Two week update

hey all, so its been two weeks since I left my house in the US and I just wanted to give another update of how things are going. I have spent a lot of my time staying at Misão Servos (the brasilian missions agency I am working with, they have missionaries currently in Mexico, India, China and Senegal). I have met several missionary candidates there and have been helping with the maintenance of the compound (maintaining a rather intricate well system, cleaning a big fish pond sort of thing, cleaning out rabbit cages, picking up dog, chicken, and various kinds of duck poop as well as feeding the animals and doing whatever I can to help out. I've been spending the weekends staying at the favela (slum) and working with the ministry there and continue to really just enjoy working with the the people there. There still seems to be some difficulty with me moving in there permanently so for now I spend the weekends there and am coping with not being there all the time. I will hopefully start working with a soccer ministry this week that uses a soccer training center for ministry to favela kids. I'm hoping to visit that favela today (its a neigboring one to the one I'll hopefully be living in) and start working with the ministry soon. Kinda funny to have an American teaching Brasilian kids to play soccer. Right now I am at the John's house (missionary I was in contact with) and might be staying here for a bit b/c his father in law is sick and so his wife went to be with him (she's Swiss) so i'm helping him out around the house and with the kids. I continue to ask for prayer for my ministry situation to become more defined as well as my living arrangement. Some days I feel great about my progress here with the language and culture and some days I feel kinda depressed. This is a terrible thing to say, but I miss being around people that speak the language worse than I do. Here I am only around native speakers or people that have been here for long enough to be near native level and so I feel like I am the only one that is struggling with the language which is difficult for me, but a humbling experience for sure. There is one guy in the ministry house, Fabio, who I have really connected with, he's a musical genius (taught himself the piano and guitar just by listening to music and learned english and spanish the same way). He's a great guy with a heart for God and a desire to minister in Mexico City. Its funny how here I have found two friends that want to go to Mexico City to be missionaries. Small world, anyways I gotta run, but just wanted to give a brief update. Much love and God bless.