We did it!
We were able to surprise Dennis’s parents, Duane and Dora, with a fiftieth anniversary party. They had no idea about it until we opened the door and everyone yelled “surprise!”. There were friends and family from 6 states here for the party. Duane und Dora are a great example to us in their commitment to the Lord and to us over all these years. Duane continues to do electrical work here at the Missionary Training Center each day and Dora baby-sits our kids some to enable Monika to help Dennis with the course. Dora also helps out at the Missionary Training Center.
We did it!
We were able to finish changing over all our linguistics material from the americanist phonetic alphabet to the international phonetic alphabet. We had to alter hundreds of pages of documents and many PowerPoint presentations and check and recheck them for accuracy. We praise the Lord for the gifted people he provided us with so that we could get it done in time for the semester to start.
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Linguistics DYK
Did you know that there is a language with only two vowel sounds
and another that has 31 vowel sounds? Also, one language has only
six consonant sounds and another has as many as 77 consonant sounds.
*According to one theory, English has 24 consonant sounds and 20
vowels sounds.
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Our family
We are doing well. Lukas is 4 now and Niklas is 2 ½ and they are very active boys. Dennis has a new class. There are 7 students learning how to analyze the sound system and the grammar of an unwritten language. This will help them learn the tribal language well and to develop an alphabet in order to be able to translate the Bible. Monika has had the opportunity to get involved with Mothers of Preschoolers (MoPs) this year. It has allowed her to get to know other ladies in the area. She is desirous that the Lord would use her to be a blessing to the ladies that she comes in contact with.