New Car, Brothers Visit, Youth Nights, Birthday Party, Winter Intern

What a month this past one has been. We had a visitor Thomas Phillips (Bethany Forester’s brother) at the beginning of May. We bought a car – a green Toyota Corolla! One of the few automatics we found here. It’s 6 years old but it has been well taken care of. We got the car just in time to pick up Mary’s brothers Spencer and Brannon from the airport. Spencer’s birthday and Mary’s are a week apart so we celebrated them together after our youth event last Friday. We had 19 at the devotional. It was a good turnout for us and we made 2 trips taking everyone home in the new cars (Randy and Jennifer Porter just bought one too). Our first intern arrived yesterday, Paul Goncalves. His dad is a well-known Brazilian Church of Christ preacher in the South of Brazil and his mom is Amercian. So, it’s really good that our first intern is fluent in English and Portuguese. We’re not sure how much we have to teach him at this point in the work (since he grew up on the mission field); but I’m sure God has a few things in store to teach us all these next few months.