Hello everybody!!
It has been a long time since you have heard from us! This past week we were very blessed to join up with a couple of teams from the U.S. on an Amazon Outreach boat. The trip was a great time to practice more Portuguese, meet some awesome new Brasilian friends and to just exalt the name of Jesus Christ in these villages on the river. God also personally blessed me with the amazing opportunity to build a relationship with a Brasilian doctor from Parintins named Monique. She is a pediatrician here in the city, but this past week she joined our boat team for a few days and did some village medicine in several of the villages along the river. It was an incredible opportunity to just sit with her the entire day and learn more about how to successfully execute village medicine. It was so great to learn about all the different tropical diseases and weird fungi! We treated everything from urinary tract infections to worms to pneumonia. It was crazy!! Hahaha! I am pretty sure that I haven't stopped smiling since then because it was such an amazing time! Of course the challege was she didn't speak very much english so I definitely got to practice my Portuguese! We had American nurses from the U.S. operating our "pharmacy" so Monique would tell me the medication or treatment in portuguese and I would write it down in english for the american nurses. I got the hang of it pretty well after a while! So now I can prescribe medicines in Portuguese! Hahaha! I wasn't keeping an exact count but over those couple of days we saw over 300 patients! God is so good and his grace is so evident! Now we are back in Parintins for our last 3 weeks. The Lord is continuing to show his power here in mighty ways! Today was the beginning of a big festival here and the city is packed with people! However, the church is ready and prepared for action! Today we spent the day handing out free water and in turn telling the people about the "water of life" through Jesus Christ! It was a perfect example of the church "being in the world, but not of the world". Please continue to pray that the Lord would empower his people and protect us while we serve Him during this time. In fact, we are about to head back out with the rest of the church to continue to minister to the people here and share the name of Jesus Christ with whoever we come in contact with! It is so great to see the church, no matter the age, being bold and courageous proclaiming God's glory! We are happy and healthy and just continuing to learn all that we can while we are living here. God is continuing to give us incredible opportunities to share his love with those around us. We just feel incredibly blessed to be a part of the work God is doing here in Brasil and we give Him all of the glory. We miss everybody so much and we can't wait to see everyone again! As always, thank you again for your continued prayer and support. We are so thankful for our friends and family back at home! Some of you guys have been asking when we are getting back so I was just going to let you know that we are arriving back in Dallas on July 13th and then headed back to Chicago on the 20th! We are so excited to see everybody again! By the way, I promise the blogs will be more frequent now that we are back in the city with internet access and we hope to post some pictures too!
WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Michael and Leah
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