Everyone is Legal

Not too much to report this week serving. Pretty much a normal week. So this post is pretty short.

Trevor had some keys made. Yep, that’s the key guy. There are multiple places like this around the city to get your keys made.

Mason and I led our second English class and it was much harder this week. As long as I stick to my lesson that I have written down, life is good; but when I have to go off script, it goes south quick! I still don’t have enough Portuguese words that I need to handle the situation. It’s frustrating. Mega frustrating for my personality. It didn’t help that I had several kiddos that just weren’t having it that day. Mason reminded me of something I’ve told him and his brother, oftentimes, when dealing with difficult people: those that are hard to love are often the ones that need love the most. I needed to remember that.

I, also, had a rough time shopping this week for sponsor kid gifts and it was all due to language barriers. We get things done but it takes so much longer and so much more frustrating than in the States. In the States, I know what stores to go to depending on the budget and I have a pretty good idea of what things should cost, quality of different brands, etc. Here there’s a million little stores and I have no idea of the cost. Some things are so cheap here and other things are very expensive. Uuuggh.

Well, I am way too blessed to dwell on these things. I tell my boys all the time, you just have to do the hard things, it helps you grow. So I guess that means, I should be growing. Ouch. It’s good to be stretched, that’s part of why we’re here.

With that being said, I will move on from my little mini rant to good news. Our prayers were answered and the boys’ IDs came in this week and we picked them up on Friday. YAY! We are all legit legal. This is a big relief for our upcoming travel.

Just one quick word about the weather here. It’s winter here, which also means the dry season, which in turn, means allergy like symptoms due to the low humidity. On top of that, when it drops into the 60s as a high and upper 40s for a few days, it becomes bitterly cold in the house. Houses here are just built different. There’s no central heat and air and the house retains the heat when it’s hot and they stay cold when it’s cold outside. We all had like five blankets a piece on the beds. It was record lows for this month. But then, just when you can’t take a fifth day of the cold, the next day jumps to the 90s and you’re back in shorts sweating again. It’s very bizarre when compared to experiencing the seasons in the States.

I wish I had more to report but, like I said, it was a pretty normal week.