Q:  How is my Mom?

A:  She's doing better! Her vision is being really stupid still, so she's been dizzy a lot recently. She can't even move her toes without her vision going wacky. She's been in a lot of Physical Therapy lately, and the insurance company has cleared her for another week. Which is really good.

Q:  How are you/your family doing?

A:  We have so much support from everyone! We have meals coming out the WAZOO (literally if you think about it) and yesterday one of my fellow Alpha Team members and her mom took me shopping for the rest of the things I needed while in Brazil. Leo (Em's) Mom, Debbie, has taken us under her wing. I love her so much. It makes everything a bit easier to have her around.

One big prayer request is for this next month or so. I'll be gone for the next two weeks while in Brazil, and I can't take care of my sister while my dad's at work. Because he works so far away, he leaves the house around 6:00 in the morning. So if my mom doesn't come home this next monday (Which she most likely wont) my little sister will spend the next week or so while I'm gone sleeping over at other people's houses. She'll only be able to sleep in her own bed during friday and saturday night. 

And seriously, how hard is that?

But my parents are adamant that I go... so I'm going!

Q:  How's Sammi?

A:  Okay. Her mom submitted in writing that Sam could stay at her dad's house. So now they have evidence and she can't change her mind about it no matter what, like her mom's done before. I miss her so much. I loved seeing ehr over the weekend, and I can't wait until I spend time with her in Brazil. She's on the Alpha team as well!!

Q:  What are the details on your Brazil trip?

A:  The team is split up into two parts on the flight there for cost reasons. the first team, Team Alpha, leaves on Saturday night. Team two, Team Bravo, leaves Sunday afternoon. So Alpha will have a whole day to themselves- to catch up from jet lag, etc.

We all go from Denver International Airport to Phoenix, AZ, then from Phoenix to JFK Airport in New York. Then we'll go from JFK to Sao Paolo International Airport, Brazil, and then into Natal, Brazil. It's almost twenty seven hours total that we'll be flying!! Yikes!

We will drive down to Currais Novos on Monday evening-Tuesday morning, then stay there for three days while we help finish building a church. Then we'll drive down to Carnubas Dos Dantas and hold Sport Reach camps in this village and the villages surrounding it. On our way back to Natal, we will stop and share the gospel with a village of black 'gypsy' Brazilians ostrazised for their color. They've never heard the word of Jesus spoken!

When we get back to Natal, we'll spend a day on the beach, then play with some orphans at a local orphanage.   All of this will take two weeks. We leave on the 14th and 15th and will return as a team on the 28th.

Q: Who the heck are you and why am I reading this?

A: I am your stalker, and you are reading this because I have brainwashed you into thinking you were interested. You may now go on your (hopefully) less confuzed way :).

Haha any more questions for me? I'll answer them as best I can before I leave!

~Allie~ 

4 DAYS UNTIL BRAZIL