ON TIME! It's hard to believe I know and I did it all myself. I had time for a shower and breakfast and showed up to the salon right on time. I'm loving the big gap in between arriving and waiting to leave after lunch. It's a time basically for fellowship and preparing our hearts and minds for when we hit the streets and witness. Today went a whole lot different then the others. We spent a lot more time reading and in prayer we goofed around a little while the brazilians were teaching us some dance moves that go to a son but other than that it was a lot of studying. Randy shared an awesome verse today that really stuck with me today because we were going in to the rough part of Sao Camillo to tell the kids about tomorrow and Sunday's VBS. It was Psalm 31 and in it David is asking for protection. Asking the Lord to be his rock of protection to be a fortress where he'll be safe and it goes on it's pretty long. You should read it, it's a good chapter.

So Sao Camillo. Where exactly do I start... Maybe I'll start at the point when we where beginning our walk to the hill when we didn't even get 100 yards from the salon. As we started up the road a few police men drove by and got out of their car in front of a house and told us to turn around and head back in. We were all so confused, turns out the the police were making an arrest in Sao Camillo and when they do everyone there spread like ants so they block the streets to make sure no one gets out. Ma and Cathy I know ya'll are loving this already, but wait it gets better. so we headed back to the salon and we got into a huge circle and began to pray. For Sao Camillo and the Brazilians they mentioned how they don't do as much outreach as they should with that neighborhood and we prayed like crazy. all this prayer really got us going and ready to get back out when the police gave us the ok. Ya we went in still, told you you'd love it. we had a list of kids who we went to talk to. These kids are part of the churches project where they come every Saturday to eat and play and be in a nice safe environment. We found the first house and they invited us in. We sat with them and told them about tomorrow and asked if we could pray with them. They were a very sweet and kind family. As we went to find the next house we past by a group of guys in a little corner in the steps one guy had a walkie talkie and was talking to someone about us it was kinda scary. We later passed by another group of guys very closely and the were smoking some weed. The smell filled the area we were in so we kept walking we didn't really want to catch a contact high on a mission trip. We ended up only talking to three families because we ran out of time we did get the chance to pray with them all so that was good and all their kids are going to be at the salon tomorrow.

After all this we headed back to the salon had a snack and heard a message from the head pastor. He spoke about the church and how it's suposed to be. a great message for Cole and I considering we want to start a house church in Denton. I would be more elaberate but it would take a lot of typing, I'll save it for another day. Right after all us guys Americans and Brazilians were ready to go play soccer. We finally got to actually play. We hadn't had a chance yet becasue it's been so wet and rainy.

We went to the court by my host home from last year. We didn't play America vs. Brazil this time we just mixed people up two teams of 5  and we played till 7 minutes or the first team to get 2 goals. Let's just say my team played four games in a row. It was such a blast. later on during another game I was blocking Taylor and my toe made contact with his shin mid kick. It might be broken but it may also just be really sore, I'm hoping for sore. We ended up playing for an hour and a half and it was funny because the neighborhood watch remembered us from last year.

Victor dropped me off at my condo and I had a nice light lunch with the folks. They are so awesome they honestly make me so jealous. I want what they have so stinkin bad. Just the contentment that they have and love that they have in their voice when they talk to each other. One day.  Anyways I'm blessed to be here and thank the Lord we were kept safe today. I don't believe we are going to Sao Camillo tomorrow but we are Sunday. Things are always changing though so we will see. Keep praying for us and if you're reading these thanks for reading I hope I'm capturing my experiences here well enough for you.

Anyone want to put money on wether I'll be late or on time tomorrow morning?

Love the Lord, all you godly ones! For the Lord protects those who are loyal to him, but he harshly punishes the arrogant. So be strong and corageous, all you who put your hope in the Lord.

Psalm 31:23-24