Hello From Francisco Morato!

Hello friends and family!
We survived a 3 hour flight to Chicago, and another 9 hour flight to Sao Paulo. We we drove through Sao Paulo but to our surprise came directly to Franchsco Morado which is one of the poorest mountain communites in Sao Paulo. All of the homes are build from bricks, sticks, and whatever materials could be found and are built right into the hills. We spent 8 hours exploring the village today, and inviting the Moms of the community to come to the YWAM base (where we are living) on Saturday where we are going to host a spa party. We went and bought nail polish and hair supplies to give them all makeovers. They are alll really excited to get pampered. Mom I should have brought more Arbonne stuff :)
Thiago and is new wife Elen arre our contacts here along with many amazing people who work and live at the base. They have random village kids in and out all of the time, and are very repsected around the village for all of the amazing things that they do.
The soccer field where we are running camps is about a 15 minute walk away. We have to walk up and down a mountain and through peoples yards to get there. We had a Canada vs. Brazil match yesterday and got our butts kicked. All of the kids are amazing players, it is like a relgion here.
I just taught my first english class and it was out of control. There were only 5 kids and they were running wild. We worked on the basics and they can all introduce themselves now. They are really fun kids! They were more excited about teaching me Portuguese than learning english. 
The poverty here is more than I can even put into words, but you do not even notice beaucse everyone is so happy. Two families invited us into their homes today because they were so proud of what they had. A roof over their head, beans on the table and a mattress for their kids to sleep in. We have so much, and still arent even close to living the happy lives that these people have!

That is all for now, miss everyone like crazy!!

Talk soon

xoxo Bear