Dusty in Burkina

our last day with the Pope's
Autumn with her guitar
Autumn with some of the youth

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Despite being out of country and home, the Lord blessed us with a great Christmas. Our dear friends, the Pope's, let us invade their house for 2 1/2 weeks. As they were packing to return to the states, they went out of their way to make it a nice Christmas for us. They got the tree out and we decorated it and Autumn made some yummy Christmas cookies. Also, they gave Autumn a Christmas gift that she will never forget....a guitar! Autumn had been talking about saving her money for a guitar, well was she ever surprised on Christmas morning when David and Cindy gave her one! I don't think there was a dry eye in the house....I know it made this momma's heart happy to see the joy in Autumn's eyes.

Our friends have returned home to family and we have found a furnished house to stay in while we wait out the issues in Ivory Coast. Please continue to pray for peace for Ivory Coast and that the peoples hearts will be turned to the true God. We have spoken to many friends and they are doing fine but admit that it is a hard time with increased prices and dangers.

We have met many new missionaries here and Autumn had found a youth group to be involved in. She is loving it and I have to admit that it makes us feel great to! It has been a long time since we have seen our daughter hang out with a group of teenagers. We had a campout for 3 days over New Years and it was a great time. The youth had a time of devotions and worship each evening and had fun sleeping outside under the stars at night.

Prayer requests:

*Peace in Ivory Coast

*for us patience in this time of waiting

*wisdom

*pray for our health as the dust has come in from the desert and we are fighting allergies

Blessings,

Teresa