<diacritize> At first , I found it difficult to be so far away from my family , says Diane , from Canada . Now in her early 60 s , she served as a missionary in Ivory Coast now Cote dIvoire for 20 years . <yor>At first , I found it difficult to be so far away from my family , says Diane , from Canada . Now in her early 60 s , she served as a missionary in Ivory Coast now Côte dIvoire for 20 years . 