Team will arrive in 6 days!!

Excitement is mounting in the Moody household! Our first team from the states will arrive next Friday! We are looking forward to meeting each person and sharing what the Lord is doing in Abidjan. We have a week of hard work for them, but we will have some times of fun also! :)

We have had a good summer. After our trip to the states in April, we returned and started our second language. It is going well, but I can say we are ready for it to be over!! We are ready to be in full-time ministry. We now look at french being easy (or maybe I should say easier!), since we are at the beginning of this other language. Since we will be doing our ministry in french, it is hard to get ourselves motivated to learn the second language. We had a friend come visit us last week. She went to school with us in KC and now lives in another part of Africa. She is like a big sister to Autumn and they had a great time! I had a great time also...I miss the times with my friends! We thank the Lord for this time with old (and new) friends!

Autumn is doing well. She is ready to help out with the team that will be arriving. The week they leave, she will be starting school. She will be a sophmore this year....where has the time gone?? I don't even like to think about college and leaving her in the states while I am in Africa! But I know the Lord is faithful! The guard down the street keeps asking me if he can marry her. Today I told him that he must talk to her grandfather, who lives in the US. He replied back, "Ok, I will swim over and ask him!" I'm taking that as a joke (I hope!). :)

Enoy your weekend! If anyone decides they want to come to Africa...send us a message! :)

Teresa

Happy 4th of July!!

Karis putting the nose on Arthur (notice Jon's drawing abilities:)
Autumn, Karis & Caleb with the American flag sugar cookie they made
enjoying the pool
they gave Benjamin a mohawk
time to eat!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!! Even in Abidjan, we celebrated Independence Day with our team mates (minus Mike, sorry Mike!). We had games for the kids, swimming and some good grilled food!! We bought us one of those pools that is suppose to be easy to put up. The one that you put the water in it and it just comes up!! Believe us...it is not that easy!! You must be sure that your ground is totally level!! I will post pictures soon of the pool process!

We are learning how to entertain ourselves in this huge city that doesn't have much to offer in form of entertainment. If we would have only had time to find some fireworks, then the day would been just like home. Well, minus the rides, cotton candy, and funnel cakes (yum!).

We are still learning Jula, but the last week has been a better week! This language has been a struggle for me but it is starting to come little by little.

Prayer requests:

1. language learning

2. Sunday small group

3. my Jula helper...she is the one who asked if I can help her learn more about the Bible...we have had some discussions and this past week I gave her a Bible. She has never had a Bible before. As Americans that is hard for us to grasp because we have many Bibles sitting around in our house.

4. team coming in 4 short weeks!! :)

Blessings,

Teresa