Blogs from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, South America - page 8

ola, warm greetings from brazil its actually cooled down here today a little bit, its a nice reprieve from the scorching heat last week. It probably is only in the low 20´s today and the humidity has dropped to 50 %. We had an amazing weekend, the break at Torres was just awesome. The rain held off till saturday nite and we managed to do some shopping and spend time at the beach as well. Turns out that Alex is a pretty good boogy boarder. He spent about 3 hours playing in the ocean with some of the other team members that also bought boards while out shopping. Sunday nite was church, and it was just incredible. 25 people had made decisions for the Lord and were baptized. It was so amazing to see so many ... read more

good morning, afternoon or evening, whichever the case may be things here are going really well. its SMOKING HOT.... and the humidity is incredibly high. I was mentioning to another team member this morning that God is likely sick of my prayers everymorning.... please send a breeze, please protect me from cockroaches.... she assured me that he isnt. the work at the new house is moving along well, they are doing the best they can in this heat. at lunch time we walk to a restarant about a kilometer away or so, its not too far, but its a huge hill and it really drains the men that have been working so hard in the morning. herman said this morning though, he wants to be use the mission car and haul 4 at a time ... read more

its hard to believe its already saturday nite. this week went by incredibly fast. we´ve been working long days but the productivity has been really great. the team is just so ready to get in there and get busy. all the tile work was done before we got here and after just 2 days the guys have managed to get almost the entire house grouted. its working alot better this time since alex brought along a trowel*spelling* and sponges making it so much easier than the first year, when he was given half a flip flop to do all the grouting. I´ve been busy already with loads and loads of laundry, the lethbridge team knew that there was access to laundry facilities so they decided to bring only a carry on for personal items. that way ... read more

Hey everyone welcome to this crazy world of blogging! Depending on how the dial up connection is at the orphange will depend on how often updates will be added. Please check often anyway. We will also send some emails, so dont worry, if you are blogging challenged like myself; you will still get updates. I wanted to post a little history of Chain of Love for those of you that dont know the whole story of the orphange. It was started by a missionary couple that had gone to Brazil to as church planters. There are hundreds of thousands of street kids in Brazil and the missionaries were surrounded by lots of them. When one of the kids they called 'Rusty' was murdered they felt that God was asking them to do something about this situation. ... read more

This weekend we went to see the national park Aparados da Serra which is situated in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. According to a travel agency’s employee the park is at most 4 hours by bus from Florianopolis and the trip works as the following: get a bus from Florianopolis to Ararangua which takes at most 3 hours and then get a local bus to the park, which is only one more hour away. Sounds good for a weekend trip! We got our baggage ready (shorts, t-shirts and other summer clothes) and caught the bus at the Florianopolis main station. After two hours we were still on the bus to Ararangua. After 3 hours we were still on the bus to Ararangua. The only excitement on the bus: a video film and I destroyed ... read more