Heya everyone!!!!! Ok, I ahve been rubbish with this so sorry!!

We finished our second project in Friday which was building foundations for a church next to a Catholic church, (bit of background; Catholis church over here is not like Englod, it has A LOT of spiritism and people wouldn´t call it Christian and this Catholic church was very quickly built when they realised a protistant minister was moving in-Adriano). It seemed to have an amazing impact ion the community-we have people coming with popcorn and sitting on the bricks watching us! lol.

We all turned into human moles digging and digging in rain and mud but challenging as it was the people were amazing and our team (now 11 with David and Andrew wwho were so amazingly encouraging and hard working and...sent from God) although clashing on occasion worked together to get stuff done and most of the time the building site was filled with banter and many mud fights-Chris chucked me in a mud puddle-do not mess with guys, lol!!

We lead a church service which was very challenging (Austin did his frst sermon- in Portuguese as well) and we sang and prayed for the community there. Father Abraham didn´t realy work and so it ended up being in English half of the time and random actions! lol.

We went on a hill treck in the pitch black to go to a church in someone´s house where we sang and messed around with the kids there (they love catching grass hoppers and putting them on people during prayers and stuff-mischievious!) Please pray for the people in that community, there is a lot of stuff going on there but Adriano amd his wife Adriana are amazing and we felt like their family.

We are now on holiday on a beach in a youth hostel (very luxurious in brasil) which is a bit odd having been working with local people and stuff so it´s a big adjustment but also great to have a matress and time to ourselves to relax. We have had evening walks along the beach and birthday celebrations for Amy. We girls went to the beach yesterday and enjoyed being swept along by such powerful waves!! Our bodies are slowly recovering but we really miss the people we have met over here. ALthough, I think now I am really looking forward to going home as well as enjoying being here, it´s quite weird sometimes. I miss you all and please continue to pray for prtection, flights home and also for continued fellowship with people we meet here as well as with each other, it´s going to be very odd leaving everyone! Please pray for adjustment back to the UK. I think we will be ok but it is going to be strange for a while.

Hope you are all enjoying summer, hope not too wet and floodie

Katie xxxxx