Heya everyone-just a quickie until I get on the internet next week...everything here is amazing, the poeple here are so overwhelmingly generous and loving-a real challeneg for us Brits sometimes! We travel on a big truck with many many Brasillians and have songs and jokes all the way to the churches we visit and everyone is really pleased to have us here!

The work has been hard some days but God has given us strength to keeop going every day with some quite hard labour-especially for us girls but we have held our own I think!! So much has been built and done and we have a party/;service on Thursday!

On our days off we have been swimming with the locals and done face painting and playing with bubbles with the kids while the guys have played football-they won a game on Sat but we were playing with Brasillians as Inglaterha!!

The team is fab and although we are tired and don~t get a lot of time together sometimes God is really doing fantastic things with us all and we are gelling really well. Us girls are really close now and have been able to have a gilrie night with Cadburys chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!

The food here is fantastic and we never want for anything-the guys are so funny, they pile it on-the women here love it!

Ok, I guess I had beter quickly go as there´s a class in here in a few minutes but next project we are in the city so we will be able to get to the internet easily:o)

Prayer requests

For Pastor Nets and his wife and all the work in Fonte No Deserto
For Pamela (our Brasillian sister and team mate who leaves us on Sunday)
For safety, continued protection and team realationships to grow and strengthen

Ahuge thank you for everything so far, we have be so so blessed in everything!!

Until next time
Tchau

Katie xx

Day before departure

Heya! Ok, so we had the orientation weekend spent in the mud and partly in a horse box-sooo funny! My team are fantastic, I think we are in for a great balance of lots of laughs and also doing everything we need to and focusing on God. This week has gone by in a bit of a blur of lists and packing materials but now it's finally here and I leave home in an hour for the airport!! We fly at 6.30am and I am getting excited! It is a little bizarre because the build up has been for a while.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me little notes, encouragement etc, I have now made a lil scrap book for myself with all of that in plus memorable pics so I think that will really help. Anyway, weird that I will be so far away from you all in a day (what a difference a day makes-ok, dad joke sorry!) Please stay in touch, your e-mails/ comments etc will mean so much to me.

I have a few prayer requests:

For team unity, protection, openness to God, discernment and language and culture learning in order that we can be of use to God in Brazil and come back in one piece!

Pray that this adventure will draw us all close to God, that we can come back as changed people and more like the people God wants us to be.

Pray for a new and fuller experience of God, a fuller understanding of him and a refreshing of our relationships with him.

Also, for fun, that we can be real with each other and that many amazing memories and fun times will be created

Thank you, I will write again soon from Brazil (hmm! woo!)

Katie xxx