Hi! Brazil is great! I'm great! And the Lord is the greatest of all. :)
I'm writing this on my phone (did you guys know Blogspot has an app?! We can blog on the go ;) ) so it will be short and sweet.
1) I miss ya'll. A lot! I miss praying with you and hearing the neat things God is doing! Please write updates on here so I can keep up with your lives? :)
2) Portuguese is hard....I don't want to say I've given up, but I think I have. I know basic greetings and random words and phrases, but most of the time I'm spending with my family, so they just all speak English. And when we do go out doing various activities, my nieces and nephew gets tired of translating. Whenever I learn something, I get excited, but then realize that it's not going to help on a practical conversation level (for example, I learned to say "do you seek after God every day?" And "I want to have five kids" but that doesn't help when you can't carry on a convoy beyond that. So I'm arguing with myself now, trying to decide if I'm going to be mad when I get home that I didn't learn more, or mad if I spend a bunch of time learning it and then never use it again! Ha.
2) Wisdom for my role here. I'm just loving my family! I help do homeschool, cook, do dishes, play, and swim. Then we do errands and go out to eat, and do random things like cell groups (bible studies), go on boat trips. Is this my role for the next 2 months? Keep loving the fam, doing regular life and learn how to encourage? Or should I start pressing to do ministry in the poor community around us or to go out and do transvestite prostitution ministry more? (I did this one night and will definitely go again. Please pray for these men. A lot of  them are young and confused and need money. We set up a table with food and coffee from 11pm to 2-3 across the road from where they gather. Two of the guy/girls we talked to KNOW the truth, one was even leading a bible study and everything. Satan is just evil. Pray for freedom from bondage, grace to be claimed, and wisdom for the 3 people that try to meet with them throughout the week to build relationship (josh, Amanda and joshs' sister, whose name I forget )).
3) also prayers for Jew-tie-e (the community we live in, I can't spell it but that's how you say it!) Every Saturday, Matt and his Brazilian friend Carlos, and typically three other girls, go out and do evangelism. People are getting saved. Last week there were 7! PRAISE THE LORD! Here, they get saved, join a cell group, get discipled and learn and grow in truth. There's an awesome problem in the community though....not enough people to disciple all these new souls joining our Family! Pray for God to rise up spiritually-ready leaders and for these new souls to be grounded in truth and love!!

I miss and love you all.