Our First Days

This is our third day in Sao Paulo. We are having a great time meeting various family friends of Felipes. We are staying with one family-- the Shedds. Their daughter, Helen, is Susie´s (Felipe´s sister) best friend. She and her husband Edi have 3 toddlers, all of whom are worshipping Maddie (or Manny or Muddy as they call her). They are a great home base for us. We also saw our friend from Thunderbird, Elizabeth Candia, yesterday; Elizabeth and her husband Ben are quite the international couple. Elizabeth is Bolivian and Ben is half Australian half Indonesian. No wonder we like them. We also ran into a radical Swiss American couple who work in a favela (slum). The husband, John Macy, yelled out ´Cunliffe´ as he met Felipe at a consultation here 3 years ago. Here´s what I (Dana) am seeing even more strongly in my dear Felipe. People totally dig and respect him and he´s very well known. His understatedness belies this truth! Lastly, we spent about 5 hours talking to Bill and Mary Fawcett (Felipe´s pastor here) and their daughter Katherine who is visiting from Chicago. We heard lots of stories over these days. The theme of many stories have to do with being robbed at gunpoint in their homes. They all laugh. They are hearty.

On a lighter note, we love cafe com leite (like an au lait) and panzinahs (yummy rolls, excuse my spelling). The kids have jet lag. We drag their carcasses out of bed each morning. They are very good sports.

Ok. Life is bom. Ciao.