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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ll skip my usual format for this update today, and just write. Sometimes that’s easier. Our warm-up stage is finished, and on Monday, we start Stage 1 of our language learning. We’re excited and a little apprehensive. It’ll be a lot of work. Another one of the most important parts of our time here is building […]