God's Promise. (One of them)

As I was surfing through Facebook just now, I came across Bud's status. Genesis 10 says: "God says, 'This is my covenant forever: I have placed a rainbow in the clouds and it is a sign of my covenant between me and all the earth.' "

Before I came to Brasil, I met with Angie Duplaga, who stayed here in August just before me.  She was very excited for me and could not wait to hear about all my experiences.  She also told me a little testimony of her flight down.  She was very nervous, but then she told me she looked out her window and saw a rainbow.  She took great comfort in that and she trusted God in protecting her fully.

I was very nervous for the trip down here as well.  I tend to think too much about things and it gets me worried.  I need to stop that and put full trust in God.  He reminded me of this while in Atlanta on my way to Manaus.  You can probably guess where I'm going with this... I looked out of my window once we were airborne, because we had been on the airstrip for a while due to a storm.   And what did I see?

A rainbow.

Yeah. God is good and His love for us endures FOREVER.  After that I was comforted and knew God was holding the plane with His loving embrace and blessing the trip.  I did not have any mishaps along the way, either.  Which was an answer to prayers.

Angie if you are reading this right now, I am so glad you told me about the rainbow you saw.  You thought it was flaky telling me but really, thank you.  It helped me tremendously.

Hello everyone!

This is the first blog I am posting, on my first blog spot ever! Pretty cool...

As most of you all know already, I am in Altamira, Brasil.  I will be here for six months living with the Simon family in their house.  I am learning Portuguese fairly quickly, since that is the language spoken by everyone with the exception of a few people.  I will also be helping with a building project starting sometime soon hopefully.  The building is a spot for youth retreats/camp outings.  The foundation is built, but there is still much work to be done.  Traveling on the river (Xingu) is also a reality here.  Every month the Igreja (Church) goes out on a mission on the river.  I have pictures of our adventure that took place last weekend.  It was my first outing on the river so I was amazed by everything.

I will try to post something every week with some pictures to go along with it.  This will give me a chance to develop a habit of writing down my experience here and I am so excited to show you all more.

                                                         My first catch in the Xingu River

Till next time...  These pictures don't give this place justice at all.  And words cannot explain the beauty.