Portuguese or Spanish/Spanish or Portuguese?

As was planned we headed to CEDI to help the girls study Portuguese. I actually had a hard time at first as I had been trying to speak more Spanish and forget Portuguese these past few days, and the months before we came here. It was fun though being able to laugh a little bit at Travis as he tried to say things in Portuguese and not doing well at it or trying to remember a word and not knowing if that word was the Spanish or Portuguese word. Overall, I think we were able to help out the girls with their pronunciation and give them better ways to say something for their oral test. (They said to us later that they did very well on their test)

Afterwards we started to look downtown at the furniture stores (there happen to be three just on the same street as CEDI), but as we had to remember that most stores are closed between 1 and 3. So we only were able to get an idea of what we would like to get once we have a permanent home to live in. Later that night we went to a pizza place for supper that had a bunch of play structures for the kids to play on and met a really nice waitress that was excited that we were here as missionaries. She started to tell us of some Austrians that she had worked with in the past that were missionaries here about 10 years ago. It is really interesting sometimes how open people are with you, especially when they think your kids are cute. So many of the taxi drivers here are really open too, we’ve heard many stories now of their lives, their kids or vacations they have just come from. Cuenca seems to be a very open city and God definitely is working on the hearts of people here. Keep on praying, I know there are many who will come to know Him as we work here.