"Best day of my life"

Greetings,

Today (Wednesday) has been a very busy day here in Brazil. The day started out by the teams breaking out into our groups and continuing with our projects. We worked on putting edging on a house and continuing to paint our paintings. It is very excting for our painting team because the pictures are starting to take shape and we can now see how they are going to look in the end. It is also fun because the kids are so excited about the painting and they are extremely eager to help us out.

In the afternoon (2pm) we all jumped into the van and headed to Porto Alegre. We were given an opportunity to spend the afternoon shopping and spending time in the city. We were all suprized to see the amount of people who live in the city. We went shopping in a market and then headed to the shops on the streets in downtown Porto Alegre. I found it extremely entertaining that in every store that we went into today there was a tv on and everyone was watching the world cup. Even though Brazil is no longer in it they are all excited to see who wins it!

After spending some time in downtown we headed to the Baptist Seminary. The seminary is from the NAB and we went there to do a small eye clinic for the students there. We only opened up the clinic to the students and staff and we were able to see 27 people. It was interesting to see the Bible school and the people there were very happy to see us. After the clinic we got a tour and we even when into a class and talked to the students about where we were from and what we were doing here in Brazil. They were very encouraging to us. They prayed over us, for us to have a good time while we were down here and for safe travels back home.

To conclude our extremely long day we went to get some supper. Supper in Brazil is much later and we started eating at around 9:30pm. We were taken to Don Vitto's which is a pizza place here. Pizza is quite different here in Brazil. They do not have your typical pepperoni pizza, instead they make every kind of pizza they can think of. There are about 60 different types...our favorite ones were the dessert pizzas! This was a great time and we enjoyed being able to sit around the table and laugh about all the different kinds of food that they were bringing us. It was a good way for us to relax before our next couple of days that are full of activity.

Today was, in the worlds of Kelly ´the best day of my life ever...I´m not kidding´