We hope you are enjoying your Valentine’s Day. We are at the end of our day since we are 16 hours ahead of Texas time! Our co-worker Beth sent us all kinds of treats for decorating Christmas cookies but unfortunately they arrived after Christmas so we decided to make use of them for Valentine’s Day. 🙂 So here is our Valentine gingerbread houses we came up with. Unfortunately Beth and our Bethany are our creative ones so those of us who are here in Papua New Guinea are a bit challenged in the creativity department!! We are thrilled that our co-worker, Aimee, has returned from her time of home assignment and has hit the ground running!
We have lots that we would love to have you praying about. Aimee hopes to start up our new literacy course soon but there has been a lot of conflict and confusion over where the community will build the literacy house. Please pray that it would all be resolved and work would begin again very soon!
Ned plans to have a translation check done in April. In order for this to happen – everything he wants to have checked has to make it to the translation consultant by March 2nd. Progress is going well but there is still a lot to complete in the next two weeks. Ned and Aimee are working on the third comprehension check of the book of John. Then they will turn the translation from Tigak back to English so that the translation consultant can check the work and make sure nothing has been added, changed or left out of each verse of Scripture. Before it goes to the consultant I, Linn, get to do my small part of checking the BTE (back-to-English) to try to catch any errors. There are many, many ways each Scripture verse is checked and rechecked. Then the final check will come in April when the consultant comes to our island to do the final check with the Tigak speakers.
Thank you for your faithful prayers for Ned. Since his leg injury he has had a couple of other issues come up – malaria plus cold/flu/cough and a leg infection (on the opposite leg from the injury). Thankfully he was able to start antibiotics and is now on the mend! It has not been good timing and we keep wondering what will happen next, but thankfully he has been able to continue on with his translation work. 🙂