Sete Rios

Last Sunday the kids sang for us during worship. Sahara, Bria and Tirza were so excited about it. As you can see in the picture below... Tirza, once again, suffered from performance anxiety but I promise she RAN up there at the beginning. I just about had to drag Bria out of her seat but once she got started she had fun.

The other kids singing are Deborah, Ana and Samuel. They are sweet kids and our girls love to be able to go and play with them.

This Sunday, we got to go have lunch in one of our friend's home. She is the kid's teacher so the girls were really excited to see her house. They prepared a very typical Portuguese family meal for us. It was great! Get this- she had tuna fish as a starter, like with mayonnaise... with bread and these little toastas that are very common here. You can't buy tuna fish in a can like in the States so I was surprised when she served it like that. They also had bacalhau, which is a very famous type of fish here, it is actually dried salted cod. The way she prepared it was very good, it was called Bacalhau Espirito, funny name for fish. But it was prepared in a casserole with lots of other stuff which made it very good. The dessert was a family recipe with pudding, cream and crackers- very yummy!

It was a great afternoon/evening and Mark and I came home with headaches after 5 straight hours of Portuguese. It was great practice, we appreciate it so much when people are willing to take time to talk to us and explain culture and life here. I have learned not to take for granted communication, it is such hard work here and even on our best day we struggle to communicate anything more than basic information. We are so thankful that God has given us people, like this couple, to help us and encourage us.