On Friday afternoon I enjoyed a lovely walk through the wilds of Green Pastures taking special note of the many young trees that we have planted over the years. We planted over a hundred Umbu trees (Brazilian green plum) and it is wonderful to see them slowly growing. One of them is outgrowing all the others and is quite magnificent. Other trees that I observed were Angico, Aroeira, Pinhao Bravo, Juca, Jurema etc. All these trees are native trees from our region which manage to survive our annual hot droughts. There are no translations for the names of these trees.
Intense rain on the coast at Joao Pessoa on Friday caused bad flash flooding in the lower lying areas of the city disrupting traffic, inundating houses and partially submerging vehicles.
Our Patos school needs some repairs done to its roof as it leaked a lot during the rainy season. The budgeted cost of the repairs is 566 pounds.
Last night I led the service at the Green Pastures church and a very good number came along to a lovely communion service. Marina led the worship, Bible College graduate Murilo preached from John 20 and Paulo Silas, Nega, Julio and Manoel also took part.
Our rainy season is now over as we are now in the month of June. Our rainy season this year was good with a total of 837 mm of rain. Our target for an excellent year is 1,000 mm. We will now have no rain until December or next year (apart from the odd shower), and it will get steadily hotter as the year goes on.
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