Back in business!!

Hey, hey, dear and patient family and friends;
God is good!!We safely arrived in Burundi last week Tuesday at 1:30 P.M. It was a very long and tiring trip, but also enjoyable. Pastor Ray and Aime picked us up at the airport. We went straight to Pastor Ray and Maryanne's house for a delicious lunch. After this they took us to our house. There was a frenzy of activity, with 4 or 5 people cleaning. When I went to the washroom, I had my first close encounter with a gecko. There in the corner by the tub he sat! My hair at the back of my neck was standing up as I scurried out. Minutes later Colton, quite excited, announced that he, too, had made acquaintance with the creature, only more intimately. He had tried touching it, and immediately it shed it's tail, so when Colton came to get me, the gecko was in the tub, about 6 inches away from it's still moving tail.
Everiste came over to meet us; his wife Anick, who works for the government, was in South Africa on business.
The house is better than we had envisioned, thank you Jesus!! Our yard is beautiful; get this, we have our very own mango and passionfruit trees!! How sweet is that?! There are palm trees, lemongrass, aloe vera, a large variety of shrubs and flowering plants. Mom, you would love our yard; I think of you when I walk around and admire the beauty. I will email pictures soon; believe it or not, I haven't taken one single picture yet since we left home.
The following morning, Everiste picked us up to go and meet with Drs. Euloge and Aline, a husband and wife team. We went to the African Revival Ministries headqaurters for Burundi, as Dr. Aline is the director of this organization for Burundi. We then headed off to different stores, buying the bare necessities for the house - on the top of the list were 2 fans!!
We than went to meet Everiste's children, Mama Rosa and her children, and the CRIB kids. After visiting for some time, we needed to do some more errands, and Colton stayed at the CRIB house. They had informed us that bugali was on the menu. When we retrieved Colton later, with many of the kids surrounding us, I asked how it had been. The kids laughed as they explained that Colton had gagged, but not only that, he had also eaten it with a spoon instead of with his fingers. We could hardly leave because they all wanted our attention.
Well, that's a rundown of our first two days here. I'll continue hopefully tomorrow, as I've been sitting here in the dark for about the last hour. The electricity goes off every evening, and doesn't come back on till sometime in the morning. Sorry for not writing sooner, but as some of you know, things just take much longer here, and we just got hooked up with our internet late this afternoon. We have marvelled at how the Lord has carried us thus far. Please continue to lift us up in prayer as we adjust to life here. love, love,love, Isaac, Rosel and Colton