Brasil: Day One

Lauren and I are in BRASIL! We met up at the casa at 7:45, got in a cab, told the driver to take us to Aeropuerto Jorge Newbury ( aka AEP, about 15 minutes away), and he told us it was closed. I told him that that was not possible, considering I had checked the flight status this morning and it said it was leaving out of AEP. He said he was certain that it was closed and that all flights were moved to EZE which is about 45 minutes away. Trying hard not to panic, I looked at Lauren and she told him to go to AEP anyway and check. He ended up rolling down the window and asking another taxi driver if it was open, and thankfully, he said it was! After that little scare, we got on a 30 minute flight to Montevideo, Uruguay, changed planes, and got to Sao Paulo at 3pm!

Jacqueline and Bryan were waiting for us and we drove to their apartment, got settled in and had some lunch. For those of you who don't know, Lauren and I are staying with some family friends, Jacqueline and Bryan Bost, who have been missionaries living in Brasil for almost 35 years, making disciples out of the Brasilian people that they come in contact with. We had absolutely not idea what we were coming here to do, but we are so excited to learn about discipleship and hopefully bring back what we learned to BA and eventually, back to the states. This is not your average mission trip. We probably won't be doing a lot of physical labor and we will only be working with needy children one of the days that we're here, so this trip is mostly about us learning about how to make followers of Christ. This is kind of scary for me, but I am totally confident that the Lord will be with us and teach us so much through Jacqueline and Bryan.

They had told us that they didn't have WiFi, but I somehow managed to find some so my posts may be regular or they may be whenever I can find internet. Please be praying for us this week!


Besos xoxo