IN AFRICA!!!

Me with our truck (well we will be getting a new one soon), it’s called the Clunker and there’s a reason why! :)

Mom on the couch.

This is our house! Pretty much all the houses look like this! :)

Our pretty courtyard! This is the lizards home!

Our table and such.

This is our living room.

My bedroom.

Wow! I’m so excited I’m here! We arrived here on Saturday, well lets start with the plane trip. We flew from Memphis to Atlanta, I don’t care for the smaller planes that much, especially when we have to land in the rain! The good thing about that one is we only had an hour and a half flight!!! Then we had our layover and met up with some other missionaries coming to Bamako. The next plane trip (from Atlanta to Paris) was “alright” I don’t want to be put on a plane for 8 hrs!!! We got an unexpected meal which was really good. We flew through the night and I got a couple hours of sleep. We arrived in Paris at 11:00 am their time, we mainly just went through coustoms then went and hung out till it was time for our flight. I had a good two hour nap! Then the flight from Paris to Mali was 5 hrs. and that was a good flight! We in Bamako 8:00pm (the time here), the airport was pretty different but with the help of the missionaries already here we made it through and went to our house.

Our house is really nice, not what I expected for Africa! We live in a nice neighborhood, we haven’t really got to meet any of our neighbors yet. The other day when we opened our gate door like 20 kids ran in saying “Bonjour!” It was really nice! We have a dirt road leading to our house with lot of potholes It’s quite bumpy! We have took a walk in our neighborhood and there is alot of nice people! There is even a man that can speak English that is going to translate the Gospel to the people for us! (He is not a Christain eigther, so pray for him.) There is so many people to reach here!

We had our first French lesson today! We learned how to introduce ourselves and have a small conversation! It will take a while but i know that we will learn it!

Thanks for all the prayers and continue to pray for us! Pray for our language study, for us adjusting, and that we will find a way to reach the people of Bamako! My name is now Adjua Kouime, this is my African name! Mom’s is Teres and Dad’s is Yuhana. It’s very cool here! (not temperature wise though!)