Hello Friends of the Niteroi Mission Team! Thank you for visiting the Gotcher Blog. We arrived in Niteroi, Brazil in November and have been taking language classes and settling in as we prepare to plant a church. We will attempt to keep the blog updated as much as possible and you can also find both Wes and Carrie on Facebook. Again thank you for visiting our blog and please keep the church plant and our family in your prayers. We understand that we will not have any success apart from God's desire for this chuch so please pray that we will speak only his words and that his truth will fall on fertile hearts.
Carrie - A Day in the Life from Wes Gotcher on Vimeo.
I obviously need some editing work because this video is almost 10 minutes. If you choose to watch this video, I would encourage you to pause the video and wait a few minutes so it can download and you can view without pauses.
Enjoy a day in Carrie’s life in Niteroi, Brasil.
Today Carrie and I left the apartment at 7:15AM and traveled by bus to meet the rest of the team at the bus terminal in downtown Niteroi. At the terminal we caught a bus that took us across the bridge into Rio where we exited, crossed the street and caught another bus. 1 hour and 52 minutes after departing we arrived at the front door of the church of Christ in the Tanque neighborhood of Rio. We met up with Larry and Connie Zinck (Nathan’s parents) and enjoyed a Bible Study and worship with the believers in Tanque. This was the first time Carrie and I have been to this church and we enjoyed meeting everyone and greeting women with a kiss on both cheeks (I’m still getting used to this). After church we went to lunch with the Zincks and and enjoyed traditional Brazilian food… okay, we had pizza. After another bus ride we caught the ferry across the bay and returned to our apartment exactly 9 hours and 43 minutes after leaving (I timed our journey). Although it’s a far cry from our former 4 minute church commute, it was encouraging to meet with other believers and our team had a few funny events that will not soon be forgotten.
Speaking of funny events, last Saturday we went to the beach and Carrie was filming Brent, Zane, several Brazilians and I swimming around at the beach in Piratininga. As you can see from this video (posted below), the sea was angry and for some reason especially angry with Zane.
Zane was kind enough to come over and give Carrie and I a quick tutorial on how to make a video. This isn’t too exciting but it was fun to create and I added background music because the audio was pretty rough. Also, because it’s coming from youtube it’s not very clear. Once I get an account with another site, the quality should be better. Click on either of the links below to watch:
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=oJV_kpQZD0g