The Copeland Ramblings/

Mercredi!

For a while Emmaus had been complaining when I put his shoes on. One of them just didn’t seem like it went on right. After a few days of this I decided to check out the shoe and see if there was something strange. Sure enough… I look in and the whole front inside of the shoe was raised up. He could not even get his feet in all the way. There was about an inch that was raised up. It was so odd. It was like someone stuck a balloon in the tip of his sandal. I discovered that somehow over time a bunch of sand was building up in there. This is the pile of sand that I got out of his sandal. THATS A LOT OF SAND! And it all came out of a small child’s sandal. Poor guy had been walking around with all that sand stuck under the sole of his shoe.

Today I took the kids out to run some errands. I wanted to find some snacks to take on the plane with us for the kids. They love some of the local cookies. So we walked down to the local boutique. These boutiques are everywhere! This is our favourite. The guy who runs it is really nice. The boutique next to this one is pretty much exactly the same… except the people are always so rude. This man asks about the kids and Norm EVERY time I go there. I don’t think he speaks French. He knows enough to say hi and know the names of his products. But its still nice that he gives the effort. Hopefully one day we will have a common language and we can talk about God’s incredible love. But for now we will just show it to him by our actions.

This is Canaan sitting just outside the boutique.

Eating lollipops from the boutique.

Here the boys are sitting at the bakery across from our house. I had to stop in and pay for the bread I had bought the day before. We are friends with the guys who does all the baking and cooking a this bakery. He is such a nice guy. He is our friend Prosper’s brother. Pray for him that we would be a good influence on him and that we would get the chance to share the gospel with him. On Sunday I bumped into him as I was getting a taxi to go to church. I was bugging him to come to church with us. He said maybe some other time. He has also asked us to find him a wife from California. Haha! This is a VERY common request. We get asked that at least once a week by all sorts of people.

Canaan made this for me at school. It says that it is a reward for being the best mom in the world. He was VERY proud to bring it home and give it to me. He did a great job at writing everything. Its all in French… even my name! Bravo Canaan! I am so proud of you and so proud to be your mommy!

Well hope you enjoyed the pictures and some random culture. We head to California in 2 days. Boy are we excited. Especially since in the last 2 days the power has been TERRIBLE and the heat and humidity has skyrocketed! California is looking so good right now! =)

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