Waiting…

November 20, 2015

Sometimes things happen slow over here, and sometimes they happen quick. It’s been both slow and quick at times this month. At the end of October, we packed up all our stuff- and threw away or sold much of it- and sent the rest on to the city to which we are moving. Then on the first of […]

Moving!

October 13, 2015

Last time I wrote an update, we were on the verge of deciding what region we want to serve in here. Well, we’ve decided we want to serve in the central region (one of the options I mentioned). So some big changes are coming up for us. Alisha has started packing what we want to take […]

Two Roads Diverged In A Wood (or just another country)

August 28, 2015

Of course, the title of this post is a reference to the Robert Frost poem, for the benefit of my dear mother. And of course, it refers to the fact that we are on the verge of making a big decision as to which region, or road, we will take. I, Lincoln, along with some […]

Progressing

July 9, 2015

We ended up having a rather busy month of June. Largely, because we moved a couple houses down the street. This was due to the contract situation with the old house and the fact that our new house was vacated at the end of June. It took some work, but I think it’s a good thing. This house […]

Summer Break is Hard

May 20, 2015

As of last week, we’ve been here six months. With summer, some things are changing, although it’s been summer since we got here. First, wet summer, now dry summer. Yesterday was the kids last day of school. Scout graduated from Kindergarten and Elroy finished 1st grade. I always thought summer break was a good thing, […]

Stage 2

March 26, 2015

Time has not gone slow for us. It’s easy for a few weeks to go by without realizing it, and so the last several weeks have been. A the beginning of March, we needed to go out of the country to apply for a new (longer) visa. We spent five days in a city in […]

A Big Decision

February 28, 2015

Selamat siang (Good afternoon)- As you may or may not know, during our year or so here in this central city, we are considering which of the regions we want to move to for our tribal ministry. And today, we had a field fair- three of the regions had representatives come and share with us […]

Ayo!

February 6, 2015

When we first got here, the language sounded like complicated gibberish. I could recognize a few isolated words here and there, but overall, I was lost. I’m still lost most of the time, but there are times when I understand more. It’s funny, though, when you learn a new word or phrase, you start to […]

dua bulan

January 9, 2015

Selamat pagi/good morning from the tropics! We are learning more and more language every day and week; hence, the title of this post. Hopefully, you’re impressed with my vast vocabulary already. But probably not. We are still pretty limited in how much we can say and understand, but even a little more ability feels like […]

40 hours a week

December 19, 2014

Good Morning from our distant time zone. This last week (or two) has been quite a bit busier. Last week, we started the Warm-up stage of language learning. This week, we actually started Stage 1, and that means that 4 days of the week, we have a Language Helper Session. These Sessions are two hours […]