Bunk beds as kitchen shelves 

 Here we are again, for another few weeks in Oklahoma with Dennis’ Linguistics students. We are thankful that the camp turns out to be a good fit for us even in the winter. We enjoy living together as a group. Our prayer request is that this would continue until the end of our time here. The last week is especially hard because of packing, cleaning, finishing up the practicum and because, by that time, everyone is checking out mentally already. After the practicum our students will work on raising and strengthening their support team. Some of them are planning to go overseas as soon as this August.

 

 

▲  Using the men’s bathroom for doing our dishes. This time we decided not 

to use the big Dining Hall for our relatively small group of people to keep 

heating costs down. Dennis’ dad installed an electric range for us so we can 

use one of the bedrooms as kitchen. 

 

▲ All of us eating supper together and celebrating Niklas’ 3rd birthday. 

  

▲ Bunk beds as kitchen shelves.

  

Visitors from Germany

 Just a week after we come back from Oklahoma, Monika’s parents and aunt will arrive from Germany. Our whole family is excited about their visit. We wish for them to see God in our lives despite our own shortcomings and weaknesses.

 

Kid land

 Lukas loves and is very loyal to the friends he makes. His outgoing personality not only helps him to develop friendships but also enables us to get to know different parents in the area. We desire to  make a difference in our newfound friends’ lives in pointing them to the good Shepherd.

 Niklas was a Baby yesterday, according to him. He tries to do everything his bigger brother already knows how to do, but he still loves to come for a good hug which makes his parents (and grandparents :)) happy.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.     

Proverbs 3:5-6

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Linguistics DYK

 Did you know that besides prefixes and suffixes languages can have something 

called infixes.  An infix is like a prefix or suffix except, instead of coming 

before or after the main part of a word like un-comfortable or dog-s, it comes 

in the middle of the main part of a word like com-un-fortable or do-s-g.  

We don’t have any of these in English, but they do exist in Tagalog (spoken in 

the Philippines) and other languages.

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