br Salvador Porters: June 2005

Friday, June 17, 2005

Well another week is over. It seems like they are going quicker and quicker lately. It has been a good week. Our week was blessed with some good quality time with family and different teammates this week. That really does help a week go well.

Not much planned for this weekend. We are still working at trying to set up house. (I never knew it could take this long.) We hung a few pictures today and, Lord willing, we will continue a little bit of that process this weekend. In about two weeks some of our dear friends from Abilene are coming up to see us. And yes I am correct in saying "up." The Perkins are actually in Montevideo right now where Scott is teaching for ACU during May and June. We are so excited to see them and cannot wait for them to get here. In order for them to have some where to sleep though, we need to get a few more of the boxes out of the back room and move the bed that is currently leaning against our wall in the living room into its rightful place. Never fear though we have two weeks!!!

The Perkins are some of our dear friends plus our contacts on the missions committee at Highland. While seeing them will be a wonderful treat they are also going to help put on a mini-retreat for our team to help us continue adjusting to the culture. We have been planning this since before we left so we are excited that it is finally about time. After they are here we are all going to Itu to see one of the Highland summer mission campaigns. There are lots of people there we are excited to see. Well I guess I had better go it is time to go meet the boys for our weekly excersice session (a.k.a. basketball). Tchau

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Lunch with our new friends

Before I tell about our great lunch with friends I just have to comment on my amusement that many of my stories are about food in one form or another.

Two Sundays ago we had the blessing of spending Sunday afternoon with some of our new friends eatting lunch at their house. Their names are Andre and Lili (pronounced Lee-li) and their ~9 month old baby Pedro Gabriel. What a great time. One of the other couples from our team and another couple from the church also joined us and we talked for literally hours just sitting on the floor and enjoying each other's company.

It is such a rich blessing to have a church already here in Salvador. They have been so helpful and encouraging. It is a perfect example of what it means to have the family of God all over the world. It has made this move much better.