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(NOTE: This was written on September 27th, but never posted on my blog. Sorry that it’s so late!)<\/p>\n

Thanks so much for your prayers this last week!\u00a0 I have to admit that it was an exhausting week full of long days of meetings and village visits, but it was very good.\u00a0 We learned a lot and were given direction for the next steps.\u00a0 You’re probably wondering if we’ve chosen a village to move into, and the answer is . . . no.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 But it’s much closer.<\/p>\n

We were able to visit the 4 villages, even though it took two different days (you can’t really walk in during the middle of the funeral of the village chief’s mom and say you want to talk to the village chief about something else).\u00a0 In the meetings and discussions afterwards, it was narrowed down to two villages: Goofy* and Bridge*!\u00a0 It was neat to see the consensus of the different leaders who had come with us, and Jen and I are also excited about those two options.<\/p>\n

So what now?\u00a0 Good question, and since we just asked the same question, I feel like I have a few answers!\u00a0 Jen is finishing up Jula study this week (way to go!), and then next week we’re both planning on taking a much-needed break.\u00a0 After that, Jen and I will continue to visit our people group regularly, especially focusing on Goofy and Bridge, seeing if God makes it clear that we should move to one and not the other.\u00a0 Our leaders will also meet in Dakar and provide insight from there.\u00a0 We’re also planning on starting to learn the language of the People Group, here from the city.\u00a0 You see, we can’t move in until leadership comes back out and officially talks to the village chief about us moving in, and because of their crazy-busy schedules that won’t happen until December or early next year at the earliest.\u00a0 Which gives us time to continue to visit the villages on a more low-key basis, learn the beginnings of the language, etc.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s what I know.\u00a0 Thanks so much for your continued prayers and to so many of you who have written encouraging e-mails!<\/p>\n

* Not their real names.<\/p>\n

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(NOTE: This was written on September 27th, but never posted on my blog. Sorry that it’s so late!) Thanks so much for your prayers this last week!\u00a0 I have to admit that it was an exhausting week full of long days of meetings and village visits, but it was very good.\u00a0 We learned a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}