Bom Dia!

Hopefully you're all having a wonderful sunday! We just returned from church and I thought I'd take the opportunity to drop a quick update on here.
This weekend has been full of excitement! Yesterday Paul took us on a tour of the ARCA camp site. It was so fun to see the camp we learned so much about while still in America. We met two of our most wonderful new friends here in Bateias (I will need to find the real spelling for that...it is the town where Paul and Becky live). Their names are Amanda and Gracieli, 9 and 7 years old. We had a wonderful time going on walks, learning Portuguese, and baking cookies! They live just up the hill so hopefully we'll get to see them often. While Graciele and I went on a walk, the boys we working up a sweat doing yard work down at the local church. We admire their ability to do the hard labor and appreciate that it wasn't us! :)
In the evening, we piled into the bus that the Abels use to bring people to church events and headed into Curitiba for a post-camp gathering. There must have been 25 youth crammed into the relatively tiny bus. It was an amazing time getting to know all the youth! The four of us had out our English Portuguese dictionaries and were doing our best to talk with them. By the end of the night we had many new friends and great memories! Please pray for our friend William as he is praying about possibly coming to Bible School in Campo Mourao. At the gathering it was a huge encouragement to hear the testimonies of student's lives that were changed at camp last week. Keep their growing relationship with the Lord in your prayers as well.
It's just about time for lunch so I'll go for now, but more updates will follow soon.
In Christ,
Amanda