This weekend I (Stephanie) set to work baking. I made chocolate chip cookies, chocolate crinkles, Mexican wedding cookies, and gingerbread men. Since cookies are almost completely unheard of here in Brazil, I knew anything I made would be unique and memorable. We put the cookies on little plates and wrapped them up.
After writing a little note on each one,
(and posing for a quick picture) we set out. Although we were a tiny bit nervous at first, at each house we more so warmly received! People were so touched that we had thought of them and very interested in talking. Since we had many gifts to give out, we weren't able to stay long at any one house but almost every family wanted to invite us in. Several even asked us to come back to visit again.
One of the funniest parts was the reaction our neighbors had to the gingerbread man cookies. Since cookies are not something found in Brazil, of course cookie cutters are not either. (I brought a cookie cutter from the States.) So when our neighbors saw these "doll shaped cookies", as they called them, they were so impressed that I had made the cookies into such a cute shape. They thought it was SO original :) They also remembered seeing the "doll cookie" in the movie Shrek....I never would have thought of that connection!
We are very encouraged about the connection we were able to make with our neighbors and are praying that they will be interested in our Bible study group when it comes time to invite them.
2 comments:
I loved hearing the reaction to the gingerbread men. So cute!
We are praying for you!
We hope that God use those cookies to reach their heart!
Here we are in Ceará!!!!!Oh God is really good!
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