Happenings around Campo Mourao

Its been awhile since I've updated...we haven't really had much internet connection over the weekend. But thats ok because I'll write everything now anyways!

On friday we spent alot of our afternoon getting ready for English Camp. We've got a poster, fliers, and t-shirts in the making! Hopefully soon we'll put a picture of our poster on here.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we had our physical education class with Pastor Nata. What a crazy class! Its packed full of anykind of exercise you can think of. Running, stretching, push-ups- even karate drills! We all love it...even though we're worn out by the end:) They're keeping us missionary kids in shape!
When class was over, we got ready and headed over to the English school where Pastor Anilton teaches. They heard we were in town and wanted to have us over for a party so we could talk with the students. We brought fliers for our English camp with and handed them out...so hopefully alot of students will come. Its been a really awsome ministry opportunity to work with English schools. We're interesting to them because we're from America, and they love to practice their English. It gives us so many chances to share our faith (in our language which helps!). We have two friends from this school who not only have come to youth group, but also to hang out with us here at school and to church last night. Exciting! Please pray for more ministry opportnities as we visit various schools and invite them to camp.
Twice a week Pastor Anilton gives us portuguese classes. He is such a wonderful teacher with an amazing heart for evangelism! We had class with him on Friday night, and on saturday morning he took us shopping around Campo Mourao so we could practice our vocabulary with the different shop workers. It was so nice of him to take the time out of his day to do that! The highlight of our morning was when we went to the Christian bookstore. We wanted to purchase Bibles for the three children in the miriam infant home and some extras for children that may come in the future. After we selected 8 Bibles, the employees said that they wanted to give us a big discount on them. If that wasn't a great enough surprise, they also decided to give us 4 FREE bibles- a value of around 80 reias! Wow, that was so incredible to meet people with hearts for heping these kids. Praise the Lord!
Saturday night we had youth group. Nathan, Jon, Bethany and I were in charge of leading it (with the help of our wonderful translator Sabrine!) The mood was kept light as we taught them English classics like the Hippo song and Stand up and Shout it. Following the songs, Jon did a great job sharing his testimony. One of the favorite activities of the night was breaking up into the three groups and preparing a skit based on Numbers 13. One with a cowboy theme, one with a opera theme, and one with a romantic theme...needless to say there was LOTS of laughter!
Its getting close to lunch time, so I'll stop for now. More updates will follow soon!
In Jesus,
Amanda