Evan: Yesterday, Wednesday, We finally sent off an email to one of the 8,500 potential resource clinics/hospitals/humanitarian homes/professionals for bishops to use in Brazil for mental/emotional problem members. It was a great day because it now means that there is at least a light at the end of the tunnel re actually obtaining some needed resource info.

It has taken almost a week to figure out how best to provide the help that Ivan (Director for Family Services throughout Brazil) requested. Now we won't have to phone all the 8500 listed organizations that we were asked to do. It would've been a year long project at least for 2 people working all the time on it, but of course our main job is to provide humanitarian help to the poor/disadvantaged etc. and that takes up most of our time. So we were just helping Ivan out whenever we had some spare time, and of course Hiroko did most of the work on Ivan's project. We aren't the only ones doing the phone calls.

Today (thursday 2/16/12)We sent off about 50 or 60 more email requests for info that the bishops can use. We are finding that about 1/3 of all email addresses are out of date. But we're making progress! Only about 8200 more to go.

My favorite potato chips so far. Hey, with a name like "Krosty", who can resist!!!

Best news is that Finally Hiroko was able to speak Japanese to Senhor Chida at an old folks home and we're meeting with him tomorrow at 1pm--our very first visit to an old folks home by ourselves. We'll see how we can help them, and THIS time Hiroko can do all the talking.