heat, lightning and a multitude of stars

First of all, let me just say that a kid falling asleep on your shoulder is the cutest thing ever... ok not EVER but still... it's pretty stinkin cute haha :) Well the rain has past and the heat is here!! And it's back with a vengeance! Ay! I can't even begin to tell you how Texas humidity has NOTHING on Brasil's heat wave... bleh... And although the stars at night ARE big and bright deep in the heart of Texas, i gotta tell ya, in Brasil country, looking up at the sky... i never knew i could see so many stars!! it was like the sky had exploded and there was a smattering of pinpricks of light everywhere! and in the far off distance, with lightning flaring up, highlighting the unseen clouds... just beautiful... i wished then that i had a camera that could fully give justice to the picture i would take but alas, all i have are my memories :) in other news, as i think i've mentioned before, everything in Brasil seems to alwaysbe up in the air. plans change hour to hour, day to day. instead of doing the puppet show for the 250+ kids last nite, we went to a different church out in the country of Campo Grande (where i am currently and will be until i come home) where i got to sing a worship song acapella. ok if any of you really know me, then you know that i have horrible stage fright hahaha no but seriously, i was ok until about a minute before i went up and then i started shaking... it was pretty bad and when i started singing, i could hear my voice quivering and my hand holding the microphone was shaking and i was like "oh no..." haha but as i started to sing, i just concentrated on the words, about giving my worship to God and once i did that, i was fine... but yes, i can't remember a time when i've actually sang solo, let alone acapella in front of an audience... yay for God helping me haha... Everything here is slow paced as well... we arrived 2 hours early for service last night as well as with others in the church... everyone just sits around talking and then we actually have service and multiple people are allowed to talk or preach or share and there doesn't seem to be a time limit which is very strange for my American sense of church haha it took some getting used to but i kept thinking that when Jesus was preaching, people would sit and listen for days without leaving, whether they had food or not... we should always be ready and willing to listen to a word of our Lord and Savior :) um let's see, what else? i've given my testimony at 5 or 6 churches now? and then i sang last night... who knows what i'll end up doing tonight haha things are good and i hope everyone at home is doing great - that school or work isn't too much of a burden for yall :) oh and a side note to leave you with - when pastor kevin had told me how in Brasil, stop signs and red lights were more caution lights than actual laws... i thought he meant like out in the country where there's not much traffic... but no... as we drove back into the city last night, we definitely blew through or "cautiously" drove through an assortment of red lights and stop signs... if i didn't know that God was with me, i would come home right now hahaha