Back in Action

Well, it's official. One workshop down, and several more to go. Me and the assistant manager headed off to a town called Santa Maria on Tuesday for my first workshop. He wanted to go down there with me to "help me out." I don't know how helpful it was to have him there, but it was certainly fun to be there with at least one person that I know. So Tuesday night, we went to the church downtown to start up day one. The first day, there were 15 people there and 9 graduated. They were all really fun, and we had a really good time together. The assistant manager taught the Introduction and I taught the first cornerstone. He left me about 45 minutes. I tried to fit in everything that I could.

The next day, he came back to Porto Alegre to finish up some things here and I finished up the workshop alone. My hotel was really sweet. Holy cow! I was honestly a little surprised, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. During the days I was able to get a lot of homework done, and I taught the workshops at night. Last night, after the workshop was finished, the manager in Porto Alegre had come to say goodbye to everyone in Santa Maria since he's moving. So I just hitched a ride with him back home. We left there at about 11:30 and got home around 2:30 in the morning. He was driving so fast. It was nice to get home quickly, but I was a little worried for my life.

Today, me and Garrison went to the mall for a while with the assistant manager to eat some lunch and make some purchases. It was pretty fun to hang out a little after my "rough" week of work. We are having a good time here, and have enjoyed hearing from all of you. Keep us posted.
This was me with my peeps at a family home evening last Monday. The kid in the green shirt was my really good friend in the MTC in Brazil.

Vaughn and Garrison