{"id":576,"date":"2014-02-06T22:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T04:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=576"},"modified":"2014-02-06T22:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T04:17:27","slug":"very-welcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/02\/06\/very-welcoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Welcoming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The people here are just so welcoming!! \u00a0Yesterday, we drove over to another neighboring village. \u00a0We had to park the car and then cross the river by food (don’t worry, it was only about 2 feet tall!) \u00a0As we are getting into the water, kids from the village race over to greet us and welcome us into their village. \u00a0People start coming out of the woodworks to come and see us. \u00a0People are so excited to greet us and talk to us. \u00a0I was surprised when I told a guy that I knew little pidgin english, he went on to talk to me in english! \u00a0What a surprise. \u00a0I was thinking, couldn’t you have told me that from the beginning! \u00a0Haha, but I am visiting all of these places to learn THEIR language, not stay in my comfort zone. \u00a0Several of the people close to the city may speak english because they are educated. \u00a0BJ met a guy named Alex, who invited himself and his family over to our house Saturday. \u00a0Pray for this! \u00a0It’s a great opportunity to learn language\/culture, but I don’t really know how to host people who we stumble to communicate with!<\/p>\n

Today was great! \u00a0Our leader coordinated with an island tribe to come get us in their motor boat and bring us to their village! \u00a0Mandy and I both LOVED it! \u00a0and our kids loved it too! \u00a0The island was covered in shell\/rock, that our kids and the tribal kids played in! \u00a0The atmosphere was so welcoming again, and so laid back! \u00a0The women and children ended up sitting under this woman’s house and talking. \u00a0She told us all about the foods they eat, how the whole island is their family’s, and how they feel so free and safe there. \u00a0I am really starting to recognize a lot of what people say, it’s just responding is my issue! \u00a0It will come. \u00a0The men were off calling pigs! \u00a0I’m not kidding! \u00a0Apprently, each master has it’s own “hog call” and all the pig come when they hear their master! \u00a0BJ connected (I didn’t) the verse about the sheep come when they hear their master’s voice (from the Bible). \u00a0We are going to be constantly learning their language (in our own tribe), so that when we hear things like this that connect to the Bible, we can jot it down and use it in our teaching! \u00a0But we are just so amazed how welcoming everyone always is when we visit their village! \u00a0And now, I am going to enjoy 2 of my favorite things that are PNG made: twisties and fanta!<\/p>\n

And now to end on something real:<\/p>\n

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Sophie with our parting gift...lots of oranges! They were so nice!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A woman teaching me how to make a bilam (bag) to hold babies in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The guy's new friend on the island...taught them how to fish with a spear, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The people here are just so welcoming!! \u00a0Yesterday, we drove over to another neighboring village. \u00a0We had to park the car and then cross the river by food (don’t worry, it was only about 2 feet tall!) \u00a0As we are getting into the water, kids from the village race over to greet us and welcome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}