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

Soccer fans

There is nothing new in Abidjan. As you can see, our road is still flooded so Autumn decided to go floating! As I said before, I don't know why they think it is necessary to get in that nasty water to take pictures. We are always looking for something to amuse ourselves!

We have became soccer fans the last couple of weeks. The World Cup started mid-June and it is being held in South Africa. Cote d'Ivoire was in the top 32 teams along with USA. They never played each other so we were able to root for both of our teams! Sadly, now both teams are out. So, we have picked the only African team left to support. Go Ghana!!

In less than 6 weeks our first team from the states will be in Abidjan!! We are excited! We have also seen how much work it entails, but it is worth it! The team of 10 will be working in one of the quartiers (neighborhood) called Ancumabo. Pray now for the team and the people that they will come in touch with during their time here. Pray for their travels and health. Pray also for us as we have many things to get done before they arrive. Most importantly, pray for hearts to be open to the good news of Jesus Christ!

Enjoy your Independence Day this upcoming weekend! I'm not sure what we have planned but I need to check to see if the Embassy is sponsoring anything this year.

Blessings,

Teresa

Drowning in Abidjan!!

While you are enjoying the heat of June, we are enjoying the cooler weather that comes along with rainy season! As you can see our road is flooded again. Almost every road was flooded today! We attempted to go to the small group today but we had to cancel because of the rain. As we were driving home, we passed through almost 3 feet deep water. It was a little nerve racking, but at least our car is a diesel so we didn't stall out. This is not water that you would want to get stuck and have to wade in!! When we have to walk in it..we try not think about what is in it! So, I really don't know why my family decided they needed to get in it just to take pictures!!

We are chugging along in Jula. It is coming slowly for me, but Jon is doing well! But I am encouraged because my French is improving. My language teacher is teaching me from French to Jula where Jon is learning from English to Jula. Our main ministry is going to be French...we will be using Jula as door openers.

Autumn has completed her freshmen year and is now officially a sophmore!! Wow, it is going by so fast!! Before I know it she will be leaving for college. I try not to think about that to much or I will be sad all the time! ;)

We are looking forward to our first team that is coming to labor with us in August! Please keep them in your prayers as they prepare. Also, pray for the people of Ancumabo as this will be the area that we will be working in that week.

Jon has already had malaria since we returned from the states. The mosquitos are really bad in the rainy season. Continue to keep us in your prayers for good health!

In Christ,

Teresa

Jula, Jula and more Jula!!

We have now been learning Jula for 4 weeks! I can't say that we have learned a whole lot! We can greet and purchase a few items, but that is the extent of our speaking in Jula for the moment! I wish I could say that this language isn't stressful, but that would not be true. But I do believe it is going to be much more enjoyable than French! It has been wonderful to see the peoples faces when we come out with some Jula words! They are so excited that we are trying to learn their heart language! We are trying to spend our time in Jula but also live our everyday life in French (which we aren't no means fluent in!). We have found that our French has improved some since returning from our time in the states. I think our brains actually got some rest!

This past month has flown by fast and I am still trying to get use to how long it takes to do ANYTHING in Africa! I think we got spoiled to the fast food (fast everything) in the states! But we are back to the real world now! ;) We was talking the other day that we now feel more settled here. We needed that trip home but now feel that we can continue on with the work that needs to be done in Abidjan!

Pray for our friends here and pray for me as I try to start storying to a muslim lady nearby. I am going to practice my Jula on her, but also tell her about the reason that we have hope.

Also, continue to pray for our health. This seems to be an area where Satan likes to attack us. I have been fighting daily headaches for the past week and half. Jon still has that impending thought of when the kidney stones will decide to pass. Praise, Autumn has been feeling great!

Love,

Teresa

Returned to Abidjan

We really enjoyed our time in the states! We got to spend time with family and friends. We spent a lot of time in doctors offices, but hopefully have got all things taken care of. Continue to pray for Jon....he still has 3 kidney stones. They are small now, so hopefully he can pass them before they grow big! We ate all the good food that we was missing, and done a lot of shopping! We packed us some goodies to bring back with us! We are thankful for our family that let us invade their house for the month and are looking forward to the next time. We will probably be coming stateside for a few months the fall of 2011.

We are back in the swing of language learning! We started meeting with our Jula helpers on Tuesday. I think this African language is going to be more enjoyable than the French was. Where we had to be at a level 3 in French; we only have to be at a level 2 in Jula. Not that it will be easy; but less stressful! You can pray for my language helper, Eugenie. She told me that she doesn't know much about the Bible and asked if I could teach her. Wow! Of course I will!

Prayer requests:

1) our health

2) Jula learning :)

3) small group

4) our muslim friends

Rainy season has began, so our road is flooded again! Thats ok because the temps are a little cooler this time of the year!

Blessings,

Teresa

WHAT NOW??

The last few days have been rather......stressful! We started out early Saturday morning with Jon waking up with back pain. No biggie.....I mean he always has back pain. But this time it was different......it didn't go away and just got worst. It was the hardest thing to watch him be in so much pain. I was crying myself because I couldn't do anything to ease the pain! About 10:30 I was calling our team mates to take him to the hospital. Of course, that in itself is a hard decision here.....to go to the doctor or tough it out at home. This time Jon was begging to go see a doctor. Going to the doctor here means staying for hours (or in Jon's cause...a few days); the stress of being sure you understand the doctor and he understands your French; knowing the doctors won't tell you ANYTHING; and wondering why they don't ask you what you are allergic to, medications you are on, etc. But God has always been good to us and brought us through each situation! We now know that Jon has 9 kidney stones. Not fun! He has passed one. Please join us in prayer that he will pass all of them before we load our flight to the states this week!

I spent a lot of the day at the hospital with Jon but came home later in the afternoon to start supper for Autumn and I. About 10 minutes into cooking our supper the gas bottle was empty. Well, that isn't something I have learned how to change yet.....so I got out the electric skillet and cooked the meat on it. So, we had meat and bread, minus the mashed potatoes!

About 9:00 I decided it was time to head to bed for some rest, but I heard this horrible noise outside. I went out to see if I could find where it was coming from and I heard water gushing. I looked over at the pump house and saw water going everywhere! I called our team mates again (thanks Mike!) and he came over and turned the water off. Well, he got a free bath out of it! Water was shooting everywhere because the water line had busted! So, now we are out of water until I can contact the office in the morning to send someone over to fix it.

Life isn't always easy in Africa...but as always, God is still in control! Please pray for Jon and our travels this week. We want our travels to be uneventful...nothing like the chaos of the last couple of days!

Guess I better get off here and try to get some rest.....you never know the electricity might be off in a few minutes! :)

Love,

Teresa

The reason we are here........

As we are getting more comfortable in our surroundings and can understand more, we are beginning to see why we are here. It is really encouraging to be able to go out and carry on a conversation and share the good news of Jesus Christ! We had a friend that we haven't seen in awhile come to our house for a visit last night. The last time we saw him, our french wasn't great and we sometimes had problems understanding all that he was saying. Last night we was able to carry on a hour long conversation with the chance of sharing the gospel. He has always been open to listen to the stories of the Bible, as many missionaries from the past and we have shared with him. But as most muslims here, it is hard for him to see the difference between them and us. They believe in Jesus, but just not as God. That is a big difference! I think last night as he was reading some scriptures that some truth was being revealed. He didn't say anything but you could see a look on his face. Pray that God will reveal the truth to S. and to our many other muslim friends in Abidjan.

We are counting down the weeks until a much needed vacation in the states! As we are only a little over two weeks away, it is sometimes hard to keep focused on what we need to be doing now. We are so excited to be able to celebrate the Resurrection day with our church family in the states! Just being able to understand the entire sermon (no preaching in French, Bro. Kevin ;) will be a great blessing! We are beginning to be able to sing the praise songs a little at church, but I am looking forward to being able to worship in English! Start now praying for our travels. You would think that being missionaries that we wouldn't mind flying, but none of us are very fond of it! Autumn actually likes it better than Jon or I! I am good as long as we can have a smooth flight....no storms are necessary!

Hope you have a wonderful Lord's day!

Blessings,

Teresa

Have I ever told you how hot it is in West Africa??

We are roasting here in Abidjan!! We are in the hottest months and to top it off they are shutting off the electricity alot! They have some repairs to be done and they said it will take 3 -4 months. This past week we had two days without electricity for 9 1/2 hours each and another day for 6 hours. Of course, it could always be worse and we are trying (sometimes it is hard:) to have a good attitude about it! We decided that we chose our vacation at a good time....at least we will miss one month of the hot weather without electricity.

As many of you know, we had to cancel our friends trip to Abidjan this past week. That was a very hard decision for us, but because of all that was going on we thought it would be best. Currently, everything is looking up here and we can get out of the house! I think we all was starting to go stir-crazy in this house! Jon apparently thought it was his job to entertain us.....boy, was I ready to get out! ;)

Now, we are counting down to our visit to the states.....it will be here before long! We are going to be ready to rest our bodies and brains! No one can speak any french to us while we are there! ;) And after we return in May, we should be refreshed and ready to start our second language.

Continue to pray for the relationships that we have here. We still believe that God is going to move in the hearts of the people here.

Teresa

Preparing for visit from friends

It has been a rather unusual weekend in Abidjan. We have been confined to the house....and I am going stir-crazy!! But, we have made the best out of the situation and spent time sitting around as a family remembering all the good times with friends and how faithful the Lord has been to us.

We are looking forward to seeing a friend from home next weekend! Next week will be filled with prayerfully looking over the city and seeking where we could use a team of 10 that will be coming in August. We might even fit in a trip to the beach! We want to thank our home church, Emmanuel, for all the goodies that will be coming! I hear there is alot of Slim Jims, you must think Jon is starving over here! ;)

We are looking forward to vacation in the states in April! We can't wait to see each of you! I have realized that I will need to do some shopping as soon as we arrive. If I walk around in my African clothes, I might get some looks!

Prayer requests:

*Pray for Jon and our friends as they prayfully look over the city.

*Continue to pray for my friend, M. I haven't been able to story the past month because she has been working. I hope to start back this week, even if I have to go at night, so pray for an open heart.

*Pray for peace in the country.

In Christ,

Teresa

Exciting year ahead

Sorry it has been so long since my last blog.....the last few weeks have gone by as a blur. We are staying busy in the community and still have a french tutor two times a week. In May, we will be starting to learn an African language. I can't say that I am overly excited about this, I realize that it is a good opening when you are able to greet them in their heart language but this is starting again at ground zero. But the good news is that the African language that we have picked won't be as hard as french. Pray that our french will continue to get better even while we are learning the second language. French will be the language that we minister in most of the time.

The dry season has returned and with that comes heat and humidity. But I can say that it doesn't seem as bad this year, I think our bodies are adjusting a little. When we come to the states for a visit, we will probably freeze!

We have had an answered prayer this past month....we found a friend (friends) for Autumn. We met another missionary family at a gathering for all missionaries in Abidjan. They have a 18, 14 and 12 year old daughters. The 14 and 12 year olds speak French and English, the 18 year old only speaks French. Autumn can communicate with them well! This will also improve Autumn's french skills! ;) They are just as excited as us....and we plan on getting the girls together every other weekend. Autumn has also began taking tennis lessons. She really enjoys this and it also keeps her busy. She also really likes her online school, Northstar Academy, she has made many friends through it and they chat often online.

The African Cup (soccer) is going on now. Even Jon and Autumn has got into it! As I write they are sitting in front of the tv and yelling at it! ;) We have to root for our country! Go Elephants!

We are very excited for this year......dynamics are changing. In February, our friends from South Africa are coming for a visit and Eric Fuller and his father in law are coming for a visit. You will be seeing us in the states this spring and Eric will be bringing another team back in August. Also, a couple friends from Midwestern are suppose to come this summer. It is going to be great to see friends from home....if any of you can't decide where to vacation this year, come and see us in Abidjan!

Better head to bed....Jon has decided to get healthy on me and we have to get up at 7 to walk! ;)

Love,

Teresa

2010

Jolie liked her present too!


YUM!!

Wow, can you believe it is 2010? Time seems to be going by so fast! We had a great holiday season here in Abidjan. We celebrated Christmas and brought in the New Year with our team mates. We tried to come up with some new family traditions this year for Christmas. As you can see from above, we cooked our own Christmas meal. We had ham, dressing, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, green beans, deviled eggs, and lots of candy! It all tasted wonderful!

I have to admit that I am glad we are back to normal life now. The homesickness seemed worse during the holiday season, but now it is like every other day and we are staying busy.

Here are some prayer requests for the upcoming year:

*that we will continue to improve in our french and that our brains will be ready to tackle an African language in May

*that we will stay healthly

*continue to build and grow relationships

*salvation for our muslim friends

*the small group will grow in the Lord and someone will step up to lead

We would like to thank each and every one of you for praying for us in 2009. Continue to lift us up! We thank the Lord for the many ways that he has blessed us. In the first 3 days of 2010 we can already see the Lord's hand moving in many situations!

Blessings,

Teresa

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

You noticed I said that it is beginning to look (not FEEL) like Christmas! We went out yesterday to finish our Christmas shopping. The mall and stores are all decorated for the holidays. I even noticed the decorations that the city hangs on the light poles. Their decorations might not be what you would use......I even saw a purple Christmas tree the other day! Also, the stores are playing Christmas music (mostly in English). But, it is definitely not feeling anything like Christmas. The temp has been in the high 80s with it feeling like 100 with the humidity. Jon and Autumn went swimming Friday, that just seems crazy for it being a week before Christmas

This week will be really busy for us. Starting yesterday after shopping, Autumn and I spent the entire afternoon making cookies for our small group today. We are having a fellowship for Christmas. Of course, I said that I would bring some cookies like we eat in America and they thought that was the greatest thing. So, I wanted to be sure that I had plenty because there will not be any left! We are having a Christmas party for all the Africans that help us on Wednesday afternoon. So, I need about 200 more cookies for that! We will celebrate Christmas with the McAfees on Christmas Eve and on Christmas day we will have family time and make us a Christmas dinner. It will be the first time that I make dressing! We will see how that works!

Enjoy your family and friends this holiday season! Remember the reason of Christmas is the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Continue to lift us up in prayer especially during the holidays, it is much harder this time of the year. We appreciate and love each of you!

Teresa

Thanksgiving with our African friends

our language helpers
my friend with her baby girl
the guys table!!
Jolie tried to help decorate the tree!

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends! We spent the day with our team mates and some of our African friends. It was a great day of fellowship (all in french!) I don't know if all our friends was greatly impressed with the traditional Thanksgiving food, but they braved it anyway! ;) We feel blessed to have some great friends here! Continue to pray for our muslim friends to come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.

The day after Thanksgiving we started some of our new family traditions. We woke up and made us a yummy breakfast with bacon (sent from the good-ole USA!), played Christmas music as we decorated, and drank some apple cider. It was a great day together as a family! We do miss our family and friends more during this time, so we are trying to make it as much like home as possible.

Ministry is still going well here in Abidjan. The small group is doing great. They are going out sharing their faith with the muslims in their community. We have been having women come the last few weeks, so that is an praise! Continue to pray that these men (and women) will grow in their faith and will continue to tell others about what God has done for them.

We had our language evaluation this past Friday and it went really well. I was really nervous, but gave it to the Lord and he answered the prayers of many people. We are at the level that we should be at this time. We will continue in french for about 3 more months and then will begin an African language.

Enjoy your holiday season, and remember the reason for the season: Jesus!

Love,

Teresa

So many things to be thankful for....

Wow, it is already almost Thanksgiving! This year has flown by! We are gearing up in Abidjan for the traditional Thanksgiving feast. Well, that is if we can find a turkey! Everyone has been leaving us here in Abidjan....so it will only be us and the McAfees for the holidays.

Nothing new with us.....except the usual french. We should be having an evaluation soon, so please keep that in your prayers.

We have so many things to be thankful for this holiday season........our family, our health, great friends, and the language that we have learned! God has greatly blessed us! Thank you to all of you who continue to lift us up in prayer, we wouldn't be here without you. Also, don't forget the Lottie Moon Christmas offering because this is what helps to keep all the missionaries on the field. All giving is greatly appreciated!

I know this is short, but I just wanted to let you know that we are doing well. Enjoy your turkey dinner and fellowship!

Teresa

We have been in Africa for a year....

On the 18th of October we hit the one year mark in Africa. It has been a year with lots of changes, lots of goodbyes and many tears....but it has also been a year with many blessings! We have been blessed with an extended family on the field......Autumn has more aunts and uncles than she can count! Our team mates are great and we are so happy to have them back with us in Abidjan after the birth of little Benjamin. Our relationships with the Africans are growing and we are finding ourselves busy with company, etc. The most important thing is that we can now share the gospel with these friends in their language. What a major blessing!

God is moving in the small group and it is really growing! Jon spends a lot of time with these guys and is pouring the truth into them. They are eager to go out and share the good news with their friends and with strangers they met. God is really going to use these guys! One of them has asked Jon about starting another group with 5 friends that he has lead to the Lord. Wow! Jon will continue to disciple him and show him how to lead a group.

Please continue to pray for my muslim friend, M. She has begun to ask a lot of questions. She told me the other day that she knows that you must have faith in Jesus and that she does. I told her that she must trust in Jesus alone, and she didn't know what to do with that. Today when I was visiting her and telling her the story of Nicodemus, she asked me why there was so many ways. She now realizes that Christians and muslims are not the same. I told her that only one of them can be the right way. She agreed. She said that she was going to pray that God would show her the truth and when he does that she will follow that truth. We know that God will show her so please continue to lift her up!

Bottle some of that cool weather up and send it our way! :) It sure is hot here....I think I am finally remembering to put the sunblock on. It took a couple of days of becoming sunburned before I realized the sun is back!

Love,

Teresa

It's been a long time........

Sorry that it has been so long since the last post!! It has been the usual around here, we sometimes feel like we are never going to get out of french learning! Of course, that is probably right....even when we reach our level; we will still keep learning. As most people learning another language, we have days that we think, "Wow, I'm starting to get this," and then there are the other days (which we seem to have more of :) when we say, "I have almost been here for a year and this is all I can say!!" But we have to go back and look where we was when we arrived on the field.....we couldn't even say hi! But now we can carry on a conversation (sometimes it might sound like a 3 year old:), we are sharing the gospel, and can actually have a small conversation on the telephone (wow, that one is hard!). It may take us FOREVER to make our level, but God has been faithful to us and has allowed us to minister while we are learning!

Autumn has returned from the states. She had a really great time with family! I don't think she forgot the name of one restaurant that she ate at while she was there.....she rubbed everyone of them in! But we did send an empty suitcase with her, and she brought it back filled with goodies that we can not find in Abidjan. It was like an early Christmas present! I was told that I would be more homesick while she was gone, and they was right! I was a little jealous that I didn't get to see family and friends, eat all that good food, and go to Walmart! God willing, we will all be on a plane next summer and will enjoy the states for a short time!

We did have some excitement in West Africa this week! Our team mates, Mike and Heather, welcomed a baby boy, Benjamin! We haven't got to meet him yet because they had to travel to another country for the birth, but we hope they will arrive back in Abidjan within the next month. It will be exciting to have a little one around!

Enjoy your fall like weather! Wow, I miss this time of the year....it's my favorite! It is beginning to heat up around here, no chance of a white Christmas! :)

Love,

Teresa

Time is flying......

Wow, I can't believe it.....next month we will have been in Africa for 1 year! Time flys when you are having fun! :) I can say that it has been both a hard and rewarding time. The times of homesickness is becoming less and Abidjan is starting to feel more like home.

Hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend! Here in Abidjan it was french learning as usual, for some reason they don't celebrate all the US holidays! :) Jon and I are sitting home alone wondering what we ever did before we had Autumn. She is on her way to the states to spend a few weeks with her grandparents and family. I know they are very excited to see her, and I am already missing her! Being across the ocean from her is such a different level than sending her from Missouri to Arkansas for a week! But we know that God is good and He will watch over her! Any of you guys in Piggott that see her the next few weeks, give her a big hug for us!

As I said, french is continuing....we have a language teacher 5 days a week, 2 hours a day. The rest of the time we spend studying or out in the community practicing. The other day when I met a young girl I introduced myself and.....she giggled! Ok, I didn't say anything funny! Oh well, I guess that I will never loose that southern accent! You can pray for our upcoming evaluation in October, we really pray that we will be at our level by spring.

The storying group has been going well.......this past Sunday we had 9 guys! Wow, that was great! They are really getting out there and sharing their stories and inviting people. Pray that God will make it clear who is becoming the leader of the group. You can also pray as Jon is planning on taking one of the guys to a village in a month or so for evangelism.

Thank you for praying for my muslim friend. She has been real open to hear the stories. She has been visiting my house often lately, and I am thankful that she trusts me enough to call me a friend. Pray that God will work in her heart as I continue to tell her about the love of Jesus.

God Bless,

Teresa

Seeking God

Saturday started the month of Ramadan. This is where the muslim people fast and pray from dusk to dawn for the forgiveness of their sins. You can go all around Abidjan and see the many people that are seeking God as they pray and read their Quran. I am so thankful for the work that Jesus did on the cross! Please take some time this month to pray and/or fast for the muslims across the world. The muslims are seeking God during this time, and we pray that God will make the truth clear to them. Please pray for my friend who I story with each week, that God will open her eyes that Jesus is the only way.

Our small group is continuing to go well. Each week we are understanding more and able to communicate. This is very encouraging! It still seems like it will be forever before we will be at our level, but it is coming.

Many of you in Piggott will be seeing Autumn soon! She will be there in September. This is a early Christmas present for her (it may have to be for her birthday, next Christmas, etc :). She is very excited to see family, she also has a long list of restaurants that she wants to visit! Of course, she keeps rubbing it in, but Jon keeps telling her that he can change her ticket until we can all come! But she doesn't seemed to worried, I think she knows that we would be in big trouble from the grandparents if we changed our minds now! She will be speaking (well, this is Autumn...so it will be short:) at Emmanuel on a Saturday night at Eric Fuller's mission night.

Make plans to come visit us, we have room for you! Come in the months June - August, the weather is wonderful!

Au revoir,

Teresa

Life is becoming very busy!!

Hi everyone! Sorry it has been so long since the last time I blogged! We have been very busy lately. Autumn started 9th grade this week. She is enrolled in an online school, Northstar Academy, and we have stayed busy getting it all figured out. It seems to be a great program, she actually has teachers that send her all the work and I send it back to them. I am hoping after this first few weeks, that it will become easier on me! :)

Our small group has been going very well! As I told you, the guys has decided to start meeting on Sunday afternoons so the people that they invite may come. Last Sunday we had a total of 8 guys! They seem really eager to learn the stories and share with others. They keep Jon busy and always have many questions. We all are currently learning Creation to Christ. After about 8 weeks, the group will have a summary from creation to the return of Christ that they can go out and use for evangelism. Continue to pray for their growth and that we can get some women involved! You can see some pictures above from the past Sunday.

I have been telling the weekly stories to a muslim friend of mine. I didn't know at first if she would let me share with her. But she has let me tell her the stories and this week when she came to visit me she asked if I had another story for her. Please pray for an open heart has she hears the word of God. Again above, I have posted a picture of her with her newborn baby girl.

Thank you for the prayers concerning our language learning! We have seemed to finally hit a point where we have more good days than bad. Continue to lift us up!

Our health has been pretty good. But there has been a lot of mosquitos lately, so pray that we continue to stay healthy. We don't have time to be sick! ;)

Send us a comment to let us know how you are doing!

Teresa