Kelci and I are blessed with some very special friends. Many of my friends I have known since before college and most of the rest I met in college when friendships become life-long relationships. Kelci, likewise, has been blessed with some friends that are more like sisters. It is important to us to have good friends of which we can share life with. Our friends in the States will always be a part of who we are, we still talk to them and love 'em.
Before leaving we often discussed how much our friends meant to us and how important it would be for us to make new friends here. It was definitely something we prayed about. We wanted to make friends with people at the church here. We wanted to make friends with people from the community. And we knew that we needed friendships to help us adapt. Obviously, there are some new aspects to our friendships here. The obvious one is language, however luckily for us, all our friends are patient with us and some speak a little english too. Culture and life experiences are a couple other new aspects for us, however, we truly have not had too much difficulty and we know that God has been preparing the way for us before we arrived.
I used to tell the youth group at Edmond that life was all about relationships. I used to say that the Bible is all about relationships too: the relationship God desires to have with us and the relationships we have with each other. We have made some very good friends already here in Brazil and we are excited to see who God brings into our path next. Our prayers have been answered thus far as our new friends here have helped us to adapt, we are blessed to have them. We have also grown our friendships with the team here which has been a blessing too. Our prayer is that we continue to make friends here and that those relationships bring us closer to God and that we can bring others closer to Him as well. That truly is what life is all about. The past few months have been awesome and Kelci and I attribute a big part of that to our new friends here in Niteroi! The coming years ought to be fun!
- Kelly and Kelci
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