Hi,
The last few days of the mis­sion trip we were both too tired to take time writ­ing on the blog. It was all really good, but all the meet­ings, and get­ting up at 8 am and in bed at 2 am made it dif­fi­cult for us not to rest in the breaks we had

I´ll quickly tell you some of the sto­ries from the last days in Brazil. We went to a youth meet­ing one night. The youth had a full day at a school gym. They were wor­ship­ping, danc­ing, play­ing, pray­ing. All the good stuff. We came in the evening and Chase preached to them. After that we all went around and prayed for them and blessed them. They were really really hun­gry! Many of them got very much touched by the Father. A lot of them ended up on the floor rest­ing in His pres­ence. It was good.
On our way our from that meet­ing, one of our inter­preters, Paula, stopped me. It was only her and I left in there from the team. She had been pray­ing for a man that had told her that his left eye was com­pletely blind! She had me come over to pray for him too, and together we prayed for him. Sanna and Chase came back also and we prayed for him, about a minute or so. Then he opened his eyes again, cov­ered up his right eye, and started read­ing a poster that was on the wall! Did you get that?! His left eye had been healed and he can see now!!! WOW! That thing right there makes me very very happy. Thank you Jesus for giv­ing him his sight back. Great!

The next night Sanna and I went to preach in two dif­fer­ent churches. That´s the first time we´ve gone to sep­a­rate places to preach at the same time. It went well for both of us, but for us both it was also very dif­fer­ent than what we´re used to. I love to preach a more evan­ge­lis­tic mes­sage, but that time God had me preach out of Malachi, on giv­ing a good offer­ing. That´s dif­fer­ent! They prob­a­bly expected me to jump around in there and preach up a storm. I asked God about it before I went to the meet­ing. “Hey God. This is not how Gary has asked us to do this. The church prob­a­bly expect some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent too. And I´m not used to preach about this thing.” Do you know what His answer was? “Well, are you going to do what I want you to do?” Oh yes, that´s what I wanted to do. I believe that the mes­sage came through well, but I also knew that there were peo­ple there who needed heal­ing. So I did what Jesus did, and told them that if they didn´t believe the words that I spoke, at least believe the works that I do, so that you will know that the Father is in me. So I had every­body that needed a heal­ing stand up and I prayed over them. About half of them got healed right there! One man came up and wanted heal­ing for his leg. He was 80 years old! I´m not sure what hap­pened to his leg but I noticed that he had hear­ing aid in both ears. I asked him to take them out and we prayed for him. He ended up hear­ing bet­ter with­out the hear­ing aids, than with them! Praise God. And he was 80 years old! A young boy had come to the meet­ing with pain in his left elbow. After we prayed, the pain was gone!

The best sto­ries I remem­ber from Sanna´s church was that 17 peo­ple got saved, and I two year old girl got bap­tized in the Holy Spirit and started to pray in tongues! Cool! Her par­ents came up and gave the tes­ti­mony. The lit­tle girl had sud­denly dur­ing the meet­ing, while Sanna was preach­ing, started to speak in a strange lan­guage that the par­ents didn´t under­stand. They were both happy

Mon­day evening the team flew home to the US, but Chase, Sanna and I was left in São Paulo, because we had booked tick­ets for the next day. By mis­take. And it cost $250 to change each ticket. We stayed with Weslei Vianna, a local man that inter­preted for us dur­ing the trip. He is really cool! A great man of God. He took us around the city, which by the way is extremely big, and also took us to visit his spir­i­tual grand­fa­ther, Luiz Schiliró. Luiz has preached the gospel in 56 coun­tries! He has been arrested sev­eral times for preach­ing. He was arrested for prac­tic­ing med­i­cine with­out lisence! And that was because he was heal­ing peo­ple in Jesus name. So that time he was restricted from lay­ing hands on the sick. Police offi­cers came to the next meet­ing to make sure that he did as he was told. One of them came over to him and told him that his mother was very sick and asked him if he please could come and lay hands on her and heal her! Hehe, that´s really cool. We prayed for him, and he prayed for us and imparted to us. By the way, he is 90 years old now and he is still preach­ing. Two ser­mons on Sun­day in a few days.

The car drive to the air­port was some­thing I will never for­get! If I had video­taped it I could have watched it every Sat­ur­day with a bowl of pop­corn. It was exhil­a­ra­tion! Weslei drove very fast through the city of São Paulo, and he was on the side­walk, dri­ving against the direc­tion and darted back and forth. Half of the time he didn´t even know where we were and had to change direc­tion when he saw signs street names that he rec­og­nized. And São Paulo is so big that it´s almost impos­si­ble to know the whole city! It was really cool though, and he got us to the air­port in time. Even though it looked impos­si­ble. Sanna preached on hav­ing faith, while we were in the car and she kept giv­ing us hope Won­der­ful woman

Brazil is great! God bless you.