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  Check it out!  A new letter from Gramma Michele in Brazil!

  Sammy, Luiza & Bruno All the Instituto Bíblico Peniel students are enjoying a break this week between quarters.  So it's a good time to catch up on sleep, reading and news.  Baby Samuel is seven months old now and keeps Bruno and Luiza on their toes. Both parents are students and are thankful for the on-site nursery that helps Luiza stay in school and for the assistance of many willing arms. All three are well physically and excited about finishing school in early December. Pray as they consider where God wants them for future ministry. Adrielly, our newest student from Sobradinho, is doing well.  She had worked to pay for her first semester of school.  This fall we started helping with funds from you all that were sent earlier this year.  She had some real homesickness after going in January, but is doing great and enjoys all her classes about the Bible. Adrielly Clarinha Please pray for Clarinha as she has had some health problems over the pas...

  Sometime last week Byron found this printed letter in a stash of old papers.  I can't help but wonder if I ever mailed it?  It's hard to say, but I'm almost certain my mother will remember!  It must have been meant to send to several friends as it has no Dear so-and-so listed.  It has some interesting insights into my early days on the mission field. I found a few photos of the time frame and added them to the bottom of this post. Sometime around 1997 in Fortaleza, Brazil... You'll just have to forgive me.  I haven't written anyone for months and months.  First one thing and then another kept me from having the time.  And then I simply felt that I had little to nothing that was good to write.  All my potential letters were full of all the sad, bad, and ugly things in life or were complete and utter lies.  So I would write a few and never send them and then I just stopped trying.  I think my state was certainly one of real de...