Well, I suppose we're here now!

Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing as excellent we are! We arrived in Salvador yesterday around 2 in the afternoon and it feels like we've been going pretty steady since, which is definitely a good thing. Our total travel time was just over 24 hours, so we had plenty of time to continue lesson planning and going over information meetings, questions and sessions, devotional time, and not to mention getting a lot closer to each other- seeing as we were crammed into little airplane seats beside each other! As soon as we arrived at the airport in Salvador Travis met up with us and took us to the church- ICOS- here showed us around, where we would be staying, where things were as well as taking us to the grocery store we would be using. We met most of the full time missionaries here and they have been really helpful and awesome. We've all been able to fellowship with each other a lot and that is really cool. Just to pray together, sing (even though we're not a choir!) and sharing devotionals has been awesome. We also had our information meeting tonight at 7 o'clock and it went really well... Even though people were showing up anywhere from 530- 8 pm! When someone showed up at 530, we hadn't really planned on it, and so still had to get more work done but Marcos (the early guy) helped so much and it was awesome to get to know him. In that few hours with people I think we all learned a fair amount of Portuguese actually, which is going to help us a lot! As hard as it can be to communicate with people who don't speak english as a first language, you figure out different ways and hand gestures, and drawings or writings to figure out what each is trying to say. Hopefully through these sessions with each of them, they can learn about the faith we have and over time develop a relationship with Jesus. It's been a really cool experience so far, and we're been here for less than 48 hours so we are totally looking forward to spending the coming weeks here! Anyways, Tchau all! God Bless and thanks for all the prayers!
- Justin, Ryan, Sarah, Kresten