One More Day!... One more time... one more sunset baby & i'd be satisfied...

Yuppers I'm coming home!!! :-D I will be home friday and I am excited and ready! Time has flown by WAAAAY faster than I could ever have imagined and here I am - one more day & then a day spent in airports... I'm super sad to leave everyone... and Brasil... a country I never thought that I would like haha But now it feels like another home... hmm... God has been amazing and is STILL amazing and answers prayers all the time, big and small... I love the things He's been teaching me and even more so, when he pulls me through the brokenness... I can't wait to come home and see everyone! Thank you to everyone who has followed my (not very often... sorry!!) blogs through this journey and for all of your prayers and support! Believe me, they are truly appreciated!

Less than 3 weeks... yowsers!

Wow I'm still amazed by the time...
To add to the Dourados blog from last week...
Besides working with the innercity kids, I got to go to Aldeia which is the Indian reservation there and spend time with a family - reallllly cool... except a LOT of walking... unfortunately I didn't know how MUCH walking, therefore nikki was in flipflops... NO BUENO!! ;) hahaha but it was good...
And on saturday mornings, the church opens up for kids in the city to come take free classes (like to learn english or dance or learning how to talk in front of people haha many shy kids there...) or to play games (volleyball and soccer) so Pâmela told me that I could help with her english class which of course I was like "sure!!"... What I didn't know was that, after she brought me to the front of the class and introduced me as her American friend, she handed me a piece of chalk and said "Now this is YOUR class!" and sat down... hahaha wow ya should've seen the look on my face! :) But it was good - we had a good time & i eventually got the kids to open up and give some feedback... I also went to another friend's english class (where SHE was learning english) and it was kinda funny b/c they were learning "british english" and the tapes they have to listen to are really hard to distinguish what they're saying! The teacher even "made" me (haha) take the test with the rest of class and it was kinda hard! hahaha but only b/c the British accent was so strong and the recording was really rough :/ haha And I'm going back to Dourados soon... maybe sooner than I previously thought, but that all depends on a few factors... but when I do, my friend Pâmela (who actually teaches english as her job at a school there) said that all of her students want to meet me so I will be "helping" haha (i hope ONLY helping) with her class when I go back... Anyway things are going well... and winding down haha... I was eating pizza with a friend last night and we were talking about me leaving and not being around every day anymore and it was really sad and we both almost started crying! :/ I really am sad to leave this place... much more every day... but I'm also ready to come home... Yesterday I was at Alisson's college and I had the most interesting conversation with a gay guy from Lebanon that is Muslim... random i know... but we were talking about Islam vs Christianity and talking about world views and how people really think about America there and the differences between a lot of different things and it was very eye opening to see how people (outside of the US) look at the world and the US... not just him but I've talked to many people here... and i'm really glad to have a more rounded view of the world than my previous bubble... it's very interesting to say the least... Anyway I've got to go but I will leave you with this :
"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life."
Proverbs 4:23
love it... and God spoke to me thru it... and it was goooood :)