Happenings of our Missionary Lives

 This week the girls and I gave our first English class to adults at the Irma Dulce center. There were about 15-20 students in an hour and half class. We are very excited to see how well the students responded to our teaching methods and that they are so willing to have fun while learning! 

These are our new t-shirts we were given this week to volunteer in their activities and to teach. The volunteers are called Anjos de Irma Dulce translates to the Angles of Irma Dulce.

We even made it to the Irma Dulce's facebook page! Announcing our English classes!

This is the Irma Dulce image on the back of our volunteer t-shirts. 

Now we are officially part of the team!

This past week we had the opportunity to work in different little projects. One of them was hosting a baby shower for one of the soon-to-be-mom of the favela we work at. We decorated a table with her with treats and presents for her new baby boy that is due in a month. Parabens! Congratulations!

Part of putting away Christmas was to restore our outdoor nativity scene for next year. Faith and Katie were in charge of that project. 

Here we have a few of the pieces already finished.

The girls came to the conclusion that painting is a very therapeutic experience. Sitting down and pretending to be an artist is a lot more fun than one would expect :)

We welcomed back Br. Francis Therese after spending the last month in the U.S. with a splendid dinner with friends.

And finally funny pictures of the week:

Our convents handyman, Senhor Joao, and our new guest from South Korea having a couple laughs with Faith during breakfast.

And our beloved Br. Patrick doing his favorite trick: 

balancing anything and everything imaginable on his head. 

Peace out my fellow viewers,

until next time on St. John Missions in Brazil!