Career overseas missionary work is all about living here and there, and often means a lack of long-term relationships. For our family other missionaries became "uncles" and "aunts." We often spent holidays with regional missionary families, just as we would with family in the USA. Our boys were actually very blessed in this area of M.K. life. Friendships with Brazilians were always a tougher thing with moves and responsibilities. Byron and I have been privileged to have several important, close friends through the years even with moving to another state. We were able to "keep them up" when the boys were young and we frequently returned for activities at the American school in Fortaleza. One such family was that of Erinaldo and Ivanete Vieira. We first met them in 1995 when William was just a baby. As we worked to see a church built in their community they become true friends and "uncle" and "aunt" to our boys. When we moved to...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.