Yay for Skype!

The school is closed for the day, but luckily Danny has the internet at his apartment! Last night at the Shorts' was great! We had dinner with them, Danny, and Chris and Theresa Boyce. They are also missionaries in Recife. They have an adorable and hilarious 4 year old daughter named Sara. She entertained us all evening. My favorite part of the night was getting to talk to my parents on skype!! We both had web cams, so we were able to see each other. It was very exciting! If you don't know what skype is, you need to go to http://skype.com/ today! You can download it for free, and talk to anyone in the world who has it, for as long as you want, for FREE! After dinner, we went back to Christina's. She and I stayed up late bonding and looking at pictures of last year's LST team, and trips she has been on. It was a lot of fun! I realized that since I have been here, I have been playing one really long game of charades and pictionary! It's the only way to communicate some words or concepts.

Today is our free day, so this morning I went with Lee to the church building where she and Rinata teach English and the Bible to children from poor neighborhoods. This is something they do every Saturday, and is called "Projecto Pro-Crescer" which means Project for Growth. The kids were so sweet and cute. After the lessons, they played soccer and rode bikes. One girl who has been studying with Lee for a while decided to be baptized today!

This video is of the kids singing "God is so Good." I'm not sure how it sounds because I don't have speakers on this computer. I hope you can hear how cute they sound.

This afternoon we had an exciting trip to the supermarket. This was not your typical supermarket. There were a lot of interesting things going on here, and the line wrapped all the way around the store. If it had not been for our taxi driver, Roberto who came in with us, we would not have known what to do! He helped us pick out the best fruit. Anything you need to do, you can do at the supermarket. Food, of course. Haircut? Sure! There was even live music! AND it was air conditioned! It was a whole new world. Now, we are watching the Bee Movie at Danny's! Tonight, Missy and William will go to their first Brazilian soccer game with Randy! Jarrod and I are going with Chris to a bible study in the favela. I'm not sure what to expect, but a quote from the dictionary says this, "favelas-these shantytowns are the antithesis of the picture postcard views on sale in all major Brazilian cities. Made up of makeshift shacks, they spread for miles across marginal land in and around the main population centers, painting all too vivid a portrait of the poverty that underpins life for so many Brazilians." It should be an interesting experience. It will definitely give us a different perspective.
It is brutally hot today. "Muito quente!" But it will probably start cooling down as the day goes on. Please keep Missy in your prayers. She is not feeling well.