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Monday evening,
August 3, 2009
July
is done. Home visits from the pastors are over. The holiday weekend is
history. Life now gets back to normal. I
just got back from a mission “field council” meeting at church. I
left my wife and the car there, and walked home with stops at the
grocery store, the post office, the place that refills my ink
cartridges and the bakery (since I have to fix my own supper). It is August, and Sue has started her ESL
classes again. Our Monday night
discipleship won’t begin until later in the month.
Next
Monday we drive in to São
Paulo
to pick up Natali at the airport. She gets in on Tuesday morning, but
it is easier to go a day ahead of time and spend the night at a hotel.
Then we’re all flying down to Rio for
a few days. That should be a fun time, especially the part of
hang-gliding off Pedra da Gávea - one of the cliffs – gliding
over the
botanical gardens, then out over the ocean and finally landing down on
the beach below. Cool! Can’t wait!
Sue
wanted to go to the H. Stern jewelry factory before I jumped off the
cliff, but decided she’d probably have more money to spend after I
jumped. She’s made sure life insurance is
all in order, and said she’d be waiting on the beach to pick up the
pieces! We’ll see!
The
day Natali comes in is our thirty-sixth wedding anniversary! We won’t celebrate in South Africa, like last year, but I
still like Rio, and we’ll have our
little girl along for the ride this time.
Yesterday
kicked off Family Month at church. It was a great start, and a super
crowd of people. The guest speaker was our missionary with Child
Evangelism who spoke on communication within family. The theme song is
“Prayer for the Family”, pictures of folks from church when they were
little are shown up on the big screen, wedding albums are out on
display, and there was even a baby dedication. It was a special day! At
the end of last night’s service, the church presented Ismael an
offering of equivalent to US$500 for the trip he is heading up with a
Child Evangelism group from Brazil
to Bolivia
in the end of September. They will spend the first week training folks
in evangelism and the second week go out to several regions of the
country to do evangelistic work. (see pics on our blog – http://spoelhof-brazilnuts.blogspot.com/ )
Now
it’s way past my supper time so I’m going to eat! Tchau!
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