Brazil #0401
So exciting; it was mail day again today! And the support pack came back for my missions trip to Brazil this year. I know, it seems rather insane going and signing up for a missions trip with me being so sick at the moment, but I heard there was a 20 team member reserve on this one team (the one I really want to go on!) and I figure that I'd be more disappointed if I got better and then found out I was too late to sign up, than to not get better and have to fall-out of the team.
Plus Mum was encouraging me to take the leap, and I also felt that God was telling me it was the right thing to do. Nothing inside of me was tugging me back, saying: "Wait." So here's to believing I'll be better before the Christmas holidays.
In Brazil we'll be living for about a week and a half on a boat and stopping off at villages doing evangelisms. The river we'll be on is a main one that flows into the Amazon. I'm seriously wondering whether we'll be able to swim or not.....just think alligators and peranas (sp?). Yikes! But then interesting! Should be rainy too, since it'll be the rainy season up there. So pretty though with all that green forest and cool wildlife.
The other 1 and a half weeks we'll be helping run the Brazil Boot Camp (10 day training period for the teams before they leave for their projects over seas), and doing maintenance on the site. It'll be so much fun getting to know heaps of Brazilian teens. Anyhow, go to the Teen Missions Site, click on the "Summer Teams" link then on the "Brazil" link, and read their run-down on the team.
You know, if I go on this team I'll have been to 5 different countries. To explain: when I went on the missions trip to Cambodia 2 years ago we had a stop-over in Singapore. That's 2 countries (besides Oz that is). And to get to Brazil we'll be changing planes in first, New Zealand than Argentina. So that's Singapore, Cambodia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Brazil; five countries. ;) Technically, I'll almost be caught up with Matty....
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