Hello,

Its Sam D. and Sam H. writing the blog for today. So this blog is gonna be a good one!

Yesterday evening (Saturday) we all went to a church gathering called a Crusade (Which wasn’t as bad as the name suggested.) It was held in a sports arena just down the road from our house. There were about 200 people from different churches there. There was a lot of shouting from the preacher that we couldn’t understand but the worship was good and we also sang open the eyes of my heart and dancing generation. Turns out 200 Brazilians can’t keep in time while clapping along to fast worship songs, or dance either.
After the preacher finished his sermon he called everyone to the front to pray and worship. The Holy Spirit started moving in people – literally! People were jumping, clapping, dancing, spinning, falling… etc. When the prayer finished there was a celebration time and everyone sang and danced. After the service lots of Brazilians took our photo and then we went home.

Today (Sunday) we had our outing to the mountain and swimming in a natural pool at the base of a waterfall. Isaias managed to get a minibus to take us all there which arrived at 7 this morning. The driver told us all that it takes about an hour to get to the mountains … 2 hours later we were there. When we arrived we went on a cable car to the caves. After the caves we went to a small lake under a waterfall on top of a mountain to swim. The water was really cold but because the weather was so hot we didn’t mind.

We have just got back from a meeting at a church about 45 minutes away. When we were there we sang a few songs and did a drama, then Chloe gave a really good testimony, As David preached some of us went into the building next to the church where we taught some children the actions and words to a kids song called shine. We then performed that in front of the rest of the church with the kids. After the service we went to a restaurant and had pizza with the pastor and his family and some of the congregation of that church.
There is some sickness in the group and we would like you to pray that God heals them and against the dodgy mayonnaise (which we think has caused some it)!

See you all soon. Good night and peace out.

Sam and Sam, on behalf of the Brazil Team

P.S. Gone a bit photo crazy today! Photo's (nicely jumbled by blogger!) are Team in waterfall at a Mountain Park, Singing 'Shine' with the children at Reriutaba Baptist Church, Team singing at the Church, David preaching, Joe enjoying the waterfall, Dave in the cave, enterance to the mountain park, George in the pit for the bathroom, Rod fitting the door frame to the bathroom, Beth the brickie, Rod the Foreman, digging the foundations, the before picture and the long awaited picture of us exercising at 6 am!