illness and quick update

Hi everyone,

I hope you are well. I am good. Wow, the last month has been quite an adventure. I have had a fever for 3 weeks straight. My class has had a substitute for 2 weeks. I still don't know what I have. I go back to the doctor tomorrow to find out. I also had yet another staph infection. I was on crutches for 2 weeks. Through it all, God has taught me to continue rely on Him! I am thankful that God is continually faithful. I have some pictures that I will post soon.

Here is a crazy story..about 3 weeks ago... I went to dinner with some of the other teachers. When we were coming home, a motorcycle hit us. He was drunk. Two of the men in our van got out and spoke to him. They finally agreed to give this man money even though it wasn't our fault. Instead the man threw it back at us, so we decided to leave because he wasn't making any sense. It was a very minor accident. (A scratch) If you file a report in Brazil with the police, it will take literally 6 hours of waiting for the police to arrive. So we decided to leave and this is when the fun started. I felt like I was on an episode of COPS. He started chasing us at high speed in crazy traffic. He blocked the on ramp with his motorcycle. We were swerving back and forth in traffic trying to get away from him. He tried to block us again. Finally, we turned down the road dirt, pothole road(potholes the size of cars) that the school is on and we were speeding down it. He did not see us turn. We were bumping our heads on the car's ceiling. We had escaped. We had gone through the gate and we were safe! We had called some other missionaries to help us. One of them came and helped us but by then the crazy motorcyclist was gone. PRAISE THE LORD!!

Well until the next adventure,

Nova

Thank God our Great Physician!!