Last night we had a good time celebrating New Years Eve with the church here. We had a special service with a lot of people sharing and giving thanks for what God has done in their life... very sweet. After that, around 10:30 pm, we had dinner... and let me tell you that Brazilians eat rice and beans everyday, yums! It's really good. We also had shrimp in a yellow sauce and another typical dish called Salpicao, which is some kind of a chicken with noodles. Oh, and also barbecue chicken... everything was delicious.

We had plenty of oportunities to practice our broken Portuguese with some friends. It's kind of a funny feeling, we can understand 80% of what they are saying but we can't speak back....and when we do, it comes across like we're chopping and destroying the language!. But we've definitely seen progress and that is encouraging. Oh well... we'll keep trying. Thank God Brazilians are so gracious and smile a lot, which makes us feel soooo much better.