Our little city Itacoatiara

Itacoatiara is the indigenous word for "Pedra Pintada" -  painted rock.
This rock is a monument of when the first catholic missionaries came to Itacoatiara.

Our community here is maravilhoso!

We love all the people who help us so much everywhere we go every day.

We were so happy to find the library. It has helped us with our Portuguese.

The librarians are so nice. They check out books to us by hand in their binder.

(it's a lot to write because we check out a lot of books)

This is Anderson our friend from our branch is here at his mechanic shop. 

He helps us all the time because our van has lots of problems.

He even came to our house to tow our van when it couldn't start.

Our dear friend Meiri really wanted to do some haircuts for us.

She and her daughter had a lot of fun working on mom.

Mya's before...

Mom's before...

After - She did a great job!

Our friends from the supermarket always greet us and help us find what we need.

One time they took groceries all the way to our widowed neighbor's house, unloaded them, and took the cart back.

So sweet!

There are lots of different kinds of churches all over the city.

Our pastor friend who lives next door invited us to his church.

they had a lot of enthusiastic loud music.
everyone was so loving and welcoming.
they all gave hugs afterwards

This is a catholic church. we made friends with the catholic bishop. they are also really nice and invited us to their women day celebration.

There are also so many restaurants that are run by families.

this is one of our favorites. they give us a lot of food for not very much money

we love their creative plant holders

their family of aunts, uncles, and cousins have been good friends to us

the people at the post office were so patient trying to figure out how to mail things for us

the print store guys are also very patient helping us print and copy things.
It's sweet that the owner put up a picture his little daughter colored above the computer.

AMAMOS ITACOATIARA!!!

(if you haven't seen this picture yet, zoom in close by Hayla to see something cool.)

Posted by: Adira