We arrived just over two weeks ago in Belem.  During this time Elder Nielsen has spent time learning to drive again in Brasil (it is different!!!!) and we've met some very wonderful people.  President and Sister Soares (our mission president and wife) met us at the airport at 2:30AM on July 31, took us to their home for a time to sleep and recover.  We've been introduced to Ednei, who is the Church's site manager, and quite a number of workers of Afonso França, who is the contractor on site.  We've been to the grocery store several time, purchased two Brasilian cell phones, obtained internet access at the site.

Here's a panoramic picture of the project site taken from outside the fence.  Any fotos that we take from inside are to remain Church property and cannot be shown on any public service.  It sounds like some of the rules that existed when I worked on project with Bechtel.

Our apartment has an air conditioned bedroom so we are able to sleep at night but we are adjusting better to the heat and the humidity so we don't have the A/Z on much during the day and have, in fact, turned the temperature down at night.

The final photograph is a rendering as to what the temple will look like when completed.  This one can also be shown since it is already available on the Church's web site.