Our granddaughter Louisa, aged 22, told us she was going to see the new Spider-Man film at the cinema, with her longtime boyfriend Tiago, on Wednesday night in the late night showing. What we didn't know was that they were going to get engaged there with Tiago on his knees in front of a packed cinema! (Tiago plays the guitar in the church band.) They have been going out together, on and off, for five and a half years.
Liz and I have been working on the Christmas Hamper distribution via 16 EAB/ACEV churches and schools. It's a lot of hard work, but it brings much happiness and food to hundreds of very poor families. The building materials have been delivered this week for the latest (26th) toilet/shower unit which we are building for Aldenora, Luciano and family at Barra de Oitis. The foundations and cesspits are being dug and we just might be able to finish this work for this needy family in time for Christmas. It will be quite a Christmas present as they have never had a toilet before, let alone a shower!
Our Campina Grande - Catolé church (this is one of the two churches we have in this city) held a glorious and joyful baptismal service on Sunday when 18 people were baptized. I have been busy preparing a Christmas sermon for this coming Sunday. Average Covid daily deaths are down here to 150. We have not felt the impact of the Omicron variant as yet and we hope and pray it will not affect us.
Last night we went to Louisa's graduation ceremony in Law. Liz and I were first to arrive half an hour early, but the ceremony started three quarters of an hour late! All went off fine in the end. Louisa has passed the first part of her bar exams and has sat the final part for which she is awaiting the result on January 12th.
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