First Days in Turkey

Dear Friends and Family,
I'm in Turkey! I arrived two days ago ( it seems like a lot longer time) about 3:15 local time, and met Adam at the airport. Adam is one of the guys that has been on the TACO team for quite a while now and is also one of my roomates. We took the bus home from the airport so that was very interesting. Lugging my baggage on and off of the bus and then the mini bus was an experience! That night i had the pleasure of going to a party where i met pretty much all of the guys that are on the TACO team. They're an awesome group of people and i can't wait to get to know each and everyone of them better and spread the word of the Lord along side them.

Yesterday I went on a Scavenger hunt! The purpose of it was for me to learn how to get around and become comfortable on my own. They had me going all over Istanbul all by myself. It was a great exercise in language as well as just learning the City. I wish i had remembered to take my camera with me, but I guess i have a good reason to go visit all those places again then. The Scavenger hunt wen something like this. After doing a few errands I rode the ferry from the Asian side (where i live) over to the European side and found a few places took a bus then a trolley then rode the ferry back and hoped on a train that dropped me off about five blocks from my house. My feet hurt quite a lot after all of that, let me tell you, but i had a wonderful time.

It is strange being in a foreign country after all these years even though it is a country that i know. Please pray that i'll adjust quickly and that as I go on my first outreach project on Monday that I will be a voice for the Lord and that what ever we do we will all be Godly examples for Him and that people will gravitate to us to hear the good news. I am very Excited about this time of outreach but i am also quite nervous so please pray that I will remain calm.

Because we don't have internet at our house I'm at an internet Cafe right now, getting the real Turkish experience, huh? It's about a 12 minute walk along the main road that we live by away from the sea. The owner of the Cafe just turned on some traditional music. I find it funny to observe the clash of cultures that are going on here, I've got my personal western music going in my ear while a man wails up and down the scales in the other. Well, I better be walking home soon, may be i'll get some doner to eat at home for dinner on the way home. Doner is a a meet that is stuck on a huge spike then is slowly turned and cut off in layers as it gets cooked. Very often you'll see the man standing at the very front, almost on the sidewalk, of his little whole in the wall restaurant cooking his doner and preparing raps.

God Bless
-Peter Davis