Sunday, June 22, 2008

june in Brazil


Here we are in front of the lane full of food and heading home




I could not resist taking this picture of the lane leading away from the home.


We had sausage, chicken, stake, and ribs. The two older men are brazilians serving in one of the branches at the MTC the two young men are BYU exchange students living with President Yamagochi (spelling is off but grandpa/Vern is taking a nap) in Brazil as foreign exchange students.


Everyone brought salads, desserts, or drinks.


This is the back yard of the home and where everyone parked

This is what you see when you look over the deck on the roof of his home


These two Brazilian brothers are branch presidents at the MTC. This is the home of the one in the white T-shirt. He just resently traded his apartment in the city for this country home. Actually it is more like a jungle home. The party was held on the roof. We had rain most of the day but it was delightful never the less. We were a little worry that we would not be able to make it up the hill with all the rain. But everyone made it home safely with just a lot of mud on all of the cars Sunday morning in the MTC parking lot.



The whole month of June the people in Brazil have what they call a Hill-billy celebration.
They have dancing and singing and eating. They dress up in silly hats. The men roll of their jeans and paint wiskers on their chins. The women traditionally wear floral print dresses, put their hair in pig tails and wear colorful ankle socks. This was the first june celegration for many of us so we were not sure what to wear.





























Saturday, June 14, 2008

P-day at the Sao Paulo Zoo



























This was school day at the zoo. I got to sit next to a four-year old on the bus who could speak Portuguese better than I could. Here
English. . . . . . . . .Portugeuse
Elephant . . . . . . . . . Elefante
Hippopotamus . . . . Hipopótamo
Giraffe . . . . . . . . . . .Girafa
Tiger . . . . . . . . . . . . Tigre
Rhinoceros . . . . . . . Rinoceronte
Chimpanzees. . . . . .Chimpanzées
Monkey. . . . . . . . . . Macaco

















































Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Happy birthday Jeff

We love you and are so proud of you.

Saturday, June 7, 2008



June is the off-season in Guaraja and it was Friday so there were very few people on the beach. If any of you decide to come and visit this is a place we would want to go.

Vernon/grandpa went too


It was a very pleasant day. Actually it was a perfect day. The weather was not too hot and not to cold. The only thing that went wrong was we forgot to charge the battery on the camera so we were not able to take all the pictures that we wanted to take.