Today we took care of the second part of the paperwork to get our Brazilian identification card which included getting our fingerprinting done at the "Oficina de Estrangeiros" at the Department of Immigration. While there, I met Sheila a Brazilian gal that was renewing her passport so she can travel to Italy to visit her mom for Christmas. I was able to communicate with her. It seems that everywhere we go there's someone always with enough patience to talk with us.

Anyways, these last days we've been quite busy.........getting a cell phone, internet access, bank work, meeting our neighbors, meeting with the principal of our kids schools, Portuguese clases, barbeque with new friends, church service, getting bread at the bread store down the block... mmm...good, well seems like we are doing good. It's quite exciting for us and definetly we've learned to laugh at ourselves.

God has put a deep love for this country an its people in our hearts. Please pray that we can learn the language so well that they will think we are one of them.
God is so good! " Count your blessings name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done.