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<\/a><\/p>\nThere were sessions morning, mid-afternoon, and night.\u00a0 But there were free hours in the afternoon to rest or play.\u00a0 The kids were thrilled to have lots of green space!<\/p>\n
Isaiah got lots of attention from the other missionary kids.<\/p>\n Jevon and Isaiah checking to see what’s available in the snack shop.<\/p>\n Some kind of puffed corn snack.<\/p>\n People watching volleyball.<\/p>\n People playing volleyball.<\/p>\n Catching butterflies.<\/p>\n Kiki learned to climb and go down the old fashioned kind of slide all by herself.<\/p>\n With friends.<\/p>\n We took a short family hike in the jungle.<\/p>\n From up on the bluff we could see the lighthouse in the Amazon river.<\/p>\n And a band of little monkeys shaking the trees a ways down the hill from us.\u00a0 (too far away in too thick foliage to get a recognizable picture)<\/p>\n Chugging water – part of the hike.<\/p>\n Jevon making a whistle from a reed.<\/p>\n Cali trying to blow it.\u00a0 Apparently its harder than her Daddy made it look.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n It’s hard to get pictures of the meetings because, for one thing, it’s kind of dark indoors, and for another thing, we are trying to pay attention and understand the Portuguese with Isaiah thumping around beside us.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 But there was plenty of good singing, testimonies, teaching, and preaching, some of which we understood, and some of which was over our heads.<\/p>\n Boys in the puddle together.<\/p>\n Lined up in the dining hall.<\/p>\n Good place to talk.<\/p>\n Carl and Andreza…very cool co-workers.<\/p>\n The ladies had a tea one afternoon, and lots of women shared stories of how God had answered prayers from last year or how God had intervened in trials.\u00a0 But the story that stuck with me most of all was from a new missionary who recently went into the tribe with her husband.\u00a0 A lady came to her who spoke a little bit of Portuguese (just enough to go into town and buy things).\u00a0 This Indian woman had visited the Assemblies of God church a couple of times and didn’t really understand anything, and wanted to know about God.\u00a0 The new missionary woman thought for awhile, stretching her brain to find the simplest words possible, and gave the Indian woman the story of God, man’s sin, and God’s salvation in Jesus Christ, in the simplest Portuguese she could think of.\u00a0 Finishing, she asked “do you understand?”<\/p>\n “I didn’t understand almost anything you said, missionary.” the lady responded.<\/p>\n It’s just a wall – the language barrier.\u00a0 You hit it and you can’t get through.\u00a0 For this reason we learn languages, however long it takes.<\/p>\n “we will learn your language,” the Brazilian missionary woman promised, “and when we tell you God’s message in your language you will understand.”<\/p>\n God, please help them learn the language so people can understand and know You!\u00a0 And help us learn Portuguese so we can join a team and START learning a tribal langauge!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n