Bibles Are Coming!!!!

Hello once again from Brasil! I received some very good news today.

There is a friend of mine named Brian Hannum who used to live in Newberg, Oregon, and whose father is a chemistry professor at George Fox University. Brian decided to go study mechanical engineering, and so he and I survived almost all engineering classes together at the University of Portland. He now lives in Indianapolis. He sent me a message that, regarding the desire to have some more English language Bibles here at the Webb program:

"I can get hardback ones from the American Bible Society. The have a missions edition that is available by the case. What address should I send them to?"

I gave him the address of the ISBL here in Londrina.

Already the requests of students is being answered. Although Brian offered to send them directly, if any of you in the Indianapolis area are starting to put together another care package for us here in Brazil, it might be interesting to see if you can spare some space for some Bibles.

The people from Wycliffe came and visited our program here on Wednesday and Thurday of last week. By lunch time on Wednesday the family was trying to decide what apartment to get. By Thursday evening they made it official: they like our language school, and will probably start here later this week.

Several people have sent me messages asking about how I'm getting along in the heat. While the heat is annoying at times, I have found it more comfortable so far than the heat we had in Honduras. There, I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep at night sometimes, while here it has never been a problem. One problem we didn't have in Honduras though is the overheated walls. I made the mistake of putting my hand on the bathroom wall a few weeks ago, and the thing was about 130 degrees. They make these types of buildings out of solid concrete, and when the sun beats down on the outside wall, the heat is transmitted directly to the inside wall. We would have nowhere near the heat problem inside if there were some sort of insulation between the outside walls and the inside walls. The air temperature is OK many times, but having the air temperature at 80 degrees and walls that are radiating heat at you at 130 doesn't do too much good.

That's all I have for right now. They are still working on changing the ticket. The local American Airlines person here isn't even listed in the phone book that I have been able to find. Since American doesn't actually serve Londrina, we may have better luck dealing with someone who is an actual American Airlines employee in São Paulo.

May God's grace and peace be with you all,

Glenn