Just for the record... if anyone feels like praying for me...
I can't sleep!! haha I've been having trouble for more than a week now sleeping and it's slowly wearing me down haha
Anyway, back to the update...
A couple of Sundays ago, I spent the day with two of my guy friends on their side of town and wow! I was promptly ushered in to life without a car, cellphone or much money. Had I known how much walking we were to do that day, I would have worn my tennis shoes instead of sandals haha When we wanted to visit someone, we just walked to their house. We also walked to this big open market in one of the streets which was pretty neat. The openness and kindness of the people here is sometimes staggering. One of the guys live in a small house with his mom. It is very poor and doesn't even really have doors (minus the front door). But when we came over, his mom offered everything that she had, whatever we might want, if she had it, she offered it. Generosity here takes on a new meaning and I pray continually for God to bless all these wonderful people who have shown me such favor. I also went shopping recently and didn't think that I had much money for clothes but the shop we went to belonged to a friend of one of the pastors here and the owner always supports all kinds of ministeries and missionaries so she gave me a GREAT deal (I got like 8 items for cheap). And all she wanted me to do was to keep her in my prayers, for blessings over her life and her shop. So I prayed with her there in the store and I wrote her name in my journal to remember. Many blessings here...
I also got to go to a samba concert. They have a program right now where pretty big bands come through and play for free in one of the parks here. And the park is so beautiful! It's very big and they set the stage up against the lake with the city skyline in the backdrop and we sat on a hill facing everything at sunset... WAAAAY cool :) and the music was great too!
This past weekend, for Easter, we went to a retreat in the mountains... Did I expect the nights to be frigid considering every day (and night) here has always been fairly hot?? NO haha I did not... Nights were spent shivering in my tent under 3 bare sheets haha but it was a lot of fun. I shared a tent with a couple of younger girls and we spent the weekend playing games with the rest of the youth. We had several services and in one of them, I gave my testimony (in very broken portuguese haha - no english speaking people there this time...) and sang "Nothing But The Blood". I've been asked to sing many times and I have but always in english. Right now I'm trying to learn the words to some of the songs I know fairly well in portuguese. :) Anyway many little things go on but too numerous to mention... or maybe to silly haha but they are important to me. God does answer prayers. I believe it and I've seen it many times. I pray continually every day that He would open and shut doors in my life and that He would guide my hands and my ways. I also try to pray before I make any decision, even the small ones :) And it's been such a blessing doing this, I can't even tell you...
I can't sleep!! haha I've been having trouble for more than a week now sleeping and it's slowly wearing me down haha
Anyway, back to the update...
A couple of Sundays ago, I spent the day with two of my guy friends on their side of town and wow! I was promptly ushered in to life without a car, cellphone or much money. Had I known how much walking we were to do that day, I would have worn my tennis shoes instead of sandals haha When we wanted to visit someone, we just walked to their house. We also walked to this big open market in one of the streets which was pretty neat. The openness and kindness of the people here is sometimes staggering. One of the guys live in a small house with his mom. It is very poor and doesn't even really have doors (minus the front door). But when we came over, his mom offered everything that she had, whatever we might want, if she had it, she offered it. Generosity here takes on a new meaning and I pray continually for God to bless all these wonderful people who have shown me such favor. I also went shopping recently and didn't think that I had much money for clothes but the shop we went to belonged to a friend of one of the pastors here and the owner always supports all kinds of ministeries and missionaries so she gave me a GREAT deal (I got like 8 items for cheap). And all she wanted me to do was to keep her in my prayers, for blessings over her life and her shop. So I prayed with her there in the store and I wrote her name in my journal to remember. Many blessings here...
I also got to go to a samba concert. They have a program right now where pretty big bands come through and play for free in one of the parks here. And the park is so beautiful! It's very big and they set the stage up against the lake with the city skyline in the backdrop and we sat on a hill facing everything at sunset... WAAAAY cool :) and the music was great too!
This past weekend, for Easter, we went to a retreat in the mountains... Did I expect the nights to be frigid considering every day (and night) here has always been fairly hot?? NO haha I did not... Nights were spent shivering in my tent under 3 bare sheets haha but it was a lot of fun. I shared a tent with a couple of younger girls and we spent the weekend playing games with the rest of the youth. We had several services and in one of them, I gave my testimony (in very broken portuguese haha - no english speaking people there this time...) and sang "Nothing But The Blood". I've been asked to sing many times and I have but always in english. Right now I'm trying to learn the words to some of the songs I know fairly well in portuguese. :) Anyway many little things go on but too numerous to mention... or maybe to silly haha but they are important to me. God does answer prayers. I believe it and I've seen it many times. I pray continually every day that He would open and shut doors in my life and that He would guide my hands and my ways. I also try to pray before I make any decision, even the small ones :) And it's been such a blessing doing this, I can't even tell you...
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