a leg. There are approximately 70 foreign missionaries in our mission.
We’ll use trains and mass transportation. We may even rent a bus or something. I don’t know yet what will be most cost effective. I still need to plan it out with the mission president.
New missionaries will have to do this once they arrive too. They can’t do it before their arrival. Elder Hirst will help all of the new missionaries after I leave.
I had some wonderful spiritual experiences this last week, but don’t have time to write about them now. I’ll write about them later.
Elder Hirst, Elder Martins and I are doing “Insanity” in the morning and evening. It is super hard. I’ve been losing weight.
