Yep, Jodie only has one more week of language school. We praise the Lord for her progress. Already, she has met the missions language requirements for married ladies. Also for Jodie, she figured out what was bothering her stomach. She has been taking some allergy pills here consitently. Although they work, they were the culprit. So, no serious stomach problems now!
I, Lawrence, have one more week of Unit 8, then Unit 9 (4 weeks) to finish. Language is going well, and I seem to be on-track to finish languge here by the time we depart.
Sarah and Seth are both doing well in school. Seth has brought his grades up significantly over the last semester. He is seeing his hard work pay off. It has been tough for Seth (age 12 / 7th grade) who loves friends, the outside, and sports to work diligently in school. Also, having to move away from new friends in a couple of months is discouraging for both of them.
Our travel to Borneo was uneventful and we were able to renew our visa’s in just a few hours after arriving. The night we arrived, our aviation crew got together for supper. We are so excited to join the team there. The next day I was able to spend the morning at the hangar… you know, “shop talk.” Yes, I am looking forward to helping out in aviation again. This all took place Thurday and Friday. We decided to spend the rest of the weekend in the capital city doing a little shopping, visiting malls, and relaxing. That Friday evening we arrived at the guest house and enjoyed going out to eat and visiting a large mall. The next day, I got sick with a high fever and was sick until a few days after we got home. Yes, I have completely recovered now.
Our return tickets from the capital city were by train. It was to be a simple 5 or 6 hour ride, but God had other plans. Traveling while sick was not pleasant. I walked down the aisle of the train every hour to visit the “small room” as it is called here. Because of flooding in our arrival town, our train was delayed, stopping many times on the track sometimes for hours at a time. Our total train time exceeded the 14 1/2 hour flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. Yes, 15 hours on this train, whew! Planning to arrive home well before supper, we actually arrived home about 3am. We just thank the Lord all went relatively well.
During one of our stops on the track just before nightfall, believe it or not many of the passengers climbed down off the train, even though we were in the middle of nowhere. Actually we were right on the shore of northern Java, only 30 yards or so from the water. Usually the ocean is calm there, but not that day. We met a group of guys who were so excited to get to chat with us.
We ask your prayers for one of our instructors at language school, Adi. He is recovering from a collapsed lung and would appreciate your prayers. We miss him teaching. We really do have a great group of people there helping us learn language.
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