In Brazil!

After a long and exhausting journey (Helsinki-London-Sao Paulo-Manaus-Porto Velho-Jaru almost 50 hours) we finally arrived on Sunday morning local time. There were no bigger problems during the trip, it was just generally tiring with the kids. We've now somewhat recovered and started doing things over here. We did have little angels along the way though like the unknown lady who held Luana at the airport when she was really tired and we had to get our luggage or the wonderful family of a Brazilian friend in Finland that received us for an afternoon in Manaus between our flights.

On Sunday we got to see our houses. It was amazing to see the new house that we had only ever seen in photos. We were able to get inside the house and see it all for ourselves. Some rooms were bigger and some smaller than what we had imagined and the amount of work ahead of us is almost intimidating but it was still great. I couldn´t be happier with the construction! The wooden house where we´ll live temporarily isn´t in a very good condition but we´ll fix it so that we can live in it and later on rent it.

The reception over here was wonderful. The whole Sunday the house was full of people. We only got to church on Tuesday and it was great to be back. Everaldo was especially reminded of a promise he received from God more than ten years ago. God said He was going to take Everaldo to the nations but He was also going to bring him back to Brazil (see Psalm 126). That promise is now fulfilled and Everaldo can hold his head high for having believed that which seemed impossible to start with.

What we really need to get used to is the climate. It´s just HOT all the time and the days go by without doing much as one gets so tired with just a little walking around. We can´t complain however as we´ve complained about Finnish winters for several years :)

All in all everything is good. There´s a lot of work ahead but we´re really excited about the new opportunities and the possibility to build our house. I´ll keep you updated whenever I get to use the internet.