Our Neighbors

We are living in a duplex type house and we had a chance to meet the family that lives upstairs. The woman, Sally, has 6 daughters and 3 sons. Her entire family welcomed us into their home. They were very curious about why we were here because unlike Oscar and Kate, they didn't know we were coming. They pegged as Christians very quickly and I still get the impression that we are here to convert, however, we try to make it very clear that this is not the case. The one I took to be the eldest son was pushing the "awesomeness" of Islam and we had to take mostly a listening role. In the Islamic cultures, men and women who are not family are not suppose to interact with one another. We were pretty surprised he was talking to us in the first place, but since he knew we were non-muslim americans he felt fine about it. Still trying to respect their culture and in general is was not appropriate for us to refute him. Pray that we can get to know the women of the family much better and that the guys can get to know the men.