The Party Continues - Week 2

Hey!

So here´s another quick recap of what has happened since my last post. I wanted to have pictures on here but i couldn´t yet... they are coming, so just hang on!

- Went to this huge rave that I wrote about a little in the previous blog, and it was outta control! techno/rave on one stage, funk on another, and hip-hop at the third stage. It was at an closed down amuesment park that was very similar to a mini-disneyland. thousands of kids, a bunch of dancing (fron 11pm to 5 am, straight techno/funk/hip-hop dancing!!!), and a strong christian influence. The whole point behind the party was to reach kids where they are at and the whole thing was a christian organization that put it on. I got to talk to a few people about ywam and what im doing. A few people were very promising to hear where their heart was at as well as their beliefs. it was just crazying thinking, ´were doing outreach right now at a huge rave with 10000 people!´ crazy cool stuff!

- We had our first official free day on Monday, so we took a van to downtown rio and explored the bazarrs and market places, then headed over to barra(pronounced baha) beach which happens to be the most expensive part of all Rio, and we went to ´Barra Shopping´-- the biggest mall in Latin America!... we went inside for an hour or so but everything was super expensive and i didn´t want to be in a mall in Brazil so 5 of us walked to Barra Beach 30 minutes away and went body surfing and swimming in the South American Atlantic for the FIRST TIME!!! it was awesome! really warm, not like the Gulf though, but board shorts no problem. Later that night we met Roger, one of the guys that picked us up at the airport and has become an awesome friend, and he took all 9 of our team+ one other girl out to eat at what he just told us was a, ´Brazilian BBQ.´ We were all super excited but had NO IDEA what was in store!..... All 10 of us that he took confidentlycan say that it was the best meal we have ever had in our entire lives! i will post some pictures but it was all you could eat with about 6+ servers waiting on us 11 people hand-and-foot! over 12 different types of legit meat-- I ate lamb, steak, pork, ribs, chicken, chicken heart, octopus, heart of a palm tree, sushi, salmon, caviar, several types of other fish, plus other stuff i can´t name and then i washed it all down with fresh coconut milk! ALL YOU COULD EAT! oh man!!! And Roger paid for all of us! oh and then we got desert... some parts of our outreach are really tough ;) I love RIO!

- We´ve been to a few orphanages and that has been awesome to play futbol, music, uno, and dance with the kids (only boys at the ones we´ve been too).

- On this past sunday we went to a Heavy Metal/ Death Metal church. Their whole goal is to evangelize to people in Rio that were Satan worshipers or just into that style of living and music. it was very unconvetional and they liked it like that! It was the first chance our team has had a chance to speak in front on a crowd and I got to speak so I was super pumped about that! It went well and we had a lot of fun with the people!


Future Plans:
-For christmas we are going to a church that is inside Brazil a few hours and we will be with them from this coming Sunday for one week (Dec 21- 28). Really excited about it because it sounds like we´ll have plenty of times to speak, do music and run church services and events.

-We also might be going to the city of God which is a favella (or slum) here in Rio that is actually a movie, ´City of God´and its all about this favella. Very good and powerful movie! We plan on going to the biggest favella in Rio which has over 300,000 people. It´s its own city. the drug lords control everything in the favellas (in the movie, ´City of God´it explains very well how these favellas are run).

-When we return to the Ywam base in Rio, we will be doing the New Years outreach that happens on Copacabona beach so after christmas we will be preparing for that. In January we plan on going to the Christ statue and some really amazingly beautiful/ must see places here in Rio where I´ll deffinitly post some pictures!


Thanks again for checking this out! To all my friends that are in other parts of the world on their outreach, I miss you all and love hearing from you and about what´s going on in your part of the world!