Been Too Long...

A Taxi-Ride selfie after receiving the keys to our apartment!

Recently one of our good friends in the states messaged us and mentioned how we need to be blogging more. She had been a missionary before as well so she knew a few things about blogging while being a missionary. She knows how you all back in the states want to know what is going on with us. She knows also how things can become busy and blogging can go to the "back burner" of life. Most importantly maybe, she knows what it is like to look back at every blog article after leaving the mission field and remembering special moments, recollecting feelings that she had during stressful and joyful times, and the cultural adaptation she went through. So...after we messaged back and forth for a bit I have re-committed to blogging more. I really do like to to it. I think it is fun and I think it is a good way to keep you all informed. However, it is also very much for us. There have been many times in the past few weeks that I have though about something and thought that it would be good to blog about, but did not because I was not sure anyone would care. But I want to be able to look back on these moments after we leave and be reminded about them. Therefore, to catch up on things I am going to try and blog every day this week. I want to catch you all up on our past month or so. We appreciate you all so much and your prayers and support. It is only fair of us to catch you up some. 

They had to take our door off to get our
refrigerator through the door. 

I am sure you saw pictures or heard from someone, but we did find our apartment and have now lived here for a little more than a month. It was quite a process to get to this point. We love our new place and will love it even more when it is complete and furnished. We have purchased mostly all of our furniture but have only received our bed, TV stand, TV, a dresser we bought used, another bed we bought from some friends for our other bedroom, our stove and refrigerator. We stole (borrowed with approval) 2 chairs from the church here to have something to sit on. They are good chairs for church but not the greatest chairs for life. We have told numerous people here how we will have them over to our apartment for dinner or a movie or something once our apartment is closer to being ready. However, it could be a bit longer as almost everything we have bought has been coupled with the statement "35 dias úteis" which means 35 business days. We believe we will receive our couch this month which we look forward to very much. However, we feel very blessed to have an apartment and we know it will be a great place to connect with people, serve our friends, and develop deep relationships that we pray become Kingdom relationships! We look forward to those days! Thanks for everything you all do for us!

- Kelly and Kelci