Brasil: Day 2 and 3

Day 2 (Friday)

We started off the day by having another session with Bryan and Jacqueline about church and how church is all about the people in it, which was a great reminder for us to know that Jesus called the church not as an actual building, but a group of people coming together to worship him. After the session, we drove about 20 or 30 miles into the city, which took us about an hour and a half with some traffic, and saw their daughter in law, Ana, and her children. It was great to see them because I had known Ana when she and her husband, Brent, lived in Los Angeles but I never got to see her kids because we moved to Texas. After a nice lunch with them, we made our way back to Jacqueline and Bryan's apartment. Instead of the hour and a half drive that it took us to get there, 3 HOURS later, we finally arrived at the apartment. Oh, Sao Paulo.

Day 3 (Saturday)

This mornings session was all about "spiritual multiplication." I especially loved this lesson because it was all about how to share the gospel with other people and how it is impossible to do so without the help of Jesus. Jacqueline and Bryan shared some incredible stories about people they have come into contact with over the years and how they introduced them to the gospel. After that lesson, Jacqueline, Lauren, and I headed to a ladies luncheon with the group of women that Jacqueline usually does bible studies with. Surprisingly, a lot of the women spoke english and they were precious! It was so neat being able to see how God has impacted their lives through coming into contact with Jacqueline. That was a real inspiration for me and Lauren. We drove back to the apartment with no traffic (thankfully), but the power went off as soon as we got back and Lauren and I experienced first hand what it feels like to be without a fan to keep us cool! We've been used to having no air conditioning but no fan?! Luckily, that only lasted about 30 minutes. We then had a wonderful time sitting at the dinner table and talking with Bryan and Jacqueline for 2 hours about their time in Brasil and their marriage. They have been married for 42 years and are an amazing couple whose relationship is build completely around the Lord. Talking with them was so great for me and Lauren because we both learned so much about what we want our future marriages to look like.


*It may not seem like we are doing a lot of "mission" work and maybe we aren't, but we are learning so much on what it means to be followers of Christ and how we can teach others to do the same! :)


Besos xoxo