Life in Abidjan

I know its small.....

Hi everyone! We are settling in well. Our teammates have been great, always willing to show us around or take us shopping. We are back to a schedule with about 6-7 hours a day of french. This consists of 2 hours with a tutor and then the remaining hours on our own studying or out in the community trying to practice what we have learned. I have a friend in the neighborhood that has a vegetable stand at the end of our road, she lets me come and sit with her to practice my french. Its feels good to actually be able to have a conversation (well, a small conversation;-). French is a tough language to learn but it is coming.

We had our second visit to the medical clinic this week. This time it was Autumn. She started running a fever on Monday night and it continued to get higher, so Friday morning we decided to take her to the clinic. She had a virus that caused blisters on her throat. After the visit we got her some medicine and she is doing much better today. I don't know what is wrong with her and Jon, they are usually the healthly ones and I'm usually the one always sick! Of course, I'm ok with staying well! ;-)

Our excitement for the week was a snake in our bathroom. It was small (ok very small, but a snake is a snake to me!). It was about 2 in the morning when I saw it. It looked like a worm, but it moved around like a snake. I went and woke Jon up....of course he said, "It is only a gecko." Well, when I finally got him up to look at it, he decided it was some sort of snake. After searching the internet, we found that it was the worlds smallest snake called a flowerpot snake. Of course Jon didn't want to kill it...he just wanted to let it go outside. You can see a picture of how small it was above.

Continue to pray for our language learning and for us to find Autumn a friend. She is suppose to go play soccer with a girl that lives down the road this afternoon. Please pray that it will go well. At the end of this month another missionary is coming to train our team for two weeks in urban church planting. He will be bringing his two teenage daughters. This should be a good two weeks for Autumn.

I have posted a couple pictures of the outside of our house. We love the screened in front porch! When we get some furniture, I will post some pictures of the inside.

Enjoy your cold weather! If it gets too cold for you, get on a plane and come to Abidjan! ;-)

Teresa