This weekend has been filled with fun and happiness. It’s somewhere around the equivalent of college times and General Assembly. We had our General Board meetings, which meant lots of fun people were in from all over the world. Friday night we had Tony (Cape Verde, works with me), Simone (Brazil/Argentina, went to college with me and in my wedding), Diego (Brazil, translator and met for the 2nd time here), Pastor Haroldo (Brazil), Pastor Amadeu (Brazil) and his wife who’s name is complicated enough that it’s going to take some repetition to remember is—they were all at my house. I made a huge dinner (I had no idea how large until I put everything on the table and started eating the stuff). It was wonderful conversation and I believe it was truly relationship-building.
The next day I took a nice, long afternoon nap. Then, around 6-ish Cesar and I went to pick up Simone and we then went to meet up with Pastor Flavio (Brazil) and Diego. We went to about 3 different restaurants before finally deciding to just eat a Pei Wei’s (it had less wait—the others were all at least an hour’s wait). We sat and talked for a long time and it was wonderful conversation. We laughed so much (and so freely). It seriously felt like a liberating weekend internally J It was wonderful. After dinner Simone and I went to see Christina and The Pesado ladies and had some talk as girls while the guys all went to see a movie.
Sunday we got up early and had breakfast with a couple from our church who are kind of around our parents’ age-ish (maybe a bit older actually, especially older than my parents). They made breakfast and we talked and watched TV. Then we all ate lunch and were all basically together until church Sunday night.
Last night was another fun night. Yes, it was one more day at work, but after that was the missionary sending service. We had the service and before and after I got to talk with some of the people I’d gotten to know over the weekend. Pastor Amadeu and his wife then had me up to their room with Simone as Pr. Amadeu gave me some coffee he’d brought from Brazil and his wife lent me her bathing suit to swim with Simone. The two of them told them they’d like to help Cesar get his ministerial education and, to do that, would help us find a place to stay and everything. We exchanged contact information, prayed, and said goodbye and Simone and I went to swim. Diego came down a little later and we chatted some before we all exchanged contact information and said our goodbyes.
This is a very condensed version of this weekend, but know that it was absolutely wonderful—my kind of weekend. I wish I could have more like it. I love and miss you all and hope that soon we can meet and have some fun 
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