Brazilian Report

Our Mission to Brazil is going very well. We have had our hearts blessed, our heart strings pulled, our eyes filled with everything from the beauty of creation to the poverty of sin.

Good things in Brazil:
Beautiful Country
Beautiful Beach
Wonderful, friendly people
A language more understandable for me than Arabic, Japanese, or Korean. (Other places I have been to on mission.)
Plenty to eat
Nice place to stay
Great group to work with
The work that our missionaries are doing in Brazil with the poor, the lost, the drug addicted, the orphans, the virtual orphans. (Kids with parents who would otherwise be on their own while the parents take care of their own needs.)
Churches with a heart for the needs of their own country. All the places we have worked in are missions and mission churches of Brazilian churches.

So So things in Brazil
The food. It is not bad, but it is very bland.
Travel. It seems to be a long ways to everywhere we go.
The communication. Of the places above I mentioned, the Brazilians understand less English than in any of the other countries. The people in our group who don’t at least know significant Spanish have trouble ordering at McDonalds.

Not so good things in Brazil
The poverty
The lack of basic amenities in many neighborhoods. (Running water, electricity, sewers)
Trash everywhere.