April Update - Easter Retreat

On April 10, 11,12 we had an Easter Retreat with all the house-churches, we had a great time, we had classes for women ministered by Nadia Diogo from the church of Viamao. Here are some pictures of this class! I can also introduce you my sisters in Christ!

And in the next picture, there is Raquel, Ines' daughter! We are great friends!

In the picture below, you can see Ines, she knows a lot about the word, and I always learn something from her!

On the left you can see Priscila, Rui Diogo's sister. She is the most ingenuous and innocent person I have ever met. I love her sweetness! :)

And this is my good friend Lorena. She is always calm. we have good conversations about family, children, etc!

And here you can see the entire group of women who attended the class. We talked about how to be light to others! I can already see a lot of light in their eyes! May God give us wisdom do pass it on!

April Update!

Hi, after a long time without writing anything due to our long two-month fourlough through the USA I took a while to get back to my normal life, and get back to my work that I love. The Salgado family is one of the first families we visited after furlough. Alex and Jennifer were doing house church there before they left to the US. So we visited them because we miss them and also to check on how they are doing. They decided to go to a church building near their house because they can have more activities for their teenager girls. We understand that house churches are not applicable for every family, and there is also the fact that they moved away from Porto Alegre and it is difficult for the other members of our house-church to visit them more often. We will continue to support them with our visits and prayes. They will always be our dear brothers and sisters in Christ!

This is our house church. This one was on April 4th, three days after my birthday. I had a great surprise, Marzo and Lu (our best man and woman in our wedding) came to see us. I served cake and tea, and we praised the Lord and had the Lord`s supper together.

We also visited Luzia along with our friends Joao and Clarice, and they got me a surprise for my birthday. After dinner we had a delicious cake and happy birthday. I'm not used to being surprised like that. I'm always the one who prepares the surprises! So that was good!
By the way, Joao and Clarice started a house church in the military base where they live. They are starting with a another couple. Isn't it wonderful?

Luzia is congregating with a new Church of Christ building with another team of missionaries. She also prefers a building because she wants her son, Mateus, to have Sunday School with other kids. We keep in contact and pray for each other! In fact she is getting back together with her ex-husband Daniel. That's an answer to our prayers!

This is my oldest friend Blanka. She used to be my Portuguese student. Last year we celebrated our birthday together drinking champagne and eating cake. My birthday is on April 1st and hers on April 4th. Her family says she is becoming senile, she is not speaking anything but "yah". But when she saw me again, she started speaking. She said my name, and when I gave her flowers for her birthday she said: "very nice" . That was a very touching moment for me, she did not say anything else, but she held my hand strong and wouldn't let me go. I talked with her a lot, I know she could understand me, I could see it in her eyes. She is now 96 years old. It's strange to say that I don't see her as my granmother but as my friend, when we celebrated our birthday together last year I didn't feel any age difference between us!

Well, this is a little about my short life of 32 years old!